Here are this week’s Maker Channel videos from Make: television. Theremin Orchestra – Masami Takeuchi’s instrumental ensemble looks amazing and sounds even better. Smoke Ring Machine – Ali Momeni shows off his programmable smoke ring generator. Pulse-Jet Bike – Robert Maddox pulse-jet engine-powered bike makes tracks. [Trouble Maker] Drink Beer on CSPAN – Bill Barminski […]
It seems like one of the trickiest components in a wearable computer is coming up with a wearable display device that’s usable, not overly intrusive, and preferably inexpensive. Last November, I posted about Raif Ackermann’s Nokia-based wearable that uses a hacked Myvu Crystal headset as a head mounted display. Meant for privately watching iPod videos, […]
San Francisco underground icon (literally) John Law will be appearing on the History Channel’s Cities of the Underworld. Scott Beale writes on Laughing Squid: Laughing Squid’s own head of special projects John Law will be featured tonight and tomorrow on The History Channel show “Cities of the Underworld” hosted by Don Wildmon, a series where […]
Are you a maker living in the Twin Cities? Paul Sobczak is putting out a call for area hackers and makers to collaborate on creating a local hacker space. On January 6th I launched Twin Cities Maker, a website dedicated to realizing a high-tech maker shop in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The goal of the […]
I love the people at Make and what they’ve done for the DIY community, so I jumped at the chance to guest blog here. Just a quick introduction: I’m a hacker who loves how to understand how things work inside & out. At my job, I design electronic systems; at home, I usually tend to […]
Tell Cris Benton to go fly a kite. He’ll return with breathtaking photographs taken from seemingly impossible vantage points. As a young architect, Cris wanted sharp images of his buildings’ upper reaches, so he pioneered the art/science of of aerial kite photography. Now a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, Cris is still a leader […]
Our pal I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, got a nice profile on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. Congrats, man.
