John Edgar Park, the host of the forthcoming Make: television, used to work at White Wolf Game Studio. He posed for the painting of Greger Anderssen – Prince of Stockholm for the Vampire: The Eternal Struggle card game. I think we should convince him to do his hair, eyebrows, and facial hair like this for […]
Tom Eckert makes incredible wooden sculptures that often look just like draped cloth. He also made this awesome Tank Chair. From the images of his tromp l’oeil sculptures, you would never know that that satin is actually carved and sanded from wood.
MAKE is devoted to a growing community of resourceful people who believe that if you can imagine it, you can make it… With all the talk of tough economic times ahead, we’re doing a series of interviews with makers & friends around the world who either make a living from “making” or just earn extra […]
OMG! It’s here! The Best of Instructables, the latest from Make: Books, is on its way to Maker Faire Austin and a few copies have found their way to the Maker Media and Instructables offices. Here’s Instructables’s Eric J. Wilhelm and the Instructables robot enjoying their first peeks. I hope the robot’s happy. Eric says: […]
Dan Glover of GO-Tech writes: The October GO-Tech meeting (Ann Arbor, MI) is Tuesday, October 14, 8 pm, at Great Oak Cohousing (see below). This will be our 15th meeting! We’ll have a demo of FIRST pneumatics, along with the usual eclectic mix of projects. Bring something cool to show off, especially if it fits […]
From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! Nick Petraniec’s appropriately-named ambient LED thing is an artful use of LEDs with fades to create blue-riffic ambiance. Here’s a 2×1 inch prototype: Check out the […]
There’s a new Bay Area hacker space, NoiseBridge, in the Mission District: We want to provide infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for people interested in programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, photography, security, robotics, all kinds of art, and, of course, technology. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring. As a […]
