The “LED Crafter”
Sweet article @ PingMag about my favorite Maker at the moment, Waldemeyer.
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Make: DC meeting tomorrow night
The next gathering of Make: DC is tomorrow night (Sept 16). We’ll be meeting at Greater Goods again (at 8pm) and we’ll be working on our Make: DC robot project. Our goal is to create the cheapest fully-programmable, Arduino-based robot development platform possible. You can see our progress so far, the six-dollar motor driver board, […]
Wesley Fleming glass sculpture
Glass wants to be round, glass wants to be warm all through or it breaks; it’s very hard to work with – which makes all these delicate pointy bits even more impressive. Wesley Fleming glass sculpture, via peacay
Garden instuments voting now!
There’s still time to vote for your favorite garden instrument over on Oddstrument.com. There are some really creative entries!
Electric musical saw
Make pal Mad Maxine sent me this video of musician T.J. Hill playing his electric musical saw – a 26″ Stanley hand saw with a contact mic, run through his guitar effects and amped to 11, I believe.
10 hardest jobs to fill
This list is from April, but still likely accurate… Hands-on jobs like these are where some of the the worst U.S. talent shortages exist, according to Manpower Inc., which recently surveyed more than 42,500 employers worldwide. In a weakened job market, the overall percentage of U.S. employers struggling to find talented workers dropped by nearly […]
Burning Man build
Mark at Boing Boing put up this really nice video from Current of the build going on at Burning Man. I really like the long swoopy shots between structures; it gives you a bit of a feel for how huge the site is. Every year thousands of people descend onto Black Rock to build a […]
