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!
Makers
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 […]
MAKE Road-trip: AS220
Last weekend I went up to AS220 in Providence Rhode Island. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I knew it would be interesting. All I really knew about the group was what I had read on their website and some things Brian Jepson had told me at HOPE and other events. I spent the […]
Breezing Through Oshkosh
A maker’s look at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture show.
Go-Karts Race to College
Winner gets a $10,000 college scholarship. Loser goes home.
