Heavy Lifting
Placing huge towers up a mountain is just the start to reaching Troy Caldwell’s ski-resort-on-a-budget dream.
Makers
Colbert Interviews Dean Kamen
Here’s a fun interview from The Colbert Report on Comedy Central – 11/09/06: Colbert interviews Dean Kamen who we profiled in MAKE 04 – Link. More: William Lidwell interviewed übermaker, technology visionary, and science evangelist Dean Kamen for MAKE 04. In this exclusive web extra, the conversation with Kamen continues. Learn Kamen’s views on wasting […]
The Curious Furniture of Ned Troide
The Jack Daniels Drinking Fountain is pretty nice and the AC/DC Shifter lets you mix different music tracks using tractor shifters… – “Ned Troide was singularly famous for scoring 72,999,975 points on the video game Defender, the highest score ever recorded, in a single session lasting 62 1/2 hours. What is less known is that […]
The Maker File: Interview Tim Black
Each Tuesday we have “The Maker File” – an interview with an interesting Maker and what they do, this week’s is an interview with Tim Black from the Mad Scientists collective by MAKE & CRAFT publisher, Dale Dougherty. The Mad Scientists are a group of Silicon Valley techies who engage in art projects at Burning […]
The Maker File: Interview with James Larsson
Each Tuesday we have “The Maker File” an interview with an interesting Maker and what they do, this week’s is an interview with James Larsson by MAKE & CRAFT publisher, Dale Dougherty, he’s joined in the conversation by Bre Pettis who also shot some footage separately of James and one of his devices. James is […]
Brussels Make Fest Round-Up
The make fest was a hoot, a holler, and a half! European makers converged on the Hotel Le Plaza in Brussels and showed their stuff to a super positive audience. It didn’t hurt that Zimki lubricated the event with drinks. I hearby nominate Belgian beer as the best beer ever! James and Katrien of Zimki […]
The Internet Craftsmanship Museum
A secret source pointed me to this website and my eyes are popping out of my head. Go forth, explore and report back in the comments on your favorite Makers that you find on this site. Pictured here is model engine maker, Iqbal Ahmed, at work in his shop in Nagpur, India. – Link
