Makerspaces

Red Bull Creation Coming to Brooklyn

Red Bull Creation, a collaborative hacking competition, will be taking place in Brooklyn on July 10th, McCarren Park. Sixteen teams will be given 72 hours to create something amazing, based on a “create the future” theme they’ll be given. A Red Bull Creation Laboratory, a tricked-out hackerspace Red Bull set up, will be at the groups’ disposal.

Ridiculously Large Jacks

Ridiculously Large Jacks

Jason Gessner learned how to weld at Milwaukee Makerspace, and his first project were giant jacks made from bolts. He ended up using the jacks in an event in Milwaukee were teams of people ran around the city doing activities. The game only took a couple of minutes when done correctly, but some teams were […]

DIT: Raising Our Collective Barn

DIT: Raising Our Collective Barn

I have a friend who started using the term DIT (โ€œdo it togetherโ€) instead of DIY, and I love the notion. Itโ€™s a rare project thatโ€™s completely DIY, and certainly the projects that are the most fun involve collaboration โ€” even if itโ€™s just with the cranky old guy at the hardware store who ties […]