Make: Live airs tonight! Ep10 is our first ever Hackerspace Roadshow. Take a virtual road trip with us to five hackerspaces in five cities across the US to see their communities and projects. NYC Resistor Milwaukee Makerspace Twin Cities Maker at The Hack Factory i3Detroit Noisebridge (San Francisco) Make: Live 10 – Hackerspace Roadshow Wednesday […]
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep10 is our first ever Hackerspace Roadshow. Take a virtual road trip with us to five hackerspaces in five cities across the US to see their communities and projects. NYC Resistor Milwaukee Makerspace Twin Cities Maker at The Hack […]
Great Global Hackerspace Challenge Winner Crowned As MAKE online editor and GGHC judge Gareth Branwyn related earlier this week, Hackerspace Charlotte took down the challenge with a very impressive entry, Feltronics, which consists of felt shapes resembling IEEE schematic symbols, but actually function thanks to actual electronic components built into the felt. Ann Arbor Mini […]
Club-Mate is a German club beverage that basically consists of lightly-carbonated, lightly-sweetened, heavily caffeinated tea. Somehow it was adopted by the German and Austrian hacker scene as their official staying-up-late-and-coding beverage. It’s become so popular that it’s been imported to the U.S. where it fetches prices as high as $10 a bottle. Despite these hurdles, […]
#google_ads_div_mz_hackerspace_125x125_ad_container { float:right; margin:-14px 0 5px 10px; } // Tuesday and last week we profiled two of the three finalists of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge — Pumping Station: One’s Biosdensor Array and BuildBrighton’s Phonicubes. Today we cover Hackerspace Charlotte‘s excellent tool for teaching electronics, Feltronics. The project consists of felt shapes resembling electronics […]
Hackerspace Members: Going to Maker Faire? Get $125 in Maker Shed Loot! I will be at Maker Faire all day Saturday and Sunday A.M., and I want to hear about your awesome hackerspace projects! Find me at the Faire (might want to start at the MAKE table…) and regale me with your space’s skills. Tell […]
Our coverage of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge continues with a profile of BuildBrighton and their fabulous Phonicubes project.
Phonicubes is a super nerdy way of teaching kids to read using the Phonics system. It uses an Arduino Duemilanove, a protoshield, a custom wave shield, and an ID-2 RFID module for a total cost of £81, well under the team’s US$900 budget.
