In the Maker Shed: Big Bad Beetlebot Kit
Are you looking for a great kit to introduce your children to making? The BeetleBot, available in the Maker Shed, is a simple kit to make a quick and basic obstacle-avoiding robot – no soldering required!
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ITP summer camp in NYC this June
Be bold. Make something this summer. Come to ITP and learn to use the latest tools. For 30 years ITP has been a hub of experimentation in art, media and technology. For the first time this June we are inviting non-students, working professionals from the New York City area, to come to ITP on weekends and evenings to make stuff, hear speakers on the cutting edge, collaborate with people from diverse disciplines.
Tinkering 2.0
In a follow-up to the the WSJ piece, “Tinkering Makes Comeback Amid Crisis,” NPR did an OnPoint segment on “Tinkering and American Innovation,” with the article’s author, Justin Lahart, Bre Pettis, and David Hounshell, Tech and Social Change professor at CMU. Tinkering and American Innovation
Tina Brown on Feckless Zombies
I am hoping — and I know that it’s a long shot — that the economic collapse will give birth new kinds of companies — ones truly committed to making excellent products again. Let’s run the zombies out of town.
Halloween raw materials – American Science and Surplus
American Science and Surplus is a classic source of materials for makers of just about anything. They have a collection of Halloween-ish bits and pieces like rubber spider webs, gigantic spiders, life-sized skeletons, fake teeth, glow-in-the-dark maggots, and voice modulators, but make sure you explore the rest of their site for cheap switches, motors, tools, […]
Tinkering around
Gever Tulley from the Tinkering School gave us this tinkering update: We’re off to test our canvas and PVC boats (eerily synchronistically coincident with the PVC and duct tape boat article) today in the harbor. Our boats are made with canvas that we are sealing with melted wax. The kids also built a cantilever bridge […]
How to make your own shoes @ Maker Faire
In addition to all the making, there’s a whole lotta craftin’ planned for Bay Area Maker Faire. Erica writes – I’ve been trying to make my own boots based on information from a few different sources – the book “How to Make Your Own Shoes” by Mary Wales Loomis, bits of advice from various friends […]
