“Humans have just landed on an Earth-like alien planet. They’ve staked out an area for the capital, City X, and have sent back a 3D map of the location with many challenges to be solved by their engineers on Earth, a vast team of young designers all around the world.”
Interesting Instructable from Dr. Patrik D’haeseleer, Harvard-trained computational biologist and denizen of Sunnyvale biotech hackerspace BioCurious. Bioprinting, which is basically 3D printing with living cells, has been much in the news lately, with breathless tales of fully 3D-printed living organs and replacement body parts. There is of course a fair bit of hype going on here, but also, at the core, a body of very interesting applied research.
DIY.org is an online community for young makers to share their skills and projects, and to be inspired and learn to make new creations. This year at Maker Faire Bay Area, they will be providing the supplies and space for Cardboard Village, a place where kids can collaborate to build their own community using cardboard. If you’re planning to attend Maker Faire, stop by and check out the progress!
The Hello World Program would like to invite you to a Robot Puppet Party at the Maker Faire Bay Area next month. Hello World has been running for about a year, building a library of video tutorials on a variety of open source tech topics, narrated by handmade puppets. Guido the Python teaches the Python programming language, of course, while the robot Unique ID discusses robotics, circuitry and the basics of object-oriented programming. Currently under construction is a new fox puppet who will be in charge of HTML tutorials.
Early bird registration for MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Workshop ends Monday, April 15. The second annual event, May 14-15 in San Mateo, Calif., comes right before Maker Faire and it will feature new hardware products and services and the makers who have created them. More than 30 speakers will share the stage, offering business insights into manufacturing options for startups, and collaborative strategies from funding to production to distribution, marketing and positioning. VCs will discuss which products get their attention and why, and entrepreneurial makers will tell their stories.
Over the next two weekends we have the final set of events in our series of regional Young Maker/Open Makes in the San Francisco Bay Area leading up to Maker Faire Bay Area. At last, this month the two public events are on different Saturdays, so you can go to both! Each event offers a range of activities that starts at 10am and ends with an inspiring “meet-the-makers” panel discussion.
The Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC), a lively group of bicycle enthusiasts based in Sonoma County, Calif., brought the Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Car Races to Maker Faire Bay Area in 2012. They threw down a challenge to makers: to hand-build a pedal-powered single seater with no less than four wheels, bring it to […]
