Beautifully Decaying Salt Sculptures Let Nature Take Its Course
Rachelle Reichert creates salt sculptures that morph as they self destruct.
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Tested Live Show Comes to San Francisco This Friday
Can’t get enough MythBusters? Not to worry, Adam Savage along with Norman Chan and Will Smith are hosting the Tested Live show this Friday night at the Castro Theater in San Francisco.
Laser Engraved Skateboards Are Too Beautiful to Ride
An artist and a laser engraver collaborate to make skateboards with beautiful laser engraved depictions of San Francisco landmarks.
Make for People with Disabilities at the Bay Area Makeathon
This makeathon will unite Makers and people who understand disabilities to develop prototypes that could address the challenges presented.
Call for Makers: Come Teach or Speak at Maker Media Lab
Do you have a story to tell to Makers, or a project or skill to teach? Would you like to tell it live at one of the most iconic Maker buildings in San Francisco? Now you can at the (relatively) new Maker Media Lab! Our new project lab is in San Francisco, at the Palace of […]
Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference
O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being […]
Bots Enjoy Night Out at Robot Nightlife Event
Humans and robots alike came out in droves to celebrate the robot-themed installment of the California Academy of Sciences’ weekly Nightlife event. In addition to the Academy’s regular aquarium, planetarium, and rainforest exhibits, attendees enjoyed the chance to interact with a variety of robots. Game of Drones had a large presence at the event, using […]
