Marital Code (detail), Inga Hamilton QR codes are pretty cool – they’re square black-and-white graphics that your camera phone (or a barcode reader) can recognize. The intricate pattern of a QR code is actually data, and when your device reads this data, it gets pointed to a website. QR codes are free and readily available […]
From our friends with The Tesla Project in Austin: The Tesla Project is a one-day extravaganza celebrating the genius of Nikola Tesla. 2010 was our first year and we had over 30 participating artists, a line-up of bands, a Tesla Roadster, computer-enrichment activities for children, a film, a Tesla coil demo and how-to presentation, plus […]
Whenever I bring my TV-B-Gone out to restaurants, I look suspicious pointing it around. So I embedded the device into a jacket and turned it into a wearable TV silencer. For the switch, I sewed paths of conductive thread that become bridged by the metal zipper pull when it passes by. At the restaurant or […]
Join us Friday 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 […]
I like the physical, visual representation of data. If done well, it can forever change the way a person thinks about and understands something. So, I think this keyboard frequency sculpture by Mike Knuepfel is neat. It depicts which keyboard keys are used most frequently, with the height of the key proportional to how often […]
Make: Live episode 09 was broadcasted from the grounds of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Thanks to our guests David Farish, Sung Kim, Jimmie Rodgers, Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen, Lindsay Lawlor, Gerard Nebesky, and our special guest host, Super Awesome Sylvia. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE […]
Swiss Miss points us to this gorgeous prototype of a felt computer mouse from Joey Roth. It adds such a wonderfully surprising tactile feel to the world of computers. Joey’s plan is that it will be wireless and that you’ll be able to put the entire mouse in the washing machine, if a cleaning becomes […]
