Hacker Publishes a Rosetta Stone Style Book for Manufacturing in Shenzhen
Bunnie Huang is publishing a tool to help Makers get business done in Shenzhen (without having to learn Mandarin).
Technology
Brick, Steak, Phones, & Bitcoin: How Tech and Design Intersect to Shape Our Future
We attended design summit “Knotty Objects” at the MIT Media Lab to talk about technology, design, and the future of humanity. Here’s how it went.
Theremin-Like Sculpture Looks Like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude
Exp.Inst.Moon is a combination of musical instrument, technology, and art. As an interactive art installation, users touch electronic sensors that relay signals through the electronic components to an Arduino microcontroller that converts the input into projections of sound and light. It’s an example of how technology can transform someone from merely viewing art into becoming […]
The Latest in Bionic Limbs Will Take Your Breath Away
Bionics is defined as the application of biological methods and systems found in nature and design of engineering systems and modern technology, also known as bionical creative engineering. Present and future bionics aren’t the thing of science fiction; they are our current reality and are very much present in our everyday life. The current advancements […]
Finding Starter Projects: Free Software for Making
Learners and teachers have so many free options at their fingertips, we find that fewer are buying the higher-priced software. Just like with all kinds of making, with software these days you can do a lot with a little. Years ago, the costs of new software, especially those used by creative professionals, were prohibitive to […]
Art and Technology Pioneer Eleanor Kent Dies
Eleanor Kent, an artist who innovated methods of making art from new technologies, died recently at the age of 83.
Interplanetary Makers: NASA Needs Your Input!
Put your CubeSat into lunar orbit and see if it can send back data from the farthest reaches of space.
