Registration opens today for the Art and Code symposium — it’s a low-key conference teaching a variety of tools specially developed for use in the arts and education to artists, young people, and everyone else. Among the presenters will be many of the people behind these tools, including the creators of Processing — the software […]
We recently got a chance to visit the Hello Lucky letter press studios and got a tour with Eunice and Shauna.
Julie is a teacher down the hall from me. From time to time she and other teachers offer workshops to other teachers after school. Over the past couple of days, she has showed ten colleagues from the science, special education, history, administration and art how to work with PMC, Precious Metal Clay. Julie talked a […]
The premiere Make: television is 8 weeks away. Here’s a snippet of what you’ll see in one of the shows — John Park transforming a shopping cart into a stylish easy chair, and then into a go kart! View the clip above, get the M4V and/or subscribe in iTunes. Make: television will premiere on Public […]
Nikki from Bristol UK writes in to tell of the next TechAdventures meetup. “An Adventure in Technology” is a party which will be held on the 28th February at the Trinity Centre in Bristol. We want you to create and discover new ideas using technology. Bring your unexpected toys, your creations, projects and ideas, put […]
Last week at the Duxbury Student Union, Lee Pulis and I held a workshop on using trash to learn about electricity, design and mechanical devices. We used CD drives from old computers. Inside the drives we found motors, gears, switches, and lots of interesting looking stuff. The main tools were small phillips head screwdrivers and […]
Mitch Altman, microcontroller hacker extraordinare and inventor of wonderful gadgets like the TV-B-Gone will be at HacDC on Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 PM to help show you how to build your own Brain Machine. Mitch will be bringing all the parts, tools and inspiration necessary, all you need to do is show up! The […]
