Come to the Exploratorium this weekend as the Tinkering Studio hosts the second of four Open MAKE Saturdays. Explore your own creativity with makers from around the Bay Area, who will share their art, ingenuity, and techniques for making.
You can’t help yourself when you see an air cannon. You have to ask for a demonstration. “Let’s try it,” said President Obama, wanting to see Joey Hudy’s “Extreme Marshmallow Shooter” in action. Later, he added: “The Secret Service won’t like this.” After getting the President to help pump it up, Joey pulled the trigger […]
Come to the Exploratorium this weekend as the Tinkering Studio hosts the first of four Open MAKE Saturdays. It runs from 10am to 2pm on the third Saturday of each month through April. Explore your own creativity with makers from around the Bay Area, who will share their art, ingenuity, and techniques for making.
This Sunday afternoon, November 6th, TechShop and the Young Makers program team up to co-host a meet-and-greet at TechShop San Francisco. Young Makers are coming to infiltrate … er … get acquainted with TechShop, recruit TechShop members to become mentors this season, start new clubs to build projects for next spring’s Maker Faire, and generally get to know one another. Autodesk will be there, too, to lead workshops on their new software Sketchbook (on the iPad) and 123D Make (on the PC).
The theme for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, which took place last weekend, was Young Makers, and one set of inspirational young makers who came out and participated were the creative young ladies from The Camp Couture. They showed their handmade fashions on the catwalk at the Faire, as part of the Swap-O-Rama-Rama fashion […]
Michelle Hlubinka introduces the motivations behind the Young Makers Program and a class of Young Makers at Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland
Jeff Sturges talks about his work with the Mt. Elliott Makerspace in Detroit, Michigan.
