One of Maker Faire's newest Blacksmith Sponsors is HAXLR8R, a hardware startup incubator based of both San Francisco and Shenzhen, China. Now in its second year, HAXLR8R takes promising startups...
Posted by Karen Tanenbaum | Wednesday May 15th, 2013 11:30 AM
Categories: Education, Electronics, Maker Pro, Makers, Open Source Hardware | No Comments
MAKE’s 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop is only days away, and we still have a few more makers to feature as part of the “pitches with prototypes” contest. Next up is...
Posted by Marc de Vinck | Wednesday May 8th, 2013 6:49 PM
Here's a fun new take on 3D visualization and design: Make Your Own Gopher! Months ago, my colleagues and I were brainstorming the curricular connections we could make between making...
Posted by Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka | Wednesday March 13th, 2013 5:06 PM
Categories: Education, Kids & Family, Workshop | No Comments
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at http://makeprojects.com/Project/Mini-Rover-Redux/2479/1 Learn the basics of modding a remote controlled (RC) vehicle for the purpose of making your own...
Posted by makemagazineuser | Friday December 21st, 2012 3:22 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games, Photography & Video | No Comments
New uses for existing materials can fuel hardware innovation. Such was the case for Anton Willis who after moving to a San Francisco apartment had to put his beloved kayak...
Posted by TravisGood | Monday November 26th, 2012 10:43 AM
Categories: Maker Pro, Crowdfunding, Fun & Games, Home | 2 Comments
Science Hack Day is underway in San Francisco. The weekend hackathon focuses on citizen science projects.
Posted by David Lang | Sunday November 4th, 2012 10:08 AM
Dan Grayber's mechanisms are autonomous artworks that defy gravity.
Posted by Nick Normal | Friday October 26th, 2012 2:18 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Workshop | 1 Comment
Last week, I had the pleasure of testing out Oru Kayak, the world’s first origami kayak. It was wonderful! Anton Willis, the designer, and I met at the Berkeley Marina...
Posted by David Lang | Monday June 4th, 2012 3:30 PM
Categories: Energy, Home | 37 Comments
I was excited to check out Larry Ogrodnek's lullaby machine, which he's showing in Expo Hall. We’ll try to get him onto the Maker Faire livestream this afternoon. We’ll start...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday May 19th, 2012 10:06 AM
Categories: General | No Comments
What do you get when you cross a hoverboard and a DeLorean? A Delorean hovercraft, of course! San Francisco grad student Matthew Riese has built just that.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday May 18th, 2012 7:00 AM
Categories: Energy | 55 Comments
Alan Rorie of San Francisco, CA, wrote in to share his Voronoi Bookshelf Generator software that helps you design your Voronoi-pattern bookshelf on-screen, then output files for laser cutting or...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday March 28th, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Furniture | No Comments
If you can tie things together securely, you can make almost anything from practically nothing.
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday March 21st, 2012 5:00 PM
Categories: General | 15 Comments
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