From Star Wars cosplay to speampunk automata, from circuit bending to hacking t-shirts, from flying aerodromes to autonomous robots, here's a tour of the 4th annual Maker Faire North Carolina held in Raleigh on June 15, 2013! Read more »
Team Antipodes, a FIRST robotics team consisting of Emma, Kjersti, and Violet of Terra Nova High School in Pacifica, CA, built this sweet magnetic levitation vehicle. Read more »
Collin Cunningham’s videos remain golden! In Circuit Skills: LED Matrix he talks about LED matrices and how to control the LEDs with a multiplexing IC. He uses it to make a mini game machine! Many an experimenter, hacker, tinkerer, & maker have heeded the call of the mighty matrix –... Read more »
This was my third year attending Maker Faire North Carolina, which is in its fourth year itself. I've always enjoyed the Alamance Makers Guild exhibit, which features a cluster of makers from the guild, a community for Makers in and around Alamance County, NC. Read more »
It starts out with a seven year old boy who wants bunk beds. Read more »
We all know what drones can do in the hands of the military and law enforcement. For recreational use, they're fun to fly around with a GoPro strapped to its belly. The commercial use of drones is in its infancy. Congress passed a law last year requiring the FAA to... Read more »
There’s still time to get in on the launch of the Smart Citizen sensor and data platform; their fully-funded Kickstarter ends on Sunday. The Smart Citizen Kit looks to be one of the more polished efforts at building a distributed sensing and data aggregation platform. The kit is a microcontroller... Read more »
About 70 campers showed up today at the offices of OATV for Hardware Summer Camp, organized by Nick Pinkston, Renee DiResta and Adam Ellsworth. I kicked off the Saturday session with a short talk, remarking that the maker movement has been built around a prototyping revolution more than a manufacturing... Read more »
This summer, SparkTruck is gearing up for its second road trip across the country, bringing hands-on learning back to to schools in their mobile makerspace. Want them to visit your town? Fill out an "Arrange a Visit" form now until June 18! Read more »
Brian Jepson and Nick Normal report from the Maker Faire North Carolina. In its fourth year, it's bigger and better than ever. Read more »
"EEG sensing is ready for prime time." From the editors of MAKE magazine, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, innovators, along with technology and market trends. Read more »
This gorgeous homemade electric guitar, modeled after the Fender Jazzmaster, was made from a 2" slab of alder wood. From there, the maker planed, jigsawed, wired, sanded, sealed, primed, lacquered, buffed, and copper shielded their way to the finished pale green guitar, which is quite handsome. After going through the... Read more »
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