Take a tour through Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 with Ontario-based Maker-Faire-oholic and Agnes Niewiadomski. From robots to a lollipop licking machine to Adam Savage's talk atop a massive desert submarine, Agnes captured photos of an amazing variety of projects and makers. Read more »
I was in Paris at the end of April for Ouishare Fest, a conference about the sharing economy. I spent a Friday afternoon visiting Fab Labs in and around Paris, talking to a number of very interesting people who are very interested in the maker movement and understanding how it might be taking shape... Read more »
A beautifully presented and detailed teardown of Project Glass by Scott Torborg and Star Simpson. With no idea what lay ahead they took apart, and then put back together, their Glass Explorer Edition. Read more »
A couple of years ago, Colorado-based maker Werner Strama decided to make his own Teardrop Camper Trailer from scratch. It took him six months to build and the end result is beautiful and fully functional. Best of all, Werner documented his build in detail and shared his 26-step how-to with... Read more »
Learn all about batteries in the latest episode of Adafruit Industries' Circuit Playground -- Ladyada and Adabot make a lemon battery! The show is based on the coloring book E is for Electronics. Read more »
A rose engine is a type of geometric lathe used to produce complex radial engravings called Guilloché, which are used both for decorative and security (i.e. anticounterfeiting) purposes. Those of you with more than $238,000 of disposable cash lying around may be irked to discover that the auction for this... Read more »
Lego builder nxt1engineer created this binary clock. It uses rotating spindles to indicate the passage of time. Read more »
We worked closely with the good folks at Arduino to bring you these Make: Special Edition Arduino Unos, now available in the Maker Shed! Functionally, they are identical to a regular Arduino Uno R3 (with SMD microcontroller) but feature exclusive Make branding to set them apart from the rest. Read more »
Oregon’s second annual Eugene Mini Maker Faire is taking place this Saturday, June 15th, at the Science Factory in Alton Baker Park. The event is being collaboratively produced by the Science Factory and Eugene Maker Space. Their lineup of makers looks interesting and diverse, ranging from traditional handcrafts to tech... Read more »
Fitzcardboardaldo is a short animation remake of the 1982 Werner Herzog film Fitzcarraldo made with cardboard and lots of hot glue! Read more »
3D photography or stereoscopic photography is the art of capturing and displaying two slightly offset photographs to create three dimensional images. The 3D effect works because of a principle called stereopsis. This project will give you a brief introduction to the methods for taking and viewing 3D photographs. Read more »
Over the last few months there have been a sudden rush of new micro-controller boards onto the market. A lot of that is down to Kickstarter and the appearance of a number slightly tweaked Arduino clones. A lot of them feature some sort of mesh networking, or other wireless capability.... Read more »
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