It's my pleasure to tell you about two fantastic Young Makers / Open Make events happening in the San Francisco Bay Area this Saturday, Feb. 16. But be ready for...
Posted by Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka | Thursday February 14th, 2013 9:51 AM
Categories: Education, Kids & Family, Makers, Workshop | No Comments
I haven’t started my list of New Year resolutions yet, but I’m pretty sure learning to fly a drone quadcopter is going to make the top 10. But after seeing...
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Tuesday December 18th, 2012 1:25 PM
Categories: Robotics, Fun & Games, Hacks | 3 Comments
How's this for a marriage of bleeding edge technology? A 3D printed quadcopter!
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Wednesday November 28th, 2012 11:35 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Fun & Games, Workshop | 1 Comment
Today’s hobby drones are pretty amazing. They are packed with features and have a level of automation and sensors never before available to the amateur. Prices have dropped to the...
Posted by Andrew Terranova | Tuesday November 27th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Robotics | 7 Comments
Over the weekend, MAKE’s web producer Jake Spurlock and I headed to nearby San Francisco to watch amateur pilots and engineers test their skills at human powered flight in the...
Posted by Craig Couden | Tuesday November 13th, 2012 1:59 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc....
Posted by kevino | Thursday November 8th, 2012 2:52 PM
Categories: Raspberry Pi, Art & Design, Fun & Games, Photography & Video, Science | 10 Comments
Last week Wired's Chris Anderson announced he's leaving the editor-in-chief post to become 3D Robotics' full-time CEO. Today, Chris announced that his company secured $5 million in VC funding.
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Monday November 5th, 2012 5:43 PM
Categories: Maker Pro, Fun & Games, Robotics | 1 Comment
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson is stepping down to focus on his drone business, 3D Robotics.
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Friday November 2nd, 2012 1:56 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Maker Pro, Open Source Hardware, Robotics | 5 Comments
Felix Baumgartner's jump space was thrilling, but this Lego stunt is no less exciting. True, Lego man didn't break the sound barrier or risk a high-impact death but the Lego...
Posted by Stett Holbrook | Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 9:31 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Kids & Family | 3 Comments
Check out this great NPR piece about engineering students at University of Maryland that are trying to win a three-decades-old contest for human powered flight.
Posted by Jake Spurlock | Tuesday October 16th, 2012 3:34 PM
Categories: Education, Energy, Fun & Games | 12 Comments
Ready for some high-flying quadcopter action at Maker Faire New York? Parallax will be demoing their ELEV-8 quadcopters live on the Make: Demo Stage (in the Maker Shed) at 4pm...
Posted by Maker Shed | Thursday September 27th, 2012 8:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, General, Robotics | 2 Comments
Today Parallax came out to MAKE HQ and let us test drive a number of their cool toys. They set up their quadcopters, y-copters, and hexcopters, hooked their ELEV-8 to...
Posted by Brookelynn Morris | Wednesday September 5th, 2012 7:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games, Robotics | 2 Comments
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