Alan Languirand has something called Project Lemon Battery set up at Maker Faire Detroit. It’s a solar-powered, 3G-connected webcam on a pole that takes pics every ten seconds and uploads...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Sunday August 1st, 2010 11:59 AM
Categories: Art & Design, General | 1 Comment
I’m here at the MAKE magazine booth at Maker Faire Detroit, and across from us is the Learn to Solder area, run and manned by Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers....
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Sunday August 1st, 2010 8:37 AM
Categories: Education, General | 2 Comments
This group of clever friends built what I believe is the world’s first four person Marshmallow Shooter. The Marshmallow Shooter is one of our classic Howtoons projects MAKE Volume 02....
Posted by Brookelynn Morris | Sunday August 1st, 2010 6:12 AM
Uh-oh, better get Maaco. The Life-Size Mousetrap mice warm up on the family minivan. The head mouse tells us that the official show schedule for the weekend will be: Sat:...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday July 30th, 2010 5:52 PM
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Nick Britsky of i3 Detroit has a piece on Detroit Blog/Time.com about some of the awesome things he and his fellow i3ers are showing off at this weekend’s Maker Faire...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday July 30th, 2010 11:51 AM
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Detroit is my hometown. I grew up here during the 50s and 60s, lived in a neat and homogeneous white, largely Jewish, neighborhood in Northwest Detroit, and walked to the...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday July 28th, 2010 9:37 PM
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I moved to Detroit eleven years ago, in what I thought was a short stay exclusively to attend graduate school. After witnessing the potential to work, educate, and maintain a...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday July 28th, 2010 6:13 PM
I am an Industrial Designer living in Southfield where I share my life with two beautiful children. I’m not originally from Michigan. I moved here after graduating from Pratt in...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday July 28th, 2010 2:21 PM
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The countdown to Maker Faire Detroit is down to T minus 3 days, and we’re hoping you’ll come out and play, learn, and be inspired with us on July 31...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Tuesday July 27th, 2010 7:02 PM
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Here’s a small portion of the fun and unusual things you’ll find at Maker Faire Detroit. A Different Kind of Hybrid If I said that there was guy who built...
Posted by Dale Dougherty | Sunday July 25th, 2010 10:42 PM
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Dale Dougherty wrote in the kickoff article for this Making Detroit series about how a GO-Tech meeting was a catalyst for the Detroit Maker Faire. Well, GO-Tech, a once-a-month Maker...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Sunday July 25th, 2010 9:27 PM
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The Detroit Public Library’s HYPE Teen Center opened in 2008, as a place for young adults to have their own space within our main library. HYPE stands for “Helping Young...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Sunday July 25th, 2010 10:23 AM
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