Regardless of what you may think of either platform, it's fun to see what others will do to get what they want. In the accompanying video Taimur Asad from Redmond Pie demos an alpha version of Frash running on an iPhone 4. If you want to try this yourself, check out this how-to. [via Redmond Pie]
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Run Flash on your iPhone
Posted: August 9th, 2010, 4:00am MDT
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Lego tea cups model
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 7:00pm MDT
Adam Quest's tea cup midway ride, featured at Brickfair '10, is awesome in so many ways. Great model!
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Shop Tools 101 at Madagascar Institute, Brooklyn
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 2:30pm MDT
Photograph by Eric Ogden for a Madagascar Institute profile in Popular Mechanics
On Thursday, August 12, 2010 (7:00PM - 9:00PM), in Brooklyn, NY, our friends at the Madagascar Institute are doing a workshop called Shop Tools 101.This two hour class, which SHOULD be a pre-requisite for most Madagascar Institute classes, will teach you the basics of how to effectively prepare materials using our equipment. You'll learn to send sparks flying with grinders and cutters, make ridiculous amount of noise and smoke out the other artisans in the shop. Oh, and there are safety tips.
Gotta love a "learning institution" whose motto is "Fear is never boring" and that also has a class on "Flamethrowers: Theory and Practice" on their calendar.
Sign up for the Shop Tools class is here.
Shop Tools 101
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Madagascar Institute
217 Butler Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Cost: $25 members/$40 non-members
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How-To: Build a "rumble pipe"
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 1:31pm MDT
In this KipKay video, Kip shows you how to make a simple sound effects thingy out of some PVC pipe, a piece of drum skin, and a spring.
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Real R/C cars meet racing arcade action
Posted: August 8th, 2010, 1:00am MDT
Via the HacDC Blabber list comes this giddy-with-awesome cardboard racetrack with camera-mounted R/C cars and an arcade racing cockpit where the driver controls the vehicle. The builder, Malte Jehmlich, says he spent several months working on the project. It's WipEout meets vintage R/C racing. I want! [Thanks, Daniel Packer!]
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How-To: Design something without a computer
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 6:00pm MDT
Here's a neat video about a design firm in the '60s, and what it looked like to build things before the days of 3d modeling and rapid prototyping. Designers drew out many different plans, then the favorites were cut out in a machine shop, cast, and assembled painstakingly by hand. Looks like fun! [via core77]
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Redneck "Make and Mend"
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 2:30pm MDT
Here is a selection of "redneck repairs," from There, I Fixed It (Epic Kludges + Jurry Rigs).
A few more fun ones after the jump. [Thanks, Kent!]
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Laser cut time travel emblem
Posted: August 7th, 2010, 5:30am MDT
Todd writes in -
Longtime reader. Just wanted to pass along a little project I just had made. I have always loved this design from supposed Time Traveler John Titor ([en.wikipedia.org]). I used Etsy's Alchemy service to have it laser cut out of wood. I think it turned out wonderfully. Even if the story was a fake I'll never stop dreamin' of Time Travel!
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Portable solar charging tracker
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 10:00pm MDT
Ladyada writes -
This is actually not any sort of product or public project (!) – its something we designed to help me evaluate solar panels and how they act when charging batteries. Normally this requires a lot of multimeters and its a bit of a pain to do if you have to constantly change out panels. So we decided we would build a specialized tool that would assist us. Here is what we wanted!
- Portable! Its hard to test solar panels inside
- Ability to log to an SD card for long-term data analysis (to be added later)
- Keep track of the solar panel voltage
- Keep track of the battery voltage
- Keep track of how much current is going thru the panel to the charger
- We figured if we had to build this, someone might find my notes useful.
Read about the tester here.
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Dalton Ghetti's unbelievable micro pencil sculptures
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 7:30pm MDT
Connecticut-based artist Dalton Ghetti must have amazing eyesight. Pictured here are none other than pencils that he hand-carves to teeny tiny detail. Apparently, Ghetti is a carpenter by trade and the pencils are his side project. He uses razor blades, sewing needles, sculpting knives, and mad skills. My mind is officially blown. [Thanks, Markle!]
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1:1 Lego viola
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 7:00pm MDT
Displayed at this year's Brickfair conference in DC, this lovely viola is the work of AFOL Cindy English. [Photo by Joe Meno of Brickjournal.]
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New in the Maker Shed: Cooking for Geeks
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 6:30pm MDT
I'm very happy to announce the availability of Jeff Potter's Cooking for Geeks in the Maker Shed. I met Jeff while he was making ice cream with liquid nitrogen at a party sometime last year. I don't think I've been more excited about a cookbook in my life. If you were ever curious about what you eat beyond the ingredients and recipe, then Cooking for Geeks is for you.
More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350° F/175° C and others at 375° F/190° C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000° F/540° C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter (@cookingforgeeks) provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes--from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).
This book will help you:- Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools
- Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook
- Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking
- Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist Hervé This, and xkcd
"There's really no book out there like Cooking for Geeks--it's science textbook meets cookbook, written to appeal to anyone who's curious about how the details work in the kitchen," says Potter. "And it's not just for technical geeks--anyone who wants to do more than just follow a recipe will enjoy the book."
It also just so happens that Jeff was one of Today's guests on NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow.In the Maker Shed
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Stick and can 3D lighting rig
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 6:00pm MDT
Sometimes, good hacks are dog simple. Here, a food can, some cement, some stick-wood, and some spring clamps are used to create photography light, reflector, and backdrop mounts.
Stick in a Can Poorman's Solution for 3D Lighting
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Weekly Make: Projects round-up
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 5:00pm MDT
Makers are getting involved, taking to heart our call to help build this new Make: Projects wiki, and the results are great. We're building up a nice library of projects, technique, and primer articles; they come from projects we do ourselves, from the magazine, and from the greater maker community. Thanks to everyone who's checked us out and chipped in.
And if you haven't checked it out yet, please do. It's a wiki, so it's thirsty for content. If you're an expert in something, share it with us by fleshing out a topic area. If you have a project, please share that. After you build one of the projects, hit the "I did it! Success!" button, and let us know what you learned via the Notes feature. And remember, you can amend projects, so if you've figured out a better way to do a step, have better pictures, have variations on the project, submit them.To whet your appetite, here are a few of the projects we're excited about this week.
From the Magazine
Gyrocar
Outfit a toy gyroscope with an electric motor to make it run continuously, and add an adjustable drive wheel that lets it chug along a monorail, balance on a string, circle the rim of a pot, and perform other tricks. Featured in the current issue of MAKE, this exceptionally fun electric gyrocar runs for as long as its AAA batteries hold out, and it's easy to make. So get out there and buy a gyroscope at the toy store and get hacking!
User-Contributed Projects
Periodic Elements Cabinet
It's an ongoing problem for any element collector, how to properly store and display your collection of elements. Sean Michael Ragan set about building his own snazzy display case for smaller element samples (which are cheaper, easier to get, and less radioactive in some cases). He shows you how to make your own case, which is something like a spice rack, but in the shape of the periodic table. Enjoy!
Techniques
Food: Bourbon Chicken Wings Recipe
With just a few more weeks of summer vacation for my kids (and a rumbling tummy as I write this), my thoughts have turned to food. Particularly grilled and barbecued food. Luck for me, Andrew Lewis has posted this amazing Bourbon Chicken Wings recipe. To tempt you, he writes:The slightly smoky taste of the bourbon works well in this recipe, blending the sweetness of the Demerera sugar and the salt of the soy sauce. The mustard and garlic work together to give the wings a fuller flavor, meaning that they can compete on equal terms with the spicy red meat dishes that are so often served at barbecues.
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Don't hesitate! There are lots more projects and recipes to be had. Sign up and get started at Make: Projects today.
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How-To: Glowing balloons change color to show air quality
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 4:00pm MDT
Honestly, they had me at "glowing balloons." I've got a box on a shelf in my closet that houses my past, failed, experiments to make floating, glowing party balloons. The group at Carnegie Mellon that produced this Instructable makes it work by using weather balloons which are bigger and can provide more buoyancy. That the LEDs they use are tri-color versions that change to reflect the ambient air quality is just icing on the cake. [via Boing Boing]
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Two-material fabjects
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 2:00pm MDT
From the Thingiverse blog:
Rhys Jones's set of tweezers consists of PLA and silicone, printed in one run. KeanuWoah!
A couple of days ago, we needed another set of tweezers for the RepRap lab. Naturally, rather than going and buying a pair I thought I'd RepRap them. After a quick search around Thingiverse for inspiration, I thought we could do something a bit more fancy using the new multiple material setup. So I designed the following pair, where the top of the tweezers consists of a PLA inner section for rigidity/stiffness, which is then encased in silicone for added grip, and printed in one shot.
PLA & Silicone Tweezers on Thingiverse.
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Illuminatrix, a community LED array at Burning Man
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 1:00pm MDT
Want to be part of Burning Man, but can't make it to the Playa this year? Well, if you like making pixel art, you might want to check out Illuminatrix! by Ben Delarre and Scott Saunders. They're constructing an RGB display to be shown at the festival, and are looking for people to contribute some art:
Illuminatrix is a project we've put together over the last few months for this years Burning Man festival. Its a 2D array of 16x16 ping pong balls, each of which contains an RGB LED that can be coloured any colour of the rainbow at any time. It will be displayed in the entrance to the More Carrot theme camp and to give it a bit of a twist we've decided to make it possible for everyone to contribute to the animations we'll display on it.
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Maker Mixer at i3Detroit
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 12:00pm MDT
Maker Faire heroes i3Detroit are hosting a Maker Mixer at their space next month, to give everyone who was too wrapped up in running their events a chance to relax and socialize. This should be a great way to catch up with everyone in the area and get involved in the DIY scene in Detroit:
Detroit's first Maker Faire was a smashing success by all accounts, bringing together hundreds of exhibiting makers, scores of awesome creations, and tens of thousands of onlookers and makers-to-be. It was educational, entertaining, and most of all, busy.
So busy, in fact, that many makers spent the whole weekend in their booths, with little opportunity to meet each other. And while the spectacle was great for short-term attention, the synergy is where long-term gains stand to be made. To that end, i3Detroit will host an event we're calling the Maker Mixer. On September 4th, anyone who's interested in DIY (and especially anyone who exhibited at Maker Faire) is encouraged to come down to Ferndale and spend the afternoon at i3Detroit's shop.
Maker Mixer
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Paint + windshield wiper = rainbow machine
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 11:00am MDT
Becky spotted this delightful improvisation from Dutch artist Helmut Smits. Now we need somebody to put a printer in a windshield wiper blade that can paint graphics across the windshield and/or wipe them off on command. Or maybe a windshield wiper POV display? [via CRAFT]
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Faceted barrel d20
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 9:00am MDT
I love Abraham Neddermann's Dice Creator's Blog, full of his experiments with gaming dice. His most recent creation is a lovely hollow twenty-sider he calls Larry Niven's d20.
Today's post, can be described as a truly "Concept Die", like the concept cars you see on many auto shows. It comes as a solution to "The D20 question", which is, more or less, the unpracticality of a barrel type D20. You know, as you increase the faces number with a constant face width, diameter of the die also increases.
A few days ago, Abraham had tried to make a ">solid version, and it ended up weighing in at 37.5 grams (about 1.3 oz) -- this one seems more practical! So much so that he's adopted it has his personal d20.
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Robotic ball rolls via phone control
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 8:30am MDT
Gearbox's smartphone-controlled ball looks quite cool, offers much potential for creative game ideas -
So basically how HTC/Android/Apple make smart phones, we make smart toys. Our first smart toy is a robotic ball that you can move by tilting your phone in the direction you want the ball to roll. We are then leveraging the connectivity and computing power of the phone to create a fully interactive experience for the user. Our first app for the ball is Sumo. I throw my ball on a table, you throws yours on the table and then we can try and sumo each others ball off the table.
Very cools - definitely a ball you'll want to avoid getting stuck in a tree/roof/traffic. More info and more example app ideas on Gearbox's site. [via TechCrunch]
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Aside from the games we produce we are also opening up the APIs for the ball so any app developer with no hardware knowledge can build their own games or applications and bring them to the real world.
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Audio and guitar effects on Maple
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 7:00am MDT
Okie from LeafLabs got down with some experimental signal processing using Leaf's speedy Maple board and a custom shield -
Real-time audio processing is an example of an application where Maple really shines in comparison to Arduino. Maple has 12-bit ADCs with sample rates up to 1MSPS and PWM fast enough to clear ~11.8 bits of resolution (log2(72MHz/20kHz)=11.8) at a frequency twice the Nyquist frequency of the upper end of the bandwidth of the human ear (20kHz). And there’s a lot of clock cycles to do all kinds of really awesome stuff to the signal (e.g. echo, distortion, octave, harmony, equalization, flange, phaser, fuzz, ring modulation, and complete new imagined effects)!
The EAGLE schematic/PCB files, code, audio samples, and further explanation can be harvested over on the LeafLabs blog.The Maple's STM32 chip seems to be begging for more audio exploration like this. I imagine a basic music synth would be relatively easy to implement in comparison to effects processing.
Hmmm … must find more time for hacking.More:
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Telerobotic Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
Posted: August 6th, 2010, 6:00am MDT
Just when you thought Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots couldn't get any cooler, makers Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh go ahead and add a bunch of servos, a custom controller board, and some fancy sensor-laden wireless watches from TI to allow you to control your robot remotely. As an entry to the Texas Instruments Co-op Design Challenge, the souped-up game uses sensor readings from a pair of Chronos watches worn by each opponent to control their respective robot. [via BotJunkie]
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Hopes and dreams made out of real lottery tickets
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 10:00pm MDT
Ghost of a Dream via NOTCOT.Dream Car 2008 $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets, cardboard, cast plastic, wood, steel, and mirror
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New electronics podcast: The Dave Jones & Chris Gammell Show
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 9:30pm MDT
Our pal Dave Jones of the EEvblog has teamed up with Chris Gammell to do a yet-unnamed electronics podcast. Their first two productions, Episode 1 and Episode 2, are finished and available for download. Dave's really entertaining to watch on video, and if the topics they cover in their second are any indication, it should be a great show:
- MAKE magazine's review of Maker Faire Detroit (learning to solder)
- NYT article about mineral deposits in Afghanistan
- Antipasto Hardware Blog -- Graphing Calculator on the Beagle Touch
- Anduino Wiki Page
- Maker Faire NYC Tickets
[via hacked gadgets]
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Gadget Freak Design Contest winners!
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 8:19pm MDT
Thanks to everyone who entered the MAKE/Design News Gadget Freak Design Contest sponsored by Alibre, Allied Electronics, and Texas Instruments. We had lots of great entries and were really splitting hairs among the top five or so, but after careful consideration we are now pleased to announce the winners:
Grand Prize: Infrared seeking sentinel
Rick Prescott outfitted a Nerf® Vulcan EBF-25TM foam dart shooting machinegun with an array of Devantech TPA81 thermopile sensors, all controlled by an ATmega168, to create this wicked Aliens-style heat-tracking autocannon:
An idea sparked in my mind one day while walking the toy gun isle in a store with my kid and later that evening learning of the workings of a thermopile array while surfing the internet. The result is this infrared seeking sentinel which joins a realistically priced infrared sensor to a realistically operatable Nerf® machine gun to create a slightly less deadly yet still highly deterring automated machine. Personally I have grand plans to deploy the infrared seeking sentinel facing the entrance of my work cubical in order to speed interaction with less desirable visitors.
Rick has won $1,000 and a storefront in Makers Market with 6 months of free service. Congratulations!
Second Prize: GPS bus notifier
University of Florida student Miles Moody used a WizNet Ethernet module wed to an Arduino Nano to scrape and parse HTML from a local web service that reports the real-time GPS coordinates of the bus that takes him to school every day:
The program compares the location to where my apartment is located and depending on where it/they are, the device will light up one of three LEDs: red if no bus is close, yellow if a bus is somewhat close, and green if the bus is coming and I need to hightail it out of my apt. For the green case, a piezo buzzer also sounds so I dont have to be looking at the device all the time. It also twitters the current location of the busses every five minutes. This allows me to check via text message the bus locations when I am on campus.
Miles has won $500! Congratulations!
Third Prize: Not lazy Susan
MAKE buddy, occasional guest author, and all-around wondergal Dustyn Roberts built a custom board and enclosure from scratch to create this hands-free Lazy Susan for the dinner table that rotates with just a wave of the hand:
In this project, we'll use at lazy Susan (also called a turntable or thrust bearing) to create a rotating platform. To make things interesting, we'll use an infrared LED and phototransistor to make the table rotate with just a wave of your hand. You can use this as a table to magically serve food to dinner guests, or to make a fun interactive centerpiece for the next wedding you plan.
Dustyn will receive one of two $100 gift certificates redeemable at the Maker Shed. Congratulations, Dustyn!
Third Prize: Magic 8 ball mod
Mariano Alvira replaced the message die in a standard "Magic 8-Ball" toy with a blue OLED display that can be wirelessly programmed from outside the ball:
The steps outlined here will show you how to modify a standard Magic 8 Ball to replace the normal message icosahedron with a OLED screen, and how to add wireless microcontroller, and accelerometer. The screen is submersed in the normal Magic 8 Ball goo so that all the original aesthetics are preserved. The messages can be reprogrammed wirelessly without having to open the 8 Ball. The accelerometer detects when the 8 Ball is in use (e.g. tipped from resting to looking through the Magic Hole) and signals the microcontroller to turn on screen and fade in the messages.
Mariano, as our other third-place winner, will receive one of two $100 Maker Shed gift certificates! Congratulations, Mariano!
Thanks again to everyone who entered!
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Citizen Commerce with Jules Pieri of Daily Grommet
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 8:00pm MDT
Last weekend, at Maker Faire Detroit, I had the chance to meet Jules Pieri of Daily Grommet, birthplace of the term Citizen Commerce. From the site: "If you share the belief that the products we all buy are a powerful force in defining the world, then Citizen Commerce means that each purchase is actually an act of citizenship. (Good, bad, or indifferent)" Daily Grommet makes it their job to find fresh, new products, research them thoroughly, pick the best ones, and tell the stories behind the products and their creators. They pick and feature just one quality product a day.
What makes a good Grommet? The site lays out these parameters:
"• It's a wonderful product still waiting in the wings, just ripe for discovery.
• It has great utility, or style, or invention. Or, very often it has all three.
• It comes from a designer, or inventor, or artist, or manufacturer who is clearly passionate about what they create. Someone who loves to share their creations and talk to people about why they do what they do.
• It comes from a company that treats its customers well.
• Finally, like any intelligent or beautiful product, it has a great story, ready to be told."Jules presented about Daily Grommet on the MAKE stage in Detroit (and was graciously patient with the AV issues that came up). Thanks Jules! Time.com just ran a piece by Jules, a Detroit native, titled "Innovation at the Detroit Maker Faire."
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Papercraft Queen
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 6:00pm MDT
The quality of craftsmanship and the attention to detail on these papercraft models of the band Queen are truly stunning. [via DudeCraft]
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40,000 solar cookers in Darfur
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 5:00pm MDT
Phil Shapiro (Takoma Park, Md.) sent us this video of solar cookers being built and deployed by villagers in Darfur. Amazing to think what impact some cardboard and foil material can have on the health and well-being of tens of thousands of people. [Thanks, Phil!]
40,000 solar cookers in Darfur
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Outlet mount device charging pocket from plastic bottle
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 3:55pm MDT
Last summer, a commenter on my tutorial about how to make one of these from a shampoo bottle said, "instead of drilling a hole in the bottom of the bottle, you could cut off the bottom, flip the bottle upside-down and voila - hole." Don't know if there's any causal link between that tutorial and/or that comment and/or this anonymous photo recently submitted to ThereIFixedIt, but in any case it does look like an easier way to skin the cat. [Thanks, JP!]
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This week in Maker Events
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 3:00pm MDT
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar. Wish your event was on the list? Add it to the calendar!
Coming up this week:
Learn to solder with Mitch Altman! @Site 3 coLaboratory
Toronto, ON
Thursday, Aug 5, 2010, 7pm - 11pmGlass Hacking @HeatSync Labs
Chandler, AZ
Thursday, Aug 5, 2010, 7pm +Arduino! @NoiseBridge
San Francisco, CA
Thursday, Aug 5, 2010, 6:30pm +Bot Builders Meet up
North Pompano Beach, FL
Saturday, Aug 7, 2010, 5:30pm - 10pmPublic Night @theTransistor
Provo, UT
Saturday, Aug 7, 2010, 6pm - 9pmAnniversary party / the launch party @Freeside Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Saturday, Aug 7, 2010, all dayMade By Hand: Mark Frauenfelder @Machine Project
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, Aug 7, 2010, 8pm +Annual Make:Philly BBQ featuring Wondergy
Philadelphia, PA
Sunday, August 8th, 2010, 1pm - 3pmFlamethrower Theory and Practice @Madagascar Institute
Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, Aug 8th, 2010, 1pm - 5pmMake:SF @reMake Lounge
San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010, 6:30pm - 8pmTake Apart Tuesdays @Crash Space
Culver City, CA
Tuesday, Aug 10, 2010, 9:30pm - 10:30pmProcessing (with Jesse Kriss) @Baltimore Node
Baltimore, MD
Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010, 7:30pm - 10pmDIY Beverage Night @FUBAR Labs
Highland Park, NJ
Wednesday, Aug 11, 2010, 8pm +Start planning for:
Inkscape for Laser Cutting @Metrix Create: Space
Seattle, WA
Thursday, Aug 12, 2010, 7pm - 9:30pmStarry, Starry Night: Art & Astronomy Slumber Party
Saratoga, CA
Friday, Aug 13, 2010 - Saturday, Aug 14, 2010, 8pm - 8amArduino 101 @Austin Hackerspace
Austin, TX
Saturday, Aug 14, 2010 - Sunday, Aug 15, 12pm-4pmIntro to Chiptunes: Making music with Game Boys @Site 3 coLaboratory
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3D-printing replacement anemometer cups
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 2:00pm MDT
Thingiverse user Conrad2468 suffered damage to his anemometer during a hailstorm, so he designed new cups, printed them, and glued them on. Excellent!
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Reusing desiccant packs
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 1:00pm MDT
Annoyed by all those silica gel packets you get with your shoes, electronics, jerky, and other commodities? Well, don't be so hasty to throw them out, they can be reused repeatedly. A helpful Impact Lab post describes ways the packets could be reused.
Put packs in your ammo cans and gun cases/safes to keep dry.
Protect personal papers and important documents by putting some gel in a baggie wherever these are stored.
Keep with photos to spare them from humidity. Tuck a small envelope in the back of frames to protect even the ones hanging on your walls.
Leave a couple packs in your tool box to prevent rusting.
Use the material to dry flowers.
Place with seeds in storage to thwart molding.
Dry out electronic items such as cell phones and iPods. Remember after the device has gotten wet, do not turn it back on! Pull out the battery and memory card and put the device in a container filled with several packs. Leave it in there at least overnight.
Slow silver tarnishing by using the gel in jewelry boxes and with your silverware.
For items in storage, such as cars or anything prone to mildew.
Tired of buying big bags of pet food only to have it get soggy? Store your kibble in a bin and tape some silica packs to the bottom of the lid.And once the gel gets saturated, you can recharge it by baking it on a cookie sheet.
[Image by flickr user pigpogm, Community Commons]
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Circuit simulator for iOS
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 12:30pm MDT
iCircuit recently appeared on Apple's App Store, offering a basic schematic editor, plus circuit simulator with multimeter, and oscilloscope views. Per the app's description -
I gave the app a quick spin on the iPad, and it definitely shows a lot of potential. The simulator had a tendency to lag a bit behind my realtime changes to the schematic, and the UI took some getting used to, but for $10 it sure beats the mobile simulator competition (which is pretty much nonexistent, to my knowledge).There are over 30 elements you can use to build your circuits. The app has everything from simple resistors, to switches, to MOSFETS, to digital gates.
The app features a multimeter that you use to probe around the circuit to instantly read voltages and currents. If you want to see how a value changes over time, then you can add values to the built-in oscilloscope. The scope can simultaneously track many signals over time and features a touch interface to control the total time displayed and stacked and unstacked modes to easily compare signals.
Supported elements include:
- Signal generators, Voltage sources, and Current sources
- Resistors, Capacitors, and inductors
- Manual SPST/SPDT Switches, and SPST/SPDT relays
- Diodes, BJ Transistors, and MOSFETs
- Speakers, Buzzers, and LEDs
- ADCs, and DACs
- Logic gates: AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR
- JK and D Flip-flops
In any case - a handy tool to have around when away from the lab. As the developer notes, the software is rather CPU-intensive so newer devices are recommended (iPhone 3GS or later). iCircuit on iTunes
For a very similar Java applet, check out Paul Falstad's Circuit Simulator Applet.
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Lolo's alarm clock watches you sleep
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 12:15pm MDT
Loic Royer wrote in to share his omniscient alarm clock project, Lolo's Alarm Clock. Based around an Arduino, the clock attempts to wake you up at the best possible time based on your sleep patterns. To use it, you set a range of time that you would like to wake during, and it uses an accelerometer to measure your movements and wake you up at the most appropriate time. If that wasn't enough, the clock also has a plethora of environmental sensors that can be logged to a base station.
We've seen clocks that can do this before (and there are also commercial versions), however it's nice to see a version using relatively simple materials to do the same job. Full source code is available, however the author hasn't gotten around to putting up schematics yet.
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Good-looking Ikeahacked speakers
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 11:00am MDT
Inspired by the classic spherical speaker array Instructable from user mzed, Charles Visnic created these cool wireless speakers by transplanting the guts of a pair of RocketFish speakers into some birch bowls from Ikea, mounted rim-to-rim. It's a very cool build, but I have to say I'm just as impressed with this clever little working tip from Charles' write-up:
The smartest thing I did there was I would head into the hardware store and get what I thought I'd needed. Then I'd go to the car and start dismantling the speaker. When I'd reach an obstacle all I had to do was get out of the car and fetch the right tool for the job.
My Dad always jokes that any project requires at least two trips to the hardware store; next time I'm going to take a page from Charles' book and do all the work I can in my car in the Home Depot parking lot. [Thanks, Charles!]
More:
- DIY: Salad bowl speakers
- 360 Degree speakers
- HOW TO - Make a Low-cost spherical speaker array (from IKEA salad bowls)
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DIY 3D photo rig
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 11:00am MDT
Makers Local 256 member ratmandu (Justin Richards) built this 3D camera rig out of two Powershot A480s. One of the cameras is mounted upside down in order to get the two lenses closer to each other, and ratmandu's custom code automatically flips the image back around.
So see the effect, check out the second photo above (click to biggify) or see ratmandu's two sets of example shots:
These are all cross-eye stereo images (left image on right side, and vice-versa), to view them, you need to cross your eyes until you see two sets of images, then slowly un-cross them until the images in the center start to overlap and finally lock in place and focus on the 3D image in the center.
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Formufit sells maker-focused PVC attachments
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 9:00am MDT
An anonymous reader sent in a link to this neat store. Basically, Formufit sells PVC connectors intended for maker projects. They feature glossy, unmarked fittings for pipe sizes ranging from 1/2" to 2".
Just like many of our customers, we got our start making household objects out of PVC pipe and hardware store fittings. However, the plumbing-grade fittings we had access to did not meet the needs of our more and more intense and complex projects. They also were not as attractive or flexible in their roles, and just didn't fit the bill.
Our PVC fittings are high quality; ultraviolet stabilized and made specifically for structure and design applications. What you can create is only limited by your mind and creative prowess, and one can literally create thousands of items using our fittings and off-the-shelf PVC pipe.
So what is the difference between our fittings and what you can get at your local hardware store? Well for one, our fittings have a high glossy finish. There are no manufacturer stampings, raised lettering or barcodes and all of the ends are flush-tapered and are made to look good in whatever application you put them to use in. Additionally our fittings withstand the abuse that sunlight applies to most PVC-based plastic products, keep their color and wont yellow or fade.As a bonus, they provide Google SketchUp files of all of their connectors so you can plan before you buy.
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Silver skull spoons
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 8:00am MDT
It's a portmanteau playground! "Skoons" is better than "spulls," I think. They're made from vintage silver by Tom Sale, aka Pinky Diablo, and are available in both tea- and table-skoon sizes. Of course, the numerous holes limit their utility as spoons; I wonder if the details could be embossed instead of pierced? Also, if the teeth were made a bit sharper they could double as tines, and the whole utensil would become a "skull spork." I'll leave that one to your own imaginations to skoonerize...er, I mean, spoonerize.
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Hopworks Beer Bike
Posted: August 5th, 2010, 6:00am MDT
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The Hopworks Beer Bike is a perfect storm. It's the culmination of a love of craft and a deep respect for producing a quality product. Designed and built by Phillip Ross and Jamie Nichols of Metrofiets Cargo Bikes for Christian Ettinger of Hopworks Urban Brewery, the dual keg toting pub-on-wheels sports an aluminum pan with fifty feet of draft coil, two custom taps, inlaid old-growth woodwork bar with a split top for easy access to the kegs, an MP3 sound system modeled after a motorcycle's hard pannier bag, and a back rack capable of holding three large pizzas for the unavoidable crowd that forms every time the bike stops.
Catch the Taplister interview with owner Christian Ettinger embedded above or this delightful segment from Discovery Channel Canada's Daily Planet featuring the the Metrofiets crew.
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How-To: Make stage blood
Posted: August 4th, 2010, 11:00pm MDT
Check out this nifty how-to video by ThScience on how to make your own fake blood, just in time for Halloween. It's really entertaining, like a chemistry lesson and a classic rock concert rolled into one. Which pretty much sums up my entire high school career.
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‘Beyond,’ the Solar System at Air and Space Museum
Posted: August 4th, 2010, 10:00pm MDT
I'm planning a DC trip soon and think this will be my first stop! Exhibition Review - ‘Beyond,’ the Solar System at Air and Space Museum @ NYTimes.com via NOTCOT. Have any DC-area makers seen this yet? Post up in the comments!
The images on view at a remarkable exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum here could well serve as inspirational space cards for this century. But they possess far greater power than those old naïve fantasies. They are vividly, compellingly real; they astonish and bewilder, luring the viewer into a state of wonder.
In “Beyond: Visions of Our Solar System” 148 photographs of moons and planets show these brave new worlds as extraordinary landscapes of mists, dunes, fissures and rocks. The exhibition has appeared in other, more modest incarnations (including as a traveling show), but this is its most complete form. The filmmaker, writer and photographer Michael Benson deserves much credit for the refinement of these images, but we need no technical understanding of their origins to be struck by what they portray.
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Draw on LEDs using lasers
Posted: August 4th, 2010, 7:15pm MDT
Here's a cool project by Junichi Akita: it's a modular LED display that you can draw on using a laser, then clear by tilting sideways. Unfortunately, the only documentation appears to be the paper, which is behind a paywall. Anyone up for a remake?
[via core77]
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Design a better electric car algorithm, win a prize!
Posted: August 4th, 2010, 6:15pm MDT
Calling all electric car geeks! Want to help improve the efficiency of electric cars? Then you might want to check out the ChargeCarPrize contest by the folks behind Carnegie Mellon's ChargeCar project. They're offering monthly cash prizes for the person or team that can come up with the most efficient algorithms for managing power demands using battery and super-capacitor energy sources, and an electric vehicle for the grand prize. Also, the whole project is supposed to be open source. [thanks, Doug!]
Above photo by WDUQNews
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Hack your way through PCB antenna design
Posted: August 4th, 2010, 5:00pm MDT
Enjoy adding wireless to your projects, but too intimidated to try designing your own antennas? Looked at the wrong way, wireless stuff can be scary, but if you follow Colin Karpfinger's Dropout's Guide to PCB Trace Antenna Design, you should be well along the way to having a functional project in no time. It might not be worth your time for the occasional prototype (modules such as the xBee are $20 and just work), however if you plan to make many copies of your circuit, or just want to learn more about RF design, this could be a fun project.
His directions remind me of a fond memory from my undergraduate electrical engineering education, where we had to make a wireless project. Some of my fellow students spent days optimizing an antenna design for their design, where as I just slept in and then took a longish piece of wire and cut it down until it worked. Wait, maybe that wasn't that great of lesson... [via hacked gadgets]
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Print your own wargaming minis
Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 8:00am MDT
If you haven't taken a look at what's going on at Shapeways recently, you might find it worth your while to go browse around for a bit. They're constantly adding new features, new printing capabilities, and new models. And, perhaps most importantly, the cost of printing those models is falling rapidly. Enough so, in fact, that contract 3D printing is really starting to be a cost-effective alternative for hobbyists.
Case in point: These are just a few of the beautiful print-on-demand tabletop gaming miniatures offered by user Charles Oines, aka Irrational Designs, a professional 3D designer who moonlights selling models through Shapeways. In their basic white plastic material, most of Charles' sixty-plus designs cost less than $10 US each, and none costs more than $28. As always, shipping from Shapeways is free.
It used to be that if you wanted anything other than "stock" miniatures for your games, you had to laboriously customize or scratch-build each unit by hand. Now, if you can use Blender, you can design, pose, and print your army and have it shipped to you, ready to paint.
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Inside a console refurbishment facility
Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 6:00am MDT
Check out this great behind-the-scenes look at video game retailer GameStop's massive refurbishment facility in Grapevine, TX. The market for used games and gear is huge and GameStop's operation looks to be quite extensive.
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DIY carbon fiber skin for Nexus One
Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 4:20am MDT
Usually found on custom cars and sporting goods, the carbon fiber look is easily achieved with adequate funds and plenty of time. For about $8 XDA member My_Name_Is_Neo wrapped a Nexus One in a custom carbon fiber skin. [via XDA Developers]
So i got this idea from one guy who put the 3M carbon fiber skin on EVO, But the problem was the curvy shape of my beloved Nexus. So I tried a few things and wasted some Vinyl but finally i bought Best skins ever skin for $8 and used it as a stencil and cut out the vinyl with my xacto.
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Power Racing on Jalopnik
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 10:45pm MDT
Jalopnik has a fun piece on this weekend's Power Racing Series competition at Maker Faire Detroit.
Two vehicles were super reliable and put on an endurance racing clinic. One, the "Pit Rats" of OmniCorps Detroit took the race with decent speed, good handling and unfaltering performance. They didn't even need to come in for a battery change. Taking second was "Baby Burrito" out of Milwaukee employing the slow and steady wins the race strategy, in third with a fast but occasionally broken car was i3 Detroit in their "My Little Friend" Jeep. Who knows, maybe there'll be a Jalop entry next year.
Power Wheels Racing: Fat Men On Souped-Up Toy Cars
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Apetechnology at Maker Faire
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 7:00pm MDT
Did somebody say "creative weirdness?" The "electro mechanical music robot madness" of Apetechnology.
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Outbound Faire comments
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 5:01pm MDT
Photo by Marc de Vinck
Here are a few answers to the question "What was your favorite part?" that people posted on our Maker Faire Detroit Facebook page and on Twitter as they left the event. Thanks to everyone who came out and made this such a wonderful and memorable weekend. We hope the event was fun, informative, and inspiring. From the "exit poll" data, this looks to be the case.Jen Johnson
I liked the stitch zone and crafty areas, bf liked the future of transportation talk the best, and we both agree that The Henry Ford was a perfect venue!!
Alisa Osborne Seccia
I was completely amazed! I loved all of the needlecraft and my little one was wowed by all of the robotics and really cool inventions. What a great time.Deborah Kaplan
The look on my son's face throughout the day... Now he keeps asking me when he can take apart the TV!!! Gotta keep my eye on my appliances :-)Mark Kayser
Talking with people like Bre Pettis of MakerBot and hearing them say "You can do this." or "You need to go see _______ for more info about how to do this part." To talk to people about what I dream of and not have them look at me like I am crazy!Wesley Faler
All the wide-eyed excitement! Young and old, people could not stop smiling.Casey Buchanan
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir made me laugh hysterically!Derrick Karteczka
The friendliness & knowledge of everyone working there. Whenever I or my 6 year old daughter had a question, they answered it perfectly for either of us.Steven Ray Stuart
When the operator of the time machine said to a curious young lad fiddling with the machine, "You shouldn't play with switches when you don't know what they do". Sound advice on a time machine!
Brian Howell
Both my kids said their favorite thing was silk screening their own t-shirts. Those guys were great!I really dug seeing all the CNC machines, the i3Detriot stuff was clever, and the craftsmanship on Big Dog was awesome to see up close.
Ran into Leo Laporte, and all I could think to say was "how are ya?!" :o) Felt like a dork.
Will Retluoc
Wow! Please come back next year. So much inspiration.
And a few from Twitter:@burriseng
Walking away with too many #ideas and #projects@plural
Our @makerfaire experience is about to reach its end. What a ridiculously inspiring and amazing weekend!@nysci
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Mitch Altman rocks!
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 2:30pm MDT
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. Mitch has brought tears to my eyes with his passion and enthusiasm for teaching folks to solder. I've witnessed him patiently and joyfully teaching people from 5 to 85 years old. He was even spotted teaching Henry Ford. Mitch and Jimmie's enthusiasm is contagious and inspiring. Teach what you know and love, and make the world a better place.
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"Lemon Battery" webcam
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 1:30pm MDT
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 them to a webpage.
Project Lemon Battery is part of a larger initiative Alan is involved in to sell "micro real estate" in Detroit to raise money to support good works in the city. Why "lemon battery?" "To be successful, we will need all the help we can get from anyone interested in realizing this goal, including the tinkerers with lemon batteries and potato alarm clocks in their science-fair past."
There's more info about the construction of the Lemon Battery camera rig on the project's blog.
(A few more webcam captures from yesterday and today after the jump.)
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Joe Genius, a new web-based science show
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 1:00pm MDT
This online show by the folks at Discover Magazine looks pretty slick.
It's time for Joe Genius: Where backyard science goes BIG TIME. Joe Genius highlights home-grown Einsteins who experiment, tinker, and yes, blow stuff up in the name of science. And it's all caught on tape! Join Jonah Ray as he whizzed through these geniuses' most epic failures and thrilling successes -- and of course, the science behind it all.
I like how it's smart and accessible to both kids and adults -- and as obnoxious as the commercials are, a bunch of people gotta get paid to make shows, so I can accept it. What do you think, readers?
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Marshmallow Shooter to the Power of Four
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 11:30am MDT
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. It's made from a few pieces of PVC pipe, and it sends mini marshmallows flying through the air. I'd say that thousands and thousands of these fun toys have been built over the years, but leave it to the folks in Detroit to completely innovate it!
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Geometric patterns in Lego
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 10:00am MDT
AFOL Katie Walker's Lego patterns are fascinating. It seems that she built them as a study for a throne room MOC that she's working on. However, I like them on their own! [Via The Brothers Brick]
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Power Racing: Grown humans stuffed into teeny-tiny cars (who aren't Shriners)
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 8:01am MDT
Enclosure: [download]
I'm not at the Faire. I'm home in my stuffy, humid home office in Virginia, wishing I was in Detroit, hanging out with my maker peeps and knocking back the Tschunks. But from this distance, scanning Flickr, FB, Twitter, etc. for signs of Motor City maker life, I'm getting certain impressions of what's going on there. And one thing fairgoers seem to be getting a huge kick out of is the Power Racing Series, put on by the Chicago-based hackerspace Pumping Station: One. What is the PRS? The above pics should tell you most of what you need to know, but here's a snippet from their website:
Why Am I Reading This?
You are an ambitious and aspiring Hacker/Maker/Whats-a-space that feels the need to go to Maker Faire only to make an impression with the public by "competing" with other Hackerspaces in tiny, heavily modified child's toy cars.
Wait, What is This?
The Power Racing Series (PPPRS) is an event where Hacker/Whateverspaces turn those toys cars that everyone wanted but only stupid Brad from down the street owned (even though everyone hated him), into highly competitive sort-of racing machines. Teams are allowed quite a few liberties (motors, batteries) but we also made a few restrictions so you masochistic engineers can pleasurably cry yourselves to sleep at night. You have $500 to do this with (aside from safety equipment, cause we don't want to mop you up either). You also compete in three events, and you'll have to do more than just drive fast (re: be entertaining) to win points. After all, it's not like we want an actual race to break out. Oh and it is rather unsafe, so you'll sign a waiver. You built it, so we knew you'd understandFrom yesterday's tweets, and some of the pics, it looked like they had a grand ol' (teeny-tiny) time. Today, there's a final qualifying round at 9:45am-10:30am, and at 1-3pm, there's the Finale: The Endurance Race.
Check out their awesome Power Racing Series Guidebook [PDF]. It's hysterical. Witness:
How Aggressive Can We Be? Let's be reasonable here, we act the way you act. If you want to rough it up, beat and bang, we'll bring some hurt. If you continue to throw a fit on the field, we'll make you drive Americar from last year's Team Unicorn USA. Americar is a Little Tikes Hummer H2 painted red white and blue, goes slower than your grandma reading a take-out menu and blasts Born in the USA. In MIDI. Don't make us use Americar.
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Sunday Schedule for Maker Faire Detroit
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 7:00am MDT
For a complete daily schedule with links, see the online program.
MAKE's Mark Frauenfelder will talk about his new book Made by Hand and cigar box guitars. Bre Pettis, of MakerBot, will talk about personal fabrication. Also, Ted Hall, of Shopbot Tools, will talk about his grandfather who was an inventor who worked with Henry Ford and became "the father of aviation lighting." Ted visited his grandfather during the summer and spent time with him in his workshop. There are lots of hands-on demos and ongoing activities throughout Maker Faire. ANDERSON THEATER (IN MUSEUM)
11:00 AM New Appropriate Technology, John Barrie
11:30 AM Tearoom for Robots, John Marshall
1:00 PM Inspired by Bucky Fuller
• Wind Power on Buildings, Bil Becker of Aerotecture
• My Personal Journey Thru Space and Time, Dewayne Hendricks
2:00 PM Made By Hand, Mark Frauenfelder of Make
2:30 PM Generations of Makers, Ted Hall
3:00 PM 3D Printing and Personal Fabrication, Bre Pettis, MakerBot IndustriesMAKE DEMO STAGE (TENT)
• 10:00 AM Automated Web Brewery, Joe Szacon
• 11:00 AM Rogue Engineering, Eric Michaud
• 12 PM DIYLILCNC, Chris Reilly
• 1:00 PM Laser Lunch Box, Mike Gould
• 3:00 PM Matt Mets Makes, Matt Mets
• 4:00 PM Quad Copters, Eric MerrillDIY THEATER (AUTO HALL OF FAME)
• 10:00 AM Green Crafting: Handmade Detroit
• 11:00 AM Crafting with Wire, Deanne Neiburger
• 11:30 AM Sewing Fabric Floweres, Karen LePage
• 12 PM Building a Business from Junk Drawer Common Sense, Sarah Hodsdon,
• 1PM Hackerspaces Panel
• 2PM Space as a Service, Michael Kessler
• 2:30PM Crafting with Xyron's Creatopia, Brookelynn Morris
• 3:00PM Button Machines, Amanda Marie Edmonds
• 3:30 PM Repair 2.0: Reinventing the way we fix things, Kyle Wiens, iFixit
• 4:00 PM DIY Garden Irrigation, Jamie WolfeLOCAL ROOTS STAGE (TENT)
• 11:00AM Genesis
• 12 PM 80 lbs of Chicken in 8 weeks, Chad Chenier
• 1:00 PM BEE Aware!Tracey Gaudette, Island Gold Honey
• 2:00 PM Brother Nature Farms, Greg Willerer
• 3:00 PM Local Food Map, Local Dirt
METALWORKING AREA
• 10 & 2PM Metal Casting Demo, Rick Chownyk
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11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30PM
Illuminatus 2.1 Laser Lightshow (Anderson Theater) - 10, 12, 2:30, 4:30PM
Power Racing Series events - 10, 1 PM
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Tim Oelker's toolbox with hammer handle
Posted: August 1st, 2010, 5:30am MDT
I really like Tim Oelker's toolbox with hammer handle.
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