Great One on One: Dale Dougherty, MAKE Magazine & Maker Faire – Bits Blog @ NYTimes.com . Nick Bilton writes: Dale Dougherty will be overseeing the annual Maker Faire in San Francisco this coming weekend
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One on One: Dale Dougherty, MAKE Magazine & Maker Faire – Bits Blog @ NYTimes.com
Live TV by Ustream We’re thrilled to be able to bring you live streaming video from Maker Faire this year, for the first time in the history of the event! Chris Connors will be bringing you two video feeds of great talks and demos from around the Faire! We’re setting things up and testing today with Ustream , but feel free to head over to the Maker Faire live streaming page to see what’s going on at Maker Faire. Check out the schedule of talks and demos to get an idea of when to tune in! Keep an eye on the Maker Faire Twitter stream for live video announcements, and enjoy Maker Faire Bay Area from afar! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Maker Faire | Digg this!
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LIVE streaming video from Maker Faire Bay Area!
Raven Hanna, here, of Made With Molecules . I’m a scientist-turned-artist and longtime maker involved in a number of creative science communication projects, including molecule-inspired jewelry and the project Science Tarot, which will have its own table next to the Made With Molecules’ table
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The Road to Maker Faire: Raven Hanna
Here’s a great event in Brooklyn, NY for getting rid of unwanted stuff while scoring some sweet new duds/gear/anything: In case you missed that last two swaps (that drew over 1,000 each!), this is how Score! works: Attendees bring their old clothes, music, books, etc, to the event and drop them at the door. Volunteers sort and distribute these items to themed departments where professional curators organize them into boutique-like displays.
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Score! Pop up Swap in Brooklyn
Things are getting exciting now in the Arduino Nerf sentry gun build ! I’ve connected the main components together now — primary Arduino, secondary Arduino, motor, and power for the gun (I decided to removed the six D cell batteries and power it from an AC-DC transformer). Here’s the Molex connector I soldered in place of the battery pack. The primary Arduino is mounted to the stand, with 7-Segment shield display visible
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Arduino Nerf sentry gun build: System assembly
MAKE subscriber Chris Varenhorst of Cambridge, MA wrote to share his soda machine that can dispense on command via a custom iPhone app as well as through a website. A few months ago I picked up a functioning old soda machine off craigslist. This machine was built in 1977 and has been comfortably vending soda the same way for over 30 years.
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iPhone app & web-controlled soda machine
Anyone who’s followed my writing over the years, in the Whole Earth Catalog , Mondo 2000 , Wired , and here on MAKE, knows my admiration for our next guest, Steven K. Roberts. Steve was definitely one of the people who got me interested in hardware hacking, in the 1980s.
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Make it anywhere with a mobile lab
Creative reuse is a big theme every year at Maker Faire, and this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area , taking place this weekend at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, is no exception. A group of taiko drummers from Wadaiko Newark are going to be on-site demonstrating how they make gorgeous taiko drums from reclaimed wine barrels. One of the group’s founding members, Terry Eustice, shared some insight with us.
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Maker Faire: Wine Barrel Taiko Drums
Here’s a quick test video of my Arduino Nerf sentry gun in action. When my hand gets closer to the PING sensor than my initial value (in this case, very close), the gun stops sweeping and starts firing. I didn’t have ammo in the first few belt casings, so I avoided getting shot.
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Arduino Nerf sentry gun build: Quick test
MAKE pal I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, was a contributor to the current issue of MAKE, Volume 22 . We picked his brain for my “Remote Control State of the Art” piece and he reviewed the amazing Killer Krawler , from RC4WD , for the “Toolbox” section.
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Guest author Crabfu reviews the RC4WD Bully rock crawler
Our project is an open source, Arduino Mega-based computer interface and max/msp – based MIDI sequencer. You can find all kinds of information about it at beatseqr.com , but the ten-second pitch goes like this: Drum machines are fun to use because the interface is intuitive, but they only make the sounds they know how to make. And/or they’re really expensive.
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The Road to Maker Faire: beatseqr
Doug Conner of Atascadero, CA wrote in with his technique for testing Stirling Engines . I’m running this engine from the heat of a 70W light bulb in the video, but It also runs well from the heat of two candles. Using higher heat sources it puts out over 1.5 watts
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Measure the power and efficiency of your Stirling Engine
Calling all video makers! We want to see your videos from Maker Faire , coming up this weekend. Share with us your clips, interviews, compositions, whatever you find interesting at the Faire. Upload it to Blip.tv or your own server and submit the video to us! If we use a clip of yours, we’ll give you a free Maker’s Notebook
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Share your Maker Faire video with us!
Dale has a piece for his O’Reilly Radar column on what he’s dubbed “make-offs,” low-budget knock-offs of scientific and industrial technology, built with off-the-shelf parts: It is a version of what China has been doing to America, benefiting from the R&D that goes into refining the specifications, developing prototypes and building a finished product. Only now, with new digital fabrication techniques and open source hardware and software, individuals and small companies are in a position to compete globally with a distinctly DIY approach to innovation.
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Make-offs: DIY indie innovations
Jessica Wilson wrote a great-sounding recipe for CRAFT. It’s a satay-spiced peanut butter sandwich , perfect for bringing a touch of Thai to your lunch table. Collin and I are always looking for yummy vegetarian lunch options for our video meetings, and this might just fit the bill
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Recipe: Satay-spiced peanut butter sandwich
MAKE subscriber Nick Santillan of Vancouver, BC, an ID student at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, created this CNC for his thesis project. I decided to tackle on making CNC machine by allowing people to be more experimental with them to progress CNC technology from the bottom-up. The end result is a prototype that is completely modular; users can rearrange the CNC in a few minutes to specifically suit the tasks
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RedBlueCNC: A modular CNC
Make stuff and show it off at the Maker Faire 2 SF Gate… The idea for building from scratch a fire-breathing dragon named Saphira came about over dinner one night at home in San Rafael before Christmas. Now the 8-foot-high steel animatronic character is about to make its debut this weekend at a fair in San Mateo.
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Make stuff and show it off at the Maker Faire
Every day I hear about another exciting project that will be at this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area , taking place this weekend, May 22nd and 23rd, at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. One project I can’t wait to see and play with is the Tangible Graffiti Wall , brought from Vancouver by Tangible Interaction ‘s Alex Biem. The Wall has been on display at various events, like the 2010 Winter Olympics, and we’re stoked it’s making its way to the Faire
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Maker Faire: Digital Graffiti Wall
Follow the Team Bobcat Ford Fiesta caravan… American Journey 2.0: AJtheFiesta takes Boulder By Laura Rich Apparently in need of a good road-trip stretch, AJ the Ford Fiesta checked into Yo Momma Yoga. “It was an auto-check-in,” explained T.J
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American Journey 2.0: AJtheFiesta takes Boulder
Make: Online reader Baz from Dublin, ireland, sent us this rad video of a low-tech robot lawn mower. He writes: Self-propelled lawn mower guided by wrapping a string around a couple of posts so it mows a spiral of lawn. Quite hacky, but interesting idea! In the MAKE offices we’ve been trying to guess what happens at the end
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Low-tech R/C lawn mower
While we get all our ducks in a row at the fairgrounds for Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, you might be interested to check out the master schedule of talks, shows, and demos going on throughout the weekend. The locations for all makers are also live on the Maker Faire site, so get to planning your visit! You can also download the Maker Faire Guide PDF . Dale Dougherty fills us in: We have several different stages with different styles of presentations and performances
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Maker Faire schedules and map
Polish engineering student mb1988mb1988 and two friends built this homebrew pulse oximeter . It measures oxygen saturation in a patient by shining two wavelengths of light (infrared and red) through their finger, and recording the changes in light transmission over time. To power it all, they are using an 68HC908AB32 processor
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DIY Pulse Oximeter
In case you missed the announcement tucked at the end of Dale’s Maker Faire preview post yesterday, I’m here to tell you the OK Go will be performing an acoustic set on the Solar Stage at Maker Faire Bay Area on Sunday at 5pm. They’re thinking of it as a teaser to their headlining show at the Filmore later next week in SF
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OK Go to play Maker Faire Sunday
Over at MAKE: Japan, Takumi Funada found this excellent tea caddy variable capacitor ( translation ), which uses a homemade capacitor to turn a little plastic container into a volume control. Nice hack! More: MAKE presents: The Capacitor DIY electronic inclinometer: Measure tilt using water! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
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DIY Volume knob built using a tea caddy and tinfoil
Ayman Shamma not only made a steel pan drum application for his iPad, but he also made some conductive fabric mallets with which to drum. Great work! More: Collin’s Lab: DIY iPad Stylus Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Music | Digg this!
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iPad steel drum with conductive mallets
New York-based BREAKFAST fitted a BlimpDuino with on-board video and wireless control system and took it out for a spin at a party to interact with the crowd. Everybody’s favorite controller du jour, an iPad, was employed to orient the dirigible and act as a augmented display medium. [Thanks, Zolty !] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this!
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iPad controlled video blimp
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship and her crew arrived in San Mateo, Earth today, on the 17th day of the 5th month in the year 2010. After an uneventful 12-hour trans-galactic journey across the western reaches of the Sobay Nebula, our sturdy and resilient little ship finally settled down on the grassy planetary landscape that will soon be densely populated by the rare and interesting Humanus Makeriferous Species
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The Road to Maker Faire: Greetings Earthlings!
Well, they did it again. The Fifth Annual Spring Kickoff to Geocaching was a huge, no, a HUGE, success! There were 175 Geocachers that attended the event from 112 Geocaching teams! It’s getting bigger every year! Canuck and Finn were kept very busy at the registration table getting everyone logged in: It was a great time as we mingled about, chatted, laughed and relaxed with friends old and new. Stories were swapped, tales were told and plans were made for the upcoming months.
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The Fifth Annual Spring Kickoff 2010
Cube.ly appears to be a 3D printer that uses 80/20 girders for the 2′x2′x2′ chassis, with all electronic components identical to those used in the Makerbot and Mendel. The project’s charter describes the project’s goals: Provide a fully capable 3D printer which can be used to directly manufacture or can be used to easily create the precursors to large volume traditional manufacturing including vacuum forming, injection molding, casting and others. The core device must be buildable using standardized, commodity components that are widely available and under $1,000 USD.
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Cubely: a new 3D printer?
It’s about time somebody made a media award that actually does something other than serve as a impromptu murder weapon. At this years SXSW festival, the Web Awards were built around Bleep Labs’ Thingamagoop 2, the analog synth toy (which now has digital/Arduino-control capability)
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SXSW 2010 Web Awards are Thingamagoopy