Tuesday, March 28, 2006
MAKE NEWS No. 37 -- MAKE Faire, MAKE takes home two web awards!
MAKE NEWS No. 37 -- MAKE Faire, MAKE takes home two web awards!
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March 28, 2006
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Only a few weeks left before MAKER FAIRE! Join the creators of MAKE
magazine, the MythBusters, Robot magazine, and thousands of tech DIY
enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, science clubs,
students, and authors at MAKE's first ever Maker Faire!
Meet all kinds of people who make amazing things in garages, basements,
and backyards for inspiration, know-how, and spirited mischief-making. An
incredible learning experience for the entire family, students of all ages
and their teachers are welcome.
<http://www.makezine.com/faire/>
Featured Makers...
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Squid Labs shows off laser cutting work, large-format printing, SmartRope,
and more.
A laser cutter is 45 watts of pure cutting power. It slices, it dices, it
makes French fries 20 different ways! The system can cut two-dimensional
patterns into wood, plastic, paper, foil, chocolate, glass, cake, etc. The
crew at Squid Labs will be engraving their faces into the sides of
pumpkins, making origami, designing microfluidic chips, and anything else
that they happen to come up with while fooling around.
What do you get when you combine the Gutenberg Project's text repository
with a 43" large format printer? A single page book! Come help Squid Labs
and MAKE print out all of "Alice in Wonderland" as a single, wall-spanning
work of art.
Squid Labs has developed a SmartRope technology (a rope that senses
electronically how much it's being pulled on) and will be building a
gigantic harp out of the ropes. You can make music while climbing -- how
hot is that?
One of the best parts of building stuff yourself is sharing what you've
done with the world. Instructables <http://instructables.com> is a
community website where people document what they've made, share their
ideas, and collaborate on building ever-better projects. Squid Labs will
have a large screen showing off some of the best projects and will do some
quick walkthroughs on using the system.
They'll also bring random tools, materials, electronics, equipment, and,
while hanging out, will inevitably start building something. Feel free to
provide advice, support, or inspiration. (Oh yeah, and they'll also have
some really big kites!)
Read more from the program overview:
<http://www.makezine.com/faire/program/>
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MAKE: Blog
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Makezine.com Wins SXSW Web Award and Bloggie!
At the 9th annual South By Southwest Festival Web Awards, makezine.com
took home the award for "Best Educational Resource." At the 6th annual
Weblog Awards, makezine.com took home a "Bloggie" for "Best Craft
Weblog."
We would like to thank all our readers and folks who voted for us! You
like us, you really do!
<http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners/>
<http://2006.bloggies.com/>
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MAKE Flickr and MAKE del.icio.us
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There are over 880 members of the MAKE Flickr photo pool with over 1,724
photos - and they're doing incredibly weird things.
Here are our faves for the week:
Wood Claw:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocell/116802931/in/pool-make/>
DOOM-Playing LOTTO Machine:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/command-tab/116979506/in/pool-make/>
Wi-Fi Bunny:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/114942817/in/pool-make/>
Final Days of Bracewell Observatory:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyberspace/112754509/in/pool-make/>
RFID:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/chadvavra/tags/rfid/>
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Over on our bookmark page, there are over 3,573 links to hacks, mods, DIY
projects, and all-around tinkering goodness. Be a MAKE voyeur and read
what we're reading:
Roomba Does Frogger Rumba:
<http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6049976-5.html?tag=ne.gall.pg>
Roomba Fights!:
<http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/33526/>
Electrical Engineering Calculators:
<http://www.ifigure.com/engineer/electric/electric.htm>
Pimp My Segway:
<http://www.segwaychat.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13068>
Mad Hatter's Tea Party:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/sets/72057594070949343/>
MAKE, Volume 05!
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We're working hard on the next issue of MAKE, but let us not forget the
fabulous MAKE Vol. 05, the first MAKE for 2006! Homemade electric
vehicles, high-powered water rockets, electricity-generating windmill, jet
engine in a jam jar, and a backyard zip line... You need this volume.
<http://www.makezine.com/05/>
Check out this great movie from the water rocket project:
<http://downloads.oreilly.com/make/05/rocket.mov>
Last up, if you're a MAKE subscriber, don't forget that you can log in to
see all of MAKE 05 with MAKE's digital edition.
<http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol05/>
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*The MAKE Team*
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