May 29th, 2009
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Richard Kaufman won one of the Dover Paper Architect books we gave away in a contest back in February. I love that he’s doing the projects and tweeting the results. Nice going, Richard!
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May 29th, 2009
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We’re setting up the CRAFT booth for Maker Faire today and guess what we’ve got decorating our display tables? Our own Spoonflower CRAFT fabric designed by our friend Samantha Hahn. Now you can take a piece, er, I mean a yard of CRAFT with you by purchasing it on Spoonflower’s Etsy shop. Let us know if you make something with it and post up a photo in our CRAFT Flickr pool.
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May 29th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 03:05 pm 
this is a simple way to turn an unrecyclable item in to a lean mean green plant growing machine with one pack of yokibosa noodles, a back yard and plants
Cook!
cook the noodles to the packs demands
Eat!
this step is almost always last bu not this time!
Fill!
fill the box with dirt and seed
E…
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May 29th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 02:05 pm 
If you’ve been following the mightyOhm’s series on building a WiFi radio, you’ll enjoy these pictures of the finished radio cabinet. He’s going to showing off the finished project at Maker Faire, so if you get a chance, stop by Expo Hall Booth 166 and check it out.
Sneak peak at my finished Wifi Radio project!
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May 29th, 2009
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In addition to the hundreds of talented makers at this weekend’s Maker Faire, Make: television will be live, featuring…
The Make: television Stage
Meet the makers who appear on the first season, as well as presentations and discussions from MAKE authors and bloggers. All day, Saturday and Sunday, in Expo Hall.
Projects built during the first season
We’ll have our Burrito Blaster with plenty of shootables, the VCR Cat Feeder topped off with cat food and a Cigar Box Guitar and Amp ready for rocking.
Bring your USB Drives
Jared Boone of ShareBrained Technology and designer James Provost have made an awesome Make: television Media Vending Machine. Bring a USB drive that’s between 512mb and 12GB and load up with HD or media player-friendly versions. The back is completely open so you can how it’s made, and Jared will be on hand. Here it is in the testing phase.
Connect with Geek Squad
We’re proud to host Geek Squad at this year’s Maker Faire. They’ll have Geek Squad Agents on hand to answer any of your tech questions as well as a live Twitter stream rolling throughout the weekend.
Tell us what you make!
We’re building the momentum for a second season and we want to hear from makers of all sorts. Last year, we found a huge amount of unique makers at Maker Faire and we’re hoping to do the same thing this year. Don’t be shy, we love show and tell!
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May 29th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 02:05 pm 
If you’re in NYC for Internet Week (June 1 - 8), be sure to check out the “global hackday” for tangible interfaces, computer vision, and creative use of OSC/LusidOSC, featuring the open-source, free, multi-platform Trackmate project developed at the MIT Media Lab. The event will be on Saturday, June 6, 11:00am - 9:30pm Eastern time; hacking 11-7 for coders and makers, party 7-9:30 for everyone else.
Hands-On Tangible Interfaces: CDM + New Work City Hackday, June 6
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May 29th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 02:05 pm 
Simple walk through that shows how to make a shell script that will down load a program from a ftp site then compile it then download it to the picaxe.
(This is also my first instructable)
What i used
This is what i used
1x ubuntu
1x picaxe 08m
1x breadboard
2x led
jumper leads
some way to prog…
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May 29th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 02:05 pm 
Once you have made a toolpath in the .sbp file format, you are ready to cut it on the Shopbot machine.
Holding Down the Materials to be Cut
It is very important that nothing moves or slips while you are cutting things on the Shopbot. Holding down the materials is an important thing to think abou…
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May 29th, 2009
Blogsnapper at 02:05 pm Check out the full schedule of presentations and demos for this weekend’s Maker Faire. I’m happy to have such a wide range of speakers on a variety of topics.
There are three stages: Stage A is in Fiesta Hall used for short talks; Stage B is a smaller stage in Fiesta for workshops; Stage C in Expo Hall has a mix of panels and talks. (In addition, a full slate of Craft Demos will take place in Expo Hall and Make Demos will happen in Fiesta in the Maker Shed area.)
Here are some of the highlights:
Adam Savage returns to Maker Faire again where he had a standing-room only audience last year. This year, he will talk about “Colossal Failures” on Saturday from 2 pm to 3pm in Stage A.
Remaking American Manufacturing is one of themes to be addressed by speakers this Saturday at Maker Faire. Liam Casey who works in Zhenzhen, China helps American companies utiltize the Chinese manufacturing system. Liam believes that this unique system of manufacturing will increasingly become available for individual makers. His talk, “Getting Out of the Garage” will be Saturday at noon on Stage A.
Rod Brooks of MIT and founder of iRobot will discuss how the future of American manufacturing might depend on a new generation of industrial robotics, which is the focus of his new company, Heartland Robotics. Rod’s talk, “Remaking American Manufacturing with Robotics“, is Saturday at 3:00 pm on Stage A.
Mitch Free, founder and CEO of MFG.com, will be talking about new ways of manufacturing products and how to take advantage of this new world of American manufacturing. His talk is at 3:30 pm Saturday on Stage A.
Esther Dyson, daughter of Freeman Dyson and a technology analyst and investor, will talk about her fascination with space. Esther recently completed a five-month training as a cosmonaut in Star City, Russia, just outside of Moscow. She’ll talk about her own experience training as well as her interests in the private space industry. Her talk, “What’s a nice lady like you doing in (a) space like this?“, will be Saturday at 1pm on Stage A.
The host of Make:TV’s Maker Workshop, John Park, will talk about the show and demonstrate the Personal Flight Recorder project that was demonstrated on a rollercoaster ride in the show’s first season. John will be speaking Saturday and Sunday at 3pm on Stage C.
Jeri Ellsworth will talk about how she created her own path in life and channeled her creative energy as an engineer, designing the highly acclaimed Commodore C64 30-in-1 Joystic. Her talk, “From Juvenile Delinquent to Self-Taught Electrical Engineer“, is Saturday at 4pm on Stage A.
Learn about stereoscopic 3D animation techniques from Special Awesome, makers of 3D stop-motion film Coraline. They will be talking about their equipment and their techniques at 1pm Saturday on Stage C. Alex Andon will talk about raising jellyfish and making jellyfish aquariums in his talk Sunday 12:30 pm on Stage A.
Jerry Glasser, an experienced pilot and flight instructor, will talk flying the SR-71 and other aircraft in his talk, “Flying the World’s Fastest Aircraft” on Sunday at 2pm on Stage A. Earlier on Sunday at 11 am on Stage A, McKinley Siegfried and her father, Rand, will talk about how she built her own airplane.
Phil Torrone is organizing a discussion on the business of Open Source Hardware. The panel, “Making Open Source Hardware into a Kit Business”, will happen Sunday at 1pm on Stage C.
Tito Jankowski will talk about “DIY Biology” on Saturday 1pm to 2pm on Stage B. Tom Igoe, author of “Making Things Talk” and a member of the Arduino team, will give a hands-on talk “LED Mania” on Sunday from 1pm to 2pm on Stage C. Nathan Seidle of Sparkfun Electronics will give two hour-long workshops on electronic prototyping, Saturday at noon and Sunday at 4pm on Stage B.
There are many, many more presentations and demos scheduled so please check out the full schedule. You can find schedules for each day with full listings, plus one-page at-a-glance schedules (PDF) for each day. In addition to all these great presentations and demos, Maker Faire will have over 500+ fascinating maker exhibits.
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May 29th, 2009
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Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories just released a new version of their sugar 3D printer, the CandyFab 6000. It’s smaller than previous models, enough so to fit on a tabletop, but still has an impressive 10 liter build volume. From the site:
Here’s one of the first objects that we fabbed on the CandyFab 6000: a drilled sphere, about two inches in diameter and layer thickness of 1/15 inch. There’s plenty of room for improvement, and finally we have a machine that can be improved.
The machine is designed so that it can be made from scratch– i.e., without dumpster diving for old HP pen plotters. Three axes of quadrature-encoded DC servo motor control. Timing belts and acme lead screws. Food-safe sugar containment. The body is made from laser-cut plywood with acrylic highlights and stainless steel hardware. (Steampunk-compliant brass thumbscrews where appropriate, too.)
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