Dale has some good news - the Maker Faire proposal deadline has been extended!
We are getting many, many terrific proposals for Maker Faire. Nearly half of them have come in at the last two days. To relieve this crunch, we’ve decided to extend the deadline about two weeks to Midnight (PST) Sunday March 18.
We will begin reviewing all of those proposals submitted by the deadline and follow up on them very soon. In other words, if you got your proposal in by the deadline, you’ll hear from us before the date of the new extended deadline. You’ll be ahead of the rest of them.
Last year, we did accept a bunch of proposals up until the week before the Faire because it’s hard to say no to cool projects. However, accepting late proposals means that the programs […]
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Awhile back a reader asked what the MAKE digital edition is and what the links in the blog posts do if you’re a MAKE subscriber, so here’s a quick screencast/video I made. You can view it here or get the MP4.
MAKE Digital Edition is a vivid replica of the print edition of MAKE, it offers an experience very much like the print magazine plus many additional benefits, such as online searching, embedded multimedia and printing. Please note that MAKE Digital Edition can be viewed from any web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari etc.) and requires NO DOWNLOADING of software (it’s not a DRM’ed PDF, just a log in and password) - giving you instant access to your entire MAKE collection. You can share it, print it and get extra content - we have the FAQ here too.
What is MAKE - Digital Edition?
How do I add digital editions to my […]
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Hey Makers, a lot of readers have asked if there was a way to get all the posts from the MAKE blog sent to them each day via email - I evaluated a few fee/free services and we’re pleased to launch the MAKE daily newsletter. All you need to do is enter your email address and you’ll get the MAKE blog delivered each day. We don’t store/sell/share your email address and every newsletter has an unsubscribe link.
So, take it for a spin for a few days - I think this is a great way to keep up on all things in the world of making delivered right to your inbox.
*Note: I know it’s obvious, but… the sign up page says “Start your FREE subscription to MAKE: Daily - The MAKE blog delivered to your inbox each day …” it’s not for the print magazine, it’s to our blog - I’m […]
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A little MAKE/CRAFT/Maker Faire housekeeping - we’re receiving a lot of requests for logos, covers and banners - so here’s everything in one post - we feed this to the Google. If you’re inspired do something neat with them and let us know.
MAKE logos (GIF & EPS) - Link.
MAKE banners - Link.
MAKE covers - Link.
CRAFT logos (GIF & EPS) - Link.
CRAFT banners - Link.
CRAFT covers - Link.
Maker Faire (GIF, RGB EPS, 2, 4, 1 color) - Link.
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The next dorkbot in SF looks great! As always, take pictures and pop them up in the MAKE Flickr pool if there’s something you thought was interesting.
make a note that it’s next MONDAY feb 19th!
at encounter studios
555 deharo suite 120 in pot. hill
7:30pm SHARP (we are showing greg’s film on the Electrum Project
and will be starting on time so dont be late!)
FREE ADMISSION, CASH BAR, DONATIONS APPRECIATED!
speakers:
Greg Leyh - In Pursuit Of Relativistic Runaway Breakdown: A Proposal
to Construct a Lightning Laboratory at the Megascale
http://www.lod.org
monochrom - administrators of dorkbot vienna, curators of roboxotica:
cocktail robotics, worldwide collective dealing in technology, art,
context hacking and philosophy since 1993
http://www.monochrom.at
open dork:
Simran Gleason - generative music from gravity equations in an n-body
simulator
Jonathan Moore - external combustion engine, cocktail making robot
more!
bring your projects, gadgets to show off
see you there!
-Karen
dorkbot-sf - Link.
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Some of you have noticed something very cool and very new in our MAKE videos recently - at the end of some of our videos there is a BUY button for our kits we sell in our Maker store in the video along with some additional information. This is a “DIY ad”, a new feature from our video provider blip.tv - we made this ourselves. MAKE worked with blip.tv to develop an ad system so any Maker / video producer can create their own ads for their own goods/services and place them in the videos they produce. It’s extremely new, a very simple idea really - but we think it’s going to really take off.
For MAKE we can bring you the best how-to videos, encourage sharing of the videos and -inside- the video deliver up our own stuff from our own store, events, etc. They’re clickable and easy for us […]
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We’re getting a new email system this weekend at MAKE, so if you send us an email over the weekend it might not get to us, or be a bit delayed if you’re looking for an immediately reply - we also had an outage this week and I wanted to thank all the folks who let us know as it happened. That’s it for now, have a great weekend, go make something clever!
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Scott Beale from Laughing Squid drove up to O’Reilly to meet with our team for a tour and to chatter about Maker Faire stuff, etc. As usual, Scott has a fun write up and great photos… - Link.
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It happens to all of us at least once it seems, data loss. A couple weeks ago a flood hit my apartment/office area and soaked the desktop system, monitors, equipment *and* back up drive (along with a ton of other stuff) - luckily I have a daily back up on a Powerbook. But, of course the Powerbook decided to completely stop working while at our ETSY event before that could be backed up too. Zapping the PRAM revealed the hard drive failed, so the usual steps of Disk Util, TechTool and then finally drive removal and DiskWarrior were attempted - for the most part the drive seems completely dead - there might be a chance to recover some data under linux, or from a data recovery shop, but it’s not looking good. So, years of work, designs, presentations, papers, 40k emails, videos, photos, articles, jeez everything really - gone, […]
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It happens to all of us at least once it seems, data loss. Here’s my story, maybe it will get more folks to think about their data and how/where to keep it (better).
A couple weeks ago a flood hit my apartment/office area and soaked the desktop system, monitors, equipment *and* back up drive (along with a ton of other stuff) - luckily I have a daily back up on a Powerbook. But, of course the Powerbook decided to completely stop working while at our ETSY event before that could be backed up too. Zapping the PRAM revealed the hard drive failed, so the usual steps of Disk Util, TechTool and then finally drive removal and DiskWarrior were attempted - for the most part the drive seems completely dead - there might be a chance to recover some data under linux, or from a data recovery shop, but it’s not […]
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It happens to all of us at least once it seems, data loss. Here’s my story, maybe it will get more folks to think about their data and how/where to keep it (better).
A couple weeks ago a flood hit my apartment/office area and soaked the desktop system, monitors, equipment *and* back up drive (along with a ton of other stuff) - luckily I have a daily back up on a Powerbook. But, of course the Powerbook decided to completely stop working while at our ETSY event before that could be backed up too. Zapping the PRAM revealed the hard drive failed, so the usual steps of Disk Util, TechTool and then finally drive removal and DiskWarrior were attempted - for the most part the drive seems completely dead - there might be a chance to recover some data under linux, or from a data recovery shop, but it’s not […]
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Wow! We at MAKE & CRAFT are so thrilled to have Craftzine.com as one of the finalists in the 10th Annual SXSW Web Awards in the Art category! The SXSW Web Awards uncover the the best new websites and celebrate those who are building and implementing tomorrow’s online trends. Craftzine is honored to be in the Art category alongside such company as 15X15, Ellipse Foundation, MyToons, and Smithsonian Photography Initiative. Help us out too by visiting this link and picking Craftzine as the People’s Choice if you like what we are doing! Link.
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Dear Makers:
Have you mastered the Make Controller, our next-generation modular, programmable controller board? In the short time it’s been out, we’ve heard of many clever applications: from robotics to special effects to motor control.
If you’ve worked with the Make Controller, tell us about it. We’ll include the best applications in an upcoming Make article and tout your technical brilliance to the world! Plus, we’ll find a few goodies from the Make Store to bestow upon the technically worthy.
Send a short description, a photo, and contact information to //
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var domain = “makezine.com”;
var display = “mcmakers”;
var subject = “Yes, I’ve got a project”;
var ending = “.”;
document.write(’‘);
if (display) {
document.write(display);
} else {
document.write(name + ‘@’ + domain);
}
document.write(’‘ + ending);
// ]]>
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Reminder - If you’re in the NYC area, come visit ETSY and some of the MAKE & CRAFT folks 6pm, Thursday 2/1 Brooklyn - Link.
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