If you’re in Ireland go see Dale and Sherry!
“Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss of the legendary MAKE magazine will give an informal presentation followed by a conversation about their work in creating Maker Faire, an event bringing together art, science and home-made technology @ Monday December 11, 5.30 pm at the Odessa Club, Dame Court, Dublin 2″ - Link.
Related:
SEED - seeking dialogue between art and science - Link.
Maker Faire coverage - Link.
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I’ll be at Crafty Wonderland today in Portland. I’m going to be giving shadow puppet workshops through the day. I’ve also got some shopping to day. It’s at 830 E Burnside in the Doug Fir Lounge. If you’re in town, swing on by, do some serious crafty shopping, and say hi. - Link
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Seattle geeks packed the house to build bridges out of popsicle sticks and hot glue at Seattle’s geek event, ignite. 13 teams basked in the glory of success or had their dreams crushed into tiny shards of wood as they stepped on their bridges and found out if their bridge would hold their weight. While the winners won the latest magazine, an amazing amount of applause was given to teams whose bridges were crushed. Hurray for destruction!
Props go out to the team that used 998 of the 1000 popsicle sticks allotted and managed to hold 5 people on their bridge. They brought an iron that they plugged in and turned upside down to heat up a makeshift aluminum foil pot of hot glue. Props also go out to the family that made the artistic bridge that managed to hold the 4 year old member of […]
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If you’re in NYC and like tech workshops, gifts you can make, this is a good one to check out!
“Come by Eyebeam Saturday, December 9th for the third annual Holiday Hackshop, a full day of artist-led tech workshops for making your own DIY gifts for the holiday season. This year’s Holiday Hackshop is being joined by La Superette, an annual art market full of original handmade gifts, musical performances, puppet shows(!), and video screenings.” - Link & more.
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Brady writes -
“Just a quick reminder, that tomorrow night is the first Ignite Seattle from O’Reilly Radar and Make. We have over 25 speakers planned, a popsicle-stick bridge-building contest and Werewolf. We have speakers lined up from Amazon, Ontela, UW, Microsoft, MySQL, some independents, and a slew of startups. Topics range from “Dorkbot” to “Info Tech in the Third World” to “Innovation” to “Corporate Culture Hacking” to “Home VOIP Hacks”. All talks are 5 minutes long with just 20 slides each on auto-play for 15 seconds. Check the site for details and if you are in Seattle please stop by. It is a free event.” [via] - Link.
Related:
Bridge Building Tests - Link.
Werewolf - Link.
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The squarewave ring in my ears finally faded, here’s a round up of the coverage from the Blip Festival 2006 in NYC - MAKE was a sponsor and had a table there with our kits and zines. The fest consisted of a small but growing community from around the world - there’s something delightful about artists, composers and makers creating music from tossed gaming machines that are almost as old as the performers.
GSW Report: Blip Festival 2006, Part 1 - Link.
GSW Report: Blip Festival 2006, Part 2 - Link.
Blip Festival: 8-Bit is Enough - Link.
Blip festival - Link.
Music @ MySpace - Link.
Videos @ Youtube - Link.
Quick vid from MAKE - one & two.
Photos @ Flickr - Link.
The folks there liked the year one MAKE (soldering primer) the MIDI & circuit bending issues and the Mintyboost for charging Gameboys and music players - thanks to all the folks who stopped by […]
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Our friends @ WorldChanging are having a get together, if you’re in the Bay area (tonight 12/5) RSVP and check it out…
Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century is a groundbreaking compendium of the most innovative solutions, ideas and inventions emerging today for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.
05 DEC 06: San Francisco, CA doors open at 6pm
111 Minna: 111 Minna St.
RSVP: WorldchangingSF[at]gmail.com
WorldChanging the book… - Link.
I’m not even close to finishing the book, it’s gigantic.
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The 24072nd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, December 6th, 2006, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. I’m going to try and make it there, post in the comments if you’re going!
Sam Freeman: 1000 Ways It Doesn’t Work
1000 Ways It Doesn’t Work is a multimedia art project which attempts to come to terms with the General Electric Corporation. Through installations, performances, videos, programs, correspondence, and web pages the project seeks the human dimensions and implications of the multi-national behemoth that is GE. The presentation will include an overview of all the pieces involved, and a discussion of where the project can go from here.
http://1000ways.org
Marisa Olson: Oh.Yeah.I.Love.You.Baby
Marisa’s work deals with popular music and the cultural history of technology. She’s just started production on her first sound art album, “Oh.Yeah.I.Love.You.Baby,” in which each word in the album title is also the title of a respective track whose lyrics consist solely […]
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Today during the day there are 3 movies @ the Blip festival.
We Are The Strange preview.
This Spartan Life
8 Bit
Tonight!
Screening & performances - music and visuals. Super Mario Movie, noteNdo, Voltage Controlled, C-TRL LABS, The Depreciation Guild, Aonami, Covox, Bud Melvin, Nullsleep, Hally, Touchboy, Kplecraft.
If you’re in NYC stop by! You’ll save shipping and also get a big discount on MAKE stuff (open source mp3 player is here, along with our year one box set, kits, and more) worth the trip!
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MAKE is a sponsor of the Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 - DEC 3! So, stop by Thurs (tonight) through Sunday. If you want to buy MAKE stuff super-cheap I have a table here, so here’s your chance. I’m also willing to trade some stuff and/or haggle - really, do your worst.
Tonight: Visuals: Dan Winckler, C-TRL Labs, The C-Men. Music: Virt, Receptors, Glomag, Startpause, x|km Goto80,Tugboat, Chibi-Tech.
“THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit videogame consoles and home computers used as creative tools. Familiar devices are pushed in new directions with startling results — Nintendo Entertainment Systems and Game Boys roaring with futuristic floor-stomping rhythms and fist-waving melody, art-damaged Sega hardware generating fluctuating and abstracted video patterns — and that’s only the beginning. An exploration of the chiptune idiom and its close […]
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If you’re in LA on 12/02 pop by and visit! -
“Please join us Saturday Dec 2nd at 5:30pm for a very special meeting of Dorkbot SoCal to launch the new issue of MAKE magazine.
Simon Penny (Director of UCI’s Arts Computation Engineering program) will speak on integrating interaction design, space design, structure design, mechanical design, electronic design and software engineering using his 3D machine-vision driven interactive digital-video project Fugitive 2 as a case study. Attention will then turn to the pragmatic design and fabrication issues involved in building a custom motion control rig for the video projector in the project. Simon is bringing in a prototype of the motion control rig as tangible example.
Mr Jalopy (Contributing Editor to MAKE and automotive mad scientist) will be giving an epic (yet fast paced) talk on “Deep Sea Suburbs: Custom Vans, Internal Combustion Engines, Backyard Anthropology and the California Dream”.
Make magazine issue #8 will […]
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Ignite is going to be a great night of makers, geeks, scientists, and innovators hanging out at the Capitol Hill Arts Center in Seattle.
The fun will start at 6:30 with a Make: Magazine sponsored bridge building competition. Using popsicle sticks and hot glue, each team will have 30 minutes to make a bridge. Then we’ll weigh them down until each one is destroyed. The team who has the bridge that holds the most weight will win prizes.
All ages welcome until 10pm and then it becomes a 21 and over event. This contest will be very informal since teams will only have 1/2 hour to make their bridges. I’m looking at the bridge building competition website and I got the above photo from http://www.garrettsbridges.com/ and I really like his style of finding how much weight a bridge will hold by putting the scale right on the bridge. […]
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MAKE Flickr photo pool member cyenobite posted up a bunch of photos from the 11/12 MAKE: Philly meeting - Highlights included a workshop on soldering and a presentation & Maker Challenge on BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics) robotics - Link.
Related:
MAKE: Philly Art Buggy - Link.
MAKE: Philly - Link.
More:
Beam bots - Link.
Carlito’s Contraptions: La Cucaracha - BEAM robot - Link.
A Beginner’s Guide to BEAM - Link.
Solarbotics - Link.
Two BEAMbots: Trimet and Solarroller - Link & MAKE 06 - Page 78. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!
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MAKE Flickr photo pool member sparktography has some nice shots of the MAKE draw bot! - “Taken at Seattle Mind Camp 3.0 - Seattle’s premiere un-conference featuring the best and brightest of technology all under the same roof for 24 hours learning from each other, and exploring our passions. Most shots taken with a Lensbaby 2G - The MAKE crew was there and they brought their hand crafted drawing robot. Take a picture, convert it to vector art, and BAM - it draws it with any pen you place in it’s grasp.” - Link & Seattlest mention here.
Related:
The Make:: Drawbot Draws! - Link.
Make Podcast: Weekend Projects - Making A Drawbot - Link.
Drawbot in Action! - Link.
Make Podcast: Weekend Projects - Drawbot Wrapup - Link.
Weekend Project: Making a Drawbot - Link.
Mind Camp - Link.
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