(via Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement... | TimBatchelder. Related articles 'Maker Movement' enabling more women to launch tech businesses? (zdnet.com) Chris Anderson: New Revolution "Bigger Than The Web" (dailyreckoning.com) Maker Corps at Maker Faire Wants You! (makezine.com) Life on the Fringes of Cyberculture: An Interview with Gareth Branwyn (motherboard.vice.com) MIT wants to see … Continue reading Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement Changed one Man’s Life
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How To: Make a Concrete and Copper Bedside Lamp curbly.com I’ve been on a bit of a lighting kick lately and I think I might just have to try this bedside lamp project. Especially since it involves two of my favorite materials: concrete and… Continue reading on Curbly.com How To: Make a Concrete and Copper … Continue reading DIY copper and concrete lamp
Pack Multi-Layered Meals in Mason Jars for a Grab-and-Go Lunch You Can Make in Advance Alan Henry, lifehacker.com Finding time to pack a lunch ahead so you can eat well and save a bit of cash can be tricky. Thankfully the solution to making a healthy, tasty lunch that you can grab in the morning … Continue reading Mason jar lunches: safe, healthy and mobile
Man Transforms Old TV Screen into 2000 Degree Fahrenheit Solar Death Ray That Can Melt Pennies Lori Zimmer, inhabitat.com DIY expert Grant Thompson has a use for those heavy old rear-projection televisions that have been collecting dust in your basement—he transforms them into solar-powered death rays! Thompson takes advantage of the convex screens’ ability to … Continue reading Turn an old TV into a solar death ray
Tentsile’s New Stingray Hanging Tent Lets You Sleep Comfortably Suspended in the Trees! Morgana Matus, inhabitat.com Forget about soggy sleeping bags and competing with rocks and debris on the cold, hard ground on your next camping trip – Inhabitat favorite Tentsile just launched a brand new suspended tent called the Stingray that lets you rest … Continue reading Tensile canopy tent
Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room - Images gizmag.com Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room - Images http://flip.it/YoSlL http://flip.it/SxMah Related articles Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room (gizmag.com) Curbed Maps: Homes With Hot Tubs And Saunas Keep … Continue reading Sauna Box turns an old shipping container into a self-contained steam room
A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated BY EMILY BADGER, fastcoexist.com To get definitive evidence if oil from the BP spill has seeped into water sources, citizen scientists need a device called a spectrometer. Sounds fancy and expensive. But a new project will send you one made with nothing but a few … Continue reading A DIY Kit To Determine If Your Water Is Contaminated
The Future of Firearms: DIY Guns You Can Make at Home By Eliza Shapiro, thedailybeast.com School shootings be damned. Companies like Defense Distributed are moving forward with newfangled 3-D printers that let you make guns at home, writes Eliza Shapiro. Four days after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Cody Wilson wa… RT @thedailybeast: … Continue reading DIY firearms means unlimited guns for anyone
DIY History crowdsources the transcription of 17th century cookbooks By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture “We are what we eat,” the old saying goes. If so, there’s no better way to digest culture than to comb through painstakingly handwritten cookbooks. Now, the University of Iowa Libraries has made the task exponentially easi… RT @WiredUK: DIY History … Continue reading DIY history digitizes ethnomedical recipe books
How to make calves’ head soup, and other culinary treats from the past By Carren Jao, wired.co.uk Culture The University of Iowa Libraries has made the task exponentially easier with the launch of DIY History, a crowdsourcing initiative that allows volunteers to transcribe the Szathmary Culinary Archives, centuries’ wort… http://flip.it/m6bBi Related articles BioCurious DIY BioPrinter … Continue reading DIY history identifies forgotten bio prospecting knowledge
Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Skateboarders have been taping their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of camcorders, but the producers of short and beautiful video Firefly took the next logical step: using a camera mounted to a hexacopte… Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a … Continue reading DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech
LittleBits Releases Holiday Kit, Encourages More DIY Hardware Hacking Alexandra Chang, wired.com Open source hardware company littleBits has released its Holiday Kit and launched a campaign to encourage people to build their own projects during the consumption-heavy holiday season. http://flpbd.it/fAU5t Related articles The Problem-Solving Electronic Toys You Want Your Kids To Play With (fastcompany.com) Ayah … Continue reading Littlebits holiday kits for DIY hackers
IKEA Hack: How to Make an Industrial Concrete Base Lamp curbly.com When I came across this lighting project, I did a double take because I could hardly believe it was a DIY. It is so well done, the finished project looked more like something I could buy than something I could make on my own. … Continue reading Ikea concrete base lamp hack
An Open-Source Kit Of Parts, For Making Any Gadget From Scratch By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At the Istanbul Bienal, designers used the OpenStructures system to build toasters, sleds, and vacuum cleaners from scratch. The move towards DIY digital fabrication—from MakerBot to Fab@Home—is an undoubtedly great development for… http://flpbd.it/fOuI4 Related articles Dyson dc24 animal compact upright … Continue reading Open structures parts kit lets you make anything from scratch
Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets By Michael Colombo, makezine.com At the same time, the name of the piece, Forêt (translated to “Forest”) harkens to the material origins of the pallets themselves. As the user sits in the middle of the structure, light passes through the slats much like the sun… http://flpbd.it/M7cNm Related articles … Continue reading Giant Meditation Chamber Made from Shipping Pallets
Biohackers And DIY Cyborgs Clone Silicon Valley Innovation By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new breed of hobbyists, scientists, and entrepreneurs are working on echolocation implants, brain-controlled software programs, and even cybernetic rats. Their experiments will change the future of tech. In basements, garages, startup spaces… http://flpbd.it/mU8hs Related articles Biohacking: You Can Do It, Too (ecology.com) … Continue reading Biohackers And DIY Cyborgs
China’s DIY Culture By Clay Dillow, popsci.com Home Depot is closing its last seven big-box stores in China, citing a lack of a DIY ethos among the Chinese. But while sales may be flat, China’s maker culture still thrives. Have YOU ever built yourself a helicopter? Over the weekend, the Wal… http://flpbd.it/LeyW0 Related articles How … Continue reading China’s DIY Culture
Roll Your Own DIY Security System This Weekend Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Your home is a place you want to keep secure, but getting all the high-end security gadgets and services available to help you do that is a pricey endeavor. This weekend, roll your own DIY security system. It’s more fun and it’ll save y… … Continue reading Roll Your Own DIY Security System
Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace.gr By John Baichtal, makezine.com Sounds way cool! Coming Sunday, September the 2nd, we are going to take a look at the basics of life through the eye of the hexayurt project‘s creator Vinay Gupta that will visit hackerspace.gr. Hexayurt is an open hardware house built in … Continue reading Do-It-Yourself Civilization in Hackerspace
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For anyone interested in DIY, design, recycling or just plain solidly made things this show is a must... Brimfield Antique Show Homepage. Related articles DIY: Give Your Collared Shirt Bohemian Embellishments! (fabsugar.com) DIY: Learn to Make the Perfect Cutoff Shorts (fabsugar.com) DIY: How to Make Retro, Pastel-Tipped Sunglasses! (fabsugar.com) A Rainy Day at the Brimfield … Continue reading Brimfield Antique Show: DIY, design, recycling and solidly made things
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