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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/03/congratulations_rebecca_karger_winn.html
The gods of Random.org have crowned Rebecca Karger, a student at Horace Greeley High School, winner of our Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set. This is what Rebecca had to say about what she'd do with the set:
If I had this kit, I'd take it with me to college next year, and build a robot that could go down the hall of my dorm to deliver a note to a friend. And probably 500 different other things. I was on an FLL team in middle school that went to the international competition, but it was the year BEFORE the NXT kits came out! I remember seeing a demo and being highly impressed, but my parents say the kits are too expensive.
Rebecca: so yeah, your FB settings are kinda restrictive. You're going to have to get in touch with me if you want the prize. I'm at facebook.com/nerd1.
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As part of their campaign to raise money for a new facility, the hackerspace i3 Detroit produced this cute video imploring you to please think of the robots and help their cause. In the short number of months they have been open, they have really established themselves as outstanding members of the community, helping to put on a Mini Maker Faire, sponsoring FIRST robot teams, and offering classes and events, so it is great to see them already looking to expand. Good luck, robots!
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By Kris Magri, engineering intern
Thanks again to everyone who entered the Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest! As promised, our team at Make: Labs has built the winning gadget: the super-stealth Listening Cup designed by Grand Prize winner Nic. Check it out!
Amid a raft of great entries that were extremely creative, the Listening Cup was deemed the overall winner because it's stealthy and high-tech, but still buildable. It came with detailed hand-drawn plans, even showing what type of electronic parts would be needed. The original idea was a drinking cup with a false bottom and electronics hidden beneath -- a microphone, an amplifier, and a speaker -- so that a person could put the cup to their ear and eavesdrop on conversations from a distance, or listen through walls.
Results
Using electronics available to anyone, we found that the Listening Cup can easily pick up faint nearby sounds and make them louder, though it couldn't listen though walls unless they were paper-thin. Of course, we figure Alex Rider's employer MI6 could afford some awesome miniaturized circuits, like those in expensive hearing aids, that would boost the Listening Cup's performance tremendously.
Overall, the Listening Cup was a pleasure to design and build. It really put us in the shoes of Smithers, the gadget maker for Alex Rider (though we are envious of his lab).
Building the Listening Cup
After judging all the entries on three criteria (creativity of idea, cool factor, and technical realism), tabulating the results, and choosing Listening Cup as the ultimate winner, our troubles were just beginning. Now, how to build one?
We've published quite a few amplifier circuits in MAKE magazine, and built several more that weren't published, so we had a pretty good stash of circuits to try. We went through the magazines and identified 3 potential circuits that might work. On the first day, engineering intern Eric Chu and I reached for the quick-build to test what it would be like to have a amplifier with its microphone inside a cup. We stole the amplifier module from an existing project sitting on our shelf: the
"Covert Wireless Listening" device disguised as a book, from
MAKE Volume 16, the "Spy Tech" issue. We cut a hole in an ordinary red plastic Dixie cup and shoved the mic in. This became our tester unit for the next few days...
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If you've been following our exploits closely in the last year or so, you've likely caught wind of us working feverishly on something called Makers Market. After lots of heavy lifting and obsessive constructing, arranging, merchandising, and labeling, we're ready to throw open the gates and show off our little marketplace. We think of it as sort of an online Farmers Market for cool geekery (and other "maker-made" goodies), or a "curated marketplace of wonderful science, tech, and artistic creations created and sold directly by some of our favorite makers from around the world," as the official statement reads.
Here are some additional details:
A collaboration between MAKE and Boing Boing, Makers Market brings together our favorite entrepreneurial makers and artists selling products and services directly to DIY enthusiasts...
Most of the sellers you'll discover in Makers Market are makers whom we've come to know through our work producing MAKE, Boing Boing, Make: Online, CRAFT, Maker Faire, and Make: television. Each seller is selected by the staff at MAKE or the Boing Boing crew. The products are "Maker-Made," either made by, rebuilt by, or substantially produced by the maker selling them.
Each maker has their own storefront showcasing their work and sell their products, hosts their own blog, posts pictures and videos, and communicates with their customers and the DIY community at large. MAKE provides the web service, the tools, and the community. Sellers are responsible for doing their own product fulfillment and bringing their unique character, energy, and DIY spirit to the marketplace.
So, come on over and check it out! We're really exciting about this. It's still very much in early beta, so we appreciate your continued patience as we get everything in order.
If you're an indie maker and have a product or service you think you'd like to sell, visit the "Seller's FAQ." Nominating yourself is easy and just takes a few minutes. We'll review your information and generally get back to you in a day or two.
So, come on, let's go shopping!
Here are a few of my favorite items in the market:
Atari Punk Console Kit,
Rotobotmouse ,
BYO Tinysaur Deluxe: T-Rex
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HacDC's (Washington DC's premier hackerspace) next Lightning Talks evening will feature an eclectic lineup of a dozen five-minute talks on anything and everything that's pressing on the minds of today's thinkers and tinkerers, from rapid boat construction to innovative DIY manufacturing. The talks run about 90 minutes total.
There are currently several speaker slots still available, and they need your brilliant ideas, whatever they may be. For more information, contact obscurite@hacdc.org ASAP to secure a spot. Here for more.
HacDC Lightning Talks
7:30 - 9:30PM, Tuesday Feb 23, 2010
HacDC @ St. Stephen's Church
1525 Newton St NW
Washington, DC 20010
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Over the years, here on Make: Online, we've had a rather open, anybody can play commenting policy. As long as you didn't use profanity, post patently offensive remarks, or spam, your comments were likely to stand. We also allowed for anonymous commenting.
While this approach allows for the greatest number of voices, we've come to feel that it doesn't necessarily foster the best sense of community. People, especially those new to DIY, to electronics, to the maker's movement in general; people who are exploring a project idea but unsure of the design or its mechanics, frequently don't feel "safe" in speaking up here. We've heard this from makers personally and in surveys we've done. We want to try fostering an online environment where our readers feel that they can more freely share their ideas, ask questions, and basically, think and learn out loud.
We also believe that allowing anonymous commenting, while providing a convenience, and the ability to post without one's name being associated, can also encourage rude behavior and personal attacks. And while we don't think the atmosphere on MAKE is at all caustic (compared to other popular tech sites), we've decided to change our policy a bit in an effort to hopefully create a greater sense of community among makers, a place where people of varying ages, interests, and skill levels, feel comfortable and free to ask questions, seek advice, socialize, and learn.
So, for starters, we're turning off anonymous commenting and implementing a "be nice" commenting policy. Before you post, right above the Submit button, it will now read:
Make: Online has a "be nice" commenting policy. Don't say anything here you wouldn't say to a person's face. We will use our discretion in removing comments we find offensive, spammy, self-promotional, or mean-spirited. See more on our Maker Community Guidelines page.
The Maker Community Guidelines spell out in more detail what we're hoping our readers will take to heart in helping us build a more amiable environment here.
This is not the only thing we're going to be doing to expand our community-building efforts. We're also going to be "datamining" comment threads more, to find new ideas for topic-areas to explore, to elevate comments into stand-alone posts for deeper exploration, and we're even going to be deputizing commenters and turning them into guest authors from time to time. Encouraging more maker participation is also a big priority in our upcoming site redesign, so this is only the first step in that direction. There are also plans in the works for the site that we're super excited about and think will inspire you to become even more involved in what we're doing here. If you've been to a Maker Faire, or felt the energy of a Faire through our site and video coverage -- that's what we'd like to instill here -- a similar feeling of excitement, engagement, skills-sharing, and friendliness. We'd love to hear your ideas of how you think we can best accomplish this.
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In the early 90s, I ran an art/science/tech "salon" here in DC, called Cafe Gaga. One of the more fun things we did was dérive, or the act of purposeful drifting through a city to discover forgotten, interesting, strange places. There as so many weird, wonderful, unique locales in every city that we overlook in our day-to-day.
Obscura Atlas is organizing a global day to celebrate "wondrous, curious, and esoteric places" in cities around the world. See if your city is included, and if not, how you can set up your own Obscura Day event.
Obscura Day, March 20, 2010
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Members of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group are looking to organize a communal workshop.
The DPRG had access to a warehouse in Garland for seven years, from 2002 through 2009 thanks to Mike Dodson, who allowed us to use one of his warehouse buildings and patiently put up with all our geeky shenanigans for almost a decade. In 2009, Mike retired and the building we were in changed hands, so we lost our long time home. After looking at several options for finding a new and permanent space for robot building, we settled on the idea of creating a hackerspace (aka a shared, community workshop). This idea has been used by groups in the US and other parts of the world with great success so it seemed likely we should be able to do it to.
They've set up a Google group -- if you're in the neighborhood and interested in helping out, that's your destination.
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A snip from the January newsletter
We're about to send out the February Make: Newsletter (tomorrow morning). This monthly email letter has all new material you won't find on the site or in the magazine. We try to give you the inside scoop on some of what's going on behind the scenes at Maker Media, original columns, tool reviews, even quick n' dirty projects! We also have sweet subscription and Shed offers, often exclusive to the newsletter.
If you want to sign up, here's the form. You can also peruse previous issues here.
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Bletchley Park, the historic site of secret British code breaking activities during WWII and the birthplace of the modern computer, is again in the news thanks to John Graham-Cumming's book The Geek Atlas. O'Reilly pledged to give 50p per copy of the book sold in the UK to the Bletchley Park Fund and we are delighted to send our first cheque for £1000.
Unfortunately not everyone has heard of the plight of Bletchley Park. The Bletchley Park Trust is aiming to preserve the core heritage of the site and to build on the work of the wartime pioneers through education and technology innovation. The Trust does not receive on-going operational funding and therefore is dependent on money generated from donations or any additional on-site or off-site activities such as their online shop to enable it to continue its work.
If you're in the UK, and haven't bought a copy of the Geek Atlas, definitely consider it -- not only is it a great read, but John and O'Reilly are sending a little love to this magnificent geek landmark with every sale. Also check out my review of the book on the GeekDad blog.
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No, it's not a joke from Family Guy (although it would be very cool if Seth MacFarlane showed up!) Rhode Island's first hacker con is shaping up to be an exciting event.
QuahogCon is a regional conference for the hacker culture in all forms. Hardware, Software, Security, Social, Eco Hacking, Zero Impact Living. Like most hacker cons, it will run Friday to Sunday. We'll have two tracks: one for InfoSec topics and the other track will be a mix of all the other topics with a bit of an emphasis on hardware hacking and DIY electronics. Besides our perennial InfoSec favorites, we want to hear from some new voices on a wider range of topics. If it's a good hack, we want to hear what you're doing.
Along with the two talk tracks, we'll have a hardware hacking lounge where you can work on the hackable badge or anything else you're inspired to do. While we all have the utmost respect for Joe Grand, his badges aren't as hackable as we'd like. We'll be going with an open source, open hardware platform for the QuahogCon badge.
The organizers are limiting registration to 150 attendees, which I expect to fill up quickly. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a local hacker space, AS220 Labs.
When:
Fri, Apr 23, 2010, 05:00 PM Start
Sun, Apr 25, 2010, 05:00 PM End
Where
Hotel Providence
139 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI, 02903
USA
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Mitch Altman will be a guest on Adafruit's ASK AN ENGINGEER live video chat tonight at 10pm ET (Saturday 1/16/2010) - He is inventor of the TV-B-Gone, co-founder of the hacker space NOISEBRIDGE and works with Adafruit & MAKE on the TV-B-Gone kit! We're very excited to have Mitch in our NYC shop, he'll be here answering all of your questions with Ladyada! See you tonight at 10pm ET!
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Five lucky survey participants will win $50 Maker Shed gift certificates (don't forget to enter your contact info so we can notify you if you win)! This survey will help shape Make: Online in 2010, so tell us what you think!
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Happy new year, everybody! We sure had a great 2009 and are so happy to keep going strong in 2010. To that end, please help us out by completing our survey and let us know how we're doing. Complete the survey and you'll be eligible to win one of five $50 gift certificates to the Maker Shed.
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Happy New Year Crafters! Enjoy tonight's blue moon to ring in 2010. (Photo: Mail Online)
Phil @Make: Online writes:
Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue -- the name has nothing to do with the color of our closest celestial neighbor. A full moon occurred on Dec. 2. It will appear again on Thursday in time for the New Year's countdown. "If you're in Times Square, you'll see the full moon right above you. It's going to be that brilliant," said Jack Horkheimer, director emeritus of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium and host of a weekly astronomy TV show.
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Many years ago, back in the early days of computer modding, I did a piece for Details magazine where I "predicted" that PCs would become the next generation's muscle cars. That's pretty much become the case (...er no groaning puns intended) and that's what the San Francisco Exploratorium will be celebrating in their "Rods & Mods: The Kustom Kulture of Radical Computer Modification" show, Thursday-Saturday, February 11, 12 and 13, 2010.
For three days in February, the Exploratorium showcases the innovations and outlaw aesthetics of custom computer culture at Rods & Mods: The Kustom Kulture of Radical Computer Modification. An outgrowth of the hacker community, personal computer modding was born from the need for speed and personal style. From Thursday through Saturday, February 11-13, from noon to 5pm, look under the hood of this creative subculture and explore the hacking geekery that ignited a billion-dollar design industry. Rods & Mods features a showroom of souped-up PCs, restored classics, and experimental computers, as well as workshops, presentations, and a parts swap. Modders will be on hand throughout the event to discuss their work. This event is included in the price of admission.
Rods & Mods: The Kustom Kulture of Radical Computer Modification
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On Saturday, December 19, The Franklin Institute and Body World 2 will be hosting an Operation® game tournament. Body World 2 teamed up with our pals at MakePhilly and Hive76 to create a life-size 'Ben Franklin' version of Hasbro's popular game Operation. Quoth the PR:
Competitors will play on regulation-size Operation boards during the preliminary rounds and finalists will have the chance to skillfully remove Ben Franklin's ailments on the life-size version of Operation! The lucky Grand Prize winner will receive four complimentary tickets to the Body World 2 & The Brain exhibition, an exhibition catalog, and DVD, and -- of course, a regulation-size Operation game. The tournament promises to bring out the most highly-skilled and steady-handed players in the world of competitive Operation play.
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Early registration for the tournament is highly encouraged. Check-in on competition day is from 12:30 to 1p.m. and the tournament introduction will start at 1pm sharp. WMGK-FM on-air personality Debbi Calton will guide contestants through each round leading up to the final event. There will be related make-n-takes and activities for young visitors. The event takes place in Franklin Hall at The Franklin Institute. For more information, log on to www.fi.edu.
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Today, on O'Reilly Radar, Brady Forrest announced that Ignite, the popular five-minute presentation events that have spread from Seattle to cities across the US, is going planetary in 2010:
This March, it gets much, much bigger. O'Reilly is launching the first-ever Global Ignite Week, to bring together as many local Ignites as possible. As of right now there are almost 40 Ignites scheduled from March 1st through the 4th. The Ignites will span the globe and you'll be able to watch them streaming online every day. So far, Global Ignite Week is represented on 4 continents and 10 countries. Our goal is to have participation from all 7 continents (Nairobi is looking good, and we're working on Antarctica).
Check out his post to see the list of cities that have signed on (so far)
Global Ignite Week: 40+ Ignites Coming Next March
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Get ready Crafters! Coming soon in early December, CRAFT will soon have a fresh new look and feel, gleaning the finest features of our former print publication and presenting them to you in a beautiful and versatile online format. You'll find your favorite features, crafter profiles, 101's, videos, patterns and more, as well as our daily blog showcasing the best happening in the craft world. You'll continue to get all this great DIY content online for free too!
We've got lots of fun things planned for our new launch including fantastic giveaways and Tweet-up events. Stay tuned for more soon!
Pictured above (clockwise): Crafters' profile on Anna Maria Horner, Handmade: Patrick Dougherty sculpture "Toad Hall", Curio: Charles Clary paper sculptures, and Bazaar: Fashionflat Sketchpad.
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I hope you've all been enjoying our gift guides so far on CRAFT! If you can't get enough or have other creative types on your list, head over to Make: Online to see Gifts for Dads, Science and Chemistry, Gifts for Kids, the Mischief Maker's Guide, and much more. We're bringing you a new guide almost every day until it's too late to ship orders, so keep checking back!
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Microsoft is running another contest for 2010 centered on embedded systems and their embeddedSPARK platform, the Windows embedded software for hobbyists. The grand prize this year is a $15,000. The theme is "Fun & Games." See the embeddedSPARK website for all of the contest details.
embeddedSPARK 2010 Challenge
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It's here! The Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest launches today! Put on your thinking caps and dream up some awesome gadgets! To celebrate the release of the newest Alex Rider book, Crocodile Tears, and the Kids of All Ages edition of MAKE (both at bookstores today), we're thrilled to be running this contest.
All of you adventure-seekers and gadget lovers out there are invited to join in. If you were Alex Rider, what gadget would you want in the upcoming adventure "Crocodile Tears"? Design your dream Alex Rider gadget, inspired by an everyday object (i.e. an iPod, toothpaste, a pen). The winning gadget will be built right here at the MAKE Labs. Send us a schematic of what your gadget is made from and how it works. (Your schematic can be a diagram, a drawing or an explanation by you). Remember that the winning gadget will be inspired by an everyday object that one could realistically build (as much as we wish we could create a pair of scissors that could fly us to the moon)!
So what do you do? Dream up a gadget, of course! And what could you win? We're so glad you asked:
Grand Prize (one winner):
- A signed collection of hardcover Alex Rider novels
- iPod nano with a personalized message from author Anthony Horowitz
- A backpack full of goodies and gadgets from the Maker Shed
- The opportunity to have the winner's dream gadget produced in MAKE Labs and featured on Make: Online
Runner-Up Prize (two winners):
- A signed hardcover copy of Crocodile Tears
- An Alex Rider t-shirt
With prizes this good, how could you not want to enter?! The Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest is open to kids ages 8 to 18, so get your kid, nephew, niece, grandkids, and yourself involved!
Need some inspiration? Check out these gadgets and book excerpts from previous Alex Rider novels to get those brain juices flowing:
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The YarnCraft podcast run by our friends Zontee and Liz of Lion Brand Yarn are up for a People's Choice Podcast Award in the "Cultural/Arts" category. Voting just opened today through Nov 30th. Vote and show your crafting support!
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For folks interested in the intersection of arts and science, the PBS series Independent Lens is presenting a fascinating in-depth look into origami titled Between the Folds. The film documents "a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned their careers and scoffed at their graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders."
Featured in the film are MIT's youngest-ever tenured professor Dr. Erik Demaine; mathematician, sculptor, puzzle maker, and self-taught computer scientist Marty Demaine; master free-style folder Vincent Floderer; pioneering Israeli educator Miri Golan; mathematics professor Dr. Tom Hull; trained artist and instructor Paul Jackson; one of the most technically accomplished folders in the world, Eric Joisel; one of only a few handmade origami papermakers in the world, Michael LaFosse; origami "hyper-realist" and physicist Dr. Robert J. Lang (who was profiled in CRAFT Volume 05); material artist with a masterful understanding of patterns and geometry, Chris K. Palmer; and the father of modern origami, Akira Yoshizawa.
Screenings are part of the Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Community Cinema series, which are free, followed by discussion panels and access to resources.
Between the Folds will be showing in the Bay Area in Oakland on Tuesday, November 17 at 6:00 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center and in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 18 at 5:45 p.m. at the San Francisco Main Library. For a list of screenings taking place across the country, check out the film site.
Here are a couple of interesting excerpts from the documentary to get a flavor for it. The following clip features Paul Jackson, an origami artists and art teacher living in Tel Aviv, Israel, speaking of the "one fold":
And this clip shows Michael LaFosse, a master artisan who not only makes origami, but is one of the only handmade origami paper makers in the world, providing a window into his workshop and processes:
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Halloween may have come and gone, but there's still 24 hours to get your entries in to our Make: Halloween Contest 2009! We want to see your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects! All you have to do is fill out the form.
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
There's still time left to enter the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Deadline is 11:59 PM PST, November 3rd. Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
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As a special preview for our upcoming Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest, we're giving away two copies of Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz, the third book in the Alex Rider series. Just leave a comment in this post and tell us why you or your kid(s) needs one of these books. Please make sure you include your email address in the comment form field (it won't be published). All eligible comments will be closed by Noon PST on Sunday, November 1st. The winners will be announced next week on the site. Good luck!
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There's precious little time left to enter the Alex Rider book Giveaway! Get your comments in on the giveaway post for your chance to win a copy of Stormbreaker or Point Blank. This giveaway is part of our upcoming Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest, which will launch the same day as MAKE, Volume 20 and the new Alex Rider book, Crocodile Tears.
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EFF Warns Texas Instruments to Stop Harassing Calculator Hobbyists...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned Texas Instruments (TI) today not to pursue its baseless legal threats against calculator hobbyists who blogged about potential modifications to the company's programmable graphing calculators.
TI's calculators perform a "signature check" that allows only approved operating systems to be loaded onto the hardware. But researchers were able to reverse-engineer signing keys, allowing tinkers to install custom operating systems and unlock new functionality in the calculators' hardware. In response to this discovery, TI unleashed a torrent of demand letters claiming that the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) required the hobbyists to take down commentary about and links to the keys. EFF represents three men who received such letters.
MAKE was also told to remove our post (
here) - we did not... TI is a great company, I think once the folks who run show see what's going on they'll drop all of this...
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/garrett_wade_tool_winners.html
We've done the drawing for the winners of the tools that Garrett Wade so generously provided us with, namely a set of their Extra Heavy Duty Screwdrivers and one of their Push Drills.
The winners are:
Jonathan Fulton - Who gets the "tank screwdrivers"
Matt Kaake - Who wins the push drill
Congrats, fellas! Email sent. Please take some pics of projects you do with the tools and upload them to the MAKE Flickr pool. We'd love to see what you do with them.
We had over 270 responses to our drawing, and the question of what you would do with these tools. The comment thread is worth reading. It's a fascinating portrait of the diverse MAKE readership, the many different projects you're working on, or considering, and how you relate to your tools. There are even fond reminiscences of dad's and granddad's tools. All sorts of great stuff. As our editor and publisher Dale Dougherty said: "There are any number of tool makers out there who should read through these comments." It's definitely a decent peek at how a population of makers use and relate to their tools.
Thanks to everyone who participated, and thanks to the folks at Garrett Wade for these give-away goodies.
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We're thrilled to announce that MAKE pal, and Advisory Board member, Limor Fried, aka Ladyada, has been honored with an 18th annual EFF Pioneer Award. Well-deserved, we say. Congrats, Limor!
Here's the little bio from the EFF announcement:
A pioneer in the field of open-source hardware and software hacking, Ladyada helps the general public engineer and adapt consumer electronics to better suit their needs. Her do-it-yourself ethic is founded on the idea that consumer electronics are best modified for use by customers, not corporations. Fried runs her own company, Adafruit Industries, which sells unique and fun do-it-yourself kits to help consumers make gadgets such as backup iPod chargers, green power monitors and programmable displays for bicycle wheels. She also hosts an Internet video program called "Citizen Engineer" that provides step-by-step instructions to help consumers build and alter their own home devices.
Congrats also to fellow recipients Carl Malamud (of public.resource.org) and Harri Hursti, creator of the "Hursti hack," which uncovered vulnerabilities in Diebold optical scan voting machines.
Join EFF for the 2009 Pioneer Awards fundraiser honoring: Limor "Ladyada" Fried, Harri Hursti and Carl Malamud
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/10/rss_all_over_again.html
Yesterday, our online tech team, ever-vigilante to keep our site ship-shape, updated our RSS templates. Unfortunately, this caused RSS reader applications to think all the entries in the feed were new and downloaded them again. Oops.
We're sincerely sorry for any problems, inconvenience, or hair-pulling this may have caused. We'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again.
- The Mgt.
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Following closely on the heels of Maker Faire Rhode Island is more big excitement for the littlest state. A better world by design is a conference focused on applying technological solutions to the needs and challenges of society. This year promises to be very exciting, with an all star-speaker line-up including Jan Chipchase of Nokia, Maker Faire Africa organizer Emeka Okafor, Emily Pilloton of Project H Design, architect Teddy Cruz, and prosthetics engineer Stuart Harshbarger.
The conference also boasts a range of panels on various issues, hands-on creative workshops, and a design challenge hosted by Core77.
I dig the grassroots nature of this event. Students from Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design conceived of, organized, and run the conference. In their own words:
A Better World by Design brings a global community of innovators to Providence, Rhode Island, to reach across disciplines and unite under a common goal. Presenters share engaging stories, workshops teach creative skills, and discussions reframe perspectives. A Better World by Design is an immersive experience that deepens our understanding of the power of design, technology, and enterprise to reshape our communities and sustain our environment.
I am very much looking forward to the Maker Meetup during lunch on Friday, October 2, where I'll be sharing my experiences organizing Maker Faire Rhode Island with other Maker Faire organizers from California and Ghana. I'm also looking forward to moderating a panel on the Future of Transportation. It is going to be a fun, interesting, and educational weekend!
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/sign_up_for_the_make_online_newslet.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
Did you know that Make: Online has an electronic newsletter? Well, we used to. We haven't put an issue out in awhile, but we're going to start republishing it in October.
The newsletter is a great way to get more of an inside look at what's going on at Maker Media, and to get content you won't see on the site or in the magazine. We'll be launching several new columns, including "The Maker's Dictionary," a glossary of DIY technical terms, jargon, and slang that I'll be doing for each issue (I was the "Jargon Watch" editor at Wired for 12 years). We'll also run special newsletter offers and contests from time to time. And and even include some mini-projects.
If you're already signed up for the newsletter, you should see one in your inbox soon. If you haven't signed up, you can do so here.
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Adafruit's weekly "Ask an engineer chat" is tonight, 9/26/2009, 10pm ET. Tonight, Phil and Limor will be joined by special guests, the folks from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and MakerBot Industries. They'll be experimenting with doing live video, chat, and mobile again.
"Ask an engineer chat" tonight 9/26/2009 - 10pm ET with special guests EMSL and Makerbot
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/mark_hoekstra_award.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
One year ago Sunday, we learned of the sad death of MAKE Contributor and GEEK Technique blogger Mark Hoekstra. Only 34 years old, Mark had a heart attack while riding his bike. The maker/hardware hacking world misses him and the fun stuff he used to put up on his site.
To mark the first anniversary of his passing, a special Mark Hoekstra award has been set up in his honor. Here's the description, posted to GEEK Technique:
To celebrate Mark's life and his passion for the GEEK in us all the PechaKucha Foundation and the PechaKucha Groningen team are launching the annual 'Mark Hoekstra PechaKucha Award' today, one year after he passed away, to find the person with the most GEEK technique! This award seeks to celebrate projects, ideas that express 'GEEK technique' to make the world a better, simpler and funnier place. We will be looking for PechaKucha presentations that are pro-social, pro-environment and pro-city and embody Mark's love for the geek. Explore Mark's amazing blog for inspiration! Full details of the award, judging system and how to upload your presentations will be announced in January when the website for the award is launched. We are working with several wonderful sponsors to bring this project to fruition. If you would like to support the project in any way please feel free to contact us: info@pecha-kucha.org
What a cool and touching way of honoring Mark. We hope some of our MAKE readers will submit a project.
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Sad news.. Mark Hoekstra of Geektechniques has passed away
More projects from Mark Hoekstra
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Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org. He is featured in the most recent of our ongoing series of video interviews with notable makers, sponsored by Dow chemical, over at elementsofhumanity.com. Mac is a big advocate, not just of the fledgling discipline of synthetic biology (or "biological engineering," as it's coming to be known), but of the idea that amateurs, hobbyists, and so-called "citizen scientists" have a meaningful role to play in its development. Check it out.
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/09/end_of_summer_bbq_potluck_for_portl.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
If you're an Oregono or otherwise planning to be in Portland environs on September 26th, you should consider stopping by the Portland TechShop at 3:00PM to participate in their shendig. Bring a dish and a project for show-and-tell. There'll be an egg-drop and prizes. Sponsored by MAKE:PDX.
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This is just a friendly reminder to use the MAKE Events Calendar to post notices of your upcoming regular or one-time events and meetings. We're getting too many events submitted each week to post them all here, so we're hoping to get people in the habit of posting to the calendar and then, each week, we can post some of the upcoming highlights from the calendar in a single post. Make: Online readers -- be sure to regularly check the calendar to see what events are coming up.
MAKE Events Calendar
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Congratulations to reader MakerDan34 and his family. The trebuchet they built takes first place in the MAKEcation Family Challenge. The European styled, gravity powered, hurling machine is a great example of family making.
Maybe next time, they'll build a bigger one and lay siege to their neighbor's garage. For this group of flingers, the sky is the limit.
Thanks to everyone for participating.
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If you're in the SF Bay area, don't miss the segment on Maker Faire tonight at 7pm on CBS 5's Eye on the Bay!
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