Exercise Your Girl Power With ‘Crafting With Feminism’
Yes, there will be googly eyes.
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Tag: Make
Current Humble Bundle an Amazing Deal for Cosplayers
Whether you’re just getting started in cosplay or are always looking for new tips to up your game, you need the current Humble Book Bundle.
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Hack Your Dinner With ‘Edible Inventions’
‘Make: Edible Inventions’ is the perfect introduction to your first attempts at becoming a Maker in a very familiar setting: your own kitchen.
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Let’s ‘Make:’ Another Humble Bundle!
Thanks to ‘Humble Bundle,’ now I actually go through the ‘Make:’ books’ contents, reading up on all the fascinating project ideas.
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Did You Miss It? The Final Week of Maker Camp Is Here!
Maker Camp, a 6-week online summer camp hosted by the folks at MAKE and Google, is almost done for the year! Thankfully, the Internet is here to let us relive the fun any time we want.
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Maker Camp Starts Monday! Sign Up To Join The DIY Fun
Kill the summer boredom with DIY projects from Maker Camp, the summer camp your kids can go to from Google+.
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Create Your Own Snap-Together Plastic Models
Last week I had the opportunity to conduct a camp titled Beginning Electronics and Robot Building (BERB) to a group of 21 kids, ages 8 to 12. It went great, and I’ll be holding the camp again for another group in late July. In addition to learning some basic electronics skills (such as soldering and breadboarding), the kids also got to build a full-fledged Arduino-based robot that they took home. It was a great week, and it also gave me an opportunity to introduce the kids to some other concepts and tools, including 3D printing.
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Countdown To Maker Faire 2014 — Get Prepared
Just a few more days… and it’s Maker Faire Time! I know a lot of geek dads and moms make the trek each year to attend what is called The Greatest Show (And Tell) On Earth, and there’s are solid reasons for it. Two days of open-mouthed staring and double-takes. Two days of access to experts (self-taught and otherwise), makers, inventors, tinkerers, dreamers, builders, hackers, and hobbyists. Two days of sightseeing, hands-on activities, and pure surprises.
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Make Your Own Cardboard Christmas Tree
Follow a few simple steps to make your own unique Christmas tree from cardboard and leftover bits of wrapping paper.
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The Atlanta Mini Maker Faire 2013 Wrap-Up
The worst thing about the Atlanta Mini Maker Faire… is that it only happens once a year. The event was held at Georgia Tech on the Tech Green, a football field-sized area right in the heart of the campus. Booths were setup around the perimeter, with the big green grassy area open for kids to run and catch frisbees being flung from a robot and launch their handmade paper rockets. There were 3D printers galore, robots, artists, homeschooler groups, hackerspaces, inventors, hobbyists, and much more.
Continue ReadingKids Need Some Summer Fun? Maker Camp Launches Today!
Summer is here, and it’s always a challenge to find activities for the kids if parents work, and resources for getting kids around town are limited, or none of the local offerings are interesting. Well, there’s one more exciting choice available, starting today: Maker Camp!
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Kids Need Some Summer Fun? Maker Camp Launches Today!
Summer is here, and it’s always a challenge to find activities for the kids if parents work, and resources for getting kids around town are limited, or none of the local offerings are interesting. Well, there’s one more exciting choice available, starting today: Maker Camp!
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Vintage Tomorrows Connects Steampunk, Makers, and the Future of Technology
Vintage Tomorrows reaches into subcultures of the past, then gathers the steampunk subculture of today to talk about what steampunk is, why it’s important at this point in time, and what it can teach us about the technology of the future.
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A Big Congratulations to GeekDad’s Ken Denmead!
Ken Denmead invited me to join the GeekDad crew almost two years ago, and since then I’ve met him in person twice (I’m in Georgia, he’s in California), both times at Maker Faire in San Francisco. Ken was manning the GeekDad booth in May 2011 and May 2012, and it just seemed to be an appropriate venue to meet the leader of this great group of folks with which I get to work and play on a regular basis… a gathering of DIYers, makers, tinkerers, and all-around smart people.
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Building your First Robot – EZ-Robot BoxBot
This tutorial series from our friends over at EZ-Robot shows you how you can build your own robot using items from around the house (like cardboard boxes) and the EZ-Robot Complete Kit (available in the Maker Shed).
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Hacker Intern at MAKE Puts a Raspberry Pi in an N64 Case
Love this simple, geek-stylish little hack. The R-Pi is such a great size and fits in so many cool enclosures!
Continue ReadingEnhancing Lego Mindstorms with Arduino
Lego Mindstorms NXT is a sophisticated and fun educational robotics set that teaches kids and adults engineering and programming skills. As versatile as it is, however, wouldn’t it be cool to enhance those cool Lego robots with Arduino boards and …
Continue ReadingBoost Electronics Knowledge With Practical Electronics for Inventors
I spent years trying to teach myself the basics of electronics. I had a few basic electronics courses in engineering school, but they were high-end theory, and only years later did I find it unusual that there was never one …
Continue ReadingMAKE Shares Tips for the New 3D Printer Owner
Got a new 3D printer this holiday season? MAKE’s got some tips for you.
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Review: Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids
If you want to spend 2013 with practical hands-on learning experiences, this is is a treasure trove of ideas. Better yet, they’re all cheap ideas that you can do without buying a gigantic robotics kit or huge machinery, and there’s enough room to build on the ideas for new inspiration.
Continue ReadingFour Teen Makers Develop DIY Pee Power
One awesome story making waves out of the event is of the four teen girl makers, Duro-Aina Adebola, Akindele Abiola, Faleke Oluwatoyin, and Bello Eniola, who have hacked together their own system for converting urine to electric power.
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Learn Robotics With GeekMom Kathy’s Simple Projects Book
What are robots? How are they being used in the world today? How can kids make their own working robots? Where can you find parts? All this and more is covered in the book Robotics: Discover the Science and Technology of the Future by GeekMom Senior Editor Kathy Ceceri.
Continue ReadingMaker Camp for Teens Starts Today on Google Plus
Maker Camp — a virtual gathering taking place on Make’s Google+ page over the next 30 days — will give teens a new project to work on every morning, and the chance to talk to a “camp counselor” and compare …
Continue ReadingCommunity Input Needed: Modding Compressed Air Rockets
Over at the GeekDad Community, Rick Schertle is looking for suggestions on modding a compressed air rocket. The project, which you can find posted on the Make blog, is a fun one and one my family built a couple of …
Continue ReadingRecap of Bay Area Maker Faire 2012
Even if you went to Maker Faire two weekends ago it is likely that you missed some things. I know every year I am surprised to watch the post-Faire coverage and see just how much I missed. It isn’t possible …
Continue ReadingSchool’s Out — Go Make Something With Make: Magazine
If you’ve got kids just out of school (or close to it), then you’ve likely got your hands full with trying to find enough activities to keep them busy. The pool is great, and the library’s always a good option, …
Continue ReadingHelp Make a Young Maker’s Dream Come True
“Don’t be bored… Make Something!” This is Joey Hudy’s mantra. Joey first came to my (and most of the rest of the world’s) attention when he and President Obama shot a marshmallow cannon in the White House during the 2012 White House Science Fair. I even reported on a video about the incident shortly after […]
Continue ReadingThe Origin of the Skylanders Portal of Power
If you’re a Skylanders fanatic — and we have a lot of those here on GeekDad — be sure to check out Blake Maloof’s post on Make, Alt.GDC: Developing Skylanders’ Innovative “Portal of Power,” in which he interviews Robert Leyland …
Continue ReadingThe Maker Culture is Reinventing Detroit
To be sure, Detroit faces uphill challenges as it fights poverty, unemployment, and a shrinking population after the massive downsizing of the auto industry. In the media, we all see Detroit’s vast vacant factories, poor schools, and despondent people. Sadly, these stories become Detroit’s story. However, they are just some of Detroit’s stories. They do […]
Continue ReadingGreat Gibbering Electronics Kits, GeekDad!
Be sure to check out the Kit-a-Day Giveaway being put on by our friends over at MAKE. They’ve got $9,000 worth of kits to give away, including 4 MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printers We’re so excited to be launching our massive …
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