Street Tech

Steampunk goings on at Maker Faire

I'm just back from the third annual Bay Area Maker Faire. This year, one of the things I helped organize was the steampunk presence at the Faire, namely the Contraptor's Lounge, featuring such icons of the scene as Jake von Slatt, Datamancer, and Molly Porkshanks, and the Saturday Night Steampunk

Dorkbot DC March Meeting

Tuesday, 25 March 2008
7 PM - 9 PM (ET)
ALWAYS FREE!
Location:
Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
George Washington University
801 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037

Tom Lee : Cheaper Arduino Wifi

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Killer-cool Solarrollers on Flickr

Check out these incredibly cool solarrollers posted to the MAKE Flickr Pool. This one's built in an old wireless phone chassis. Love the use of gears as wheels.

Dorkbot DC Tommorow Night! (2/26/08)

Next Meeting:
Tuesday 26 February 2008
7 PM - 9 PM (ET)
ALWAYS FREE!

Location:
Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
George Washington University
801 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037

Katie Bechtold :

DIY mercury testing (or NOT) and new Home Chemistry book
At Make: Books, we've been working on an awesome new title, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments, that we're all really psyched about. Make: Books editor Brian Jepson offers details, by way of an exchange between MAKE publisher Dale Dougherty and the book's author Robert Bruce Thompson, about the possibility

First Dorkbot DC/Make: DC Joint Project Event

On January 16, 2008, the first joint event of Dorkbot DC and the newly formed Make: DC was held at the Marian Koshland Science Museum. The evening was a smashing success, with some 65 people showing up! We

Dorkbot DC/Make: DC Project Night, This Wednesday!

This Wednesday (7 PM - 9 PM ET) is the January meeting of Dorkbot DC and the inaugural meeting of Make: DC, a new project building group inspired by MAKE magazine. We will likely be holding several joint Dorkbot DC and Make:

Review: LEGO MINDSTORMS Library

In last year�s Holiday Gadget Guide, I reviewed the wonderful then-new LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT system. It�s a year later and my admiration for this product has only grown. It has been enthusiastically embraced by robot hobbyists and professionals, educators, kids of all ages, R&D

I want an Arduino-powered Christmas, baby!

My Make: Books co-conspirator Brian Jepson has posted a quick n' dirty way of building a 64-node LED matrix (green and red, natch) of holiday lights, driven by a Max 7219 chip and controlled by an Arduino cloneboard. Not too shabby. The resulting LED "net"