Meet Everest Gromoll, Teen Blacksmith

One maker talks about his path to teaching himself to be a blacksmith.

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Dale Dougherty Returns as CEO of Make:

Dale is excited to announce his return to CEO after about 18 months of serving as Executive Chairman of Make:'s board of directors.

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11 Tips for Creating a Good Weld

We didn't have room for this in the magazine, but these welding tips are just too good to keep to ourselves.

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Elektronenrad: Cargo Circus 2016!

Ab März ist der Cargo Circus wieder regulär geöffnet. Wie gewohnt gibt es feinstes Lastenrad am Stück.

Zur Probefahrt in unserer Filiale in Berlin stehen bereit:

• KIFFY Fix Nummer 1
• eBullitt Shimano STePS mit Alfine 8 DI-2 und BionX P-Serie mit Deore
• Urban Arrow Family mit aktuellem BOSCH active Motor
• BULLITT Race Alfine8 mit Gates Carboon Drive CRX und Pepper XT(!)
• Bicicapace Speciale ala Sig. Francesco

• und NEU 2016 ständig ab Lager verfügbar: All Colors, all Extras!!!

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A New World Record: Fastest Ascent Made by a Drone

Drones are used for fun, for photography, for humanitarian efforts... but sometimes the need for speed reigns supreme.

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This Tiny Arcade Cabinet Is a Weather Station in Disguise

It'd be way too obvious to make an arcade cabinet that plays video games. Instead, this arcade cabinet houses a mini weather station.

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Raspberry Pi Founder Eben Upton Talks About the New Raspberry Pi 3

In the run up to today's launch of the new Raspberry Pi, Model B, we sat down with and spoke to Eben Upton, the founder of Raspberry Pi, about the new board and the Foundation's education mission.

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Meet the New Raspberry Pi 3 — A 64-bit Pi With Built-in Wireless and Bluetooth LE

Today is the Raspberry Pi's fourth birthday, and along with birthday wishes we're welcoming a new board. Almost exactly a year after the arrival of the Raspberry Pi 2, say hello to the new Raspberry Pi 3, Model B.

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Exploring the History of Great Ideas with Make: Inventions

We revisit the wonderful Make: Inventions video series with Steve Hoefer

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5 Features That Make a Great Tech Toy

Not every tech toy is great for the classroom, but these 5 features can ensure that you can get a lot out of your tech toy.

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Arduino and LEDs Transform Your Fan into a Video Game Display

Super Ventilagon is the fan based gaming console that employs the Hall effect to play the super addictive Super Hexagon game.

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Meet Joe

Last month we started a maker profile video series; we began with our very own industrial furniture maker Joe.  As a member, Joe, has made some amazing furniture using reclaimed parts from industrial machines.  One person’s trash is this maker’s treasure and he has found some gems.  These images are just a few pieces of Joe’s amazing work.  From end tables made with old gears to dinning tables made from a bowling alley, he has it all.

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Maker Faire UK 2016

We are delighted to have been accepted to showcase our projects at Maker Faire UK. Being the largest Maker Faire in the UK, its a huge gathering of all sorts of makers. We always have a great time talking to the public and seeing our fellow hackerspaces.

This will be our 4th year showing casing at the event.  Last year we were trilled to find other Irish makers also there (Mint Tek). We hope this year will be no different.

This year we will be showing a range of wearables and a arduino powered panel clock. We are super proud that our project from last year is now featured on the Maker Faire UK home page. Can you tell which one it is ?

 

 

 

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Guys Makes Complete Settlers of Catan Out of a Single 2×4

This enterprising maker created a complete Settlers of Catan set out of a single piece of lumber

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Get ‘Em While They’re Cheap! Bay Area Maker Faire Tickets

Early bird tickets are not going to be available much longer, get them quick!

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TON Talk: March 1st with Erin Kennedy aka Robot Grrl

Join us this coming Tuesday, March 1st for a special presentation! Starts at 8 pm.

 

Erin “Robot Grrl” Kennedy is currently a Studio[Y] fellow at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. She is an avid robot maker. Her current project is Robot Missions, which aims to enable makers and humanitarians to collaborate on improving the environment with the use of a robot platform. She participated in Fab Academy 2015 where she prototyped unfolding CubeSat robots. She launched a kit named RoboBrrd for people to learn how to build a robot character. Erin is the host of the Robot Party, a Google+ Hangout where robot builders join internationally and show the robots they are working on. She was recognized as an Intel Emerging Young Entrepreneur and won a gold medal in the RoboGames, the robot olympics.

RoboBrrd didn’t start out as the chirpy character it is today. Almost like nature, it evolved through iterations and iterations. I’ll give a history of how RoboBrrd began as a popsicle stick robot, to what it became with a lot of help from the maker community. This involved learning circuit layout, having boards made, learning CAD and laser cutting designs.

Fast forward a bit, and I’ll share the robot creatures that followed (like BotBait), the adventures had through Fab Academy  and now what I’m currently working on as a part of Robot Missions while at Studio[Y] and MaRS.If you’re a maker working on a hobby project, but can’t really envision how it could become replicated for 100 other people, this talk will be helpful to you. If you enjoy robotic creatures and seeing ways that digital fabrication can be used, this talk will be enjoyable for you.

 

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Building a Child Sized Kayak from a Single Sheet of Plywood

Building a kayak is easier than you might think. Nick Schade demonstrates the "real" boat building techniques behind this child-sized kayak.

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Darbin Orvar: Carve Your Own Rubber Stamp Alphabet

You can spell out all kinds of messages with a set of hand-carved alphabet stamps.

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Friday Linkubator Roundup

This week on the site:

• A colorful look at the Pop des Fleurs winter pop-up garden.
• Going to SXSW? We are!
• From CHP in the Stacks, we look at the Givens Collection.

Other news:

• Laura talks about the Book to Art Club over on the Demco blog.

Around the internet:

• Check out these updates from the IT guy at Hogwarts.
• Art as activism! This artist makes ISIS-destroyed art available to download and 3D print.
• The world’s biggest visual archive for architecture features 85,000-plus digital images.
• How about an art exhibit on an asteroid?
• Looking for images online? Check out these browser tools!
• Inconceivable! A Princess Bride reunion.

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Monday,Tuesday and Thursday

We hebben natuurlijk al iedere dinsdag onze meetup waar wekelijks onze leden bij elkaar komen (en iedereen van harte welkom is om een kijkje te nemen bij TkkrLab). We hebben het programma uitgebreid met :

Blender Monday

Voor de liefhebbers van Blender (open source 3D software) houden we iedere maandag vanaf 20:00 bijeenkomst. Neem je laptop mee en ga zelf of samen aan de slag met tutorials en ander materiaal. Mocht je vast lopen is er wel iemand die je verder kan helpen.

Voor meer informatie zie onze wiki

Code & Cookies (on Thursday)

Code & Cookies is een informele wekelijkse bijeenkomst op donderdag van (web)programmeurs die met elkaar willen sparren over de ‘uitdagingen’ die ze dagelijks tegenkomen. Dit kan variëren van eenvoudige problemen tot heilige oorlogen over welk framework beter is.

Voor meer informatie zie onze wiki

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How to 3D Print Your Own Leather Tooling Stamps

Create and 3D print your own custom leather tooling stamps

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Building An Etch a Sketch Coffee Table

Putting together a coffee table sized etch a sketch was quite an adventure. The results are pretty great too!

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Wood milling demo at Belle Grey Farm

51HP of diesel powered, hydraulically controlled, wood milling goodness!

On January 16, 2016, Nova Labs members were treated to a wood milling demonstration at Belle Grey Farm in Upperville, VA. The 51HP diesel powered, hydraulically controlled portable saw mill ran through the wood with ease.

Members were shown how entire trees were rough cut down to boards. The boards were then put into a solar kiln to dry for at least several months and sometimes as much as several years. Once dried the boards make it to the shop where they are used to make equestrian jumps.

Check out our Facebook page to see a video of it in action!

Wood milling demo at Belle Grey FarmPosted by Nova Labs on Wednesday, February 24, 2016

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CHP in the Stacks: The Givens Collection

Today’s feature is brought to us by Jay Peterson from Coffee House Press’ CHP in the Stacks, the publishing company’s creative-in-residence program. One of their most recent residencies is with the Givens Collection of African American Literature at the University of Minnesota. Part of the residency explores a wonderful and important new search tool to help researchers mine information related to African American history. ~Laura

Since early November 2015, artists Erin Sharkey and Junauda Petrus, co­founders of the collective Free Black Dirt, have been exploring the archives of the Givens Collection of African American Literature at the University of Minnesota as artists in residence with the Coffee House Press In The Stacks program.

Ex-Slave Narratives from Coahoma County, MS, Carrie Campbell (transcriber), 1937. Givens Collection of African American Literature, University of Minnesota Libraries.

Petrus and Sharkey were invited to be among the first users of Umbra: Search African American History (umbrasearch.org), a new digital tool dedicated solely to African American history and culture. Developed by the Givens Collection of African American Literature at the University of Minnesota in partnership with Penumbra Theatre Company, Umbra brings together the world’s most extensive digital collection of African American history, including materials from over 500 archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions.

Read an interview with Givens Collection Curator Cecily Marcus about Umbra.

Petrus is currently the performance and installation artist for the Naked Stages Residency at the Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis. Sharkey is an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at Hamline University in St. Paul. Since founding Free Black Dirt, they have sought to spark and engage in critical conversations through performance art, curation, and literature. The duo create original theatre and performance, host innovative events, organize local artists, and promote and support emerging artists of color in the Twin Cities.

In approaching the Givens and Umbra collections, the pair were particularly interested in the works of writers and artists like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Sekou Sundiata, Ntozake Shange, Zora Neale Hurston, and Claude McKay, but also explore a broad range of cultural and historical themes, including family history, urban agriculture, Afro­futurism, theatre, jazz, American and Caribbean history, African cosmology/spirituality, and Astrology.

“Erin and Junauda’s work gives us a chance to learn more about the Givens Collection, too,” says Cecily Marcus, Givens Collection Curator and the director of Umbra. “We go into the Givens vault looking for pamphlets and ephemera related to radical feminism and come out with materials even we hadn’t seen before.”

Through routine blog dispatches and a public performance, Sharkey and Petrus help shine a light on the value, breadth, and accessibility of the Givens Collection and the creative/intellectual possibilities opened up by Umbra search tool.

On February 18th at 7:00 pm, Sharkey and Petrus presented an interactive and dynamic recap of their findings and learnings. Their presentation was followed by a panel conversation featuring curator Cecily Marcus, Tana Hargest, Executive Director of the Givens Foundation for African American Literature, and Jay Peterson of Coffee House Press.

Free Black Dirt’s residency and presentation are part of In The Stacks, a program developed by Minneapolis ­based publisher Coffee House Press. The two­ year ­old program has placed writers and artists in residencies at the Walker Art Center, American Craft Council, Quatrefoil Library, Poets House, American Swedish Institute, The Bakken Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts to create new bodies of work and to encourage artists and the general public to think about libraries as creative spaces.

You can view dispatches from the Free Black Dirt residency at chpinthestacks.tumblr.com and myumbrasearch.tumblr.com.

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Take Out the Trash from Your Couch with an R/C Bin

Say goodbye to the drudgery of rolling your garbage bin out to the curb. With Colin Furze’s remote controlled “wheelie bin”, you can (safely?) pilot your vile waste to the curb from the warm comfort of home. I love this idea, but let’s be honest, Colin’s design is more of […]

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