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Maker Saturday Webcasts: Making Your Own Kind of Music (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:23:54
00:23:54
Ezra Daly explains how he makes musical instruments out of car and motorcycle parts, then plays his Frankenbass, created from a Moto Guzzi motorcycle gas tank, a chrome tailpipe, and scrap mahogany. Next, Doc Popular (aka Brian Roberts) shows how he creates instruments by circuit-bending toys. Doc--not just an inventor and a video editor but a yo-yo champion as well--will also demonstrate some yo-yo tricks.
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: August 4, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, musical instruments, motorcycles, frankenbass, hacking, wires
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: August 4, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, musical instruments, motorcycles, frankenbass, hacking, wires
| Links: | Learn more about Ezra Daly |
Maker Saturday Webcasts: Like Making Candy: A 3D Sugar Printer with Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman (Webcast)
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00:24:53
00:24:53
Inventors Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman demonstrate the CandyFab 4000, a printer that creates 3D sculpture by stacking 2D images made of sugar. Drawing from disciplines as varied as circuit hacking and sewing, the sugar printer is only one of Oskay and Edman's many projects, which include an interactive dining table and hard-drive wind chimes.
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: July 28, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, sugar, candy, 3d, printer,
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: July 28, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, sugar, candy, 3d, printer,
| Links: | Learn more about Windell and Lenore |
Maker Saturday Webcasts: Tools for Making Things with Jim Newton (Webcast)
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00:20:27
00:20:27
While demonstrating how to build an electromechanical digital clock, Jim Newton talks about different kinds of tools—from low-tech, such as a drill press or a welder, to high-tech, such as laser and plasma cutters. Jim is a lifetime maker, veteran BattleBots builder, and former MythBuster.
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Date: July 21, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, tools, techshop, machine shop, clock
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: July 21, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, tools, techshop, machine shop, clock
| Links: | Learn more about TechShop |
Maker Saturday Webcasts: Making Hyperbolic Crochet with Margaret Wertheim (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:27:55
00:27:55
It's geometry! It's knitting! It's—hyperbolic crochet! Artist and science writer Margaret Wertheim shows you how to represent a hyperbolic plane using crochet hooks and yarn. Beginning with a simple crochet chain, learn how to create a geometric shape with a constant negative curvature just by adding stitches.
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: July 14, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, crochet, coral reefs, math, hyperbolic, iff
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: July 14, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science, Art
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, crochet, coral reefs, math, hyperbolic, iff
| Links: | Learn more about Margaret Wertheim and The Institute for Figuring |
Maker Saturday Webcasts: Making BlinkyBugs with Ken Murphy (Webcast)
Running Time:
00:33:42
00:33:42
Tinkerer, programmer, and musician Ken Murphy shows how to build electromechanical "bugs" built from scavenged materials and powered with a single coin-cell battery. When the Blinkybug's wire antennae detect motion from air currents or vibrations, the bug comes to life, with its LED eyes blinking in rhythmic patterns.
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: July 7, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, leds, blinkybug
Project: Maker Saturday Webcasts | Browse All
Date: July 7, 2007
Format: Demonstration / Activity
Category: Everyday Science
Subject(s): General Science
Keywords: make magazine, makers, inventors, demos, crafts, leds, blinkybug
| Links: | Learn more about Ken Murphy and blinkybugs |
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the generosity of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, The Jim Clark
Endowment for Internet Education, the McBean Family Foundation,.and the Corporation for Educational Networks Initiatives in California (CENIC).  |
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