Archive for the 'Maker' Category

Google Ad Trash Revamped On a Chinese Rickshaw - Tech Art

So this is not an official Google ad, but the rickshaw (sunlunche) guy recycled a Google AdSense trash maybe to bring some technological boost to the old rickshaw or maybe he just liked the color or the message.  (via Blogoscoped via Go Too Far East). Note, Google is not the number 1 search engine in […]

Medical DIY from Dr Carla Pugh

Somehow I like these kinds of articles, as much as I like home-made versions showing true creativity.
(worth reading the rest of this NYT article)
The human breast comes in wondrous varieties. Good luck learning that in medical school. There, students practicing on training dummies mostly encounter the same set of perky 36Bs. Many students become doctors […]

Make Magazine Launching Public TV

Make magazine (makezine.com), the growing center of hackers, DIY fans, tech enthusiasts, recycling artists, etc. offers an amazing repository of geek how-tos, (including how-to videos and video shots of Maker Faire events) “loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home,” as the about page […]

Maker Faire 2007 Videos: Open Source Hardware with Limor Fried & Phillip Torrone

Besides ‘open source software‘, ‘open source hardware‘ as a concept is gaining more and more acceptance. One of the advocates is Limor Fried. Phillip Torrone at Austin Maker Faire (2007) asked her about what is behind this term and we have seen some hacking projects going on, for instance the wifi-killer Jammer, the Chumby (which […]