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Wiimote Wheelchair Helps Disabled People Paint (Roughly Speaking)

Digital Wheel Art, a wheelchair painting program to help disabled people make art, was on display at the Maker Faire event in NYC tonight. Creator YoungHyun Chung was inspired to create the device after seeing children with cerebral palsy whose limited movement stifled their artistic expression. Here's how it works, plus a video of the system in action. More »

11:30 PM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Benny Goldman
2,409 views, 19 comments

Latest by UniComp: I just hope handicapped people don't expect me to watch them while they do this. I was bored with the more »

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The Best Way To Cook Hot Dogs: by Tesla Coil

The most exiting way to cook hot dogs: connect a chain of 12 of them up and send bolts of multi-thousand-volt electricity through them. Awesome, and all thanks to the Nevada Lightning Lab and their 10-foot Tesla coil at Maker Faire '08. And amazingly, the coil they used is just a prototype for a 122-foot version they want to build for lightning experiments. Imagine the light show and cookability you'd get from that! [Lightning Lab via Oh Gizmo]

5:59 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,053 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Reminds me of the way Doc Brown made ice tea in Back to the Future Part III for some reason.And more »

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Video: A Robot Drawing Beautiful Stars In The Sand

Here's a video of Sisyphus V drawing shapes in the sand using a magnetic arm on a 2-axis plotter. [Maker Faire]

9:32 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Brian Lam
6,325 views, 18 comments

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Remote Plant Watering Via iPhone

Peter set up a robotic watering can to take directions from an iPhone. When Safari's screen state goes from horizontal to vertical, it sends a status update to a webserver via javascript that sets the watering can up or down. Pretty simple but clever setup. [Maker Faire]

2:33 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Brian Lam
6,538 views, 15 comments

Latest by ripfire: Back when I did my senior project, I built a home automation system (including a sprinkler system) that can be more »

maker faire 2008

Quote: Would a Modern Day MacGyver Still Use a Swiss Army Knife?

While yesterday's revelation at Maker Faire by MacGyver creator and real-life inspiration Lee D. Zlotoff that a MacGyver blockbuster was in the works was a pretty sweet surprise, we followed up by asking him perhaps the most pressing MacGyver question of all: Would a modern day MacGyver still use a Swiss Army knife? [Maker Faire on Giz]

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7:35 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By matt buchanan
19,175 views, 97 comments

Latest by n/a: a new news on the new macgyver more »

toys

Wall-E Robot Toy In Action

We just saw the Wall-E toy in action, and it's a pretty interesting toy (although not $190 worth of interesting). The best features include fully articulating tank treads, 10 motors, audio and vision sensors, remote control by both joystick and touchpad, individual shutters on each eye, and collision detection. Wall-E also has a "follow me" mode that'll allow a Wall-E to stick to a kid or dog and track it around the house. (We would have tried it out, but it was far too noisy and crowded at Maker Faire for Wall-E to track anything or anyone reliably.) [Maker Faire and Wall-E]

2:38 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Brian Lam
58,827 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Their's actually I another version out of Wall-e called U Command Wall-e and it's only 39.99 a bit on the more »

open-source

Build Your Own Multitouch Table With the Cubit

Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people who want to make a scaled-down Microsoft Surface for one tenth the Surface's price. More »

2:30 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Elaine Chow
21,242 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: Multitouch building and opensource multitouch software has been around for more than a year on [www.nuigroup.com] It's great that cubit is more »

maker faire

Maker Faire: Remote Controlled Battleships Fighting With BB Gun Cannons

Why do I need goggles to watch R/C ships sailing in a pond? Because these replicas of WWII battleships fire C02-powered projectiles. In the video above, you can see munitions bounce off the plexi shields protecting the crowd and make splashes as they ricochet off enemy hulls. The Western Warship Combat Club is recreating Axis vs. Allies fights where each side tries to sink the other. At 1/144 scale. [Western Warship Combat Club Maker Faire]

6:40 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Brian Lam
32,473 views, 74 comments

Latest by scarbrtj: @strider_mt2k: I need less of a life so I'm more into Gizmodo and ridiculously delicious flamewars and VERY cool YouTube more »

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Sisyphus V: A Robot Making a Zen Garden

This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kinetic sculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of a buddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel sphere carefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes that can best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an arm on a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up, and Sisyphus is making its first appearance here, at Maker Faire 2008. An unrelated but cool Interview with Bruce, by Cool Hunting\, after the jump. [TaoMC at Makers]

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5:18 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Brian Lam
14,043 views, 19 comments

Latest by quasimotto: not impressed. do that ball trick with artichoke & jalapeno dip, then call me. more »

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Holy Crap: MacGyver Blockbuster Film Coming!

Today at Maker Faire 2008, MacGyver creator (and real life inspiration) Lee David Zlotoff announced he has a big budget MacGyver movie in the planning stages. More »

4:56 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Adrian Covert
123,755 views, 78 comments

Latest by SigmundTheSeaMonster: Doogie? nah. RDÅ. But with the StÅrgate-tesc sarcasm.If it ain't Anderson, it ain't MacGyver. more »

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I Love Maker Faire!

I'm so happy Mark, Phil and the rest of the MAKE Mag folks put on Maker Faire. I'm here with Adrian and Lisa and surprisingly, it's even better than last year's. There are a ton of great pieces I've never seen, the weather is fine, the crowds aren't too bad and the food is great. I'd recommend you get your butt down here and come visit the event if you're even remotely close to the Bay Area. [Maker Faire]

4:45 PM on Sat May 3 2008
By Brian Lam
5,254 views, 11 comments

Latest by Log1c: I really want to go, but I'll just have to wait until Monday for some Flicker highlights... boo more »

announcements

Maker Faire Bay Area - This Saturday and Sunday

Maker Faire and its ridiculously dangerous projects are going to be in San Mateo this weekend. If you're in town, drop by and say hello, since Brian's going to be there covering the crazy robots and trying to keep his eyebrows from burning off. If you're going to be running an awesome booth at Maker, drop him a note as well so he knows to stop by. See you tomorrow! [Maker Faire]

6:59 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Jason Chen
1,875 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: Ah awesome didn't know you guys would go to it more »

toys

Ultimate Wall-E Robot Being Brought to Life by Disney, Thinkway Toys

Disney is teaming up with Thinkway Toys to make Wall-E into a real robot. The toy, titled Ultimate Wall-E, will retail at a stonking $189.99 and will ship this summer. The robot will feature 10 motors for movement, remote control, programming mode and obstacle, sound and touch detection sensors for basic environment interactions. More »

4:14 AM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Haroon Malik
26,521 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: Here is a nice safe looking robot for all you parents to buy for your kiddies!! [www.yankodesign.com] more »

gadgets

Maker Faire Hits Bay Area May 3 and 4

Maker Faire is in town again, hitting up the bay area with their ridiculously dangerous projects and robots and flaming robot projects this May 3 and 4. If you're in town, you should stop by and see what the crazy doctor Phil Torrone has cooking for you. At the very least, you can stop by and say hi to the Giz folks that are going to be down there. Maybe even buy them some soda. Trying to take pictures of stuff next open flames and wildly careening robots is thirsty work. [Maker Faire]

5:45 PM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Jason Chen
2,502 views, 11 comments

Latest by oskay: @willyolio: CandyFab will be there, as part of the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories booth. We plan to unveil the new more »

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2008 Maker Faire Announced

DIY gadgeteers, fire up your engines: the dates for Make magazine's first 2008 Maker Faire have been unveiled as May 3rd and 4th. The San Mateo County Fairgrounds in San Mateo, California will again be the venue. Expect to see all sorts of wonderful (and weird) DIY science, arts, crafts and engineering projects in action, just like last year. We'll be keeping you posted, of course, but if you want to go there in person remember that discount ticket sales end April 25th. [Maker Faire]

5:43 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,360 views, 6 comments

Latest by phlavor: The life sized Mousetrap Game was at Maker Fair but those photos of it are from Burning Man. Don't know more »

clips

The Most Dangerous Projects at Maker Faire


You may have seen our gallery from Maker Faire, but here's something new. It's a compilation of the most dangerous projects we saw there. And even if you're not a fan of mutilation, you should like the soundtrack. More »

10:00 PM on Wed May 23 2007
By Jason Chen
18,705 views, 3 comments

Latest by Ub3rg33k: I'm a little confused. Is the gallery just the general Makers Faire gallery or is it just the dangerous more »

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Violent Battlebots Make Sparks Fly, Fight Like Hell


We never get tired of watching battlebots, and here's a couple of particularly violent ones facing off at last weekend's Maker Faire. It's a good thing these remote-controlled warriors are battling it out behind bulletproof glass! It's jousting for the 21st century. – Charlie White More »

3:00 PM on Tue May 22 2007
By Charlie White
2,099 views, 16 comments

Latest by MrMojo: The one with the spinning contraption on the front won. The video does not do justice to the amount more »

roundups

Maker Faire Roundup - Look at All the Fun!

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2:00 PM on Mon May 21 2007
By Jason Chen
2,637 views, 1 comment

Latest by Ribs: Meh, I thought the giant nose picker was kind of silly. I was a huge fan of the rest of the more »

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