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October 20, 2013
Making Makers at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire
I came to the East Bay Mini Maker Faire today with an agenda. I wanted to radicalize my son and his friends to the ways of making. 
Filming 116 Scottish Makers and Manufacturers
Our Glasgow-based design collective Make Works has just returned from a three-month road trip around Scotland. Our aim was to find, visit, and film as many local factories, makers, and workshops as possible, collecting information to give artists and designers, enabling them to get their work made locally. Our motivation […]
How-To: Make a Cucumber Look Like a Slithering Snake
Putting together a haunted house this year? Handy with a knife? Got a cucumber? Then you've got the fixings for a terrifyingly realistic DIY slithering snake cucumber from NoVe Kitchen and Bar.
October 19, 2013
Exploding Virtual Circuits, a Giant Lego Spider, and More
The Santa Rosa Mini Maker Faire took over the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in MAKE's Sonoma County backyard Saturday. Since I missed World Maker Faire New York last month (we do have to put out an issue of the magazine every so often), I was itching to get a dose of Maker Faire energy and creativity. It was a gorgeous sunny day for late October, and there were plenty of kid-friendly, hands-on activities to enjoy.
Sonoma County Maker Community Comes Out to Play
Sonoma County, Calif., makers came out in full force for a day of family-friendly fun at the Santa Rosa Mini Maker Faire today. Organized by Sonoma Family Life Magazine and held at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts, the Faire had many makers exhibiting indoors, as well as a […]
Make a Gel Electrophoresis Power Supply
Open-source DIY Bio company IO Rodeo created a DIY gel electrophoresis power supply, which creates the electrical field that manipulates molecules suspended in a gel or liquid.
HaDuino: An Arduino That Opens Beer Bottles
The HaDuino is a joke project by Brian Benchoff of Hackaday: an Arduino with a bottle opener shape cut into the PCB. 
October 18, 2013
Dewey Mac, Kid Detective and Inventor
Philadelphia-based fourth grade science teacher Michael Carroll just finished writing his first novel about a 12-year-old kid detective named Dewey Mac, who loves science and making, titled Dewey Mac, Kid Detective and Inventor. Aimed at third through sixth graders, the book chronicles the tales of Dewey and his friend Ched, […]
This Saturday: Hampton Roads Mini Maker Faire
Gates for Norfolk, Virginia's Hampton Roads Mini Maker Faire open at 10am tomorrow. And admission is free!
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