2013/03/24

Make: Daily

In This Issue...

Lego Technic Strandbeest
Projects and Sensors and Pi Oh-My!
Oakland High Schoolers Need Your Power!
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Karen Tanenbaum
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Lego Technic Strandbeest

Singapore Lego builder Lee Ping Ng’s strandbeest scuttles very lobsterlike. And it has personality as well! Filed under: Fun & Games

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Projects and Sensors and Pi Oh-My!

Projects are pouring in for the first ever Raspberry Pi Design Contest, with over $3,500 in prizes up for grabs. Check out some of the projects makers have been building, and enter your project for a chance to win!

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Oakland High Schoolers Need Your Power!

Tony, Carlos, and Raul, students at Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, have taken on an ambitious senior project they plan to exhibit at Maker Faire: converting a gas-powered truck to electric power. They've been working afterschool and weekends and already gave up at least one holiday to work on the conversion. These young men exemplify the self-motivation we see in so many maker projects.

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5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Karen Tanenbaum

Tech researcher and interaction designer Karen Tanenbaum is passionate about the maker movement and its ability to transform our relationship to computing and creativity. She holds a masters in linguistics and a Ph.D. in interactive arts and technology. Her research work has focused on wearable, tangible, and ubiquitous computing, as [...]