Make: Daily In This Issue... Meet Mildred, the Trompe L'oeil Sea Monster Make or Break: A Maker's how-to guide to World Maker Faire Respond to Susan Taing OpenROV raises $1.3 Million, Releases new Model RockPaperRobot: Furniture that Collapses and Snaps Back Energizer LED Lanterns Use Diffusion to Bright Effect Seismic Shifts: Dark Ages, Industrial age, and now…the Maker Age? Help Crowdfund an Electronics Reference PCB A Better World By Design Returns to Providence Sept. 27 Making Education Work Meet Mildred, the Trompe L'oeil Sea Monster Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Shana Siegel has been creating murals and scenic paintings for theater, television, and exhibitions since 2005. Her latest piece, named Mildred, is a departure (literally), as it's composed of four standalone plywood pieces that together create a fantastic optical illusion. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Make or Break: A Maker's how-to guide to World Maker Faire Sean Montgomery, Queens-based maker and founder of Sensorstar Labs gives his "cheat sheet" for attending the upcoming 4th annual World Maker Faire in NYC. From planning ahead to connecting with others at the event to sampling food options along the subway that runs to the New York Hall of Science, here's a maker's how-to. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Respond to Susan Taing Susan Taing will be looking for responses at World Maker Faire New York. The founder of the 3D-printer-powered design house Bhold is building her business model around the concept of "responsive product design:" an approach that quickly pushes ideas down the road from concept to product, efficiently incorporating customer feedback along the way. The key to her philosophy? Direct feedback from customers, and the ability, via 3D printing, to quickly act on it. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • OpenROV raises $1.3 Million, Releases new Model OpenROV secures $1.3 million in VC funding and announces a new version of its underwater robot. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • RockPaperRobot: Furniture that Collapses and Snaps Back At first glance the line of tables by RockPaperRobot come off as modern and sleek, constructed from small cubes. But where are the supports? Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Energizer LED Lanterns Use Diffusion to Bright Effect We take a look at three new portable LED lanterns with an interesting way of shining their light. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Seismic Shifts: Dark Ages, Industrial age, and now…the Maker Age? At the ground level, the maker movement is empowering people in garages and makerspaces to hack, tinker, and share technology to suit their needs rather than wait for others to make it for us. But collectively, the maker movement has set something much bigger in motion. It's a force that has the power to change the course of history. That's heady stuff, but according to thinkers Dough Rushkoff and Karim Asry that's the potential of the maker movement. They see us standing standing on the edge of a new era—the maker era. Both men will be making this point during presentations at Maker Faire New York next week. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Help Crowdfund an Electronics Reference PCB This is neat. It's a credit-card sized printed circuit board (PCB) designed by former MIT hacker Star Simpson for Octopart, the online search engine for electronic parts. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • A Better World By Design Returns to Providence Sept. 27 Entering its 6th year, A Better World By Design is returning to the RISD and Brown Campuses in Providence, RI from September 27-29 (the week after World Maker Faire New York). A Better World By Design was founded by--and is run to this day by--Brown and RISD students. Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Making Education Work Imagine shop class and recess had a love child – that's the maker movement. How does this relate to the current state of our education system, or for that matter, the the film "The Breakfast Club"? Read more on MAKE      • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments •

 

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