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Gareth Branwyn is a writer, editor, and media critic.

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MAKE and National Lab Day

As part of the US government's "Educate to Innovate" program, they're doing something called National Lab Day, a "national barn-raising for hands-on learning." On the projects page for Lab Day, they have a bunch of Maker Shed kits and a PDF article ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  23 Nov 2009

3D renderings of the Mandelbrot set

A big Keanu "Whoa" over these gorgeous 3D renderings of fractals. The article offers a fascinating back story about the 20-year quest to adequately display a Mandelbulb, such a 3D analog rendering of a Mandelbrot set. Subscribe today, save 42% and get ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  22 Nov 2009

Maker Shed kiosks at Fry's

Maker Shed kiosks are now installed in four of Fry's largest superstores. Each kiosk merchandises current and back issues of MAKE, Make: Project books, and kits, with an emphasis on maker-made kits produced by indie makers like Limor Fried's ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  21 Nov 2009

Vacuum tube prototyping board

This is a project that I made to take care of an ever increasing need to prototype vacuum tube (valve) circuits. As you can see from the photos, it really is a test "board." I do a lot of work with tubes and love to design and improve circuits. In ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  20 Nov 2009

Popsci sees our gift guide...

Popsci's Mike Haney liked our Under $20 Gift Guide so much, he raised us another five, adding additional under $20 gifts from the Maker Shed. Thanks, Mike! We love you guys, too. [And in the spirit of Phil's guide, where he included an item he couldn't ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  20 Nov 2009

BEAM turns 20

...I went on to build dozens of similar robots based on the primitive Solarengine neurons that year, which led to the BEAM International Robot games, international lectures, the 1992 Santa Fe Artificial Life conference (lecturing alongside Brooks), ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Los Alamos National Laboratory,  NASA

Solar-powered miniball

It may look like some futuristic Christmas tree ornament, but the miniball is part of the BEAM robot family of "rollers." A miniball is a motorized hamster ball that, sadly, you don't see in the wild too often. Solarbotics used to sell a miniball kit. ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Did he say "cheesemakers?"

MAKE editor and publisher Dale Dougherty has his five minutes of creativity fire-starting with this recent presentation of "Blessed are the Cheesemakers," at Ignite Sebastopol II. Take a whiff of "the feet of God." Subscribe today, save 42% and get web ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Robot body by Lego, brains by Arduino

What happens when you give an Arduino to a student whose resources barely provide for the most basic maker needs, but is nonetheless eager to create something awesome? You get tech-art in the making. Hector of Make: en Espa単ol sent us this piece ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  19 Nov 2009

Line-following chassis from RepRap

Here's a set of chassis parts for a line-following robot, made on a RepRap machine, by a member of the IEEE Robotic Club at Rutgers. The mechanical and electronics parts were part of a kit everybody got. This builder created this RepRap body to go with ...

From GARETH BRANWYN, MAKE: Blog,  19 Nov 2009

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