Articles tagged "diy"

Easter is a great excuse to try some sweet craft projects and hack those hyper-commercial inventions that make this country great.

What if the plans for creating this sustainable civilization were available to everyone, constantly being improved by contributors around the world?

Mr. Chen's resourcefulness and self-sustaining lifestyle is a model of inspiration and a testament to China's own burgeoning entrepreneurial identity.

Anyone with enough brains and balls can build their own rocket and fly it to space. Or at least that’s what Copenhagen Suborbitals wants to prove.

The former Wired editor-in-chief, founder of hobbyist drone firm 3D Robotics, and subject of Motherboard's latest documentary, Drone On, will be taking questions on DIY, leaving the magazine to focus on civilian drones full time, and any other burnin…

At last weekend's Beijing's College Student Robotics Competition, some 300 people from 99 teams from across China and Taiwan "showed off robots":http://beijingcream.com/2012/09/robots-do-a-little-dance-make-a-little-love that could play five-a-side s…

Yesterday we all learned "about Offbeatr":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/9/the-future-is-bright-for-offbeatr-the-kickstarter-for-porn, the new, Kickstarter-inspired site dedicated to crowd funding of pornography. At its core, the site represents

It's sunny, 93 goddamned degrees, and in a matter of hours I, along with millions and millions of my fellow countrymen and women, get to cut loose and for 24 hours maybe not feel totally awful about being 'Mericans, for once. It'll be a whirlwind of

Well, if this isn’t just the craziest damn living room furniture in history. An apparent crazy person in Phoenix built a wine rack slash giant freaking robot out of old automotive parts that literally takes up a living room. It weights half a ton. No…

Kinetic, psychotropic visual soundscapes. Give me a second to catch my breath, but that's the best description I can come up with for what musician/sculptor "Felix Thorn":http://www.felixsmachines.com/home/ does. It seems that ever since someone publ…

Anyone planning on buying a new iPad should know what they're getting themselves into by now. In recent years, Apple and other hardware manufacturers have made liquid-crystal clear that they're not fond of the idea that customers can tear open and fi…

Composer and sound designer Diego Stocco can afford to buy instruments (he composes music for video games and films). But he prefers to find them, wherever he goes: sand, cornflakes, trees, and other sorts of things that most "professional" musicians…

Like its circuitbending cousin "Bent Festival":http://motherboard.tv/video/motherboard-tv-hypnotizing-electronics-the-bent-festival, In/Out Fest inhabits the electronic music fringe of handmade synthesizers, hacked videogame console and more custom M…

Sandor Katz on the benefits of DIY fermentation.

Anyone with even a few years of Brooklyn residency under their belt has undoubtedly seen how rapidly the borough is changing. Warehouses that were once populated with twirling gypsies, DIY beer distillers and nihilistic bike punks now greet visitors

A few summers ago, at a DIY repair-off called "Get Yr Fix":http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/08/fixers-collective-get-yr-fix-iron-chef-for-broken-things.php, I watched as ragtag teams battled each other and the clock to breathe new life into all m…

Earlier this week, BoingBoing charmed us with a "couple":http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/25/fairlight-appreciati.html "of":http://boingboing.net/2011/01/25/art-of-noise-beat-bo.html "videos":http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/25/fairlight-synth-demo…

Founded by a handful of friends who wanted a place to tinker with electronics and meet like-minded hackers for good, NYC Resistor has blossomed into one of the country's most influential hackerspaces. On top of public workshops on topics ranging from…