How I Became a Maker
Probably the single most important decision about me that my parents made was to remove me from the institutional education systems and home school me. There was talk from my teachers of getting me...
View ArticleOpen Source Rendering with Blender, LuxRender, and SmallLuxGPU
There’s some outstanding new open-source add-ons for Blender, one of our favorite open-source 3D rendering/simulation/animation programs. The first, LuxRender is a physically based Light Modeler. It’s...
View ArticleMore Press
There was an excellent article on us by Michael Alan Goldberg at the Philadelphia Weekly, and Andrew Hill from Geekadelphia stopped by to do a piece on 3D printing. Thanks guys!
View ArticleUser-Literate Technology
This is a broad-concept idea that I’ve had in my head for a while and have discussed with a few people. This post is mostly a direct adaptation of those discussions. I’ve taken to calling the idea...
View ArticlePhilly Tech Week Events
For Philly Tech Week, we’re opening our doors every night of the week at 8pm, extending our normal Open House format to the entire week, for this week only. We have a variety of different activities...
View ArticleMy Little Pwnies
Some more fun with Blender. Introducing… My Little Pwnies. enjoy. My Little Pwnies. Sure, they LOOK cute. But they can frag you like nobody's business. original pony models are here (no longer...
View ArticleMy Blade mCP X Mods
She ain't pretty, but she flies great I’m a noob when it comes to RC helicopters. I got a Syma S107 for about $30 a year or two ago and it is incredibly stable while being ridiculously bulletproof. I...
View ArticleMagnetic Dip, Illustrated
I was surprised at the absence of a concise illustration of magnetic dip available on the internet, so I cobbled together a short 3D animation using the excellent free software Blender. Magnetic dip is...
View ArticleExperiments in Garden Hose Hydraulics
I recently decided to make a proof-of-concept for a simple hydraulics kit. Ultimately you would be able to take this kit, get some standard PVC pipe from the local hardware store, and very quickly...
View ArticleReal–Life Redstone Lamp Replica Controlled by a Raspberry Pi
Early in my gameplay in Minecraft I began making redstone contraptions. For those that don’t know Minecraft, you can use resources in the game to make analog electronics. People have extended this...
View ArticleAn interview with ITL
Invisible Things Lab is a sweet little security company. Tom’s Hardware has a great interview with Founder and CEO Joanna Rutkowska, once you get past the first page of obligatory ‘what was your first...
View ArticleBuckminster Fuller Challenge
Although it’s hard to find info on, Buckmeister Fuller spent some of his best years working out of The Science Center, an incubator system/building/thing near the University of Pennsylvania. Around the...
View ArticleTGIMBOEJ lands at Hive76
TGIMBOEJ (The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk) has landed at Hive76! What’s in it? A gravimetric multimeter? A samurai dagger converted into a soldering iron? Augmented Insanity...
View ArticleStickers, we haz them!
Our first batch of stickers have arrived. That being said, the first person (non-Hive76 member) to tweet this post, and comment the link to said tweet here will get some stickers for free! Thanks to...
View ArticleGiant 12 Sided Die
For your entertainment and reading pleasure on this fine day of Snowpocolypse #2 Electric Boogaloo. I present another “are you kidding me? Did they really build that?” project from the crew at...
View ArticleHackerspaces in Space
Workshop88 from Chicago sent us this awesome contest information… Rules One team per hackerspace. Any size build team, but only 10 people for the launch and retrieval team. Payload must be under 4...
View ArticleHive76 Store – Open For Business!
Good news, kids! We have a store! It’s on the internet!!! That means you can now pay for things like donations, classes, membership dues, and the somewhat delayed but still awesome 2010 Men of Hive76...
View ArticleHappy International Women’s Day!
March is Women’s History Month and today is International Women’s Day, woohoo! Over at Geek Feminism there’s an open thread for Women’s Day events. From the blog: “If your geek group is doing anything...
View ArticleMake Philly BBQ is this Sunday!
Get outside this Sunday, and spend some time with other makers, crafters, hackers, designers, and a lot of other ‘-er’s at Make:Philly’s summer BBQ. As usual there will be food (bring some of your...
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