The Notacon Technorati Conference in Cleveland Ohio will be occurring again this year.  As in year’s past this conference will continue to play host to “Myself’s Anything but Ethernet Contest”.  I’ve been to this in the past and it is a really wild time.  I highly recommend participating if you have the means.
Details on the […]

Make:NYC wasn’t the first local Make group. Make:Philly has that venerable distinction, however the Philly group built a home grown custom website to meet their needs. When we began work on our site we decided we’d want to be able to provide other groups with a leg up on some of the problems we faced […]

We’d like to give a shout out to the guys over at MakeDC.org who are joining up with Dorkbot DC to try and boost the DIY community in the city state without representation.  Good luck to them and I am looking forward to seeing what cool stuff they can come up with.
http://makedc.org/

Make:NYC Meeting 3 - Thursday, January 31st, 6:00PM

Back from holiday shenanigans and even feistier than before! Make:NYC is gonna turn up the heat this winter. The fourth Make:NYC Meeting includes:
Seminar: Mastering Pipe Mechanics and Assembly (6PM)

This seminar covers using home improvement store variety pipe and fittings to incorporate into your own DIY projects. […]

Over the holidays I accidentally created a Holiday Recycling project. I hope you’re all doing much better than I am.
Here’s Make A Pie Box - FAST (aydiosmio.net)

Good luck with your entries! Holiday Recycling Contest

 
 Via Makezine.com:
 
MAKE will have a booth @ the Greener Gadgets conferece - February 1, 2008 New York City. MAKE readers get a 25% discount (use code MAKE25discount) -
On February 1st, 2008 in New York City industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer […]

Videos of presentations given at
The Chaos Computer Clubs’
24th Congress

are now online at the Pirate Bay.
 
More information:

24c3
Pirate Bay Videos

Make a name badge from an old GameBoy printer (as seen on the Make Blog)

Phar writes -
So the local Make:NYC meeting had had a badge contest for its second meeting.. (link here), the gist of the competition is to make a wearable nametag/badge of some sort, of some materials, that could be reasonably accepted as […]

For those of you not watching the Make:NYC forums… 3rd ward is offering some pretty awesome deals.
These guys cater to artists and makers in the NYC area providing some heavy industrial shop space at a price.
If you have the means supporting these guys will increase the likelihood other enterprises may cater to the needs of […]

The 1015th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 at Location One in SoHo.
The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share.
Also: we need more theme songs! Bring one and we’ll post it on the website and play it at the beginning of the […]