Tag: DOITYOURSELF

Maker Faire 2009 is the world's largest DIY festival, celebrating everything from food to arts and crafts to cutting-edge technology. Organized by the folks behind the fantastic Make magazine, this year's festival, held last weekend in San Mateo, California, featured over 600 different "Makers" and their inventions/creations. We stopped by San Mateo Event Center where it was taking place, and ...

Leave it to our friends up in Canada to spend their long winters coming up with creative modifications and twists on the familiar. Two Canadian radio control enthusiasts have made a business out of making bizarre things fly. Things not shaped like planes. Not shaped like birds. Not even shaped like a moth or a dragonfly. So, the next time you find yourself in a park on a warm sunny day, and ...

Those of us with not blessed with a green thumb (some of us at Switched could kill a cactus) wish plants would tell you us they needed and when. A company called Botanicalls has cooked up an admittedly complicated DIY (Do It Yourself) project that lets your plants to send messages via the micro-blogging service Twitter to let you know when it needs to be watered. It even thanks you for feeding ...