Our friend Donald Bell put together an excellent little tour of some of the game designs from the alt.ctrl showcase at last week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
And here's a handy link list that Donald provides to the game projects covered:
Our guest this week on the Cool Tools Show is Donald Bell. Donald runs a great website called Maker Project Lab, and he also hosts a weekly YouTube show called Maker Update, which collects interesting projects, news, tips, tools, and other stuff for the Maker community. — Read the rest
I just got a wonderful recommendation from our friend Donald Bell. He emailed me about a new and unusual ramen shop in the Brooklyn Basin area of Oakland, California and gave me the okay to share it here: It's called JR Ramen Station. — Read the rest
How cool is this? It's a 3D printed retro IBM PC. On it's working color monitor it displays a fully working version of Doom housed on an ESP32 chip inside.
Last year, I rounded up all of the jargon and slang I wrote about in my weekly maker tips newsletter and posted them here on Boing Boing. Below is this year's list.
These aren't necessarily new terms, some are very old, basic, and well known. — Read the rest
On this episode of Maker Update, Donald Bell does a walk-through of Sili-Con, Adam Savage's annual nerdfest at the San Jose Convention Center. Robots, props, cosplay, electronics projects, 3D printing bring all the nerds to the yard.
This is a post about a lowly kitchen sink strainer. Hear me out. I'm fascinated by what, years ago, I dubbed "homely tools." These are things that we use every day that are so unsexy, so simple and plain, that they fade into the backgrounds of our lives. — Read the rest
IKEA has its $5 milk frother, which is notoriously flimsy and short-lived. Donald Bell decided it was time to check out other options, so he bought a $10 frother and two $20 frothers and tried them out.
In the last installment of Donald Bell's Maker Update for 2020, he celebrates some of the most creative and clever pandemic and social isolation projects of 2020.
There are some really great projects here, like Simone Geirtz's Proud Parent Machine, Bornach's incredible Astable Exhalation sculpture, Shane Wighton's robot barber, and Colin Furze's Highcycle social distancing bike. — Read the rest
Maker Update, Donald Bell's weekly showcase of inspiring projects, maker news, tips and tools remains one of my favorite DIY shows on YouTube.
Donald does a great job himself and he's been expanding the hosting team. Tyler Winegarner and Sophy Wong have frequent guest hosting duties and now he's added Becky Stern (Make:, Adafruit, Instructables) to the lineup. — Read the rest
In this video my friend Donald Bell gets wise to one of my favorite ways to make coffee: the Moka Pot.
What I want to do is make the case for you having one and learning how to use it. Because after I got one, pretty soon we all went into lockdown, and little things we take for granted like toilet paper and coffee filters, or coffee pods, all became rare commodities.
A super-cool robotic bartender inspired by Blade Runner's Voight-Kampff machine? With an ordering menu screen that shows old Japanese whisky ad starring Orson Welles (giving a "dash of Tokyo-dystopian-future-retro weirdness")?
Too soon? By way of Donald Bell's Maker Update comes this game where you send a shopping cart into a market in search of TP.
The simulation was designed by Jelle Vermandere. You can either play the game in a browser or Jelle shows you how he used an Arduino Uno and motion sensing to create a shopping cart handle controller for that true invisible zombie apocalypse adrenaline rush. — Read the rest
Since its launch three years ago, Donald Bell's Maker Update has been one of my favorite weekly YouTube…well, maker updates. I always find inspiring projects, tool reviews, and tips of interest.
As you can imagine, more COVID-19 maker response content has been showing up on the show. — Read the rest
The other website I edit is called Cool Tools, which features reader-written reviews of tools they love. For the last couple of years, we've been posting video reviews of tools (subscribe to the channel here), produced by Donald Bell. — Read the rest
Donald Bell of Maker Project Lab interviewed Becky Stern about Tinkercad's new and very cool Arduino simulator. It's a good way to teach a bunch of people Arduino in a classroom setting.
Every week Donald Bell posts a video about interesting maker projects. This week in Maker Update he looks at an animated wooden sign, new mesh boards from Particle, 3D printed QR coasters, 3D printing on fabric, and his talk with CNC router whiz Jon-A-Tron. — Read the rest
