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Xeni Jardin

AT 9:46 AM
Friday June 12, 2009

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BB Video: Maker Faire Selects - CandyFab, DIY Screen Printing, Electric Music.


(Download / YouTube) In today's edition of Boing Boing Video, Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing Gadgets editor Lisa Katayama profile three cool things found at the recent Bay Area Maker Faire: The Yudu personal screen printer, an interactive, collaborative, musical Tesla Coil, and a candy-fabbing device from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories.

Below, one of the freaky, free-form sugar creations produced (photo courtesy Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories)

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6 Comments

Chuck

#1 – 11:01 PM June 12, 2009

I don't really see the Yudu thing as being in the Maker spririt: it's bascially a way to get people to commit to using proprietary chemicals and ink to do screen printing.

For the price, you would be better off buying a screen and some jiffy clamps, and expose using a hi-watt bulb or sunlight...

kaka

#2 – 11:24 PM August 19, 2009

it's bascially a way to get people to commit to using proprietary chemicals and ink to do screen printing. management school

kaka

#3 – 11:25 PM August 19, 2009

jiffy clamps, and expose using a hi-watt bulb or sunlight... Education degree

kaka

#4 – 11:27 PM August 19, 2009

community feedback will be evaluated by ASUS and "will influence the blueprint for an actual notebook PC built by ASUS with Intel inside." management degree

kaka

#5 – 11:28 PM August 19, 2009

some jiffy clamps, and expose using a hi-watt bulb or sunlight... Computer Science degree

kaka

#6 – 11:29 PM August 19, 2009

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