Author Archives: loretta
Bikes tearing up the track (and each other?!?)
Maker Faire: The Secrets of Secret Doors
The folks at Because We Can have made some seriously cool secret doors. There were a couple of helpful concepts I took away. Context – a hidden door by itself stands out. Having other bookcases, or other similar design elements provide necessary camoflage. Location context can prove valuable, as well. If people don’t expect a …
Tapigami monster master
One of my first sights upon entering Maker Faire this afternoon was this guy and his cool creations. He could reposition parts of the creature because the masking tape still had some exposed glue parts.
Code 2600
Personal information security is becoming an ever-increasingly tangled forest, but is that helpful or harmful? Code 2600 won’t answer that question, because you can’t talk about the entire forest until you’ve gone through. What this movie does is to show the origin, history, and complexity of the situation in which we find ourselves. The information …