A few days ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering undergraduate Beverly Chou (seen below accepting the award from A2 Awesome founder Lisa Dengiz) to help fund the launch of an event that she and fellow students are calling Makeathon. After our meeting, I took the […]
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U-M undergrads to launch Makeathon with A2Awesome grant
Posted in Ann Arbor, Awesome Foundation, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized Also tagged A2Awesome, art & design, Awesome Foundation, Beverly Chou, collaboration, College of Creative Studies, competitions, Detroit, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Google, hackathons, Hardware Hacks, IDEO, interdisciplinary, kids today, Lisa Dengiz, Makeathon, makers, making stuff, mechanical engineering, micro-philanthropy, MIT, MPowered, produce design, students, Sydney Bigelow, TechShop Detroit, University of Michigan 5 Comments
Printing yourself a Dillinger artifact from the Smithsonian’s adult section
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Posted in History, Observations, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged 3D penis printing, artifacts, comedy, historic artifacts, John Dillinger, penises, Smithsonian Institution, urban legends 6 Comments
To stay put and fix what’s broken, or to leave the earth altogether and try our luck elsewhere…
NASA’s Chief Technologist, Mason Peck, took to Reddit this afternoon, answering questions on everything from the democratization of space, and our current research into warp drives, to the role of 3D printing in the colonization of other planets, and the possibility of encasing our astronauts in water during the voyage to Mars in order to […]
Posted in Other, Uncategorized Also tagged colonization of space, manned space flight, Mars, Mason Peck, NASA, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Science, space, space exploration 24 Comments