Be sure to check out the Kit-a-Day Giveaway being put on by our friends over at MAKE. They’ve got $9,000 worth of kits to give away, including 4 MakerBot Thing-O-Matic 3D printers We’re so excited to be launching our massive Kit-A-Day Giveaway. To celebrate the release of our latest publication, the ...

One of the things I am learning as I rise in the ranks of engineering is that you gain more responsibility for the products being developed while simultaneously being increasingly physically separated from the hands-on work. I used to do a lot of hands-on work on projects but now I ...

Maker Faire 2011 came and went in a blur of hard work, teamwork, joy, and awesomeness. GeekDads and GeekMoms from all over the country came together and put on a booth to remember. We came out of it with Maker Faire ribbons for being an awesome Education booth, and an ...

ArcAttack uses their two 500KV singing Tesla coils to play AC/DC’s Back in Black while Leah and GeekKid Hannah rock out in the Faraday cage.

We don’t often just cut and paste press releases here at GeekDad, but when something this cool, and this relevant to our own goals and aspirations, comes around, we have to get the word out. From Make’s Dale Doherty: Last year, I met with Lynn Harper and Daniel Rasky of the ...

So I’m a contributing writer with Make Magazine and Make: Online, and I wanted to share something that the blog is doing that is really neat — Make: Live. Every other Wednesday, my colleagues Becky and Matt are hosting a live 30-minute show were they’ll talk about makery stuff and ...

Meet Ross Daly and his Minifridge Beer Dispenser, the winner of the recent GeekDad/Ponoko/Sparkfun design competition.

Entries are now closed for our design competition in association with Ponoko and Sparkfun, but the competition isn’t over yet! We’ve selected our favourite 10 entries from the GeekDad Flickr pool and the comments left on the post, and now it’s up to you, the readers, to pick the overall ...

We’ve had some great entries in so far for our geeky design competition with Ponoko and Sparkfun, but don’t worry, there are still a few days left for you to add yours and be in with the chance of winning the materials you’ll need to make it. The basic idea of ...

Our Ponoko/SparkFun design competition has only been running for a week and already we’ve got some great looking entries in the GeekDad Flickr pool, and we’ve picked out a few here to share with everyone. In case you missed the announcement, the idea of the competition is for you to design ...