Making
Celebrating maker-carer-user-hackers from around the world, to inspire local making, wherever you are.
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Distributed Resource Centre (DRC) Publication
A document of an ever-growing resource centre of freely available resources for art and pleasure (commercial and household waste, fruit/vegetables and other food, skills, time, places/infrastructure) The photos in this document came out of a series of projects at and around Mairangi Arts Centre (MAC) between 2015-2020 [Supported, in part, by Creative Communities Scheme and…
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E-Waste Arcade
We run a weekly 3pm – 5:30pm Thursday drop-in tinker sessions at Zeal West, Henderson — a youth space where young people meet, hang out, and learn new skills. These sessions led to a two-day E-Waste Hackathon, exploring the design challenge: “How can we take the Zeal kaupapa to the streets?” We came up with…
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DESIGN 102G Object Biography Sprint
Thanks Leo and DESIGN 102G. Photos and scanned drawings
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DIY Server Infrastructure
There is a popular perception that the internet or “the cloud” is somewhere “out there”, and not somewhere “here” that you can see, touch and experience with your own senses. Contrary to this view “the cloud” and the internet are not somewhere in the sky or in outer space. They are here on earth.
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A simple method for finding out where in the world a website is being hosted
Instructions for running a “traceroute” to find out where in the world any website is being hosted.
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Frugal repair of high quality thermos
This style of stainless steel thermos is commonly found in opshops around Aotearoa (New Zealand) with a broken plastic lid. This page documents the process of finding various ways to repair this valuable object.
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Joule Thief & a New Xmas Tradition
We have been getting ‘waste’ from the Sustainability Trust, and learning about the industrialised processes required to break them down into raw materials and ‘recycle’ them. For example, with old CFL light bulbs, the glass from the tubes is crushed and turned into insulation fibreglass for houses, the mercury is made into dental amalgam, the…