Posts Tagged ‘Awesome Foundation’
If There’s No Good News Then Make Your Own
August 20, 2010
Hansy Better has done it! Our first ever grantee of the Awesome Foundation was featured on the front page of Thursday’s Boston Globe for making the largest portable hammock in the world. [Thanks Reed for the picture] The hammock is made of 4,278 feet of rope made from recycled bottles inspiring both public and environmental [...]
2010 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: awesome, Awesome Foundation, giant hammockComments (2)
Smile or Else…
February 5, 2010
Lauren McCarthy, winner of the Awesome Foundation- Boston grant for December wants to teach you some manners. Specifically, how to improve your social interactions for the betterment of all. Through three different handmade devices she proposes that the wearer will be happier, more focused and more personable in conversation. The Happiness Hat works by jamming [...]
2010 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, interactive, lauren mccarthy, lilypad arduino, soft circuits, wearable technologyComments (2)
A Forceful Application of Sugar
October 18, 2009
What you are looking at here is the prototype for dynamic confectionery goodness. Made out of the extruding parts of an espresso machine, drill bit funnel, 1/2 soda bottle, 12 volt motor and a lot of sugar this machine is set to stun and compel the world into Type II diabetes. The machine is a [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, cotton candy cannon, josh gordonson, projectile candyComments (3)
***some.
October 4, 2009
When Tim Hwang started batting around the idea of the Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences 4 months ago I really didn’t know what to expect. Assembling 10 friends together to give $1000 every month in an elaborate ceremony to fund the start of some absurd or largely irrelevant project seemed, well, a trifle [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, collaborative good, philanthropyComments (0)
~awesome is as awesome does~
August 8, 2009
Giant pretzels? Yes. Giant check? Yes. Giant hammock? YES. So went the evening of Friday August 7th 2009. The trustees and friends of the Awesome Foundation gathered at 50 Church St. to award Hansy Better $1000 to make a giant hammock for public use in Boston Common: Our first ever awesome grant to an awesome [...]
2009 | Awesome Foundation | Tags: Awesome Foundation, giant hammock, hansy better, public artComments (0)
The Awesome Foundation
June 25, 2009
In the name of all that is glorious we bring you: The Awesome Foundation. What is this you ask? It’s a monthly no-strings micro-grant given to people making awesome things. Period. Who is giving away this crazy amazing free money? David Nunez (Dorkbot Boston) Reed Sturtevant (Director, Microsoft Startup Labs) Emily Daniels (Dorkbot Boston) Keith Hopper [...]
