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@ Maker Faire MAKE's Phil Torrone and Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries talked about emerging opportunities for makers to create and sell their work - here are our slides and notes - ZIP (27mb). EDN also has a write up. Each year we've seen more and more makers do what they love (making) as a full time job, we put together some of the observations, trends and more on how you could go about doing this too. After our talk we met about a dozen kit makers, we hope to have their kits in the MAKE store soon!

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Posted by: Keith Neufeld on May 12, 2008 at 12:15 PM

Do you have a video of the talk posted? I'm thinking about making a couple of kits and I'd love to watch the talk!

Posted by: on May 13, 2008 at 5:35 AM

Step 7: "This is a demo, so lie."

What a great way to gain the trust of the customers & get your shoestring business off to a roaring start!!!

Posted by: Phillip Torrone on May 13, 2008 at 5:44 AM

please don't take each word literally from a slide or notes, it's a presentation, the context is important.

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WOW! Thanks to everyone involved with Maker Faire Bay Area: attendees, makers, exhibitors, sponsors, volunteers, and crew...it was AMAZING! Over 400 Makers and 60,000+ attendees! Be sure to check out the photos @ Flickr, and our Maker Faire posts for all the action! The next scheduled Maker Faire is Austin: Oct. 18th & 19th, 2008 - Travis County Expo Center!