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Astronaut’s Caravan at Maker Faire UK

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:11:38 +0000

The amazing Tim Hunkin has done it again. In collaboration with Andy Plant, Tim has created the Astronaut's Caravan. It's a trailer that turns 360 degrees. Tim had the humorous idea of creating a place where former astronauts might go on holiday to recreate a bit of the experience of being in space. Andy realized that they could make it work inside a trailer, also called a caravan.

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Robot Sticks To Its Knitting at Maker Faire UK

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:04:52 +0000

One of my favorite maker exhibits at Maker Faire UK in Newcastle this weekend is by Andy Noyes, a first-time participant in Maker Faire. His knitting animatronic robot, AGNES, doesn’t just go through the motions of knitting. She actually produces a knitted scarf using a circular loom. Andy said he’s […]

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MAKE Welcomes Ken Denmead as Editorial Director

Dale Dougherty — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:48:14 +0000

I'd like to welcome Ken Denmead to Maker Media. He'll start May 13 as editorial director. He replaces outgoing editorial director Gareth Branwyn. Ken has been editor and publisher of Geekdad and publisher of Geekmom, which recently struck out on its own. Ken is a civil engineer who will be quitting his day job to join us at MAKE. We're excited to have his energy and experience to help us shape our online community.

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Earth Day Thought from Jared Diamond

Dale Dougherty — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:03:01 +0000

The problems that we face are not beyond our control because we are the ones creating the problems. We can do something about them. I’ve paraphrased a quote from Jared Diamond who spoke at an Earth Day celebration at Iron Horse Vineyards in Sonoma County. Diamond is the well-known author […]

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Super Awesome Sylvia Goes to White House Science Fair

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:19:01 +0000

Congratulations to Super Awesome Sylvia, who will represent Maker Faire at the White House Science Fair, which will be held Monday April 22, 2013 at 11:30 am EDT. Sylvia Todd will bring her watercolor drawbot to the White House along with her infectious energy and enthusiasm. From wh.gov: Watch […]

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Makers and Marathoners

Dale Dougherty — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:43:17 +0000

Today is the 117th running of the Boston Marathon on Patriot's Day. More than 27,000 people entered the race. The Boston Marathon is the nation's first and most prestigious marathon, but now there are over 3,000 such marathons world wide. There are more people running marathons today than ever before. I've been studying the marathon, exploring possible parallels to the growing maker movement. While not everybody will be a marathoner or a maker, more and more people are choosing to do something that is not easy to do, and finding it a rewarding personal accomplishment.

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How Many People Will Own 3D Printers?

Dale Dougherty — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 22:22:48 +0000

MAKE publisher Dale Dougherty looks at the current state of the 3D printing industry and asks: "How soon do you think we'll get to one million printers and what will drive those sales?"

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Georgia Tech’s Makerspace is a Model for Higher Education

Dale Dougherty — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:21:23 +0000

Georgia Tech's Invention Studio makerspace and maker club just might democratize the practice of engineering.

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Making Jobs

Dale Dougherty — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:10:11 +0000

Does innovation create jobs or just eliminate them? That was the question put forward at the International Summit on Innovation for Jobs (I4J), held last week at SRI in Menlo Park, CA.

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Eben Upton Brings “Pi” to PyCon

Dale Dougherty — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 06:54:46 +0000

Raspberry Pi's Eben Upton was in the Bay Area to keynote PyCon 2013 on March 15th in Santa Clara. The Python language was part of the plan for Raspberry Pi from the beginning and Upton joked that he had misspelled "Py" in naming "Raspberry Pi." Upton's talk serves as a good overview of Raspberry Pi and its development goals.

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