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Ron Bean has a fascinating post on Milwaukee Makerspace’s wiki about his project to plumb in the hackerspace’s water cooler. In addition to the obligatory refrigerator full of soda (or sometimes empty of soda, depending on whether anyone’s filled it recently), we also have a water cooler that takes the... Read more »
Categories: Hackerspaces, Electronics | No Comments
This is the first in a series of posts documenting how to start a makerspace of your own in your local community. This post is focused on the one question almost everyone asks when starting a space - how do you get insurance for your makerspace? We'll start with a... Read more »
Categories: Education, Hackerspaces, Maker Pro, Workshop | 2 Comments
This week, I interviewed the designer and maker Brendan Dawes for my podcast, Looking Sideways. Brendan's known for early interactive web projects like Psycho Studio, that allows users to remix Hitchcock's famous shower scene themselves. He's also known for his physical projects, such as the Moviepeg and Popa iPhone accessories,... Read more »
Categories: Arduino, Art & Design, Maker Pro, Makers | No Comments
The past decade has seen the sudden, dramatic appearance of community spaces offering public, shared access to high-end manufacturing equipment. These spaces are interchangeably referred to as hackerspaces, makerspaces, TechShops, and FabLabs. This can lead the intended audience to become incredibly confused as to why there might be so many... Read more »
Categories: Education, Hackerspaces, Maker Pro, Makers | 19 Comments
Figuring out how much to charge for your product is the second most common question entrepreneurs ask themselves. The first is of course..."what should I build in the first place.” Assuming you’ve made it past the first question and there is a market for your product, you have to figure... Read more »
Categories: Maker Pro, Electronics | 5 Comments
What's an antidote to too much time spent online? Joe Sandor's answer was making something with your hands and spending face-to-face time with friends. It was the social aspect of making and eating crepes that originally inspired the Captain Crepe Pan. That success lead this sculptor to his second adventure... Read more »
Categories: Crowdfunding, Food & Beverage, Maker Pro | No Comments
If you were hoping to pick up Brook Drumm's new Printrbot Simple at Maker Faire Bay Area this year, well...you're too late. The Printrbot Simple beta edition sold out Saturday afternoon. Still, with alpha availability slate for June, you don't have too long to wait. Read more »
Categories: 3D Printing, Open Source Hardware | 6 Comments
The bland-looking machines that lined the east wall of the Makerspace at Maker Faire did a good job of being entertaining throughout Maker Faire. They were constantly surrounded by kids watching them do all sorts of etching and inscribing tricks. But the three machines — from ShopBot, Epilog, and Tormach... Read more »
Categories: General, Maker Pro | 2 Comments
Among the makerspaces represented in Expo Hall at Maker Faire this weekend is one which offers regular meetings, cheap dues, great venues, and no lease commitments. That's the formula for MAKE:SF which holds regular meetups at hosting business locations. The cost to join this makerspace is a mere $10/six months... Read more »
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Got a passion project and want to build a team around it? Start in your makerspace! Dr. David Crawley desperately wanted to hack robots and build a useful platform, not an inexpensive toy that couldn't do anything or a useful robot that few could afford. He wanted his to be... Read more »
Categories: Electronics, Hackerspaces, Robotics | No Comments
Today, Arduino announced a new family of wireless products that combine the Arduino architecture with Linux. Read more »
Categories: Arduino, Computers & Mobile, Electronics, Open Source Hardware | 12 Comments
The guys at Helios don’t have anything to sell at Maker Faire. Their “smart bike” handlebars won’t be available until the fall. But here they are, at Maker Faire, in a small booth with two prototypes bicycle handlebars mounted on bikes. They are engaging with a torrent of curious Maker... Read more »
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