Based on the popular (and controversial) Kickstarter project, here is the DIY How-To for creating your own glowing plants with this DIY synthetic biology kit.
Posted by David Lang | Thursday May 16th, 2013 10:14 PM
Categories: Science | 9 Comments
After your project gets funded on Kickstarter, should you make it yourself or find a manufacturing partner?
Posted by David Lang | Friday November 16th, 2012 9:26 AM
Categories: Maker Pro | 2 Comments
For many maker pros, finding the right amount of space can be difficult. One makerspace, Artisan's Asylum, is offering a different model.
Posted by David Lang | Monday October 15th, 2012 4:06 PM
Categories: Maker Pro, Hackerspaces | 9 Comments
While the maker community has been focused on the MakerBot news and ensuing discussion on open source hardware, Kickstarter not so quietly changed its rules in a way that significantly...
Posted by David Lang | Monday September 24th, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Crowdfunding, Maker Pro | 18 Comments
I think we need a new measurement for tracking the success of our maker ventures, a new yardstick. I propose “Return on Adventure,” something perhaps intangible, but no less important...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday July 3rd, 2012 3:30 PM
Categories: Crowdfunding, General, Maker Pro | 6 Comments
At Open MAKE: Tools, mechanical wonders, painted circuitry, legendary lost gold, lockpicking for kids, and other fun stuff.
Posted by Paul Spinrad | Tuesday March 20th, 2012 10:01 AM
Categories: Education, Food & Beverage, Home | 2 Comments
You are sorry if you missed Saturday's Open MAKE at the Exploratorium, which had the theme of "Tools," because it was totally fun.
Posted by Paul Spinrad | Tuesday March 20th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Education, Food & Beverage, Home, Makers, Tools | No Comments
Photo of the Musical Tire Swing by Alasdair Allan. Last weekend, Alasdair Allan, Kipp Bradford, and I attended Maker Startup Weekend as mentors; we taught the participants about Arduino, electronics,...
Posted by Brian Jepson | Wednesday March 7th, 2012 6:00 PM
Categories: Home | 4 Comments
As you may already know, David Lang, our Zero to Maker columnist, is involved in the OpenROV project, an open source camera-equipped R/C submersible, designed to look for water-burired treasure....
Posted by David Lang | Sunday January 22nd, 2012 12:16 AM
Categories: Robotics | 2 Comments
I just got back from New York City where Eric Stackpole and I spent the weekend exhibiting and talking about OpenROV at the Open Hardware Summit and World Maker Faire....
Posted by David Lang | Thursday September 22nd, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: General | 10 Comments
In honor of Plastics month here on MAKE, I'm excited to chime in with some of my recent Zero to Maker exploits into the world of silicone. For the non-maker...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday September 20th, 2011 2:00 PM
So far on my Zero to Maker journey, I've spent a lot of time with the technical aspects of making, with a heavy emphasis on learning the necessary skills to...
Posted by David Lang | Tuesday September 13th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: Education, General | No Comments
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