Over the weekend, NPR's Jon Kalish, who's also a MAKE special correspondent, did a piece on how libraries are starting to outfit themselves with hacker/makerspaces. This is something we've talked...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday December 12th, 2011 3:30 PM
Categories: Hackerspaces, Workshop | No Comments
Over the years a common question I get asked is "Why New York City"? And "Why run a business there it's so hard/expensive/crazy/weird/intense" - "just move to Vegas, no taxes!"...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday November 21st, 2011 3:00 PM
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This week for my bi-weekly soapbox columns I thought I'd share some of my notes I've jotted down recently about making things, working with and supporting beginners. Lately, I've been...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday November 2nd, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: Makers | 44 Comments
Imagine waking up and seeing your design for a circuit being used in a product by someone who never contacted you to ask if it was okay. You will not...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday October 20th, 2011 11:30 AM
Categories: Energy, Makers, Open Source Hardware | 17 Comments
MakerBot Industries is a company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer, and Zach Smith, producing an open source 3D printer to democratize manufacturing. You order it, build...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday October 6th, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, General | No Comments
This week's article is a request, well - it's more like an open letter for astrophysicist, science communicator and Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson to consider speaking...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday August 18th, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: Science | 13 Comments
The big news this week was "Autodesk Acquires Instructables". It's taken me a few days of really thinking about this for my column. Autodesk is jumping in to the biggest...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday August 5th, 2011 1:01 PM
Categories: Maker Pro | 62 Comments
As I spoke to more makers, it started to become clear that Google+ Hangouts might just be the "next hackerspaces" — not in meat space but in the online world...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday July 21st, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Hackerspaces | 31 Comments
If you're a maker you might want to consider learning a new language! In this week's article I'll talk about why I think it's a good idea for any maker...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Thursday July 7th, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: General, Maker Pro, Makers | 141 Comments
We’ve been covering Sony and their “war” on makers, hackers and innovators for awhile here and I wanted to share a thoughtful reader email, Kyle writes in… On your post...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Monday June 27th, 2011 3:00 PM
Categories: Uncategorized | 30 Comments
Congrats to SONY – Now 50% of the DMCAs on GitHub, a milestone to be proud of for sure. But wait, there’s more! Alexander Egorenkov, known as ‘Graf_Chokolo’ on the...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday June 22nd, 2011 3:00 PM
Categories: Uncategorized | 53 Comments
For decades I’ve wanted interesting, beautiful, and (sometimes) functional electronics on the most personal geographies of all, myself. When I think of “living in the future,” it’s what springs to...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday June 21st, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: General | 36 Comments
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