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A New Era of Crowdfunding?
There’s more to crowdfunding than Kickstarter and the like. They pre-sell. That funding gets you product, not equity. This post is an update on the JOBS Act which was signed into law in April of 2012...
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A Folding Kayak Made of Corrugated Plastic?!
New uses for existing materials can fuel hardware innovation. Such was the case for Anton Willis who after moving to a San Francisco apartment had to put his beloved kayak into storage. No room for big...
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Chris Anderson on EconTalk
On his last day as editor-in-chief of Wired magazine Chris talked with Russ Roberts about his personal journey to becoming a manufacturer of drones, his transition to CEO of 3DRobotics, and the ideas...
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Community for a Healthy Makerspace
Occasionally, I'll visit a frustrated makerspace. "We have a space. We have tools. Where are the members?" They describe how they've put energy into the physical aspects of the space and say nothing...
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What is “Making”?
We get asked this question all the time. Implicit is usually a hint of "I don't get it. What's the big deal?" The superficial answer seems absurd. "Making is the act of creating something." It's been...
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Bunnie Teaches Outsourcing to China
From his roost in Singapore, Bunnie Huang has just completed a four-part series on outsourcing to China. He wrote his tutorial for visiting MIT Media Lab graduate students, but as with so much of what...
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HIW: What’s in a Name?
Last year we spent many cycles deciding what to name a conference. It was a gathering at Xerox PARC which focused on the remarkable changes which are underpinnings to the maker movement. The name we...
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Introducing the Maker Pro Newsletter
The mission of the Maker Pro Newsletter is to inform, analyze, educate, and catalyze as we explore emerging opportunities for makers. We're thrilled at what's happening in this arena and want to share...
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Maker Pro: Building Community at Scale
Shared workshops can have a feeling of community. I used to think it was a matter of scale, that the larger groups would have more community. I now realize it’s more a matter of how much people will...
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Tri, Quad, Hex, Octo … Bring ‘em On!
Competitive flying, glass miniatures, and hovering apparitions were all part of the First Annual Multirotor Challenge held in Fallbrook, Calif., about a hour north of San Diego. For this brainchild of...
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Pitches with Prototypes: LightUp
As a 9-year-old boy I coerced my mother into buying me a Science Fair 50-in-1 Electronic Projects Kit from Radio Shack. It was a miracle in-a-box! I could wire any of the projects in its book, use it...
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Ubiquity Robot Team’s “12 Tasks of Hercules”
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...
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The Alternate Makerspace–MAKE:SF
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...
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Pirate Pancake Follows Captain Crepe
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...
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Liking the Guest: Robert Faludi
Years ago when I was in a sales job I learned an important trick to being effective. It wasn’t enough to solve a problem for a client, it was more important to offer a solution which they saw as most...
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Pitches with Prototypes
At this year's Hardware Innovation Workshop, a call was put out for interested makers to promote their prototype to us in a video. From these submissions five makers were selected to pitch at HIW....
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How to Fab Your Designs Locally
OpenDesk is from the group of designers behind WikiHouse. While their initial project was an open hardware shelter this second project grows out of insights from the first.Read more on MAKE
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The Makerspace Chasm
Ever notice how most makerspaces less than 4,000 square foot are powered by volunteers and are rich with community? Ever notice that larger makerspaces tend to have more than 12,000 square foot, are...
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Make a Makerspace
Judging from people in attendance everyone wants to make a makerspace. At Friday's session of Make a Makerspace there were representatives from schools, makerspaces, a library, economic development,...
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PocketNC, an Affordable Five-Axis CNC
Jaws drop when makers see a five-axis CNC at work. That's what happened to me when I saw PocketNC performing its magic. I peered closely and saw a spindle moving along two axes milling a piece of...
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