San Francisco-based maker Alex Andon founded Jellyfish Art and showed us how to convert a regular aquarium into a jellyfish habitat on the pages of MAKE Volume 27. His newest venture aims to connect artisans in Guatemala, Peru, Kenya, and Mexico, through online chat, to folks who want to purchase their handmade wares. One project […]
Windchimes is a maker-made payphone project, and one of six finalists in NYC’s Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge. Windchimes was inspired by NYC’s community gardens and includes environmental sensors to talk over existing infrastructure.
MAKE is excited to announce that we’re combining all of the project guides and techniques on makeprojects.com with the rich library of content that we produce and curate here on stage.makezine.com. This move will allow you to more easily find our growing collection of how-to guides, skill builders, and the inspiration you need to make.
When you visit the site today and in the coming weeks, you’ll notice a lot of ongoing improvements and changes. Part of this transition means that projects will no longer be on the wiki-based platform that we built with the folks at iFixit and Dozuki. If you contributed a guide on Make: Projects, never fear: your content is still accessible as html and the url to your project is redirecting to the new site.
Nomiku co-founder Lisa Fetterman shares her hacks for negotiating the makers’ life in Shenzhen, China.
March 8 is International Women’s Day, a day of recognition started in 1911 and celebrated across the globe. What better time to give a shout out to the amazing women of tech. A dear friend of mine, Trish Gray, who is senior development manager of O’Reilly School of Technology and a talented programmer, studied computer […]
In this great little Etsy Q&A, MAKE Founder and Publisher Dale Dougherty chats about the evolution of MAKE, resourcefulness, and how making is a sign of caring for others: “That’s really the heart of what led me to focus on ‘amateurs’ at Maker Faire and with the magazine. The root of the word amateur is ‘to love.’ I wanted to focus on people who really love what they are doing and making. I wanted to find that place and stick with it.”
In this great little Etsy Q&A, MAKE Founder and Publisher Dale Dougherty chats about the evolution of MAKE, resourcefulness, and how making is a sign of caring for others: “That’s really the heart of what led me to focus on ‘amateurs’ at Maker Faire and with the magazine. The root of the word amateur is ‘to love.’ I wanted to focus on people who really love what they are doing and making. I wanted to find that place and stick with it.”
