Down a dusty road in the eggs-and-butter town of Petaluma, Calif., sits a big, handmade pink Victorian complete with chicken coop, storage containers, vintage cars, and Thorsson’s badass workshop, where fantasy comes to life.
Jesse needs to build a drivetrain for his homemade zoetrope. Ask MAKE is here to help him out.
An interview with Rocket Glider maker Rick Schertle.
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 about the community building aspects.
Since leaving MakerBot, company co-founder Zach “Hoeken” Smith now calls Shenzhen, China home where he says he loves the maker culture and the city’s easy access to electronics and expertise. The weather is a lot better than Brooklyn, too. Zach recently met a local maker named Mr. Chen whom he says has achieved the life many makers are working toward: “self sufficiency, low volume in-house manufacturing, and sustainable living.”
Attention makers! MAKE magazine is working on a new television project, and we’re looking for a couple of hosts!
As expected, I spent much of the holidays explaining our OpenROV project to my relatives. Much of that discussion involved detailing the maker movement, Maker Faire, Kickstarter, open source hardware, 3D printing. Almost all of the maker infrastructure we’ve utilized is completely new to them, not to mention the foreigness of underwater robotics.
Basically, I told them, we’re living in a golden age for inventors and inventing. That’s all they really needed to know.
My mom decided to challenge my thesis. She shared one of her ideas with me.
