Hey East Coast makers and crafters! World Maker Faire New York is now accepting applications to exhibit at the Sept. 21-22 event, held at the NY Hall of Science in Queens. The Call for Makers will be open until July 28. Apply today!
Hey Chicagoland Makers. . . MAKE is coming to town and wants to meet up on Thursday, June 27th, at 7pm to 9pm. We’re joining awesome, local makerspace, Pumping Station: One in welcoming the community of makers and visiting librarians in town for ALA to meetup with the local CNC club at PS:1!
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
When we post new content on MAKE, we love hearing from our readers. Whether the comments be informative, insightful, or funny, here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, Google+ Community, and Twitter.
The following excerpt is taken from Paulo Blikstein’s essay, “Digital Fabrication and ‘Making’ in Education: The Democratization of Invention.” The essay comes from the recently published FabLab: Of Machines, Makers, and Inventors edited bu Julia Walter-Herrmann and Corine Buching. Blikstein’s project concerns the role of fablabs in the future of engineering eduction. It is one of four “vignettes” from Blikstein’s own experiences in conducting digital fabrication workshops with secondary school students around the world.
“Don’t get so caught up in thinking that you never do anything.” “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” For our upcoming Make: Newsletter, which will be focused on handy tips, I put a call out on our social media channels to share their favorite tips. Here are some of our favorite responses.
Jake von Slatt is a Massachusetts-based tinkerer, hardware hacker, author, speaker, webmaster, and proprietor of The Steampunk Workshop. Jake seamlessly straddles hands-on proficiency in making 19th-century-inspired contraptions and being an IT specialist with a focus on Linux. His creativity and ability to blend old and new make his work noteworthy. On the pages of MAKE […]
