Drones and Makerspaces: Best Marriage Since Chocolate and Peanut Butter
About 50 drone enthusiasts from the DC Area Drone User Group swarmed Nova Labs this past Sunday for an all day build and fly session. Here’s a montage of the event.
Makerspaces
Burnkit2600 Makes Some Noise at the Santiago Mini Maker Faire
“It’s nice to finally connect his face to his IP address.” Burnkit2600 was invited to the second annual Santiago Mini Maker Faire this year, where they met online friends in person, and made many new friends. Member Justin Emerson describes the experience, and talks with Faire founders Tiburcio and Macarena about how last year’s inaugural South American Mini Maker Faire came about.
Hackerspace Happenings
News and information from the world of hackerspaces!
Meet the new Class of HAXLR8R Startups
The 2013 class of HAXLR8R startups showed their stuff to a crowd of reporters, investors, and fellow hardware hackers at San Francisco’s Runway yesterday. The demo day event drew more than 100 people and was part coming out party and part fundraising pitch. The startups has all just returned from 111 days in China and many launched crowdfunding campaigns to coincide with the event.
A Sneak Peek from Santiago: Lights, Bikes, and Clouds
Buenos días from Santiago, Chile where preparations are well under way for the second Santiago Mini Maker Faire.
Animatronics Kits for Learning
I just stumbled across the Star★Bot animatronic platform kit out of the community of makers in Florida. It’s designed for kids to “create animatronic robots and learn microcontrollers, mechanics and papercraft.” Its Kickstarter campaign ends in a few hours! Pat Starace developed the kits at FamiLAB “Central Florida’s provider of space, tools, and community for creative technical learning and projects.” (All the organizers for the Orlando Mini Maker Faire met at FamiLAB.)
Maker2Maker Aims to Bring Makers Together
My primary goal for creating the Maker2Maker online community is to provide a place where anyone could go to find makers (whether for collaboration or commissions) or share their own skills with others.
