Lightweaver – Illuminating Museums and Festivals
Todd Moyer’s interactive art installations light up festivals and public spaces with shifting projectors and laser lights.
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The Connect 4 Musical Instrument: A Creative Fusion of Music and Technology
At last fall’s Maker Faire Bay Area, Ben showcased the ‘Connect 4 Musical Instrument’. It is a twist on the classic strategy game, but this one plays music as you play the game. Ben shares how this project combined elements of game design, music technology, and interactive art. Ben showed us how his idea evolved […]
20 Years of Make: Triumph of the Makers
O’Reilly Media’s Tim O’Reilly looks back at 20 years of the maker movement.
90’s Techno Art: Rap Caviar
Connor Gottfried’s incredible techart mashes up 90s games and cartoons into interactive sculptures.
Maker Community Responds to Prusa’s New Open Community License
Prusa released a new set of Core One files on December 19th under a new license they made called Open Community License (OCL). Their blog post explains they created the license to “answer to the gaps left by traditional software licenses when applied to physical hardware.” They wish to use it to open up more […]
Watch: The Founder’s Vision—Dale Dougherty on the DNA of the Maker Movement
Before Dale Dougherty’s keynote at Maker Faire Bay Area in September, the crowd was silent. As Dale stood at the podium and looked out on the packed audience, there was a collective “ohhhh” in the air, a deep breath of, “we are home.” Dale is not only the founder of this event and this magazine, […]
Guide to Boards 2026: Indie Boards
With low-cost single board computers and tools for hosting your own cloud server, 2025 had some exciting indie dev boards.