Year: 2010

Make-offs: DIY indie innovations

Make-offs: DIY indie innovations

Dale has a piece for his O’Reilly Radar column on what he’s dubbed “make-offs,” low-budget knock-offs of scientific and industrial technology, built with off-the-shelf parts: It is a version of what China has been doing to America, benefiting from the R&D that goes into refining the specifications, developing prototypes and building a finished product. Only […]

Maker Faire Schedules and Map

While we get all our ducks in a row at the fairgrounds for Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, you might be interested to check out the master schedule of talks, shows, and demos going on throughout the weekend. The locations for all makers are also live on the Maker Faire site, so get to […]

RedBlueCNC: A modular CNC

RedBlueCNC: A modular CNC

MAKE subscriber Nick Santillan of Vancouver, BC, an ID student at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, created this CNC for his thesis project. I decided to tackle on making CNC machine by allowing people to be more experimental with them to progress CNC technology from the bottom-up. The end result is a […]