Month: September 2012

Maker Faire New York Begins!

Maker Faire New York Begins!

The gates to the 3rd Maker Faire New York are set to open in less than 15 minutes. This year really will be bigger and better than last year with more than 500 maker exhibits, dozens of presentations, workshops and demos, and just a whole lot of maker awesomeness. The 3D printer village is going […]

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5 Safety Tips for Your Child’s First Tool and Electronic Kits

Editor’s Note: The following article is by Make: author Dale Wheat, whose latest book is Building Your Own Electronics Lab: A Guide to Setting Up Your Own Gadget Workshop. By Dale Wheat Parents fear the day when children outgrow their Lego blocks to build and create. That’s because what often follows is their offspring’s pleas for […]

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Maker Faire New York: DJ Shakey Interview

Maker Faire New York: DJ Shakey Interview

No discussion of the sights and sounds of Maker Faire would be complete without mention of the innovative music represented.

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Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Mayor Bloomberg’s “Maker Week” Proclamation

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Mayor Bloomberg’s “Maker Week” Proclamation

“Whereas: I was a ham radio operator when I was a kid. After I studied engineering, got fired from the only job I ever had, and acted on a crazy idea to start my own company, I found myself soldering capacitors in a garage and still working on our prototype model in the back seat of a cab on the way to our first demonstration. Planning, building, tinkering, ripping up the plans, starting from scratch…”

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Interview: Miss Cross Stitch

Interview: Miss Cross Stitch

By Julie Jackson One day while I was lurking around on Pinterest, I came across these amazing photos of large-scale cross stitch in public spaces. So you just know I had to find out more and tell you about it! The artist, who is in Germany, goes by the name Miss Cross Stitch. She has […]

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