The Tale of Pinoccio
Two makers’ journey of starting a new company.
Year: 2013
LightUp—From Maker to Pro
How two California kids with a bright idea are working to make it happen.
Space Station in a Shed
Excerpt from the article: To the casual passerby, Christopher Jacobs’ backyard shed appears nondescript. But beneath the worn white exterior exist hundreds of switches, blinking lights, computer screens running animations, and a green-screen viewport — all part of a space station movie set Jacobs built himself.
Experiments in 3D Printed Fashion
Excerpt from the article: Fashion and technology are the perfect pairing. Fashion’s constant need for newness drives designers to continually seek novel materials and innovative ways of making garments. Emerging technologies provide designers with fresh inspiration and opportunities to innovate and create radically new garments that don’t already exist.
People Over Megahertz
Excerpt from the article: When I was a kid I got into electronics because I started reading specialized magazines on the topic. At the same time it was hard for me to learn electronics from them because the content was not really beginner friendly and the projects were not very exciting. They were conceived more […]
Computers in the Mist
Carl Helmers was designing spaceships in kindergarten. He “lucked out” by learning computers in high school in New Jersey, where he eventually got a summer job programming at Bell Labs. Then, as a NASA contractor in Houston, he installed compilers and even wrote a landing program for the Apollo Lunar Module. Computers were big, expensive […]
Meet Lucas Weakley
The creator of our Maker Hangar video series.
