Fab Labs @ 10
Fab Labs are a global community of local workshops that enable invention by providing access to tools and for digital fabrication education and enrichment, which has grown to over 250 labs worldwide in ten years.
Year: 2014
Offer the Largest Crowdfunding Perk in History, and Other Advice From Sproutel’s Campaign
A few months ago, Sproutel, the company behind Jerry the Bear, the interactive bear that helps kids with Type 1 diabetes learn to live with the disease, decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign. When the campaign went live, today on Indiegogo, it had an unusual perk: for $3 million you can buy 12,000 bears, which […]
How-To: Edible Fruit Kabob Place Cards
Why not help your guests find their seats and have a little snack in one fell swoop with this splendidly simple Edible Fruit Kabob Place Cards tutorial that Brittni Mehlhoff put together for Creativelive.
A word with Joey Hudy at Maker Faire Paris
In a very quick but interesting interview, Joey confessed to us some facts behind his first invention and exciting news about his upcoming projects. Joey the youngest Intel employee told us that out of boredom, he first designed an air-canon with a ball-pen. He was coming back from school, when he thought “why not make it bigger?”. And thus […]
How-To: Nautical Knot Bracelets
Create your own colorful maritime-inspired accessories with this beginner-friendly tutorial for making nautical knot bracelets!
CityZen Data: A Conference by Horacio Gonzalez at Maker Faire Paris.
A technological shift is happening. More and more connected objects are being produced. Along with this raise in production, these objects are also getting more diversified and complex. We are at the birth of an Internet of Everything era. The number of connected objects is so high that it outnumbers by far the users they are connected to. This […]
Joe Olson’s DIY-Enabled Wheelchair
Joe Olson is disabled but he’s also a maker with DIYability, a term used by John Schimmel on a website of that name for do-it-yourself “assistive technology.” I met Joe at the DC Mini Maker Faire on June 8. He has been in a wheelchair since 1999 when, just out of high school, he broke […]
