Year: 2014

Slideshow: Fab10Barcelona

Slideshow: Fab10Barcelona

This week 600 people gathered in Barcelona for Fab10, a truly international conference on the state of digital fabrication and open source hardware, as well as a convention for the global FabLab makerspace network. Fab Labs are the brainchild of Neil Gershenfeld of MIT. His vision was to build a network of standardized makerspaces outfitted with […]

The Birth Of A Cupcake Car

The Birth Of A Cupcake Car

I first saw drivable cupcakes and muffins at Burning Man in 2005. It was one of those things that you can’t quite grasp. What was I seeing? Ingenious! Skip ahead a few years to Burning Man 2012… By sheer coincidence, I met (and eventually fell in love with) with one of the original cupcake builders. […]

Interviews at Maker Faire Hannover

Interviews at Maker Faire Hannover

Maker Faire Hannover expanded to two days this year, returning to the Congress Centrum for a second year. I did five short interviews with makers at the event. Christoph Emonds (@cemonds) from Aachen created the smartphone-controlled High Striker with the Makey Robot on top. Fabian Grupp is a product manager for Fabbster, a German-based 3D […]