Recently my YouTube channelย unexpectedly started to get attention, so I decided to do something special for when it finally reached 1,000 subscribers. An internet-connected live counter seemed like a great way to celebrate the event, with the added bonus that other people could build one themselves. There are already a few excellent split-flap kits […]
In Atlanta, a civic response coordinated through four area makerspaces is going up against Covid-19 and hopes to beat it. This in another story in Makeโs chronicle of Plan C: A Civic Response to Covid-19. My initial experience of Decatur, GA was arriving at 6:00am on a drizzly Sunday morning in October 2015. Nothing was […]
The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware.ย Whenever you see the certification logo, you know that the certified hardware meets this standard. The certification site includes a full list of all of the certified open […]
MakerHealth caught up Rose Hedges RN, DNP a MakerNurse champion at St. Lukeโs hospital about her teamโs response to the COVID-19 outbreak to create hardware with frontline staff. How did the culture of St. Lukeโs Hospital prepare you and your team to respond to COVID-19?ย At St. Lukeโs Hospital, we have embraced the spirit of […]
A 24-Hour Global โShow and Tellโ for Makers Featuring the Civic Response to COVID-19
PLAN C LIVE is an online conversation with Dorothy Jones-Davis of Nation of Makers and Dale Dougherty of Make: Community and a panel of makers about the civic response to COVID-19. Thank you to those who have been participating as panelists and those of you who attended through Zoom. We will be doing two PLAN […]
Two hours outside of Tokyo in Chiba prefecture is Hackerfarm, a hackerspace that applies technology to growing things like potatoes. Christopher Wang, better known as Akiba, is thinking that potatoes would feed a lot of people if food shortages result from COVID-19. The experiment is called Project Potatohead โ A Farm-to-Foodbank Initiative. However, Akiba […]
