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From advancements in technology and materials, to the development of innovative techniques and ideas, there’s always something new on the horizon. As a maker, your success depends on your ability to keep up with all these changes. Let’s take a look at some of the most noteworthy developments that are taking place in making right now!
PLAN C: Atlanta – A Beats C
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 Make’s 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 […]
Open Source Hardware Certifications for April 2020
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. 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 […]
Health Making from the Frontlines of a Hospital Makerspace
MakerHealth caught up Rose Hedges RN, DNP a MakerNurse champion at St. Luke’s hospital about her team’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak to create hardware with frontline staff. How did the culture of St. Luke’s Hospital prepare you and your team to respond to COVID-19? At St. Luke’s Hospital, we have embraced the spirit of […]
Announcing Virtually Maker Faire
A 24-Hour Global “Show and Tell” for Makers Featuring the Civic Response to COVID-19
Plan C Live: The Montana Mask – Thursday May 7th
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 […]
PLAN C: HYJEIA: A Low-cost UV-C Unit
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 — A Farm-to-Foodbank Initiative. However, Akiba […]