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!
MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition culminated Tuesday in a grand prize awarded to Brooklyn-based startup BotFactory and their desktop circuit printer Squink. With Squink, BotFactory is hoping to simplify and streamline electronic prototyping by offering a single machine capable of printing circuit traces with conductive ink and gluing, picking, and placing small surface mount components automatically. […]
It’s always nice to be wished Happy Birthday by your friends. And it’s great when your friends are this fantastic! Make: would like to extend a heartfelt Thank You to these stellar individuals for participating in Maker Faire over the years, many of whom participated since year one in 2006. Indeed, it is the people — the many […]
The OSVehicle team wants to revolutionize the way the world makes its transportation, and today introduces a new platform that will help bring auto building to the community and individual level. Named Tabby EVO, the vehicle can be built in just an hour in a moderately equipped workshop. It features an 80v/15 kW electric drivetrain with a range […]
The premise of MakerCon’s Launch Pad competition is fairly simple. 10 Maker-based startups give a five-minute pitch of their product or idea to a panel of five judges. The judges deliberate and award a grand prize ($5,000 and free booth space at Maker Faire) to the most promising company. But from what I saw today, […]
Talking to Chris Anderson about his argument that technology is moving so fast today that it’s almost impossible to make the jump from maker to maker pro anymore.
With all of the bigger picture focus and flurry of activity around getting a Maker Faire together, it might be easy to forget that there are hundreds of smaller, but no less passionate organizational dramas going on, of countless late-night planning sessions, fundraising efforts, project builds, frantic last-minute organizing, packing, and travel, and everything else […]
MakerCon has kicked off in our new, absolutely gorgeous location at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Eager attendees are gathered to talk about the professional side of Making, from funding to marketing and manufacturing. The ideas shared here today will be building the startups of tomorrow and launching products that you’ll see […]
