Maker Pro: How Maker Pros Are Spreading Next Gen Assistive Tech
This week: How maker pros are next gen assistive tech, Indiegogo courts Chinese innovators, and hack your way to hardware funding.
Technology
Don’t Miss Tomorrow Night’s Hardware Didactic Galactic
So many good speakers and projects
Make a Macro Lens for Your Phonecam from an Old Camera
Repurpose the lens from an unused digital camera into a close-up lens for your smart phone.
Maker Pro News: The Value of Teaching Entrepreneurship in Schools
This week: How a solution for plastic waste was born out of a high school entrepreneurship program, Kickstarter mistakes to avoid (from someone who made them), and the importance of testing early and often.
These Students Made A Walking TARS Robot From Interstellar
It actually walks, and looks pretty darned good too!
Roblox Introduces Education Initiative to Inspire a New Generation of Game Designers
Today, Roblox launched Roblox Education, an initiative to teach kids how to code by helping them program their own Jurassic Park-inspired video game.
Becky Stern Makes a Tumor-Rejecting Hat for Simone Giertz
A hat designed to reject a brain tumor (and console a beloved maker).