I’m happy to announce today that O’Reilly’s MAKE division, in partnership with Otherlab of San Francisco, has received an award from The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in support of its Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) program. The team will help advance DARPA’s MENTOR program, an initiative aimed at introducing new design tools and collaborative practices of making to high school students.
Hello Crafters. Tomorrow from 8:00am EST to 8:00pm EST, CRAFT, along with MAKE and many other websites across the country will go dark in protest over the SOPA and PIPA bills that are before the House and Senate. For more details, read Gareth Branwyn’s post on MAKE. We’ll be back on Thursday!
Tomorrow, from 8am to 8pm EST, the MAKE sites will go dark, joining all of O’Reilly Media, and many other sites, like Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing, Tucows, Twitpic, and more, in protest over the SOPA and PIPA bills now before the House and Senate. Even Google is joining in. They won’t go dark, but they’ll […]
Starting at 9am PST today, the Maker Shed will be temporarily closed to conduct inventory. We’ll be opening back up on Thursday morning. We will not be accepting online or telephone orders during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience and promise to be back and better than ever before you know it.
Eric S. Raymond, hacker icon, open source scholar, and lead developer of GPSD (an open source program used to communicate with GPS devices) is in need of a weatherproof enclosure capable of holding at least eight GPSs at a time, such that they can be readily used for software testing. He’s made a blog post […]
We have been doing some work on the Makezine site. You may experience some aftershocks of our server move. We thank you for your cooperation and patience. If you experience any problems, or see anything missing, let us know in the comments. [Cue elevator music…]
Last night’s Make: Live marks our season two premiere, and we peeked at projects from the new MAKE Volume 29, learned about an innovative dog toy, and hung out together live in the chat. We’re trying something new with the archive: you can view the entire show in the Make: Live 24 playlist YouTube we’ve […]
