Make It Last Build Series: the third newsletter is out!
We’re already into our third week of the Make It Last build series, and things are starting to heat up- literally!
We’re already into our third week of the Make It Last build series, and things are starting to heat up- literally!
On Wednesday (Oct 20), The Martha Stewart Show (Hallmark Channel) will be devoted to World Maker Faire. Martha Stewart Living was one of our media partners for the Faire and they had a wonderful presence at the event. They have a really great team and we enjoyed getting to know Editor in Chief Vanessa Holden […]
A group of awesome hackers from Chicago are working on a full-length documentary about the rise of the maker movement and formation of hackerspaces in the US.
Wired and others are reporting that Benoît Mandelbrot, the mathematician and father of fractal geometry, has passed away, just shy of his 86th birthday. On GeekDad, Matt Blum writes: I had the rare and amazing privilege of hearing Mandelbrot speak when he came to visit my high school about 20 years ago. Even at my […]
Ah. Those ubiquitous Vuvuzelas. I don’t watch soccer, don’t own a TV, and I still became overwhelmed with Vuvuzela references and World Cup fever. And in its wake, the world was overwhelmed with the deafeningly-loud 2′ plastic tooters. Now that the matches are over and the world’s attention has moved on, what to do with […]
A new statement of principles and draft definition 0.4 is up for Open-source hardware – your feedback and participation is needed! After the Open-source Hardware summit one of the requests was for all of us to figure out an “overview” of what/why we do this. We think we have a good start based on what […]
My pal Willow Brugh, of Jigsaw Renaissance, wrote to tell us about the GWOBorg Hackathon they’re hosting, on 10/10/10: Use your powers of Geek for Good! First responders in crisis situations need better tools. Come participate at the 10.10.10 hack-a-thon to help them out! What: a 24-hour hack-a-thon with food and drinks provided. Starting ideas […]