Announcements

Maker Faire Detroit 2010

Dale (publisher of MAKE and CRAFT) has an exciting announcement about Maker Faire Detroit 2010! Last summer, after our Maker Faire in the Bay Area, I had a couple of speaking engagements in the Detroit area. One was at a Go Tech meeting in Ann Arbor, at the A2 MechShop. I had many people asking […]

Maker Birthdays:  Eli Whitney, Jr.

Maker Birthdays: Eli Whitney, Jr.

On this day in 1765, Eli Whitney, Jr. was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. Whitney would go on, most famously, to invent the cotton gin, which revolutionized cotton production in the antebellum South. He eventually became the most famous early American proponent of interchangeable parts, and also invented one of the world’s first milling machines. Whitney died January 8, 1825, and is buried with many of his famous descendants in an historic cemetery in New Haven.