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The Heart of Maker Faire (video)

In this short welcoming video about Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, Dale Dougherty shares the true spirit of Maker Faire: play and exploration. It is but a preview of the 100 maker profile videos we will release over the next 100 days. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or […]

ITP summer camp in NYC this June

ITP, a graduate program located in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, explores “the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives.” ITP is running its second summer camp, a blending of an unconference and artist residency: Conferences like TED leave people energized, full […]

Introducing the MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards

Introducing the MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards

For a long time now, MAKE has wanted to find some way to publicly acknowledge companies that have responded in a positive way to the growing influence of maker/hacker culture. In 2006, we published The Makerโ€™s Bill of Rights, and since then we have often been involved in exposing and lampooning particularly egregious affronts to the principles of open access to technology that it embodies.