Seeing the Crowdfunding Exemption Become Legal
MAKE’s Paul Spinrad reports on his visit to the White House for the JOBS Act signing last week, which legalized crowdfunded securities.
Crafty Events
National Robotics Week
It’s National Robotics Week — do you know where your robotic minions are? All this week, we’ll be featuring some of our favorite robots, robot technologies, and past robot projects from the magazine and online.
Announcing MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Workshop
The maker movement is a remarkable new source of innovation. We are starting to see what results from a powerful combination of open hardware + personal fabrication tools + connected makers. Sometimes this innovation is hard to identify in the excitement that surrounds Maker Faire. Yet at Maker Faire, you can find new products and […]
April is the Concrete Month…
During April, we are spotlighting one of humanity’s oldest, cheapest, and most commonly-used building materials (Also, surprisingly, one of its most poorly understood.) Speaking generally, concrete is a mixture of three components: aggregate, cement, and water. The aggregate can be gravel, sand, glass, plastic, chunks of old concrete, or pretty much any other solid filler. Concrete’s characteristic transformation…
Open Hack at Six Dutch Hackerspaces This Saturday
@Lurwah from Hack42 wrote in to share a cool thing happening in the Netherlands this weekend: six Dutch hackerspaces will be holding simultaneous open houses. This Saturday, 31st of March, Dutch hackerspaces will open their doors. We invite all those who are interested to come take a look at what hackers really are and do. […]
Etsy’s Success Symposium: Helping You Get Found
This Friday, March 30, our friends at Etsy are hosting the popular Etsy Success Symposium, a day-long series of workshops aimed at helping crafters bolster their business. Although the in-person event is already sold out, you can follow along with all the workshops free of charge as they stream live on Etsy’s web site. This […]
Quirky and Pretty Handmade Wedding
Sherry Huss, maker-in-chief, sent me the link to this stunning Handmade Wedding on Etsy. From the flowers to the pizza to the rainbow cake, the details are charming and carefree. There is so much inspiration to be found in this event. Did you see those doily garlands??? What about the sno-cones? Swoon.
