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A Citizen IoT Network for Makers has Formed in San Francisco

A Citizen IoT Network for Makers has Formed in San Francisco

Garrett Kinsman

By Garrett Kinsman

Garrett Kinsman

Garrett helped launch FireChat, and led the design of GreenStone, a low power wearable enabling anyone to build wireless infrastructure. He has spent two years working/playing in India, building Internet in villages, learning about wireless. He launched Ola Play, which is currently the largest connected car infrastructure on Earth. He now Co-Found Nodle.io, deploying wide area, software defined IoT networks.

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Noodle! Coins uses low power Bluetooth to crowdsource connectivity for maker devices at a radically cheap price.

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InMoov, The Crowdsourced Robotic Future Returns to Maker Faire

InMoov, The Crowdsourced Robotic Future Returns to Maker Faire

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. His free weekly-ish maker tips newsletter can be found at garstipsandtools.com.

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For decades, humans have imagined, even come to expect, life-size humanoid robots in their future. The sober truth is that such robots are extraordinarily complex mechanically, the intelligence to reliably bring them to life is still outside our grasp, and the cost of building such thinking machines is prohibitively expensive. But while we’ve been dreaming […]

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I’m Happy to Burst Your Bubble: Multiplayer Audience Interaction via Mobile Web

I’m Happy to Burst Your Bubble: Multiplayer Audience Interaction via Mobile Web

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Cloud-based carnival game brings crowds together for collaborative play.

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3D, Video Game-Inspired, Comic Book Board Game

By Homemade Game Guru

Homemade Game Guru

As a fanatic crafting fan, inventor, author and designer, I just enjoy making new things for the fun of it! I operate an award-winning how-to You Tube channel called The Homemade Game Guru to share my love of creation with people worldwide. Utilizing cardboard in grandiose ways is my specialty.

I also run an unique online design class to help anyone create a Personal Family Tree Board Game. You can sign up for that class here.

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Like any invention, there is a personal story behind its creation and a dream that extends well beyond its exposure to the world.

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Make the World: Prosthetics Build Party

Make the World: Prosthetics Build Party

By Anna Kaziunas France

Anna Kaziunas France

Anna Kaziunas France is interested practical digital fabrication focused project documentation (anything that turns codes into things), as well as adventures in synthetic biology, biohacking, personal genomics and programmable materials.

She's currently working on the forthcoming book "Design for CNC: Practical Joinery Techniques, Projects, and Tips for CNC-routed Furniture".

She’s also the Academic Dean of the global Fab Academy program, the co-author of Getting Started with MakerBot and compiled the Make: 3D Printing book.

Formerly, she worked as an editor for Make: Books, was digital fabrication editor and skill builder section editor for Make: Magazine, and directed Make:'s 2015 and 2014 3D Printer Shootout testing events.

She likes things that are computer-controlled, parametric, and open— preferably all three.

Find her on her personal site, Twitter and Facebook.

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Adafruit Industries just hosted the final session of their Make The World: Prosthetics Program. To help out, Matt Stultz of 3D Printing Providence put together a build party at AS220 Labs with 19 local 3D printers to make prosthetic hands for those in need.

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MAKE Asks: Turning Pro

MAKE Asks: Turning Pro

By Michael Colombo

Michael Colombo

In addition to being an online editor for MAKE Magazine, Michael Colombo works in fabrication, electronics, sound design, music production and performance (Yes. All that.) In the past he has also been a childrens' educator and entertainer, and holds a Masters degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.

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