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New to This Whole “Maker” Thing? Great!

New to This Whole “Maker” Thing? Great!

By David Lang

David Lang

Co-Founder of OpenROV, a community of DIY ocean explorers and makers of low-cost underwater robots. Author of Zero to Maker. And on Twitter!

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As much as the headlines like to focus on 3D printing, robots, and new manufacturing companies, there’s actually a more important trend happening in the maker movement: accessibility. Even (and especially) if you don’t consider yourself a maker or tinkerer.

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Maker Faire New York: Moments from the Presentation Stages

Maker Faire New York: Moments from the Presentation Stages

By Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She works on stage content for the flagship fairs (Bay Area & New York), and also runs Maker Faire's global licensing program for locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA.

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Maker Faire New York featured six presentations stages with over 100 talks offered over the course of the weekend. Here’s a short but juicy glimpse of the stellar lineup, big crowds and backstage moments from our Auditorium and Make: Live stages.

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OpenROV to Perform Preliminary Dives

OpenROV to Perform Preliminary Dives

By David Lang

David Lang

Co-Founder of OpenROV, a community of DIY ocean explorers and makers of low-cost underwater robots. Author of Zero to Maker. And on Twitter!

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As you may already know, David Lang, our Zero to Maker columnist, is involved in the OpenROV project, an open source camera-equipped R/C submersible, designed to look for water-burired treasure. They’re taking the ROV prototypes up to Hall City Cave in Northern, CA tomorrow for some preliminary dives. How exciting!

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