Elon Musk Archives

Maker Spotlight: Davide Nejoumi

Jennifer Blakeslee keeps the Global Maker Faire program running smoothly and has been a maker at Maker Faire since 2011. Among other things, she really likes to travel, write, cook, hike, make big art, and swim in the ocean.

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July 28th, 2022July 28th, 2022

Twenty-three year old Davide Nejoumi from Rome, the founder of satrtup Delta Space Leonis, is gearing up to go into orbit with Elon Musk.

Be a Part of this Massive Interactive Diorama Celebrating Elon Musk

By Mike Winter

Mike Winter

Mike Winter has spent his life writing software, solving problems, and building robots for places like Google. Along with his daughter Lisa, he’s most notable as a longtime BattleBot alum. Now he’s focused on artificial intelligence — specifically determining if a computer-controlled combat robot can best a human-controlled robot opponent in an endeavor he calls “AI or Die.” Always the educator, he guides the new maker through the basics of exploring AI robotics in this piece.

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May 2nd, 2019May 1st, 2019

Elon Musk is the world’s top maker — no contest — and his goal is to save the Earth from global warming. To celebrate that, I’m building a giant diorama of Elon Musk’s spaceships, Tesla cars, Hyperloop transportation, Solar City energy, Paypal, Boring company, a colony on Mars, electric aircraft and whatever he invents tomorrow. […]

Falcon 9 Failure Is Second Setback for Unlucky Student Space Scientists

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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June 30th, 2015June 30th, 2015 4

While the loss of yesterday’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may cause major headaches for NASA, the Dragon also carried other payloads built by numerous high school and middle school students.