Why We’re Still Talking About Gender in STEM on Ada’s 200th Birthday
Ada Lovelace turns 200 today. In her honor, let’s talk about how the current STEM field treats women — and what we can do about it.
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Hold a Moment of History in Your Hand with 3D Printed Maps
Being both a maps enthusiast and an avid wargamer, I love this idea of 3D printing full-color, palm-sized terrain maps of famous battles from Japanese history. 3DPrint reported on these maps last week and describes the history behind the project. This campaign covers eight famous battles of Japanese Warring States Era (late 1500s to early […]
10 Facts You Missed from Robot History Class
Catch up on your robot trivia. Robots have been around for longer than you might think, and their evolution is developing exponentially.
Mixology and the Maker Movement
Make:’s Emily Coker sits down with mixologist friend Jared Hirsch to discuss the history of craft cocktail culture and how it fits into today’s Maker Movement.
The First Museum-Quality 3D-Printed Whale Fossil
This true facsimile of a prehistoric whale is a treasure from the past in two places at once.
Makers in Space: What Was Old Is New Again
Setting the record straight on the history of Do-It-Yourself satellites.
DIY Satellites: Now and Near Future
Space is becoming increasingly accessible to more people thanks to plummeting costs, weight, and energy use of the technologies needed for freeflying satellites to sense and direct their orientation, communicate with the ground, and perform complicated computations in real time on orbit. The dawn of this new age of DIY satellite making is in no small […]
