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Just in time to coincide with our “Danger” issue hitting the stands, our Maker-in-Chief Sherry Huss came across this wonderful Kickstarter for household mats made from recycled fire hoses. This is your chance to pick up beautifully-designed product that embraces reuse and honors the importance of firefighters.
These folks plan to have as much fun as possible making toy robots, before the toy robots overthrow civilization.
Here’s where we track all the Kickstarter projects we found being done by awesome makers. Check them out and consider supporting them yourself!
MAKE will bring its popular Hardware Innovation Workshop to New York on Sept. 18. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to network with fellow maker pros as you learn tips and hints, best practices, and avenues to successfully navigate the maker pro landscape. Early Bird tickets are on sale now!
“Profit is not something to add on at the end, it’s something to plan for at the beginning.” From the editors of MAKE magazine, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, and innovators, along with technology and market trends. Please […]
his past May, a 54-foot-tall inflatable duck floated into Hong Kong harbor, delighting the wide-eyed children and bringing grins to the faces of unsuspecting adults. Thousands came by, smartphones in hand, to snap a picture of themselves with the duck. A huge floating rubber duck is the kind of thing people want to remember. But what if there were new ways to highlight an event like the Hong Kong duck, something beyond pictures? What if we could create an in-store retail experience that could help people capture the moment in new and exciting ways? And how could 3D printing be used to do it?
Hackaday, the DIY/hacker site which has been publishing since 2004, is up for sale, according to owner Jason Calacanis, who said he would rather focus on rebranding his struggling Mahalo site. Calacanis is hoping to sell the site for around $500,000.
