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The emerging story of entrepreneurs using drones to provide marketable services is fascinating to me. Small businesses have been making money by making drones themselves for quite awhile, now, but I’m just now starting to see start-ups using drones to sell services. Aerial photography is maybe the most obvious opportunity—surveying real estate, covering sporting or […]
Drinking our tea in cozy confidence, we plugged the production samples into Arduino, put the unit on our fingertip, and casually looked at the screen for the Processing sketch to perfectly render our heartbeat. [Cue first spit-take.]
Wharton economist Jeremy Rifkin: “The maker movement is ‘as significant as the shift from agriculture to the early industrial era.'”
We are Bilal Ghalib and Alex Hornstein, and we’re traveling around the country for a month in a Prius full of low-cost 3D printers, starting a business printing and selling things on these machines. We think of ourselves as modern-day troubadours, moving from town to town with our moneymakers in our trunk, eliciting inspiration and fascination where we travel, and making a living for ourselves off of our ideas and our wits…
Here’s what gets me excited about making: it lets you build stuff the way we build software.
As I spent the days and nights shipping, I thought it would be interesting to consider how we could transform and evolve the postal system. I think makers, hackers and entrepreneurs have unique ways of looking at things and I’d like to share some of the ideas I had. Most of all, I’d like your ideas. Together we could start some conversations on how we could utilize this national logistical treasure. That’s this week Soapbox, “How Makers, Hackers And Entrepreneurs Can Save The US Postal Service”…
Yesterday Kickstarter, a popular crowd-funding platform, launched their 2011 year in review of success stories, highlighting four categories of projects: Dreaming Big, Civic Projects, Current Events, and my favorite, DIY Manufacturing!
