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From the Shapeways blog: Congratulations to Improbablecog whose Kickstarter project has already reached 101% funding with 7 days still left to go. This is a win win win win situation where: The backers get a little something from Improbablecog, depending on their level of investment from a sticker to a custom designed piece of jewelry. […]
From our friends at UncommonGoods: Do you have what it takes to become the next Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin? Are you sitting on a genius design or invention that is sure to be the next big thing? Then we want to hear from you! In honor of National Inventors’ Month, UncommonGoods is issuing a […]
Tomorrow some MAKE friends will participate in a panel discussion called Open Retail at Eyebeam’s Summer School series in New York City. The event will also be live streamed, for all you out-of-towners. Moderated by Dustyn Roberts, Eyebeam Disscussants: Bre Pettis, MakerBot; Giana González, Hacking Couture; Becky Stern, CRAFT and MAKE Magazines, Sternlab Using Re:Group […]
Dale continues his excellent Foo Camp video chats, here talking with Liam Casey, whose company acts as an interface between US (mainly tech) companies and the Chinese manufacturing sector. In the O’Reilly Radar piece from which this video is taken, Dale explains: At Foo Camp 2010, I caught up with Liam Casey of PCH International, […]
SpikenzieLabs make some of my favorite kits, including the Povard, and the VoiceShield. I love meeting the makers behind the kits, and I got a chance to meet Mark and Andy at Maker Faire this year. They are awesome guys, read on for their Maker Business story.
Maker businesses are all about the people, nd these guys are two of my favorites. Adam and Matt of Wayne and Layne rock. They are incredibly bright engineers and hilarious dudes whom I think should have their own podcast in order to crack us up year round
MIT professor and LilyPad Arduino creator Leah Buechley writes in: Nathan Seidle, the founder & CEO of SparkFun Electronics, is giving a talk this coming Monday about the history of SparkFun. If you’re interested in starting a business with $0 of investment capital, building a profitable company around open-source technology, designing electronics for manufacturability, or […]
