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The Makers Nation Shares Data from 100 Makerspaces (and You Can Participate, Too!)

Christina Hug is the founder of The Makers Nation, an organization that activates maker communities in cities around the world and helps tinkerers turn their ideas into a business. Christina is a lover of side projects (some of hers include building illuminated playgrounds and 3D printing jewelry), airports, and sour jube jubes.

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November 17th, 2016November 16th, 2016

Makerspaces are essential to the maker community. The Makers Nation is gathering data to try and better understand common issues.

Made in Baltimore: Onboarding New Makerspace Members

By Will Holman

Will Holman

Will Holman is the general manager of Open Works. A maker himself, he is the author of Guerilla Furniture Design, out now from Storey Publishing.

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@OpenWorksBmore

September 19th, 2016September 16th, 2016

Someone wants to join your makerspace (Great!), how do you ensure that they understand your expectations and get them ready to use the space?

Made in Baltimore: Pricing Your Memberships for Everyone in the Community

By Will Holman

Will Holman

Will Holman is the general manager of Open Works. A maker himself, he is the author of Guerilla Furniture Design, out now from Storey Publishing.

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@OpenWorksBmore

July 25th, 2016July 22nd, 2016

Having different pricing options for your makerspace let’s you attract “super users” while still retaining casual users.

Makerspace Revitalizes South End of Downtown Greensboro, North Carolina

By Joe Rotondi

Joe Rotondi

Joe is the Executive Director and a member of The Forge. When not dealing with the business of a nonprofit, he likes to get lost in one of the departments at The Forge making, well, anything.

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March 29th, 2016April 13th, 2016

The Forge is the makerspace that has been the center of neighborhood revitalization in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Faraday Motion: Electric Longboard Company, Apartment Makerspace, Tinkerers Paradise

By Ronald Jaramillo

Ronald Jaramillo

Ronald Jaramillo is a Software developer and tinkerer with a lifelong fascination for automata and robots. He shares his excursions into robotics at www.burningservos.com. You can find him on Twitter @RonaldXJT

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March 25th, 2016March 24th, 2016

Faraday Motion is a small business with the soul of a makerspace. Backed by a community of Makers, they’re perfecting electric skateboards.

Made in Baltimore: Business Planning for Makerspaces

By Will Holman

Will Holman

Will Holman is the general manager of Open Works. A maker himself, he is the author of Guerilla Furniture Design, out now from Storey Publishing.

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@OpenWorksBmore

March 21st, 2016April 27th, 2016

In this installment of Made in Baltimore, Will Holman tackles business planning for a makerspace.

Dr. Brassy Wants to Keep an Eye on You

By E.J. Strauss

E.J. Strauss

Socially functional genius with a focus on subtractive machining--produces circuitry to drive small scale Cartesian carve bots.

Award winning face fur. Freelance fabrication and prop work.

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February 10th, 2014 0

One of the defining tropes of the steampunk community is that the term is allowed to mean whatever you want it to mean. Steampunk is that strange place where costuming and subculture overlap and intermingle. Dr. Brassy Steamington, occasionally referred to as Kimberlee McDermott, has been a punk since the term was coined—long before it found footing in the American lexicon.

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