Live from MakerCon — An Interview with Bethany Koby
Talking to Bethany Koby about her argument that the ownership of technology changes the relationship between young people and the technology they have built rather than bought.
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Live from MakerCon — An Interview with Chris Anderson
Talking to Chris Anderson about his argument that technology is moving so fast today that it’s almost impossible to make the jump from maker to maker pro anymore.
MakerCon Launches into Orbit
MakerCon has kicked off in our new, absolutely gorgeous location at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Eager attendees are gathered to talk about the professional side of Making, from funding to marketing and manufacturing. The ideas shared here today will be building the startups of tomorrow and launching products that you’ll see […]
Can Technology Save Us? Ask Bethany Koby
MakerCon speaker Bethany Koby, an artist, designer and graduate of NYU’s ITP, is an American who is CEO of a kit development company located in the bustling Hackney neighborhood of London. Her Hackney neighbors include Alice Taylor whose Makie Labs allows kids to design and create their own 3D printed toy characters as well as Jane ni Dhulchaointigh […]
MakerCon Speaker: Jon Hirschtick on Web-Based CAD Tool, Onshape
At MakerCon, we will have a number of presenters who will be showing new tools for makers, tools which continue to open the process of making to more people. Perhaps the most important tool for makers now and in the future is not hardware – it’s software and it’s a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tool. At MakerCon, Jon […]
Former Pixar Engineer Starts Her Own Electronics Company, Modulo
MakerCon was developed for Makers like Erin Tomson, someone who has an idea to make something better and wants to learn the process of taking that idea and developing into a product that creates value for the Maker community. As Erin tells us below, she came to MakerCon last year and it got on her […]
Moving into Manufacturing? MakerCon Can Help You Make the Leap
The Business of Making is a core value track for MakerCon, the only conference by and for leaders of the Maker Movement. MakerCon exists to celebrate and share information among leading Makers — and developing products, manufacturing them, and getting through distribution mazes are key to the experience. With that in mind, there are many […]
