The latest print edition of The Economist has an article of makers, MAKE, Maker Faire, and the growing maker movement. It’s so great to see a head/subhead like this in any mainstream magazine, let alone one with such gravitas in the business world: More than just digital quilting — Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution.
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Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is Pete Prodoehl’s lovely shot of his MakerGear Prusa Mendel printer frame. It looks like a piece of pricey Danish furniture! It was a hard choice, for me, between that and Rob Hopeless’s photograph of the transparent Venus de Milo bust he recently printed on his homemade stereolithography system.
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Opabinia Regalis was a Precambrian creature that has been reborn as a a fire spewing art bike. Crafted by Kurt Pires, this extinct animal on wheels makes the rounds at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 while being used as a teaching tool for fossil history. http://www.bobbiepires.com/opa/ http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/5172
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Josh Billions demonstrates the Mapbag at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It is a bicycle messenger bag with a ring of vibrating motors sewn into its strap, whose positions correspond to compass points. This soft circuit project uses a Lilypad in conjunction with the gps feature in an Iphone, allowing the user to set a destination and be given constant haptic feedback through the fabric in order to stay on course and in the right direction. This acts as an exploratory wayfinding tool – a fun and useful alternative to a standard turn-by-turn map. http://www.joshbillions.org/ http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/6141
