MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Makers
Two Open Source Hardware Makers Featured On Entrepreneur.com!
Big news in the world of Open Source Hardware! Two Open Source Hardware makers were featured on Entrepreneur.com! These are well known innovators in the maker community, Bre Pettis and Limor Fried. It’s fantastic to see OSHW folks getting the spotlight, not only because they make great stuff but they’re also doing great business. I’d […]
Meet the DIY iPod Case Sony Killed: The RetroPod…
A follow up to “Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators” which is now making the rounds around the web and getting some great comments/discussions on the article (join in here). I outlined seven examples of Sony punishing makers, hackers, and innovators, but saved the best one for its own post. Meet the 8th wonder […]
Tiny Yellow House in the New York Times
Photo by Boston photographer Erik Jacobs Congrats to MAKE video contributor Derek “Deek” Diedricksen for the piece about him and his micro-homes in this past Sunday’s New York Times. Really nice profile and slideshow of some of Deek’s projects. I like the characterization of his Tiny Yellow House show as “This Old House meets Wayne’s […]
B-Roll — The Show: “365 Days, 1 Room”
Day 343: The Ultimate Bubble-Maker (And see the follow-up: Day 353: Big Bubble Fail) We’ve covered the inspiring work of Charlie Visnic a number times before. We love the projects that he does and the motivation behind them. Here, let’s let Charlie explain: I have been doing one creative thing a day for almost an […]
Ladyada Among “Most Influential Women in Tech” 2011
Last November, we asked for your help in getting MAKE pal Limor “LadyAda” Fried, founder of adafruit industries, nominated to Fast Company magazine’s list of “Most Influential Women in Tech” for 2011. Short version: We did it! Thanks for your help! Other notables on the list include MIT roboticist Cynthia Breazeal, Public Radio International CEO Alisa Miller, indie game developer Erin Robinson (of Adventure Game Studio), Twitter media partnership director Chloe Sladden, and HTC CEO Cher Wang. Congrats Limor!
Is a Wikipedia Editor on a Mission to Delete Hackerspaces?
There was a disturbing exchange on the HacDC mailing list that I thought I should share here. As one contributor to the conversation characterized it, an editor on Wikipedia seems to be acting as a “one man cleaning service” of content. Among his many suggested deletions on Wikipedia are a number of hackerspaces, including HacDC. […]