This post is the secondย ofย a three-part series on Making a Maker City. Itโs based on my experiences meeting with nascent Maker cities, my speeches on the topic, and most importantly my work with the Mayors Maker Challenge, especially in San Diego. My goal is to convey what Iโve learned so as to equip others to […]
This post is the first ofย a three-part series on Making a Maker City. Itโs based on my experiences meeting with nascent Maker cities, my speeches on the topic, and most importantly my work with the Mayors Maker Challenge, especially in San Diego. My goal is to convey what Iโve learned so as to equip others […]
If there is a core driver of the Maker Movement, it is the growing Maker community. This community is open and inclusive, vibrant and eclectic, self-organizing and widely distributed. It is the product of many people identifying as Makers, sharing their ideas and projects. Whether they embrace science and technology or arts and crafts, there […]
Editorโs note: Madison Worthy and Miriam Engle are biking across Europe, visiting different Makerspaces, and filming Self-Made, a documentary about their adventure and the Makers they meet. You can find the other parts to this series at the end of this article. 3,000 kilometers, six countries, two women on bikes, and one bright yellow Pelican […]
Last year, Swedish Makers convened at the first ever Maker Faire in Sweden, hosted in Stockholm at Tekniska Museet (the National Museum of Science). This year, not only are the organizers excitedly putting together the second annual Stockholm Mini Maker Faire (May 9โ10), but nearly 300 miles away, on the opposite coast of Sweden, another […]
Highway1, the two year oldย accelerator from Ireland-based manufacturing solutions company PCH International, has expanded its operations at aย new San Francisco California location, upping its startupย enrollment cap from 12 to 19. What used to be a marijuana growing operation โ yes, really โ in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco is now home of theย hardware […]
Make:ย Volume 44 hit newsstands Tuesday,ย March 24, and we couldnโt think of a better way to celebrate our drone-centric issue than hosting a meetup right here in San Francisco. We welcomed about 200 guests to our Maker Media Lab at the Palace of Fine Arts for food, drinks, and the opportunity to talk about and explore […]
