If you’ve been to your local hackerspace/makerspace and noticed there weren’t many woman, did you stop to wonder why? Unfortunately a common reaction is to think, โI guess women just arenโt into hacking or building stuff.โ As one of the few female directors of a U.S. makerspace, I know this just isnโt true. Hereโs my perspective on the problem and what can be done about it.
It doesnโt much matter what you call them โ TechShops, makerspaces, hackerspaces, or Fab Labs. Makers are doing cool stuff, and having access to tools, community, and mentors really does matter. We need more local places for makers to work out new ideas.
While attending UCSB in 2001, Mike Hexter founded Hexcorp, a product design and consulting firm with a reputation for passion and for cutting edge technology. Over the years, the company has developed a wide array of specialized skills such as rapid prototyping, research and development, product design, manufacturing and business consulting. The company works with […]
Conference badges can be boring, some can be cool and make nice souvenirs, then there are those that might actually be a reason to go to a conference or event in itself. The TiLDA MKe badge from the upcoming EMF 2014 event looks like it will be one of the latter. This “hacker campout” will […]
Face it, you may never have all the tools you want or need. Some may be too big and heavy to fit inside your home or workspace, others too expensive or infrequently needed to make sense. Makerspaces, however, give makers access to those less-than-convenient tools to build projects that might otherwise be impossible.
Anything is possible with the right mix of brains and brawn. And we all know thatย when we get togetherย with our best buds, thingsย often take a hilarious turnย towards the ludicrous.ย Some of the oversized,ย outlandish projects comingย out of makerspaces proveย just how true โ andย fun โ that is.
On July 22nd the city of Greensboro North Carolina was host for the grand opening of โThe Forgeโ NC’s newest maker space. It sits at the end of a street that in the past had suffered from decades of neglect and urban decay, now home to a micro brewery, upscale restaurants, an outdoor meeting space, […]
