What We Can Learn From Hackerspaces
Open source advocate Catarina Mota spoke at TEDxStockholm about the increasingly cool and important role hackerspaces play in world society. Check it out!
Makerspaces
Community for a Healthy Makerspace
Occasionally, I’ll visit a frustrated makerspace. “We have a space. We have tools. Where are the members?” They describe how they’ve put energy into the physical aspects of the space and say nothing about the community building aspects.
How to Make a Makerspace Workshop
If you’re thinking of starting a makerspace, and don’t know how to proceed, you’ll want to be in Massachusetts the weekend of February 1st for the How to Make a Makerspace Workshop. Host and MAKE publisher Dale Dougherty describes the event: Artisan’s Asylum and MAKE are teaming up to put on a weekend of presentations […]
Mini Maker Faire Action: Vegas!
A preview of a few of the makers who will be showing and sharing at the Las Vegas Mini Maker Faire, coming February 2nd. And updates on other Mini Maker Faires coming up in 2013, including both Houston and Tyler, Texas.
Hackerspace Happenings for December 12
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hacker Challenge at Mesa, AZ’s HeatSync Labs TONIGHT, Wednesday, December 12, HeatSync will be hosting the Hacker Challenge Night beginning […]
The Maker Movement in Latin America: An Interview with Tiburcio de la Carcova
While the maker movement reaches all over the world, Latin America has yet to host a Maker Faire. But that’s going to change this month. Santiago, Chile will hold Latin America’s a mini Maker Faire Dec. 15-16. And by the looks of things it going to be anything, but small.
The man behind the event is Tiburcio de la Carcova, an entrepreneur and video game designer. He’s got a great story to tell that shows that the making and hacking is part of Latin American culture.
Hackerspace Happenings for December 6th
Hackerspace happenings for December 6th, 2012.
