There will be a lot of people showing off their 3D printers at the Bay Area Maker Faire this weekend; the nifty little Up! printer will be there as well, printing gnomes, cathedrals and whatnot. If you make 3D Printers and plan to attend, feel free to drop me a line at swallace@oreilly.com. Collect them […]
I’m sure you’ll see more than a few MakerBot Replicators when you come to the Bay Area Maker Faire this weekend. You’ll kick yourself later if you don’t check out their Robot Petting Zoo. If you make 3D Printers and will be at the Maker Faire, feel free to drop me a line at swallace@oreilly.com. […]
This week and weekend we have more education-related events than we ever have before, and we’re delighted to invite you to all of them. This post outlines all that’s happening from Thursday through Sunday of Maker Faire week. We know teachers are already supreme makers, building smart students every day. And the best teachers we […]
Twenty years from now, I found a box of old 3D Printer Trading Cards. It turns out 2012 was a great year for 3D printers, driven by an explosion of innovation from individual maker businesses and people sharing their designs, successes, and failures.
Bay Area artist Dax Tran-Caffee has always been drawn to storytelling. He began his career as a painter, but the static format feel short of his desires and he progressed to moving images and then moving sculptural images in the form of puppets large and small. He founded The Museum Proper, and their amazing debut […]
Seattle-based artist Tamara Clammer began teaching herself leatherworking in 2004, and today she makes an array of imaginative masks and accessories. As she writes on her website: It didn’t make sense to anyone that I would buy expensive tools and supplies, rent a space, and have no idea how to use any of it. But […]
From his backyard lab in Redwood City (a stone’s throw away from Maker Faire — well, maybe with the aid of a trebuchet) Ben makes things that usually require a lot of money and sophisticated equipment: an electron scanning microscope, silica aerogel, and freeze-dried astronaut ice cream.
