Teaching Programming Logic to the Ultimate Beginners: Children
How do you teach programming to children with no prior programming experience?
Open Source Hardware
Stratasys Sues Afinia: Ramifications for the Desktop 3D Printing Industry
Earlier this week Stratasys, a longtime fixture in the commercial/industrial 3D printing world and recent purchaser of desktop printer company Makerbot, announced that it was filing a patent infringement lawsuit against Microboards Technology, LLC, the company behind the Afinia H-Series 3D printer. This lawsuit is a big deal that could have huge ramifications for the entire desktop 3D printing industry. Afinia is a well known 3D printing brand which was named โbest overall experienceโ in MAKEโs inaugural 3D printing buyerโs guide last year. It is also widely available from mainstream outlets such as Radio Shack
Makers, Drones, and the Future of South Africa’s Imperiled Rhinos
Can the makers, students, hobbyists, and entrepreneurs of the world build a drone that could aid the fight against rhino poaching in South Africa?
Make the World: Prosthetics Build Party
Adafruit Industries just hosted the final session of their Make The World: Prosthetics Program. To help out, Matt Stultz of 3D Printing Providence put together a build party at AS220 Labs with 19 local 3D printers to make prosthetic hands for those in need.
No Iron Man Costume is Complete Without an arc Reactor
Build your own superhero power plant!
When did you First Discover MAKE?
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
The Web Developers Are Coming?
Today I spent the day somewhere where you might not think to find makers: the Great British Node Conference. For those of you who haven’t come across it yet, node.js is a server-side solution for JavaScriptโit’s an event-driven Javascript platform which does non-blocking I/Oโand is rapidly gaining popularity, and mindshare amongst the web communit
