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Tackle The Worlds Biggest Problems At The Festival of Urgent Reinventions

Tackle The Worlds Biggest Problems At The Festival of Urgent Reinventions

The Festival of Urgent Reinventions (aka F.O.U.R.) is a free two-day virtual experience streaming live on February 4-5. Part conference, part competition, F.O.U.R. combines talks, workshops, and actionable briefs that tackle the world’s most urgent and systematic issues. Each brief has been thoroughly crafted by four prominent changemakers who focus on health, climate, and poverty […]

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Monitor Soil Moisture With An ESP8266 And A Hygrometer

Monitor Soil Moisture With An ESP8266 And A Hygrometer

In this article we will take the first step towards developing an intelligent system aimed at monitoring and controlling soil moisture in plants and plantations.

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Learn To Wrangle Your Monster Projects And Enter To Win a 3D Printer With Quick Base At Maker Faire

Learn To Wrangle Your Monster Projects And Enter To Win a 3D Printer With Quick Base At Maker Faire

You are creative and curious—you are makers, doers, and inventors. What if your passion project had a secret weapon? A partner-in-crime that supported all of your endeavors with customizable applications to track and organize all of your projects. It can. It’s Quick Base. Quick Base is a custom application building platform that doesn’t require pro […]

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Maker Spotlight: Peter Rifken

Maker Spotlight: Peter Rifken

Name: Peter Rifken Location: Boston, MA Day Job: Software Solutions Engineer at Quick Base Makerspace: While not currently affiliated, I have been a member of, taken, and taught a few courses at the Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville, MA. Editor note: this Maker Spotlight is part of a Quick Base and Make: partnership How did you […]

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Using a Maker Mindset to Shape a Successful Career

Using a Maker Mindset to Shape a Successful Career

In 2018, only 26 percent of the workers in “computer and mathematical occupations” were women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but did you know that 46 percent of Quick Base builders are women? In an industry where app development is a predominantly male occupation, we’re proud to be bucking the trend. […]

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Get More Projects Done With These 3 Tips

Get More Projects Done With These 3 Tips

The tech world needs creative risk takers like makers. A lot of companies don’t know how to develop the mindset of “I’ll try it” in their people. That’s what innovation is really. All the maker movement is doing is helping people develop their own sense of experimentation. —Dale Dougherty, founder of Make: magazine and Maker […]

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