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Maker Pro News: When A Startup Demands Everything

Maker Pro News: When A Startup Demands Everything

By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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Read this harrowing tale of maker pros who put everything, down to their bank accounts and homes, into a startup they believed in.

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Maker Pro News: Quirky Reboots, Lawyers for Maker Pros, and More

Maker Pro News: Quirky Reboots, Lawyers for Maker Pros, and More

By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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Invention platform Quirky is back from bankruptcy, plus the latest news about making and business.

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Dremel's Newest Tool: Help for Honing Your Startup Dreams

Dremel Debuts Its Newest Tool: Help for Honing Your Idea from Workbench to Revenue

Patrick Mannion

By Patrick Mannion

Patrick Mannion

Patrick Mannion has been taking things apart and (sometimes) putting them back together since he was 7 years old. Now an engineer, journalist, technology editor, blogger and sometimes even a writer, he does it with his two kids, while mom's not looking. This summer's project was a treehouse — which will be getting some technology dressing over the next few years.

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The helping hand comes in the persons of the first five winners of its Maker-in-Residence program.

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Software Incubator Y Combinator To Begin Funding Hardware Startups

Software Incubator Y Combinator To Begin Funding Hardware Startups

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Y Combinator, one of the most famous incubator programs in the industry, today announced added support for the growing number of hardware startups they fund.

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Print the Legend: Exclusive First Look Preview

Print the Legend: Exclusive First Look Preview

By Anna Kaziunas France

Anna Kaziunas France

Anna Kaziunas France is interested practical digital fabrication focused project documentation (anything that turns codes into things), as well as adventures in synthetic biology, biohacking, personal genomics and programmable materials.

She's currently working on the forthcoming book "Design for CNC: Practical Joinery Techniques, Projects, and Tips for CNC-routed Furniture".

She’s also the Academic Dean of the global Fab Academy program, the co-author of Getting Started with MakerBot and compiled the Make: 3D Printing book.

Formerly, she worked as an editor for Make: Books, was digital fabrication editor and skill builder section editor for Make: Magazine, and directed Make:'s 2015 and 2014 3D Printer Shootout testing events.

She likes things that are computer-controlled, parametric, and open— preferably all three.

Find her on her personal site, Twitter and Facebook.

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The first full-length 3D printing documentary, “Print the Legend” will make it’s debut Sunday at SXSW Film as part of their Startup Alley programming focused on the intersection of entertainment and technology “shaping the means of viewing, sharing and producing content”.

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