This year’s Maker Faire Bay Area includes over 1,000 maker projects. Laying out all those booths is challenging to say the least. Trimble recognized an opportunity to speed up our layouts with use of their surveying equipment.
This season brings attention not just to ornaments, but to the whole idea of ornamentation and why we like it (or don’t). Here’s a question I’d love to get some opinions on. You can share in the discussion below, or if you want to contribute to opinion statistics, here is a SurveyMonkey poll. I’ll summarize […]
Simply fill out this quick, five-minute survey and you’ll be entered to possibly win a $150 gift certificate to the Maker Shed!
If you redesign or remake gadgets for your own use, Sunyoung Kim and Eric Paulos want to hear from you. Do you have any obsolete electronics that you remade or redesigned for difference purpose of use than originally designed? We want to hear about your experience of DIY remaking or redesigning of an obsolete electronics. […]
Ben Shultz, a PhD student in Geography at the University of Tennessee, is conducting research on innovation and creativity in DIY and makers communities for his dissertation. The survey is completely anonymous and takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Ben says: In academics we have traditionally viewed innovation and creativity from the perspective of […]
As you likely know, Make: Online is made possible by ads and sponsorship. Getting these advertisers is an important part of keeping Make: Online in business and in a position to offer the content and features that we we want, and that YOU want. We also like the idea (as does our advertising partners, Federated […]
Recently, we announced our partnership with Federated Media (FM) to serve ads on craftzine.com. We selected FM because we liked the way they connected independent weblog authors and publishers with marketers and advertisers looking to reach their audiences The FM network also includes the likes of BoingBoing, Digg, Dooce, and Fark. They’re currently conducting a […]
