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Father’s Day is Make: Day at the Science Museum of Minnesota

This Sunday I’ll be attending Make: Day, a miniature version of a Maker Faire held in the Twin Cities’ fabulous science museum. This is the second event in what hopefully will be a long series. Last year’s Make: Day was held in part to promote the wonderful maker TV show Make: Television and was organized […]

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Speed talks at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis

Speed talks at the Hack Factory in Minneapolis

Hack Factory Cabaret is a new monthly community event in the style of the Chaos Computer Club’s Lightning Talks and Noisebridge’s 5 Minutes Of Fame. Our first event will be this Thursday (May 20) from 7-9pm and will be FREE to all and FUN so bring your friends. Preliminary line-up for this month: * The […]

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Haz MakerBot… now what?

Haz MakerBot… now what?

The Twin Cities’ communal workshop, the Hack Factory, bought a MakerBot CupCake 3D printer. Working for about six hours, some of my cohorts assembled the X and Y stages and partially installed the assembly in the body. With any luck we’ll be printing this time next week. We’re all excited to finally have a 3D […]

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TC Maker’s Minne-Faire a success

TC Maker’s Minne-Faire a success

Despite only a few weeks in the planning, TC Maker‘s faire featured 16 exhibitors and attracted more than 500 visitors — not bad for the hacker collective that didn’t even have a space 2 months ago. There was a display of movie prop replicas, a display of circuit-bent gadgets, a wind turbine with blades ground […]

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