First Hong Kong Maker Faire
Brian Smith shared a Flickr gallery of photos from the Hong Kong Mini Maker Faire, which took place on Saturday at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The event brought together an interesting...
View Article2012 World Maker Faire New York
Come celebrate MAKE magazine's 3rd Annual Maker Faire in New York, showcasing creative and resourceful people in the areas of science and technology, engineering, food, and arts and crafts.See it on...
View ArticleRoll Your Own DIY Security System This Weekend - Lifehacker
Roll Your Own DIY Security System This WeekendLifehackerRoll Your Own DIY Security System This Weekend Your home is a place you want to keep secure, but getting all the high-end security gadgets and...
View ArticleYOUmedia Expansions Offer Teens Student-Centered Learning Opportunities with...
DreamYard, the biggest arts education provider in the Bronx, marks YOUmedia’s debut into a community-center model.“We felt at home with the philosophy right away,” said Tim Lord, co-executive director...
View ArticleShareable: Are Maker Spaces the Future of Public Libraries?
When was the last time you went to the library looking for a book? How about a 3D printer? The Fayetteville Free Library, a public library in upstate New York, plans to offer its community both...
View ArticleMaker Spaces in Libraries? | Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning
Maker spaces —workshop areas that encourage tinkering and creating—and other interactive community spaces have been popping up in unexpected places.One of the newest homes for these collaborative...
View ArticleWhat Keeps Hacker and Maker Spaces Going? | transfabric
Hackerspaces are place-based collectives where individuals learn through socialization, tinker with technology, develop skills and pool technical resources. But what's holding them together and moving...
View ArticleAre Maker Spaces the gateway to more creative start-ups and valuable shared...
IAE is working in an emerging market. Our focus on developing one's motivation, curiosity, optimism and the thinking skills needed to (for ever more) live life as a self-sustaining creative, as well...
View ArticleDIY Laundry Detergent | How Does She...
Don't pay grocery store prices. Learn to make your own laundry detergent! (@impflower Here is the recipe I used!See it on Scoop.it, via Maker Spaces
View ArticleLibrary as Makerspace: Creating and Nurturing Communities of Teen Writers |...
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View ArticleDIY Learning: How Maker Faire Is Innovating Education | Edudemic
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View ArticleMakerspace in your school library
Earlier this year I wrote a post about Hackerspaces and Makerspaces, after attending the Computers in Libraries conference in Washington. I met up with Buffy Hamilton for lunch, and as ever was...
View ArticleDIY MONDAY: HOW TO… 5 EASY STEPS TO MAKE YOUR OWN BLOG HEADER! GIVE IT A GO!
DIY take two! I might have repelled most of you let alone gave you unnecessary headache, because of the DIY post I published at three o’clock this morning. For that, I sincerely apologise. I...See it...
View ArticleMakerspaces, Participatory Learning, and Libraries
The concept of libraries as makerspaces first hit my radar last November when I read about the Fayetteville Free Library’s FabLab. As I began hearing more buzz about libraries and makerspace...See it...
View ArticleCrafting New Narratives of Community, Connecting, Creating, and Par...
A First Outline of Our New Chapter for 2012-2013 | Presented to Dr. Adrian Thomason, July 16, 2012 | Buffy J.See it on Scoop.it, via Maker Spaces
View ArticleGlider 3D Printer Fully Assembled - 3D Printers
BotMill's premium assembled 3D printer kit is easy to use, extremely reliable and comes equipped with the latest top quality parts and accessories such as a 0.35 nozzle, heated bed 1lb of PLA, and...
View ArticleRevolution in Art & Design using 3D Printing | Objet for Neri Oxman
As seen on the Objet blog: http://blog.objet.com/ A special thanks to MIT Media Lab's Neri Oxman, Peter Schmitt (3D printed clock) & Amit Zoran (3D printed f...See it on Scoop.it, via Maker Spaces
View Article3D-Printed "Magic Arms"
Two-year-old Emma wanted to play with blocks, but a condition called arthrogryposis meant she couldn't move her arms. So researchers at a Delaware hospital 3...See it on Scoop.it, via Maker Spaces
View ArticleThe shape of things to come
EUROMOLD, a big manufacturing trade fair held in Frankfurt from November 29th to December 2nd, was—as might be expected—full of machines and robots demonstrating their ability to cut, bend, weld and...
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