Maui Makers Having Fun Making and Learning Together in Paradise!

The United States FabLab Network (USFLN) 2012 symposium was held April 10-12 at FabLab Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA).  The Symposium agenda is online.  I have uploaded my pictures to Flicker in two albums: one from the Symposium, and one showing FabLab Tulsa. This post has clogged up my Write-This-Up queue way too long. I took LOTS of notes and thats one issue … After some observations ... Read More »

Alpha One Labs is a hackerspace in Brooklyn NY. It is located on the 4th (3rd?) floor of a relatively new building on Norman Ave. It is a single (approx) 500sqft work room plus a bathroom. But wow do they pack a lot in that small space. The space is very neatly laid out. The wall on right as you ... Read More »

U.Hawai'i Makery seeks to put desktop fabrication centers into middle schools, providing teachers with training and materials to ignite kids imaginations and interest in STEAM. The Maker Cloud provides a network of classroom makeries with a Central Makery and external partners sharing resources, etc. Read More »

Dale Dougherty, founder of Make magazine and organizer of Maker Faires, gave a talk at TEDxMotorCity. “America was built by makers — curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we’re all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even ... Read More »

NextFab Studio is a very different space from any other I have visited. It is has a highly visible location on the street level of a busy main street (3711 Market St) in Philadelphia amidst university buildings.  Almost all the workspaces are visible from the street through large windows.  Clean, bright, extremely well equipped, it primarily serves small businesses, artists and ... Read More »

CrashSpace is the maker space I helped start back in Los Angeles (ok Culver City) last year.   GOOD magazine interviewed the people at CrashSpace and posted an article with this video: Crash Space from GOOD: Edge of Progress on Vimeo. Its impressive and inspirational. The Crashers have done a lot with a fairly small space that didn’t have any ... Read More »

[This article was written back in august/sept but held in abeyance until the Vimby/Scion Hackerspace Challenge show on The Transistor was released.  The video went live today so embargo is off.  The zombie car/shooter at the end is what they built for the challenge.] I was in Salt Lake City Utah for a visit and decided to visit a hackerspace ... Read More »

One project I hope to undertake at Maui Makers is doing some metal casting using originals made on our Makerbot 3D Printer. This is something that has been talked about in the forums since inception and at every demonstration of the ‘bot that I’ve given/seen. Mostly it was about how cool it would be if you could do this but ... Read More »

This past summer Mitch Altman, Vimby and Scion sponsored a challenge to 5 hackerspaces in the USA.  They were given $3000 grant, 3 weeks and asked to create something that: 1) repurposed a commercially made object 2) was interesting/fun/useful to the average person 3) referenced a commercially released movie They have been slowly releasing videos in the series.  Today two clips ... Read More »

I ran across a couple good videos on other hackerspaces and FabLabs recently and thought it would be good to collect a few of them them for reference.  It may take a while to watch em all so pace yourself. Hackerspace Videos: Good Basic Background on what is a hackerspace: Bre Pretis interviewed about starting NYC Resistor: Austrialian Hackerspace (Previously ... Read More »