Category Archives: Other Hackerspaces

U. Hawaii Makery and Makery Cloud

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Jerry

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. Continue reading →

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Dale Dougherty: We are makers from TEDxMotorCity

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Jerry

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 … Continue reading →

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Not your usual space: A Visit to NextFab Studio, Philadelphia PA

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jerry

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 … Continue reading →

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GOOD interviews my friends at CrashSpace

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Jerry

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 … Continue reading →

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A Visit to The Transistor in Provo, Utah

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Jerry

[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 … Continue reading →

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Bronze Casting from Makerbot Printed Original

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Jerry

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 … Continue reading →

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Vimby/Scion Hackerspace Challenge – CrashSpace videos live

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Jerry

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 … Continue reading →

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Videos about Hackerspaces and FabLabs

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Jerry

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. … Continue reading →

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Letters from Fab Academy

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Jerry

The MIT Fab Lab has a distributed learning component (Fab Academy) where people located at other Fab Labs around the world can connect in via video conferencing systems for class lectures, etc. The remote participants then use their local equipment … Continue reading →

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Robots And Dinosaurs — A Hackerspace Documentary (Sydney)

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Jerry

Robots and Dinosaurs is a Sydney Australia hackerspace and recently a student filmmakers team made a sweet little documentary on the space. Its been covered over on Make:Online and on R&D’s own blog.  I’m including the YouTube embed here for … Continue reading →

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