Maui Makers Having Fun Making and Learning Together in Paradise!

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 to do the lab exercises.  The academy basically followed the MIT course “How To build (almost) Anything)” over the last ... Read More »

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 easier viewing (and experience with embedding.)   Its a very nice short piece about the community of a hackerspace – ... Read More »

On Saturday April 17, The hackerspace 23b Shop in Fullerton CA had an open house and giant birthday party for Amber.  I had read up on the space a while back and wanted to check them out, so I drove down mid-afternoon.  I should have checked sigalert before driving, as the I-5 had some serious delays and it wound up ... Read More »

A week ago I posted that I was going to visit NYCResistor and take a class on April 10 2010. Sorry it has taken a week to update but life intervened. I took the subway out from midtown Manhattan where I was staying and arrived about a half hour early.  NYCResistor is located a short walk from the subway station ... Read More »