Maui Makers Having Fun Making and Learning Together in Paradise!

“Self Made in Hawaii” is a cable tv show on Hawaii’s OC16. The producer, Jess Craven, came to the last meeting of 2011 (Dec 29th) and filmed some interviews, builds, etc. He did a fantastic job of shooting and editing.  We are the first of three segments in the show now airing on OC16.tv  You can catch the full show ... 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 »

Last fall Make’s blog had a story about Brad Litwin’s Mechanicards(tm). These are small hand operated kinetic sculptures that fit in a 5″ rectangular mailing envelope. They are available either completed or as a kit. I was taken by the design and execution of these wonderful pieces of art.  The card are on the expensive side ($50-75 each completed), but ... 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 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 »

The Makerbot folks were out in force at the Maker Faire NYC with their new Thing-O-Matic printer, frostruders, unicorn plotter and regular Cupcake bots (total around 20 bots!) all printing out and giving away sample printed objects (and snacks!).  Check out the video (about 5 min), and more at the Makerbot Blog. 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 »