A 24-Hour Global “Show and Tell” for Makers Featuring the Civic Response to COVID-19

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PLAN C LIVE is an online conversation with Dorothy Jones-Davis of Nation of Makers and Dale Dougherty of Make: Community and a panel of makers about the civic response to COVID-19. Thank you to those who have been participating as panelists and those of you who attended through Zoom. We […]

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Two hours outside of Tokyo in Chiba prefecture is Hackerfarm, a hackerspace that applies technology to growing things like potatoes. Christopher Wang, better known as Akiba, is thinking that potatoes would feed a lot of people if food shortages result from COVID-19. The experiment is called Project Potatohead — […]

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PLAN C LIVE is an online conversation with Dorothy Jones-Davis of Nation of Makers and Dale Dougherty of Make: Community and a panel of makers about the civic response to COVID-19. Thank you to those who have been participating as panelists and those of you who attended through Zoom. Starting […]

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I knew a lot of people that got excited when the original raspberry pi camera was announced, but quickly found themselves limited by the quality of the image. It can be really great to have that much control behind the sensor, but frustrating when your results are always a bit […]

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I had a chance to meet Tracy Blom and talk about her books last year at WorkbenchCon. At the time she was just publishing a childrens book inspired by Jimmy Diresta as a child called I Make, and I thought the idea was adorable. I noticed you can now pick […]

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Now is not the time to stand up your organization’s design challenge or hackathon. It’s not productive and it’s not a good way for your organization to help.

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Join Dorothy Jones-Davis of The Nation of Makers and Dale Dougherty of Make: Community for a conversation about what makers are doing in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Coming up Tuesday, April 28th, 7pm ET / 4pm PT via live zoom webinar. In his 2005 book, Fab, Dr. Neil Gershenfeld […]

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Join us on Monday, April 27 at 9am PT / 6PM GMT+2 for a panel discussion about the civic response to Covid-19 in Spain. Join Dale Dougherty, founder of Make: Magazine and Maker Faire, and Karim Asry, co-founder of Espacio Open and co-producer of Maker Faire Bilbao. They’ll be talking […]

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The Deconstruction is back! Watching the fun little promotional video, you may find yourself still wondering what the Deconstruction is. Well, it is pretty simple: The Deconstruction is a creative collaboration event held online  and in real life. Before the event, a topic is released for our participants (you!) […]

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Maker Culture is a term that may have slightly different meanings to different groups. Mechanical engineers may view maker culture as something very different than a woodworker would. One thing that everyone would agree on, however, is that sharing is a core aspect of any maker culture. Whether you are […]

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With extra time at home, were seeing an incredible amount of gardens and yard projects popping up all over social media. The weather is right, and surely we can all use something give us even a momentary distraction from Covid-19. Why not get out in the sun, feel the dirt […]

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Dan Meyer manages the Fab Lab at the Museum of Science and Industry. He is a manufacturing technologist with a degree in manufacturing technology from Illinois Institute of technology, which is now called Illinois Tech.  e started in 1991 working in his familys Foundry on the South side of Chicago, […]

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Part 3: Who’s Not in the Network Ray Doeksen is a veteran of the Iraq War, and a member of American Legion and the VFW in Chicago. His background is industrial design yet Ray’s superpower is being a connector. In his words, he has “his fingers in everything”, which […]

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Part 2: The Solin Flatpack Face Shield Jeff Solin teaches Computer Science and runs the makerspace at Lane Technical High School in Chicago. Lane Tech is a mammoth, old-style public high school building that serves 4,500 students. Down one of its many wings, Jeff Solin has developed LTMakers Lab […]

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Part 1: A Mesh Network for 3D Printing Face Shields “Theyre making whatever we can get them to make.” —Jay Margalus The Haul from DePaul Jayson “Jay” Margalus is the faculty director of makerspaces at DePaul University. He is also President of SpaceLab, a non profit community makerspace in […]

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This series of articles, Chicago Shield, is about the COVID-19 response organized by a group of makers who knew each other through Chicago’s network of makerspace. They created a “mesh network” to organize the production and distribution of face shields, starting in Chicago and the suburbs. They called it […]

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Join us next week on Tuesday, April 21 7PM ET / 4PM PT, for a panel discussion about the civic response to Covid-10. Dale has called it Plan C, a bottoms-up civic response of self-organizing groups that is taking advantage of the tools and networks that have developed around makerspaces […]

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Like the rest of the world, were cooped up in our homes and frankly, theres never been a better time for a drink. Weve gone through our archives and found a whole pile of recipes for drinks and drink related materials that you can make in your home, both alcoholic […]

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As a reader of Make Magazine, youre probably already well aware that makers are really coming through right now, creating all kinds of needed gear for people who are working in hospitals and essential businesses. Weve seen, and told, a few stories ourselves. However, you might not be aware of […]

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