IoT, Maker Movement Add “Cool” Factor To Industrial Sector
Sometimes, when you tell people that you work for an electronics distributor, their eyes might...
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Category: Makers
Makerspaces Encourage Students to Innovate and Build Critical Thinking Skills
Think about makerspaces as a means to integrate hands-on learning through experimentation,...
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Changing Who Gets to Make the World
To be able to make is a powerful, life-altering force for both students and their broader...
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2017 Makerspace Contest
Instructables presents the 2017 Makerspace Contest! The contest that brings communities together...
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Makers Movement Changes the Educational Landscape
In Texas, a 13-year-old boy built a robot that could rescue victims of natural disasters. In...
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Will IoT Kill DIY?
Technology is changing the way we look at instrumentation and controls. To maximize profit,...
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Want to Help NASA Make a FabLab in Space?
Ever dreamt of designing a makerspace for astronauts to use? NASA is accepting prototypes and...
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Makerspace: Professor Aims to Help Students Succeed by Failing
With new 3D printer, laser cutter, CNC mill, you can “fail early and often, and quickly...
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With Manufacturing on the Decline, Small Makers Still Get It Done
Manufacturing is a beast of a subject, and [the Santa Fe Reporter] set out to cover it from the...
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Makerspaces Are Making Maker Businesses
Makerspaces start here! The Grommet’s free ebook provides lessons and inspirations from Makers,...
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Makerspaces: A Tool That Can Transform Learning
Post written by Nicholas Provenzano, high school English teacher, author, speaker, and consultant....
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Build a Makerspace Workbench For Under $100
Makerspaces.com is always creating something at their office and just recently they ran out of...
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Welcome to the Maker City
Providence is a thriving city for makers of all sorts. Here’s how they’re making the...
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Makeblock Raises $30 Million for Robot-Building Kits for Kids
Remember when kids could simply play with their toys? They still can. But parents are increasingly...
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From Virtual Reality to Online Libraries, How Technology is Revolutionizing Education in GR
If you could work in any field you wanted and money wasn’t a factor, what would you be? Who...
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Why a Boeing Engineer Quit to Become a Maker Pro
Noramay Cadena spent the better part of a decade building airplanes and satellites for aerospace...
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Tips for Designing Kits Simple Enough for Kid Makers to Assemble
Article By: Bjpirt There’s a time in the development of many makers when they switch from making...
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Benefits of Hands-On Learning in Makerspaces
For those of us working in the manufacturing industry, the concept of hands-on learning is a...
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8 Tips to Help Create and Sustain a Makerspace
Though makerspaces are becoming more mainstream, creating and maintaining one could overwhelm...
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The New MakerBot Educators Program
ANNOUNCING MAKERBOT EDUCATORS: A NEW PROGRAM FOR EMPOWERING TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND SCHOOLS...
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Makerspace Pop-up Encourages Creative Habits
On Saturday afternoon, the Bennett Martin Public Library was filled with students controlling...
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Autodesk’s Maker Program Starter Kit
After working hand-in-hand with educators who want to launch a Maker Program but “just don’t know...
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Why the Maker Movement Matters: Part 1, the Tools Revolution
This matters! People should pay attention! Why the Maker Movement matters to the future of jobs...
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How Makers Can Catalyze a Manufacturing Renaissance
The article “5 Ways the Maker Movement can help catalyze a manufacturing renaissance” calls for...
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Gateway to Creation: GR’s Maker Movement Gives Space & Tools to Bring Inventors’ Ideas to Life
In Grand Rapids, the Maker Movement is increasing in popularity, offering those with the time and...
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Building a Maker and Design Culture within Schools
Take a moment, and close your eyes. Think back to a time when you attended school, and recall...
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3D Printing Opens Entrepreneurial Opportunities
The entrepreneurial spirit today has a lot of opportunities at its fingertips. With is happening...
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State Of 3D Software: Interview With SOLIDWORKS CEO Gian Paolo Bassi
There is no shortage of enthusiasm for 3D printing. Sure, it goes through various financial cycles...
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Untraditional Learning: Students Design, Create During Makers Space
COLUMBIANA, Ohio (WKBN) – Many schools have adopted more creative learning tactics, including one...
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How Tinkering and “Problem Making” Are Shaking Up Higher Education
Programs that explore aspects of making, tinkering, and hacking would’ve been unheard of even ten...
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The Making of a Movement
Maker Faire is a large movement that started over 10 years ago with Dale Dougherty and Sherry...
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Schools Say Bye to Shop Class, Hello to Maker Space
STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and it’s the guiding educational...
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Announcing the Nation of Makers!
More than 300 organizations come together to launch Nation of Makers New non-profit organization...
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Workshops of the World: Makerspaces Spring Up Across Pennsylvania
In a 1,500-square-foot garage in Pittsburgh, a group of Back to the Futureenthusiasts toil away on...
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Urban Makerspace Partnership Links Industry with Education
A higher education partnership in Baltimore will help connect students with a makerspace to build...
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Gathering Case Studies to Understand the Scope of Makerspace Needs
Get a group of makers together from different makerspaces (or hackerspaces), and they will quickly...
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Tarts Sensors – Wireless Sensors for Makers
Tarts Sensors is a division of Monnit Corporation. Leveraging the development work by Monnit,...
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A ‘Cathedral to Manufacturing’ Is Reborn
Even as a rusted shell five years ago, Building 128 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard projected a singular...
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Makerspace Tech Goes Mobile at Virginia High School
Dominion High School in Virginia utilizes national prize to bring makerspace equipment into the...
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Makerspace Organizers Convene at The White House
Makerspace organizers receive inquiries about [their] makerspaces on a regular basis, but not from...
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Makerspaces Critical for Advancing Hardware Innovation, Learning
Makerspaces are like super-garages providing room to tinker, create, and build for the masses. The...
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Meet Your (Everyday) Maker
While saying“maker” may be vague, it has caught on to describe a whole movement that includes 3D...
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A Movement in the Making: The Emergence of the Maker Movement
by CustomMadeThe maker movement is made up of some 135 million adults in the U.S., however, it’s...
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