Makerspaces, libraries and education

MakerBot’s 3D printing experts offer interactive workshops, private lessons, and on-site training. Get started with the MakerBot Learning program.

Make this super easy and cool looking 2.8 touchscreen Internet Radio that can be controlled with PC, Smartphone and basically every machine that has ...

How can you support the learning by doing maker movement in your classroom or school library media center?

Description: Learn evidence-based instructional strategies that support building models, prototypes, inventions and innovations and encourage creative problem solving and team collaboration across a wide range of subject matters and all grade levels. Applications of learning theory and assessment strategies will be employed to create K-12 interdisciplinary inquiry-based maker experiences.

Welcome to the official Silhouette channel. Here you'll find instructional videos and tutorials to help you get the most from your Silhouette electronic cutting tool and other Silhouette products. Whether you're a first-time Silhouette user or you're just looking for some inspiration and new ideas, you've come to the right place. New videos are added all the time so keep checking back. Watch our 101 series videos for an introduction to our products, and our 102 series videos for project ideas! If there's a tutorial you'd like to see, let us know—we want to hear from you.

Makery is an online information media (newsletter, website, social networks) founded by Digital Art International in June 2014. It is led by Anne-Cécile Worms, hosted at Ekluz, 13 rue des Ecluses Saint-Martin, Paris 10th arrondissement. It aims to cover the dynamism and give out information on the emergence of a scene of labs, fablabs (fabrication laboratories, terminology born in the United States within the Medialab of MIT in 2001), hackerspaces (spaces self-managed by people wanting to divert technologies), medialabs, living labs (also known as third places, they encompass industry in processes of innovation and experimentation), biohacklabs (the scientific and bioinformatics version of hacklabs).

It is a media in DiY mode: with its small team, Makery progressively grows in an open, transparent and participative manner, following the principles of digital ethics born by the lab wave.

3D printers are coming to schools. How do we make the most of them?

A glimpse of a Lab School classroom reveals students working on projects in small groups, with 3D printers arrayed along the walls — one for every four students. Other fabrication technologies, such as computer-controlled die cutters, drawers of microelectronic components, sensors, motors and actuators, soldering stations, hand tools, and even laser cutters and CNC machines are readily available. Student projects are open-ended to incorporate engineering design into science teaching.

There are so many of us doing amazing Makerspaces in our libraries and schools, Diana and I thought it would be fun to turn it into a Show & Tell type show inviting six of our wonderful friends to join us.  It turned out to be one of my favorite shows yet!

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When we initially announced the MIPS Creator CI20 development board, we were flooded by your exciting project proposals; the launch generated so much interest in our little programme that our site crashed under the intense pressure.

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You can build a countless number of projects that utilize the power of electric motors. To help you get started, the Catalyst comes with a set of Challenge Cards to inspire kids to explore. Some of the challenges include:

Build a machine that draws curvy lines
Build a vehicle that moves in a straight line
Build a machine that sends a message in Morse Code
Make a machine that can scramble an egg
Build a machine that can climb a string
Create something that makes a loud sound
Build a vehicle with a suspension system

The Makers: the ones mad for tinkering, experimenting, creating crazy things that move, blink and buzz. (Also known as the Inventor with 1000 Ideas or the DIY Guy/Gal).

The Makers: the ones mad for tinkering, experimenting, creating crazy things that move, blink and buzz. (Also known as the Inventor with 1000 Ideas or the DIY Guy/Gal).

A pWhat does any of that have to do with copyright? Owners, tinkerers, and homebrew “hackers” must copy programming so they can modify it. Product makers don’t like people messing with their stuff, so some manufacturers place digital locks over software. Breaking the lock, making the copy, and changing something could be construed as a violation of copyright law.

Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people share their interest in tinkering with technology, meet and work on their projects, and learn from each other.

hackerspaces.org is an informal volunteer network of such spaces, maintaining community services - including a wiki for everyone who wants to share their hackerspace stories and questions, mailing lists, XMPP services, a blog and a feed aggregator, and many others. From around the world, hackers meet on the Freenode IRC channel #hackerspaces.

In “Saving the World”, theorist Michel Bauwens defends his optimistic vision of the P2P, on the brink of revolutionizing production and society.