MAKER MOVEMENT PROJECTS

MAKERSLIDE PROJECT FUNDED

By Bill Griggs Posted in General Update , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

  The Makerslide project was successfully funded on Kickstarter. The funding should help ensure a new, supply of affordable linear slides. The project  was funded in just under 48 hours and then continued to gather support. The funding raised was 445%  of the expected goal.  Designer Barton Dring stated he will use the $26,268 to […]

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MINIBLOQ – Making Arduino easier to program

By Bill Griggs Posted in General Update , , , , , , , , , , , | 22 Comments »

Julián da Silva is a Maker and an educator who wants to make it easy for everyone to program Arduino microcontrollers.   The Arduino is the new hot ticket electronics development platform and all sort s of people are making things with them. The Arduino requires programming knowledge which most folks don’t have. Minibloq could […]

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MAKERSLIDE – CHANGING THE WAY MACHINES ARE BUILT

By Bill Griggs Posted in Interviews , , , , , , , , , , , | 19 Comments »

I talked with Barton Dring owner of buildlog.com about a unique idea he had that should make it easier and cheaper for people to make their own machines. Barton is using a new funding method to get his product out – CROWDFUNDING. Bill Griggs: Bart after you published free plans to build your own laser […]

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MAKE YOUR OWN LASER CUTTER

By Bill Griggs Posted in General Update , , , , , , , , , , , | 15 Comments »

  AN INTERVIEW WITH BARTON DRING   MAKE YOUR OWN LASER CUTTER A laser cutter is one of the ultimate geek toys of all times. It makes small scale prototyping and manufacturing possible. Store bought laser cutters cost roughly the same as a compact car. Barton Dring changed all that by telling folk how to […]

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