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Tag: make

  • MakerFaire 2016

    No, this isn’t going to be at MakerFaire, but it reminds me that it is the act of Making something and putting together divergent skills that provide a confluence from which a product emerges.  

  • You Are Not Late

    You Are Not Late Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was available? All words; short ones, cool ones. All you had to do was ask. It didn’t even cost anything to claim. This grand opportunity was true for…

  • Book: Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators

    Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators is a resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and program developers that illuminates creative, cutting edge ways to inspire and motivate young people about science and technology learning.  The book is aligned with the National Research Council’s new Framework for Science Education, which includes an explicit…

  • Summertime: Impromptu Dry Erase Board

    It is finally summer at Walker Engineering and one thing I like to do is finally complete projects that require thinking and projects that require MAKE-ing. One that I think I am off to snap into place tomorrow for fun is this Impromptu Dry Erase board as a desktop organizer.  I am going to use parts…

  • 4th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area

    Re-Make America Following on President Obama’s call to “begin again the work of remaking America”, Maker Faire 2009 will be organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 30-31, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called “the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things.” The…