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The Talk Around the Water Cooler

By Mary Rotman
October 14, 2008
The Talk Around the Water Cooler
Our office is buzzing with excitement as people pack up and head out to Maker Faire Austin. It's a weekend packed with adventure and surprises -- until you've experienced it you can't describe it -- and even then sometimes it's hard! From crafts to fire to demos and robots, there's something for everyone

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Maker Faire Earns a Coveted American Magazine Vanguard Award

By Sara Peyton
October 7, 2008
Maker Faire Earns a Coveted American Magazine Vanguard Award
The first American Magazine Vanguard Awards recognizes magazines that are innovating, extending their brands, and finding new exciting ways to connect with their customers. And O'Reilly Media's Make snared an AMVA award because of the creation of Maker Faire, which celebrates DIYers and crafters of every persuasion. "Considering that some of the greatest leaps forward in American technological history have been scrappy homebrews (Apple Computer was a literal garage start-up), it's really kind of exciting to think that, given its explosive growth, the Maker Faire might well help along an invention or two that's truly important," writes Simon Dumenco. Read on to find out more about Maker Faire Austin, which opens Oct. 18.

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Syuzi Pakhchyan Talks to Future Tense

By Sara Peyton
July 17, 2008
Syuzi Pakhchyan Talks to Future Tense
Feeling lonely? Syuzi Pakhchyan, the author of Fashioning Technology, talks to Future Tense about making e-puppets to keep you company. Each one has its own personality quirk.

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"Smart" Crafting and Fashioning Technology

By Mary Rotman
July 16, 2008
What will our homes and clothes look like 5 years from now? 10 years? 50 years? If one of our new books from Craft--Fashioning Technology--is any indication, it will involve a healthy dose of "smart" crafting--a term coined by author Syuzi Pakhchyan--to describe crafting with "smart" materials that react and change in response to their environment.

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Fashioning Technology: LEDs Are The New Sequins!

By Sara Peyton
June 27, 2008
Fashioning Technology: LEDs Are The New Sequins!
If Judy Jetson had a home-economics textbook, Fashioning Technology might be it. This new DIY (Do-It-Yourself) guide from O'Reilly and the creators of Craft magazine takes traditional crafting into the future.

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Q&A with Gareth Branwyn, Editor of the Maker's Notebook

By Sara Peyton
May 28, 2008
Q&A with Gareth Branwyn, Editor of the Maker's Notebook
Ask some DIY-ers what they want in a notebook (as the folks over at Make magazine did recently) and you’ll get a truckload of opinions. The Make staffers boiled down the input and came up with an electric blue notebook. In true maker style, this notebook is born/designed to be hacked. Recently I got a chance to chat about the new Maker’s Notebook with Make contributing editor, Gareth Branwyn.

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Maker Faire Austin: Who's Ready for a DIY Weekend?

By Mary Rotman
October 10, 2007
Maker Faire Austin: Who's Ready for a DIY Weekend?
Exciting news for Makers in Austin, Texas: October 20-21, 2007 has been declared "Maker's Weekend" by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn.

And the weekend is rightfully named, as MAKE will be invading the Travis County Expo Center and taking over with their catapults, explosions, life-sized mouse traps, and more.

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