Our Microcontroller Club dedicated many evenings and weekends to learning and creating something new to them: a bicycle-powered spin art machine we dubbed the Spin Cycle. Check out photos of their work, from designs and models to drilling and final touches. […]
CityPOP Egleston Opens For One-Year Run In Jackson Glass Building The grand opening of CityPOP Egleston, a new arts-centered community space, brought light, energy, balloons and enthusiasm to the old Jackson Glass and Rainbow Foods building at 3195 Washington St. […]
With some simple Python code and an old iPhone 4 camera, we put together this time lapse video of a recent work session. Check it out!
BOSTON MAKERS JOINS CITYPOP: JP COMMUNITY JAMAICA PLAIN’S FIRST MAKERSPACE MOVES TO EGLESTON SQUARE IN APRIL Jamaica Plain, MA – Boston Makers announced that the nonprofit makerspace organization will be moving into CityPOP: JP at 3201 Washington Street, in Egleston […]
Great turn out at our holiday party this year! Complete with a 3D printer raffle, Tool Tree, photo booth, and sing-a-along, everyone had a wonderful time. Thanks to all who donated to our tool drive and to all who came! On […]
Hooray for our volunteers! The past few days the team has been hard at work painting the space. We still have plenty of house projects to do, but we’re loving the new vibe. Thanks to everyone who helped out.
“We’re scheming and dreaming,” is how Ted Heinrich, of Boston Makers’s Microcontroller Club, describes the wooden labyrinth the group has been building on Monday nights since April. Every other week, five or eight people show up to the Cheverus Building […]
What a great turn out we had at our screening of the Maker documentary last week, the kick-off event of our Summer Social Series! Maker is a feature-length documentary on the maker movement and its impact on society, culture, and economy […]
Boston Makers and Hyde Square Task Force participated in Art Week this Spring. Complete with drum circles, dancing in the square, and musical performances the event was a hit. Boston Makers had a booth where you could play music through […]
Another wonderful year at Wake Up the Earth Festival! The sun was shining and turnout was amazing. Thousands of our neighbors gathered to enjoy the music, food, and fun. This year we shared a table with the Elliot School and Stony […]
The Fab Festival a public outreach of Fab11 (fab11.org) will be held on August 8th and 9th at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury Crossing in Boston. We’re looking for proposals for hands-on-workshops for families and/or adults, project demonstrations, talks, […]
Last Sunday we got together for our first meeting in the current session of Young Makers Club with no fixed plan as to what to build. After welcoming some new members we set about figuring out what we were going to do. One […]
Our new bi-weekly Microcontroller Club starts on Monday, March 9th at 7:00 PM and no previous experience with microcontrollers needed. Teens and adults are welcome. We’ll meet bi-weekly to design, program, and build, an interactive project using a […]
This January, we had a few teen represent Boston Makers at Youth Lead the Change, — a groundbreaking participatory budgeting (PB) process launched by the City of Boston to engage Boston youth in directly deciding how to spend $1 million of the […]
Last weekend, Boston Makers set up a booth at the JP Crafts Fair, an annual show featuring handcrafted gifts, art, jewelry, clothing, pottery, folk art, and delicious food made by Jamaica Plain locals. Throughout the day we had the opportunity to […]
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On October 31st, we worked with the Hyde Square Task Force teens to build a fun Halloween interactive for young children to enjoy after the Main Streets Trick or Treat Parade. They made 24 plastic pumpkins light up and rock to the […]
There are a couple of seats still available in our “Make Your Halloween Costume Light Up” workshop happening on Saturday, Oct. 25th from 10:00 Am – 1:00 PM. This is a fun easy and fun introduction to electronics with no […]