Category: BOSTON MAKER NEWS
MaKey MaKey Workshop
Boston Makers and Hyde Square Task Force experimented this week with MaKey MaKey an open source micro controller that turns everyday objects into touch pads! Check out the photos below. MaKey MaKey is an invention kit created by Jay Silver […]
Paper Circuits Workshop
Great workshop this week with the Hyde Square Task Force! Participants learned how to fold origami cubes, and about how to make a circuits that make LED lights work. When combined learn more about this… http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2008/paper-circuitry-at-home-electric-origami/ This little LED-lit cube […]
Electric Summer Hats Workshop
See what we created at the Summer Electric Hat Workshop hosted by Boston Makers and the Hyde Square Task Force on June 1st and June 8th! Using Lily Pad Arduino Check out our curriculum
First Look at Makerspaces in Massachusetts
MassDevelopment has commissioned and released a report titled “Innovation in Manufacturing: Makerspaces,” a first-ever inventory of makerspaces in the Commonwealth that defines what they are and what can be done to help them grow. The report, posted here, defines makerspaces […]
Our First Pop-up Makerspace!
Boston Makers held their first pop-up maker event during JP First Thursdays this May, where they gathered community organizations such as Stonybook Fine Arts, JP Knit and Stitch, and the Eliot School, alongside a number of local makers to hold […]
Our name has changed to Boston Makers
As part of our outreach to the larger community of Boston, we’ve changed our name to Boston Makers! That’s pretty much it!
Maker MeetUps
Check out our Survey Infographic!
Results are in! To better understand the local maker community’s interests and needs, Boston Makers conducted an open survey and held a series of public meetings in Jamaica Plain, Roslindale, West Roxbury, and Hyde Park over the course of four […]
Let’s talk about Makerspaces: Join us at our next Community Meeting
What is a makerspace? Makerspaces are a community-operated workspace where people with common interests can rent spaces and create or be “makers” together. This includes people working in 3D printing, art, bicycle building and repair, CNC router, computer-aided design, electronics, […]
JP Gazette talks with Eileen and Dominic
JP Makers aim JP Makers aims to create collaborative craft space s to create collaborative craft space.
Makerspace Directory and Maps
We believe it is important to connect the maker community. There are a number of Maker Resources popping up around the web, geared towards helping makers find each other and the things they need to get their projects done. Below […]
2012: TED TALK with John Maeda
How art, technology and design inform creative leader John Maeda, former President of the Rhode Island School of Design, delivers a funny and charming talk that spans a lifetime of work in art, design and technology, concluding with a picture […]
JP Makers conducts a public survey to gauge interest in a makers space!
For those of you who are interested in a local makerspace we now have a more comprehensive online survey that should only take a few minutes to do. The purpose is to help us understand what the community wants out […]
How the Makers will Create a New Industrial Revolution
JP Patch Annouces September Meeting
The Jamaica Plain Patch helps spread the word of our very first meeting in Jamaica Plain!
Visit Us At the Wake Up The Earth Festival!
We’ll be manning an info table at the Wake Up the Earth Festival. Come by and talk to us! We want to know what kind of projects you’re interested in doing at a maker lab in Jamaica Plain!
Curley School February Maker Camp
We have to start by saying how proud we are of the attendees that came to the February Makers Camp held last week at the Curley K-8 School. Our group of eight students all worked so hard on their […]