Welcome to Maker Media!
Welcome to the home of Maker Media, a division of O'Reilly Media devoted entirely to the growing community of resourceful people who believe that if you can imagine it, you can make it. Manifested in the pages of MAKE Magazine, CRAFT Magazine, and the Hacks book series, and coming to physical life at the incredible Maker Faire events, Maker Media encourages the Do-It-Yourself mentality by providing creative inspiration and instruction.
Recent Announcements from the MAKE Blog
Next Dorkbot SoCal, Jan 10
My friend Thomas Edwards, Dorkbot DC founder and former Overlord (now living in LA), wrote to tell us about the next Dorkbot SoCal meeting on January 10, featuring three bio-inspired artists.
Deborah Aschheim (above) creates works that blur biology and technology, exploring concepts of memory, architecture, and neural networks through drawings, sculpture, writing, installation and sounds.
Brian Evans explores the intersection between reductivist sculptural form and the aesthetics of behavior, where structure and thought are fused. He creates simple moving objects with seemingly life-like qualities- electromechanical life forms with motivations only just beyond our understanding.
David Guttman (above) creates interactive works that generate unique colors and shapes from sound and EEG.
More details at:
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal
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Host a MAKE: television screening event!
We hope this series inspires people all over the country to tinker, build, repair, or invent. To help make that happen, Make: television is happy to provide DVDs for those willing to screen episodes in a meet up or classroom of their own!
We'll send you a DVD with the first 5 episodes to host a screening in your own local robotics, DIY, or school group. Watch an episode (or 5!) with your group and then roll up your sleeves and get down to building. We have detailed PDFs for the projects seen on Make:, just visit www.makezine.tv, or let the show inspire you to build a project of your own.
To host a screening event, email the MAKE: television Outreach Coordinator, Nick Watts, at maketelevision@makezine.com with a brief description of the event.
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Raves for MAKE!
“Now we've got geek DIY (do it yourself) porn. Just as would-be Emerils pore over lushly illustrated cookbooks with recipes involving hard-to-find morels and complicated instructions for roux, Tom Swift wanna-bes are devouring MAKE.”
— Steven Levy, Newsweek
“...O'Reilly Media recently launched what has already become the bible of this new movement, a magazine called MAKE.”
— Daniel Roth, FORTUNE
“If you're the type who views the warnings not to pry open your computer as more a challenge than admonition, MAKE is for you.”
— Rolling Stone
“One of the most innovative magazines I've seen in a long time.”
— Steve Riggio, CEO Barnes & Noble
“The kind of magazine that would impress MacGyver”
— Marcus Chan, San Francisco Chronicle
