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Diné Maker Faire on the Navajo Nation

Any Maker Faire is a reaffirmation that we’re all born to make — that’s what makes us human in the first place. It’s also a celebration of making’s past and future, where traditional crafts meet new technology. And there’s nothing like attending a Faire in another country to really fire […]

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Vent-Con 2020 To Discuss the State of Open Source Ventilators

Next Thursday, May 21st, Public Invention will be hosting Vent-Con 2020, a virtual mini-convention focused on open source ventilators and the related learnings and developments that have transpired over the past few months with the Covid-19 pandemic. The three hour online event provides an interesting program that looks at the […]

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Walking Arm Trebuchet

Build the world’s newest, simplest trebuchet and break some chuckin’ records!

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Plan C Live: Maker Response To Covid-19 In Germany

Join Dale Dougherty, founder of Make: Magazine and Maker Faire and Andreas Kopp, founder of Erfindergarden in Munich to talk with some of the central activators, innovators, and organizers of the open source and maker response to COVID-19 in Germany. The live zoom panel will be happening May 14, 12pm […]

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Plan C: The Making of the Montana Mask

Dr. Marlin “Dusty” Richardson is a neurosurgeon in Billings, Montana. In the first week of March, the Billings Clinic, where Dusty Richardson works, sent out a memo to its staff. Shortages of masks would necessitate a change in policy — medical staff were now told to reuse masks, and the […]

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Reserve Now! Kids Craft And Program Bugs LIVE, With Codejoy and Adam Lazarus

In this new and exclusive Maker Camp series, you can join CodeJoy’s Kelsey Derringer and PBS host Adam Lazarus for an educational and fun maker exploration of bugs, crafts, and coding. This private series has limited seats available, so reserve yours now ($50 per household). Your ticket gets you entry […]

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Plan C: The Log of the StarVent Enterprise

  I met Pat Starace last November at Maker Faire Orlando where he exhibited a toy Batmobile that he had outfitted with a jet engine. Pat is a professor at Full Sail University in Orlando with an incredible background and amazing stories. When I saw that he had developed a […]

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Plan C Live: “Do Something” Bay Area’s Something Labs

​ Meet Sam, Matt, Eda and others from Something Labs, a ​distributed volunteer coalition ​based in the Bay Area ​​​that protects frontline medical workers by quickly innovating and bridging gaps between supply chains and medical systems. ​Their motto is: “​After all, we all have to do something.​”  They are working […]

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Plan C Live: UV-C Light Boxes and Decontamination Solutions

    Decontamination is its own practice — the removal of pathogens from rooms, equipment and PPE.  Effective decontamination also allows for re-use of PPE such as masks. There are various methods used in decontamination, many of them requiring expensive equipment.  Using UV-C lights is one method and we’ll discuss […]

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Project Community Profile: Hackaday.io

We invited our friends at Hackaday to take us on a tour of their platform, contests, and annual gathering and to share some of their favorite projects

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