Guest post by Micah Kenfield.
The Champaign-Urbana area has a fairly vibrant maker community, with multiple makerspaces hosting everything from computer programming classes to woodworking. One of our community organizations, the Champaign-Urbana Design Organization (http://thecudo.org/), recently hosted its … Read more >
I apologize for the brevity of this post, I’ve been incredibly busy. The theme for this post is Making and Accessibility.
Over the last few months I’ve been saving up to build a new desktop computer. Thanks to some holiday sales and gifts from loved ones, I was prepared to have this blog post document the entire process with step by … Read more >
(From an idea by Ayla Stein. Written by Micah Kenfield)
This Thursday is Thanksgiving, the quintessentially American celebration of – as the story goes – Native Americans sharing their bounty with our forefathers as they suffered the winter together. The … Read more >
Every year, the Urbana Makerspace at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center hosts the Heartland Maker Fest.
The event “celebrates the amazing makers in Urbana-Champaign and the surrounding communities”. As a relative new resident in the Urbana-Champaign area, this event … Read more >
When I first moved to the Urbana-Champaign twin cities, I had no idea there would be such an active maker community.
One of the driving organizations of the maker community (among others) is the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center. The UCIMC … Read more >
For this post, we need to go back in time a few months. Specifically to the end of June 2015 at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco.
The founder of MakerBridge, Sharona Ginsberg, was invited to speak at … Read more >
I’ve had the honor of attending four weddings this year. The theme of the latest one, I must say, was probably the best.
YES, there were dinosaurs EVERYWHERE! My friend Abby (and I suspect her new husband but I unfortunately … Read more >
IFTTT (if this then that) is a really cool web service that you can use to connect disparate apps, social media, or internet accessible objects. If you haven’t heard of it before, I encourage you to check it out at … Read more >
We don’t normally post about trade deals or topics that are roiling the political sphere, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership has some very direct impacts on makers and the maker movement.
In addition to extending copyright terms around the world … Read more >