10 Best Articles on Makers
The most useful articles on makers from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Makers Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on makers by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on makers—all under 10 minutes.
The Future Of Money: A Complete Revolution
On how the transition in financial services from analog to digital; productized to embedded; and centralized to decentralized constitutes a complete revolution, perhaps justifying the level of venture…
Watch a massive 3D-printed building take shape
It's two stories tall and has a total area of 6,889 square feet.
Watch a giant 3D printer spit out an entire boat
The 25-foot-long craft weighs two and a half tons.
Get started with machine learning on Arduino
This post was originally published by Sandeep Mistry and Dominic Pajak on the TensorFlow blog. Arduino is on a mission to make machine learning simple enough for anyone to use. We’ve been working with…
No more cardboard boxes? 3M invents an ingenious new way to ship products
The company is launching a new material that could reduce the time, materials, and space required to ship products by 50%.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on makers.
Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source
To scale and sustain Open Source ecosystems in a more efficient and fair manner, Open Source projects need to embrace new governance, coordination and incentive models.
The 3D Printing Revolution That Wasn’t
MakerBot made a bold bet that 3D printers would become as common as microwaves. Just one problem: no one else shared that dream.
Category: Home Chip Lab
I am very excited to announce the details of my first integrated circuit and share the journey that this project has taken me on over the past year. I hope that my success will inspire others and help…
OLO - The First Ever Smartphone 3D Printer. by OLO 3D Inc. —Kickstarter
The First Ever Smartphone 3D Printer. At $99. Portable and multimaterial works accurately for professionals and easy for new users.
Dexter: the robotic arm to end scarcity
Dexter is a robotic arm powered by an FPGA supercomputer. 5+ axis, trainable and a friendly UI. It becomes your personal factory.
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Makers, including:
Kickstarter
Here to make the world a more creative place. Discover new projects to back—or launch your own. Games, tech, fashion, art, film, comics, music, and more.
Archinect
Since 1997, Archinect is the first and largest online community of architects, architecture students, and architecture fans. Feature articles, news, jobs + more
kottke.org
Something interesting every day from one of the oldest & best independent sites on the Web. Est. 1998. Also at https://botsin.space/@kottke.
Stacey Higginbotham
I blog about chips, broadband and the internet of all the things. she/her Sign up for my newsletter at http://staceyoniot.com
Futurism
Cutting-edge journalism and analysis on the latest emergent science, technology and medicine news changing the world. These are the stories of tomorrow, today.
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