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Maker Spotlight: Thimble image

This post is part of a series in partnership with New York's Next Top Makers, a community-sourced incubator dedicated to connecting innovation with local production. We’re catching up with this year’s fellows from the NY Next Top Makers program. Up first is Oscar Pedroso and David Brenner of Thimble.io, a monthly subscription service of electronic kits to help you learn to code, build, and hack on the regular. The founders initially met on Hacker News, went on to receive a great deal of customer feedback via Reddit, have six Maker Faires under their belts, and are wrapping up a successful Kickstarter campaign at the end of this month. They shared how the initial idea came about, and some of their secrets to ...

20th of December, 2015
In: CHI Spotlight, Maker Spotlight, NY Spotlight, SF Spotlight
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Maker Spotlight: Project Entrepreneur image

Beth Janson, Founding Director of Rent the Runway Foundation, a newly-launched initiative from fashion tech company Rent the Runway (RTR) chatted with us about their mission to increase the percentage of women founding companies. One of the first programs they’re running is called Project Entrepreneur, which is currently accepting applications from female makers and entrepreneurs for a chance to win $10,000, a spot at their NYC Workshop or even a desk at the Rent the Runway accelerator program. Project Entrepreneur ignites bold ideas by providing women access to the tools, training and networks needed to build scalable, economically impactful companies. Learn more in our interview with Beth below: Can you tell us a bit more about the vision/mission behind Project Entrepreneur? PE is driven by the belief that ...

Maker Spotlight: Erin MacKeen image

This week we chat with Erin MacKeen who recently left her full-time gig in Communications and Community Development to pursue her creative path. Erin tells us about the transition, how her process has changed, her recent exhibit at Nuit Blanche, and what’s coming up next. You recently took the creative leap to leave your day job and work on your passion projects full time – can you tell us more about what you did before this, and more specifically what that transition was like? For over 15 years, I worked at Urbanspace Property Group, the company that owns and manages the award-winning arts hub, 401 Richmond Street West. For approximately 10 years of that time, I was the Director Communications and Community Development. ...

Maker Spotlight: Staaker image

This post is part of a series in partnership with Oslo Innovation Week, which takes place October 12-16th in Oslo. The Oslo Innovation Week 2015 program includes over 60 events on Startup, Tech and Creative. The events range from keynote talks to pitching competitions to investor meetings. The events are organized by different event partners and are held at venues across the city of Oslo. We caught up with Sigurd Gran-Jansen co-founder of Staaker. Staaker is a super-simple-to-use autonomous action sports drone that carries a GoPro. It consists of a tracker that is placed on your wrist and a quadcopter. With the touch of a button, it follows and films you automagically. With the tracker you could also switch modes, and place ...

Maker Spotlight: Teenage Engineering image

This post is part of a series in partnership with Oslo Innovation Week, which takes place October 12-16th in Oslo. The Oslo Innovation Week 2015 program includes over 60 events on Startup, Tech and Creative. The events range from keynote talks to pitching competitions to investor meetings. The events are organized by different event partners and are held at venues across the city of Oslo. We had the chance to catch up with Jesper Kouthoofd, the Founder, CEO, and head of design at Teenage Engineering, a Swedish electronics company founded in 2007. Based in Stockholm, the company designs and manufactures synthesizers. Its core product is the Teenage Engineering OP-1, a synthesizer, sampler, and sequencer. Although the OP-1 targets a high price point, Teenage ...

21st of September, 2015
In: London Maker Spotlight, Maker Spotlight
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Maker Spotlight: Bethany Koby image

This post is part of a series in partnership with MakerCon, which takes place September 24th in New York. MakerCon connects the individuals at the forefront of the maker movement and taps into the best thinking on how to make things and get them to market, from new technologies to manufacturing models to funding methods. We had a chance to catch up with Bethany Koby, one half of the founding team behind Technology Will Save Us, a startup that is on a mission to provide everyone – of all ages, backgrounds and interests – new opportunities to learn and create using technology. Bethany and partner Daniel Hirschmann founded Technology Will Save Us in 2012 in East London. The company designs DIY technology kits and hardware along ...

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