What does the future hold for American innovation? Ask someone who’s spent a little time in a makerspace, and you’re liable to get a very optimistic answer. Every day, new ideas are coming to fruition ...

The bottom floor of the Open Works space in Baltimore is home to the makerspace’s metal, wood and digital fabrication shops. (The Daily Record/File Photo) A bill that aims to support the development ...

The makerspace isn't just a fixed space where kids come and go to complete busywork. It's an extension of a well-established approach to educating students that has applications and deep implications ...

Examine the advanced hybrid synergy of libraries in 2026. Compare the immersive, community-focused value of contemporary ...

Makerspaces – the commercial venues where creative people gather to design and make their products – are under pressure to transform their business models or face closing shop. A growing number of ...

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Kids gather to make Lego robots; teens create digital music, movies, and games with computers and mixers; and students engineer new projects while adults create prototypes for small business products ...

As last-minute shoppers rush to the stores — or click the order button on their phones and computers, then anxiously await the delivery truck’s arrival — do-it-yourself gift givers are taking things ...

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., started a journey from a traditional school and library to a place of wonder and innovation, inspired by the idea of creating makerspaces. That ...

Within the last decade the DIY movement has grown from projects in basements and garages to a collective movement of people gathering together in cities and across the country to something much larger ...

Dale Dougherty, one of the Maker Movement’s biggest catalysts, dropped into Philadelphia last week to keynote the September Maker Meetup. But before the talk, Dougherty, who’s the founder of Make ...

You should have your home, your work and some other place. I don’t have work, I don’t have religious affiliation, but I want ...