Maker City http://www.makercity.com From Motor City to Maker City Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:06:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Matthew Crawford of “Shop Class as Soulcraft” at CCS http://www.makercity.com/?p=14 http://www.makercity.com/?p=14#comments Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:06:36 +0000 Dale Dougherty http://www.makercity.com/?p=14 The College for Creative Studies will host a Toyota Lecture on Design by philosopher, mechanic, and best-selling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford on Tuesday, October 13 at 6 p.m.

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]]> http://www.makercity.com/?feed=rss2&p=14 3 Ann Arbor Mini-Maker Faire http://www.makercity.com/?p=3 http://www.makercity.com/?p=3#comments Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:49:58 +0000 Dale Dougherty http://www.makercity.com/?p=3 The Mini-Maker Faire in Ann Arbor was “a big success!,” according to one of the organizers, Dale Grover.   He added that “there were between 1,200 and 1,400 visitors, about 28 exhibitors, and everyone seemed to have a great time, visitors and exhibitors alike.”  This event was one of the first self-organized mini-Maker Faires in the country.

Mike Gould demonstrates his lunchbox lasers (photo: Dug Song)

Mike Gould demonstrates his lunchbox lasers (photo: Dug Song)

The Ann Arbor Chronicle did a nice article on the event.

Here’s a Flickr pool from the event: link

Congratulations to all the makers, organizers and visitors.

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