IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MAKERS

by Sherry Huss, Vice President, Maker Media

SURPRISE. CURIOSITY. FUN. INSPIRATION. MAKE magazine launched in 2005, full of eye-opening how-to projects and fascinating makers. It immediately became the catalyst for a tech-influenced DIY community that has come to be identified as the Maker Movement. Later that year, publisher Dale Dougherty asked, “Wouldn’t it be cool if we could get all these makers together in one place to share what they make?”

The result was the first Maker Faire — a gathering of the maker tribe to show and tell, and inspire each other and anyone who’d pay attention. It was an aha moment for us. Today the Maker Movement continues to grow because every day, more people go from observer to participant ...

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