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This Year's Maker Camp is supported by AT&T Aspire and opens July 11 Maker Camp Comes July 11 Make:, home of the Maker Faire,  announced last week as part of the National Week of Making initiative its plan to engage over 1 million kids nationally over the next 12 months in hands-on, project-based learning through its Maker Faires, School Maker Faires, and online Maker Camps. Launching for the season on July 11, 2016, Maker Camp -- the free virtual summer camp for young makers interested in DIY, making, creating, crafting, hacking, tinkering and learning -- returns for its fifth year, helping to kick off a full Summer of Making. With the support of AT&T, through AT&T Aspire, as a presenting sponsor of this year's program, Maker Camp remains a free resource for teachers, educators, parents, and kids. Make: founder and CEO Dale Dougherty comments "We're excited to be able to offer Maker Camp again this summer. At Maker Camp, kids work with complex c...

Producers of America's Greatest Makers Casting for Season Two America's Greatest Makers Show All (courtesy of America's Greatest Makers Show) America’s Greatest Makers is casting Season Two! America's Greatest Makers is known as the "American Idol" for Nerds and Geeks. The producers and directors want to showcase an even wider variety of innovations by using not only the  Intel®  Curie Module, but also "other" platform options from  Intel®  that can connect to a broad array of input and output devices, including cameras and displays. One of our interview alums were on the show recently - Zackees . What smart-connected device will you make to walk away with one million dollars!? Check out the requirements below and good luck makers!

Students, get your maker shoes strapped on. The Institute of Electrical Electronic Engineers (IEEE)  latest initiative to support the community-at-large of engineers and makers, opened the  IEEE  DIY Project  last month .   The  IEEE  DIY Project is a competition that is asking students to solve life's problems, present a project that they have created at school or during their free time to a microsite developed by  IEEE .  Last year, 305 projects were submitted from around the world and the grand prize was awarded to Gaurav Gautam for his Wirelessly Operated Hand Glove Robot.  Whether it is robotics, wearable technology, software, hardware, or an alternative energy device, all real projects are accepted.  We interview   John Cohn , IEEE & IBM Fellow and contest evangelista on this contest and why it is important to the maker community. check it out!

Adolfo & Greg Talk About Trending Weekly Tech News Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discuss the weekly tech news in their mind's eye. Check it out!

A bitter-sweet ending to Week 6 of Maker Camp. Our Nerd Stalker crew took and some time to grab a few photos of some wearables from the Twitterverse of Week #6 and final week of Maker Camp. Good job campers, camps and Maker Media. Explore, Make and Share. Check if you made the slide show. See you next year at Maker Camp!

Maker Camp Week 5 Takes Flight We are back again for Week 5! Our Nerd Stalker crew took and some time to grab a few photos of some pinball machines, board games and foosball tables from the Twitterverse of Week #5 of Maker Camp. Good job campers, camps and Maker Media. Explore, Make and Share. Get ready for Week #6 and sadly the last week.

Maker Campers do pinball machines, board games and Foosball tables! We are back again for Week 4! Our Nerd Stalker crew took and some time to grab a few photos of some pinball machines, board games and foosball tables from the Twitterverse of Week #4 of Maker Camp. Good job campers, camps and Maker Media. Explore, Make and Share. Get ready for Week #5.

We caught up with Sheau-Lan Reed , Head of Ecosystem at Sprout, to talk about Sprout and some of their apps. When HP announced it will split into two companies, Sprout is a genesis of what  Dion Weisler, former Executive Vice President of HP’s Printing and Personal Systems business, and now CEO of HP Inc. said " HP Inc.  will be extremely well positioned to deliver that innovation across our traditional markets as well as extend our leadership into new markets like 3-D printing and new computing experiences – inventing technology that empowers people to create, interact and inspire like never before. ”

When you think of Dremel , you think high speed rotary tools, right? I have modified and made things with their high-speed rotary tools but never thought about them in the digital arena. Things are changing at Dremel. Recently, we found Dremel's president, John Kavanagh at the 2015 Maker Faire Bay Area and talked with him about how Dremel is attracting the new generation of maker. He shares his thoughts on the Maker Faire from Dremel's point of view. Give it a view.

At this year's Game Developer's Conference, the noticeable uncertainty was the future of console vs. mobile vs. cloud gaming and which one will eventually win out. Forward to the 2015 Maker Faire, we caught up with Roblox , the biggest player in the cloud/online MMO gaming arena. Our, Greg Viloria (aka Social Greg), interviews Rick Silvestrini of Roblox on the current status of the game platform. Notably, what makes them a big player amongst young game developers and leader in the online gaming arena is the 5M active users and an active developers platform sporting $2M in payouts to date. Check out our interview!

The Robot Factory lets kids build, test, and collect whatever they can imagine. Robot cats. Robot samurais. Robot spies. Robot butlers. Robot wizards. Robot lizards. Robot dancers. Robot doctors. Robot moonwalkers. Kids can create thousands of different robots from 50+ parts: exoskeletons, zephyr mechanisms, hydrostatic tentacles, ungulate feet, machinos locomotors, solartronics, and more. Then, they can test their robots in a fantastical world full of obstacles. Whether their robots survive or bust, kids can build, rebuild, and retest endlessly. And, kids can save and collect all of their robots.

Chip is an easy and fun electronics kit for everyone.  Attach the Pixel Power base and play.  Plug Chip into an Arduino and he becomes a friend you can program. Chip's cross activity design builds S.T.E.M / S.T.E.A.M skils. CHIP -  An electronics kit with character  Chip is cute and playful. Whether he is on your desk in his Pixel Power board or in an Arduino, his big LED eyes draw you in. His large size makes him easy for makers of all ages and skills to build.  . Chip is easy to build for all skill levels, especially  beginners .  Chip encourages exploration and play. Chip can be used to learn other skills, such as programming.  Chip is fun.  Chip builds S.T.E.A.M. Skills Many soldering kits do not offer anything more than a battery and a LED. Once completed, those kits end up in a drawer, never to be used again. At the other end of the spectrum, there are electronic kits that are really interesting but have so ma...

What? A major appliance company goes maker? That is what GE's promise for the FirstBuild community in Louisville, Kentucky. FirstBuild is a community of builders, makers and innovators backed by GE. We interview FirstBuild's product evangelist, Taylor Dawson, live from their maker space. They will even give you a tour. Check it out!

Photo courtesy of Cal Poly Graduate Education Printed electronics is a emerging area where one can use traditional graphics printing techniques to put down conductive lines using  such as  screenprinting ,  flexography ,  gravure ,  offset lithography , and  inkjet .  This has been in the research phases for years and now it appears people are gearing up for the manufacturing phase. All the research has been focused is in the making the conductive inks more affordable and adapting printing machines for these inks. This area can be a prime target for the  Maker Movement .   You also need to train printing professionals and creative designers to use this area. We talked with Malcolm Keif , professor in Graphic Communications at Cal Poly, about their online program in Printed Electronics  to train people in this field. 

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Tonight we interviewed Jason Browne, CEO and co-founder, of SPOR Chargers . His SPOR team has developed a portable battery charging device which is recharged by solar or wall charging. This product is being funded by a Kickstarter campaign which is running till June 30. The interesting part of this story, is that Jason is a business major from Drexel has learned the ins and out of his product just by access to the internet and learning from makers. Yes, you can learn from the internet. Listen to his great entrepreneurial story below.

When traveling through the Maker Faire, Sony was the last company I expected to see in the Make:Electronics area of the Expo hall. It was pleasant to see that Sony was trying to embrace the maker movement. We interview Takehiro Hagiwara, MESH Project Leader, on their view of bringing creativity and innovation to the common person. Give it a look.

In this Nerd Stalker podcast with Adolfo Foronda and Greg Veloria, we talk all things Maker Faire. In this episode we talk about CAD software, Mecca Fire Dragons, DIY, maker education, drone technology and more.