Mobius App released to empower MIT maker community
Novel app will remove barriers to student making at MIT, impact universities around the world.
3 Questions: Neil Gershenfeld and the spread of Fab Labs
Ten years after launching Fab Lab, the project’s founder describes the program’s research, global impact.
3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on making the future makers
MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them.
Molecule makers
A new course in the Department of Chemical Engineering gives freshmen hands-on experience.
A mechanical engineering rite of passage at MIT
Since the 1970s, Department of Mechanical Engineering course 2.007 has introduced undergraduate students to hands-on designing and building.
The art and science of mapmaking with wood
Graduate student Phillip Daniel turns maps into laser-cut works of art.
First-ever MIT Maker Faire attracts nearly 3,000 attendees to campus
More than 100 exhibits celebrate STEAM and the fun of making.
Making change
PhD student Dina El-Zanfaly studies learning through making — with one eye on her native Egypt.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
MIT’s Mobile Fab Lab participates in White House Maker Faire
Obama tours MIT-developed trailer containing digital fabrication, design, and manufacturing tools.
Power (of electronics) to the people
Alumna Ayah Bdeir’s fast-growing startup littleBits, which sells connectable electronic modules, is helping people understand and build creatively with electronics.
Meet the maker
MIT alumna Limor Fried has become a pioneer of the ‘maker movement’ with her multimillion-dollar company.