Mens et manus in the MIT History workshop
Students gain insights into early book-making technology and cultural systems by creating paper and a handset printing press from scratch.
Making it real
Two new programs, MakerBucks and MakerLodge, for MIT freshmen will provide training, funds, and community for makers.
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.
Molecule makers
A new course in the Department of Chemical Engineering gives freshmen hands-on experience.
3 Questions: Martin Culpepper on making the future makers
MIT students want to make things. Meet the “Maker Czar” who’s helping them.
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.