For the last few months, the Founders League and Betaspring have become home to a growing number of small trinkets and quirky projects. Around the holidays, custom-made cookie cutters seemed to appear out of thin air, and the air seemed to be constantly a-buzz with the quiet whirring of 3D printers and CNC machines.
The cause for all of this new bustle? It’s gotta be the influence of the newly moved-in Maker Media, who recently established their East Coast outpost here in Providence. For a few months now, Brian Jepson, Anna Kaziunas France, and Frank Teng have been working out of the Founders League, tweaking, tinkering, and generally just making stuff.
For those who might not know, Maker Media is a global platform for connecting makers with each other, and a leader in the emerging Maker movement--which combines the self-empowerment found in DIY projects, the use of cool new technologies like 3D printing, robotics, and physical computing, as well as art and design. They also publish the awesome Make: Magazine.
We’re so glad to have Make in the house--their maker orientation fits great with some of our other members like Sproutel, and we’ve already seen their technical know-how spread to other Founders League members like Scott Harris of ShutterCal (who cranked out some particularly awesome holiday gifts with our 3D printers).