MAKER’S CORNER BY DAN WOODS

Penny for Your Thoughts

One of the reasons this is the coolest team I could ever hope to work with is that we all get to wear different hats. But it’s no secret around the MAKE office that my favorite hat of all is general manager of the Maker Shed store. What’s not to like? I get to exchange ideas with everyone about new kit ideas, tools, toys, microcontrollers, books, games, and yes, projects that we think ought to be kits but aren’t yet.

Over the past two years, our store has grown considerably in terms of the number of people we reach, number and variety of products we carry, number of indie makers supplying products, and even the size and spectacle of our physical pop-up stores at Maker Faire (about 10,000 square ...

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