Rob Holden-Pratt has kindly shared with us his Makerspace Resources.

Maker Movement

·         Make Magazine: http://makezine.com/ - they also have some excellent video resources too and a twice monthly web series here http://blog.makezine.com/video/
·         Makerbot – see http://www.makerbot.com/ check out community and TV sections for info. Part of Open Hardware movement – all about collaboration and using different disciplines to work towards a common goal.
·         Kickstarter – crowdsourced funding (coming to UK imminently) http://www.kickstarter.com/ (see also Indiegogo, sponsume, buzzbank)
·         Instructables – DIY sharing platform http://www.instructables.com/
·         Etsy – global sales site for crafters http://www.etsy.com/
·         Common  - describes itself as manufacturing social ventures website here http://www.common.is/ video here http://vimeo.com/22922845 - I may also have mentioned getitmade.com.

The Business potential of the Maker movement
·         Limor Fried and AdaFruit – biog and her website here http://www.adafruit.com/about/
·         Fantastic Wired Article – Atoms are the new Bits http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution/all/1
·         Brickarms http://www.brickarms.com/
·         Cuusoo – Lego crowd innovation platform – http://lego.cuusoo.com/
·         V&A Power of Making exhibition – details here http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/powerofmaking/ and the video art projects here http://vimeo.com/groups/pomopensub/
·         Open Hardware Summit video http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17287304 (features Instructables, Chumby, Arduino, Tv-be-gone) I’ve written about it here too  http://doobiewotsit.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/open-hardware-community-focused-commerce/

Actual labs
·         MIT Fab Lab project http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/faq/
·         Manchester FabLab http://www.fablabmanchester.org/
·         Cambridge MakeSpace http://makespace.org/
·         Omniversity http://omniversity.madlab.org.uk/
·         Makerhood – local making collective http://brixton.makerhood.com/