We’re delighted to share the news: Boston Makers has a new space! Now through mid-March, 2018, Boston Makers is hosted by the Eliot School at their Annex space at 253 Amory Street. We’re still looking for a permanent home–but we’re […]
Vinnie Zoutenbier has been a Boston Makers volunteer since February 2017. In this interview, read how he first started making, and why he’s passionate about teaching others at the Boston Makers workspace. What first got you interested in making, and why? I had been […]
On Tuesday, May 23, we opened our doors to the community to share our search for a new makerspace, meet neighbors and local development advocates, and show off some of the amazing projects our volunteers have created at the space. […]
The Design Swarms workshop at the Roxbury Innovation Center on April 1, 2017, organized by DigiFabCon, was an opportunity to collaborate and culminate design concepts. In this workshop we addressed a humanitarian problem of insufficient access to tools amidst the ongoing refugee […]
On December 12, 2016, makers and friends gathered at Boston Makers for our second annual(!) holiday party. Since opening in April, our volunteer list has expanded to 50 people, and we were delighted to invite them to the space to […]
Rain didn’t stop crowds of budding artists to pedal and paint their way to masterpieces at Wake Up the Earth on May 7. Our Spin Cycle was a huge hit; thank you to our volunteers, artists, and parents who patiently […]
Our Microcontroller Club dedicated many evenings and weekends to learning and creating something new to them: a bicycle-powered spin art machine we dubbed the Spin Cycle. Check out photos of their work, from designs and models to drilling and final touches. […]
CityPOP Egleston Opens For One-Year Run In Jackson Glass Building The grand opening of CityPOP Egleston, a new arts-centered community space, brought light, energy, balloons and enthusiasm to the old Jackson Glass and Rainbow Foods building at 3195 Washington St. […]
With some simple Python code and an old iPhone 4 camera, we put together this time lapse video of a recent work session. Check it out!
BOSTON MAKERS JOINS CITYPOP: JP COMMUNITY JAMAICA PLAIN’S FIRST MAKERSPACE MOVES TO EGLESTON SQUARE IN APRIL Jamaica Plain, MA – Boston Makers announced that the nonprofit makerspace organization will be moving into CityPOP: JP at 3201 Washington Street, in Egleston […]
Great turn out at our holiday party this year! Complete with a 3D printer raffle, Tool Tree, photo booth, and sing-a-along, everyone had a wonderful time. Thanks to all who donated to our tool drive and to all who came! On […]
Hooray for our volunteers! The past few days the team has been hard at work painting the space. We still have plenty of house projects to do, but we’re loving the new vibe. Thanks to everyone who helped out.
“We’re scheming and dreaming,” is how Ted Heinrich, of Boston Makers’s Microcontroller Club, describes the wooden labyrinth the group has been building on Monday nights since April. Every other week, five or eight people show up to the Cheverus Building […]
What a great turn out we had at our screening of the Maker documentary last week, the kick-off event of our Summer Social Series! Maker is a feature-length documentary on the maker movement and its impact on society, culture, and economy […]
Boston Makers and Hyde Square Task Force participated in Art Week this Spring. Complete with drum circles, dancing in the square, and musical performances the event was a hit. Boston Makers had a booth where you could play music through […]
Another wonderful year at Wake Up the Earth Festival! The sun was shining and turnout was amazing. Thousands of our neighbors gathered to enjoy the music, food, and fun. This year we shared a table with the Elliot School and Stony […]
Last Sunday we got together for our first meeting in the current session of Young Makers Club with no fixed plan as to what to build. After welcoming some new members we set about figuring out what we were going to do. One […]
This January, we had a few teen represent Boston Makers at Youth Lead the Change, — a groundbreaking participatory budgeting (PB) process launched by the City of Boston to engage Boston youth in directly deciding how to spend $1 million of the […]