Make:cast
Episodes
Make:cast -- Makerspaces in Schools with Sarah H Chung
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah H Chung is the manager of Maker Learning at Center City Public Charter Schools in Washington DC. Sarah shares her journey into maker education, ...
Unplugged Tots: Screen-free coding activities for children
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Make:cast, host Dale Dougherty is joined by Hannah Hagon, author of "Unplugged Tots," and Brian Jepson, publisher at Rasp...
A Maker's Life - a generational perspective
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Make:cast, Dale Dougherty from Make Magazine chats with Marilyn Nash and Amber Hudson, authors of 'A Maker's Life'. ...
Making Electronic Music with Kirk Pearson
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Make:cast, host Dale Dougherty speaks with Kirk Pearson, author of 'Electronic Music from Scratch,' and Kevin Toyama, the...
TCF: Fun with Technology
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the keynote talk I gave at the Trenton Computer Festival 2025 at the end of March. The theme of the festival was Fun with Technology and I t...
The Creative Potential For AI in Education
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Make:cast, Dale Dougherty is joined by Ken Kahn, author of 'The Learner's Apprentice: AI and the Amplification of Human C...
Make: Turns Twenty and We're Still Going
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dale Dougherty discusses the launch and evolution of Make: Magazine, a DIY technology publication, since its inception in February 2005. The convers...
I'm 3D Printing Chocolate: A Conversation with Ellie Weinstein of Cocoa Press
21 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Make:Cast, Dale Dougherty interviews Ellie Weinstein, founder and CEO of Cocoa Press, a company that manufactures 3D printers that ...
Upskilling with Steph Piper
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of MakeCast, Dale Dougherty interviews Steph Piper, a creative technologist from Queensland, Australia. They discuss her Maker Queen w...
Talking about Tinkering with Ryan Jenkins
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
 "Tinkering is a fun way to learn about the world around you," says Ryan in his new book, 'The Tinkering Workshop,' which promote...
Moon Makers of Mexico
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dale Dougherty interviews Camila and Diego Luna of Moonmakers at the Fab 24 conference in Puebla, Mexico. Moonmakers is an educational non-profit focu...
A Safe Place to Use Tools
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chad Orcutt created Community Shop Class in the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, California. What started out as the ADHD Inventor's Club in ...
The Sneaky DIY of Cy Tymony
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Cy Tymony, author of "Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things" and "Sneaky Math."Â Cy has a wonderful DIY worldview that he s...
Jenny Young and the story of Brooklyn Robot Foundry
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Young is a mechanical engineer who founded Brooklyn Robot Factory thirteen years ago and introduced it at World Maker Faire in NYC to bring hand...
Making as a Creative Practice - Matt Zigler
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Zigler is the author of a new book for educators titled "3 Modes of Making." He talks about imitation, modification and innovation as t...
It's Time to Design for Repair - Jude Pullen
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Trying to repair almost anything can be a frustrating exercise. Repair is made more difficult by the way devices are designed and the ability to rep...
AI Robots for Kids
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features an interview with the authors of a new book titled "AI Robots." which includes Reade Richard, Andy Forest, Brenda Shiv...
The Challenges of Running a Community Makerspace: Jim Sweeney - NoVA Labs
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest on this episode of Make:cast is Jim Sweeney, the treasurer of NoVA Labs, a community makerspace in northern Virginia. Jim talks honestly abou...
Tinkerer, Engineer, Mr. Mom, Maker, Teacher
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation between Dale Dougherty, the founder of Make Magazine and Maker Faire, and Brian Wagner, an educator, coder, and maker. Brian Wagner t...
Hack Club's Chris Walker and Castle Bravo
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Walker dropped out of Dartmouth and became a Thiel Fellow in 2013. He had an idea for a math video game that was inspired by the TI 84 graphin...
Growing into the Future: The Makerspace at Moreno Valley College
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Donnell Layne and Jason Kennedy developed the iMAKE Innovation Center Makerspace at Moreno Valley College in Southern California, an Hispanic-servin...
Trig - the oldest practical math
08 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guests on this episode are the authors of Make Trigonometry, Build Your Way from Triangles to Analytic Geometry, Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron. M...
Making Creative Space with Assemble's Nina Barbuto
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Assemble is a leading example of a community-oriented creative space focused on the needs of youth, providing summer and afterschool programming that ...
Daniel Brateris on Experiential Learning at NJIT
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Brateris is Director of Experiential Learning at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey. We talk about the practice of hands ...
Michael Stone: Authentic Learning and Making
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dale Dougherty talks to Michael Stone of the Public Education Foundation of Hamilton County in southeast Tennessee. Michael is responsible to developi...
"I knew nurses were making because I did it myself"
12 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Rose Hedges of UnityPoint Health in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Anna Young of Maker Health join me to talk about how a makerspace on the first floor of a h...
Galen Powers - People Passionate about their Craft
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Galen Powers is a multi-faceted person: a maker and an inventor who has been successful in business. He credits his success to working with people who...
The Return of Robogames
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Organizer David Caulkins and Combat Robot Legend Ray Billings talk about the return of Robogames, which takes place at the Alameda County Fairgrounds ...
The Story of Voron Design with Maks Zolin
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maks Zolin wanted to build a better, faster printer that was also quieter. He set out building the Voron printer in his garage but he ended up decidin...
Obsessed with Colorful LED Orbs
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Maker and educator, Debra Ansell is my guest on this episode of Make:cast. She is obsessed with orbs -- colorful, LED orbs and she shows us how to bui...
On Pulleys and Pirate Ships-Learning CAD
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A lot of makers struggle to learn CAD. Why is this keystone piece of software such a challenge to learn? This is what I talk about with Jake Sugden ...
Customizing Adaptive Devices for People with Disabilities
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft's Bryce Johnson and John Helmes Join Make: Editor Caleb Kraft to talk about creating adaptive devices that can be customized, hacked an...
Santa Needs Maker Microfactories
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The world needs more maker microfactories and I wonder if Santa might be interested in learning more about them from Tim Keller, the head of Inventopi...
If Kids Really Knew STEM with Jasmine Florentine
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmine Florentine's new book introduces making and STEM to middle-schoolers. The book, "Hex Allen and the Clanksmiths", creates a fant...
Dorothy Jones-Davis Moves to KID Museum
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dorothy Jones-Davis has been Executive Director of Nation of Makers for six years. She recently announced that she is leaving to join the KID Museum ...
Jason Pohl: From Designing Video Games to Orange County Choppers and Beyond
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Pohl calls himself a "pretengineer" because he's self-taught. Trained as artist, his design work has taken him from creating vide...
Winners of the Amazing Maker Awards 2022
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the winners of this year's Amazing Maker Awards. Our top winners come from the US and Canada, Turkey, Japan, and Germany and they are as yo...
The Wherewithal to Change Things Through Making
20 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I'd like you to meet Amy Zell - mother, librarian, grief counselor, and maker. In this episode, she talks about the power of making to change th...
A Better Way to Learn Calculus with Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Authors of the new book, Make: Calculus, Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron talk about using Legos and 3D printed models to create visualizations that help...
Finding Maker Town with Susie Frazier
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Susie Frazier created the Maker Town platform for makers and artists working in Cleveland and Northern Ohio so that more people can find them and lear...
Humanmade SF's Ryan Spurlock
09 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A refugee from TechShop in SF, Ryan Spurlock took what he learned there and applied it to a new makerspace called Humanmade located in the design dist...
The Magic Never Died - Maker Faire Long Island
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Maker Faires are slowly coming back. After not happening for two years, Maker Faire Long Island took place in June at Port Jefferson Village's Ex...
Wyoming's Maker Access Pass with Tyler Kerr
10 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tyler Kerr runs the Innovation Wyrkshop, a makerspace at the University of Wyoming. During COVID, state officials saw the potential for makerspaces in...
Playification - The Makey Makey Story
27 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Makey Makey, a creative platform for children of all ages, turned 10 years old this month. In this episode, we talk with Jay Silver, the creative tec...
Shop Talk and Tips with Gareth Branwyn
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DIY lifer Gareth Branwyn has compiled a new volume of his series, Tips and Tales of the Workshop, Volume 2. He joins Dale Dougherty to talk about how ...
Making is So Elementary
29 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Darling, author/educator/librarian, talks her book "Social-Emotional Learning Using Makerspaces and Passion Projects: Step by Step Projects...
Mike on Make:
15 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Senese has been the Executive Editor for Make: for almost nine years. He started on volume 36 and leaves now after wrapping up issue 81. Mike j...
Determination: Makers in Ukraine
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Determination seems like the best word to describe the collective response of Ukrainians as they fight for their country, for their home and their fre...
Fearless CNC
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
You might say that CNC is like a stepchild in the digital fabrication family, not the friendliest or easiest tool to get to know in the maker-space. Y...
Share the Repair with Wayne Seltzer
05 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
My guest on this episode is Wayne Seltzer who is lifelong fixer himself. He started the U-Fix-It Clinic in Boulder, Colorado to help others learn to f...
Kiddy Copter - A Family Affair
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Helmholdt of Grand Rapids, Michigan designed and built a Kiddy Copter, based on the Bell 47 helicopter from the M.A.S.H TV series. In this ep...
Maker's Knowledge with Bill Gurstelle
04 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
William Gurstelle is the author of many popular technical books, including Backyard Ballistics and the three-volume Remaking History. He has been a co...
Smaller is Big: Eben Upton of Raspberry Pi
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Over nine years ago, Raspberry PI was created by a small team, led by Eben Upton as a kind of academic side project. This single board computer was a ...
Will We Be Better Prepared the Next Time?
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This preview of Respiracon II (January 29-30) features Robert Read of Public Invention and Leith Greenslade of the Every Breath Counts Coalition. The...
Leveraging Biology to Make Things with Julie Legault and Justin Pahara
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Julie Legault and Dr. Justin Pahara are the Canadian co-authors of "Zero to Genetic Engineering Hero," a hands-on guide to biotech experimen...
The World's Largest Makerspace in a Town of 10,000 or Less
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
FabLab ICC is located at Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas. It's a small town of less than 10,000 people in southeast Kansas...
Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson on Innovation as a Material Practice
13 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Making stuff, engaging in some form of material practice, is essential for students who are to become innovators, says Dr. Ann-Louise Davidson. She i...
Best Maker Schools - Kent State University
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
nt State University, the Design Innovation Hub is a central resource on campus that provides makespace access and connects to the other makerspaces on...
Best Maker Schools University of Maryland College Park
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Makerspaces are becoming a fixture on college campuses. In this episode, the first of a series of conversations with the people who manage makerspace...
Explaining Electronics with Charles Platt
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Platt, the bestselling author of Make: Electronics, talks about his background as a writer and how he wanted to explain electronics through ha...
The Making of A Scientist/Maker/Teacher
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I met Dr. Steve M. Potter at Maker Faire Atlanta, which was hosted by Georgia Tech, where Dr. Potter was a professor of neuroengineering. His experie...
Making A Customizable Tool Roll
13 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A tool roll is a way to store all kinds of things that you might want to carry with you. Parker Thomas has created a customizable toll roll called th...
A Better Way to Teach Geometry Using 3D Models
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, authors of Make: Geometry, explain how to use 3D models to teach geometry, which can help students visualize and grasp ...
The 5% Solution For Right to Start
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest is Victor Hwang, who organized the Right to Start movement that seeks to open doors for more people to become entrepreneurs and create an eco...
Fixing Broken Machines From the Amazon Return Bin
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Debra Daun's superpower is fixing broken machines, such as 3D printers. She runs the MakerLab at Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois. She...
3D Modeling for Makers
09 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lydia Sloan Cline is the author of Fusion 360 for Makers, which is out in a new second edition. She teaches 3D design and fabrication at Johnson Coun...
Emotion and Empathy Are Glue for Makers -- Dr. Andreea Gorbatai
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2020, Dr. Andreea Gorbatai and two co-authors published a research paper in the journal Organization Science titled: "Making Space for Emotion...
Making and Thinking Big in Tulsa
07 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In episode #22 of Make:cast, I learn about the new building for Fab Lab Tulsa from its Executive Director, Nathan Pritchett. The new building is under...
What An AI Nose Knows
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Like many of us during Covid-19, Benjamin Cabé was baking sourdough bread at home in France. He wondered how he might tell if his dough was done pro...
The What, How and Why of CO2 Monitoring with Guido Burger
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CO2 Tech Guru Guido Burger from Germany joins Dale Dougherty to explain his research into monitoring CO2 and show how to build his CO2 traffic light, ...
You CAN Get Started 3D Printing
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Make: books editor, Patrick DiJusto talks 3D Printing with the authors of Getting Started with 3D Printing, Liza Wallach Kloski and Nick Kloski. Liza...
Everything In Its Own Jar
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Zalme had an idea how to organize everything in clear jars that could be mounted on pegboard in his garage in Asheville, North Carolina. Over 3-...
Mister Rogers - a Maker and More
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A new book out April 20 looks at the learning science that Fred Rogers used to develop an understanding of the "inner needs of children" and...
Build It and See What Happens with Austin McChord
03 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a result of a $50 million grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2017, the Maker Library & Innovative Learning Complex of the ...
Making New Music with Helen Leigh
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"All instruments are inventions and all music is made up -- so make your own using microcontrollers," writes Helen Leigh in Volume 76 of Mak...
Making Things That Don't Already Exist with Neil Cohen
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you transform ordinary stuff into meaningful things, even beautiful things? How you make things that don't yet exist, something original ...
Looking for Your Next Adventure - David Lang
05 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David Lang, author of Zero to Maker and co-founder of OpenROV, recently decided to stop doing what he had been doing and begin looking for something n...
Me and My Robots - Jorvon Moss
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jorvon Moss creates companion robots for himself, working nights and weekends. I had run into Jorvon at Maker Faire Bay area as well as at the downto...
The Multiple Choice Future
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our current framework for multiple-choice standardized testing is about 20 years old, dating back to legislation signed by President Bush called No Ch...
Scott Swaaley - Engineer, Educator & Entrepreneuer
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a maker, San Diego-native Scott Swaaley is a triple-threat. He can build things; he can teach; and he can start and run his own business. An el...
The Last Place For A Makerspace
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The last place you might expect to find a makerspace is at The George Mark House, a pediatric palliative care facility in San Leandro, California. It...
Machine Learning for Beekeepers
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You can learn a lot about the health of a hive by listening to the sounds that bees make, as a beekeeper would do. The developers of the Long Hive pr...
To Maker Faire Rome with Love
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Italians have a love of innovation and design and it shows at Maker Faire Rome. In this episode of Make:Cast, I look back at Maker Faire Rome in Octo...
Ten Years of Open Source Hardware
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ten years ago, a community came together around a definition of open source hardware to be clear about what it means to share designs for physical thi...
How Hard Can It Be?
20 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Deagan, a maker in Austin, TX, is a polymaker with many interests and fabrication projects that range from from flame effects to ham radio to leat...
Problem Solving is #1
11 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk with Sarah Boisvert, an entrepreneur with extensive work experience in manufacturing, laser technology in 3d printing, who ha...
Make Anything with Open Source Projects
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For anyone wanting to do something, open source makes it easier for you to get started, for creative ideas to flourish and for difficult problems to b...
Recipes for Operating a Makerspace
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The co-founders of Maker Works in Ann Arbor, Michigan have written an operations guide for makerspaces. In this episode, we talk with Tom Root, one o...
Matching Talent to Opportunity at mHUB Chicago
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last year or two. mHUB Chicago has begun offering product development services that allow makers, engineers, and others to work on paid proje...