January 2012
10 posts
Waiting for Doctorow
3 BIG questions (and lots of smaller ones) about DARPA & Make
Make, DARPA, and teens: A match made in hackerspace
MAKE, DARPA, and teens: A match made in hackerspace →
storify.com
Tim O’Reilly’s MAKE magazine and his cohort are working with the Pentagon. More specifically, MAKE and folks are taking money from DARPA to create “makerspaces” for teens (aka the “Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach MENTOR” program). (No word on how large the award was). O’Reilly, MAKE, along with Saul Griffith and Dale Dougherty, have apparently been bought in order to make (no pun intended) the future generation of killer geeks. [Read more….]
“The United States Navy also liked the desert because it was clean. In 1930, by order of Congress, a new ammunition depot was opened which would later service the war in the Pacific. And so Hawthorne, Nevada—our destination—became a bunker city. There are over 2,400 bunkers containing 600,000 square feet of storage for weapons, bombs, and other such not-so-clean things. Curiously, the Wikipedia article linked to above lists as “capabilities of the center” both “demilitarization” and “ammunition renovation”.”
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Notes from the Desert (@soundscrapers)
