MAKE is currently searching for a Maker Shed Evangelist to work with our ecommerce team. This is a contract position. You will seek out and curate cool new products for the Maker Shed store, develop our relationships with independent maker suppliers, as well as commercial suppliers, and evangelizes Maker Shed and its product offerings through social media strategies, blogging, and representation online, and occasionally at events, schools, meet-ups, etc., and help shape our ecommerce merchandising efforts. The ideal person will bring the following experience to the team:
- Experience tackling hands-on projects, particularly electronics, microcontrollers, robots and motors, and be enthusiastic with sharing your projects with others.
- Must have ready access to a decent range of tools, from basic hand tools to soldering equipment to basic workshop tools, such as drills, band saws, etc.
- Excellent project organization skills; able to complete multiple hands-on projects quickly and independently.
- Passion for documenting and showing off projects to a variety of audiences; e.g. customers who need step-by-step documentation; teachers, parents and mentors looking for guidance in doing a project with students; magazine and online visitors looking for inspiration and ideas; and online shoppers who also need to understand product features, capabilities, and skill requirements.
- Excellent photography skills a huge plus; capable of capturing components and kits in various stages of completion so as to present our products professionally.
- Strong network of relationships within the maker community as well as an enthusiasm for meeting new makers and groups.
- An engaging, friendly personality comfortable inspiring groups with demonstrations and presentations in both formal and informal settings.
Sound like you (or maybe someone you know)? Send a note to Dan Woods (dan@oreilly.com). 
Pete Mills from Ann Arbor, MI, wrote in with his Cigar Box Laser Light Show. It was spring break last week so I had some spare time to kill. I wanted to do a project that would be done fairly quickly and still have some time to study for classes resuming. I do have several other projects going that I could have worked on but, I figured a laser light show would be appropriate for the occasion, being spring break and all. Actually, I have no idea if spring break party goers are the least bit interested in seeing laser light shows but, I am interested in getting some motors spinning programmatically. And to seal the deal there is a new cat in the mix over here so I have buckets full of laser pointers.
Members of the Manchester, UK hakcerspace HAC:Manchester used a projector, an Arduino, and some rotary encoders to build this giant project-a-sketch. Here’s a video of it in use by Maria of littlestar.tv:
[via Hackerspaces Soup]
More: Hello Makers, We’ll be doing another bit of maintenance over the weekend (WordPress’ development cycle is off the chain!), so we’ll be down for about 15 minutes (knock on wood) starting at 11pm PST on Saturday, March 12th. Hopefully that won’t interrupt your feverish sawing and hammering! More Recent Articles | |
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