Democratizing the Maker Movement

aarondubrow writes: To its advocates and participants, the Maker Movement resonates with those characteristics that we believe makes America great: independence and ingenuity, creativity and resourcefulness. But as impressive as today's tools are, they're not accessible to many Americans simply because of their cost and high technological barrier to entry. An article in the Huffington Post describes efforts supported by the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies to create new tools, technologies and approaches to make the Maker movement more inclusive and democratic.

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Re:the HuffPo article is a lot of

[epyT-R]

Well muffington boast is a leftist feminist rag, so it's going to weave the oppression olympics narrative into everything. They're right up there with bill oreilly in bullshit factor.