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Our friendly journalist Gareth Halfacree recently attended the first Liverpool MakeFest event on our behalf, talking to the thronging crowds find out what's hot in the maker world at the minute. This series of Focus On features takes a look at some of the event's exhibitors, finding out what they're up to and what makes them tick.In a sea of wheeled robots, the Ohbot stand in Liverpool Library's Reading Room stands out. As the guests peer at the company's creations, so too do the creations peer back at them. "We just think that a head is a really good way...

Our friendly journalist Gareth Halfacree recently attended the first Liverpool MakeFest event on our behalf, talking to the thronging crowds find out what's hot in the maker world at the minute. This series of Focus On features takes a look at some of the event's exhibitors, finding out what they're up to and what makes them tick.The Reading Room of Liverpool Central Library is unusually packed, and with good reason: the usual books and periodicals are joined by makers showing off everything from an off-the-shelf robot dancing to Gangnam Style to the latest 3D printers and virtual reality hardware. One...

If you're in or around Manchester later this month, there's an event we'd like to bring to your attention. Described as "a symposium to explore the impact of local connections on future makespaces and redistributed manufacturing," the Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacturing Level 2 (Local Networks) two-day conference features a variety of speakers from all ends of the maker movement and industry - including our good friends and fellow UK Maker Belt Association (UKMBA) members Adrian McEwan and Hwa Young Jung. Taking place on the 20th and 21st of July, each day features six speakers - with Adrian and Hwa Young...

Our friendly journalist Gareth Halfacree recently attended the first Liverpool MakeFest event on our behalf, talking to the thronging crowds find out what's hot in the maker world at the minute. This series of Focus On features takes a look at some of the event's exhibitors, finding out what they're up to and what makes them tick.Finding DoES Liverpool's stand at maker events is typically easy: listen out for videogame sound effects, squeals of delight, and the thunk of foam darts impacting on cardboard boxes. If that wasn't enough, simply look for the queue. "The big thing under the marquee...

Our friendly journalist Gareth Halfacree recently attended the first Liverpool MakeFest event on our behalf, talking to the thronging crowds find out what's hot in the maker world at the minute. This series of Focus On features takes a look at some of the event's exhibitors, finding out what they're up to and what makes them tick.Taking the escalator up to the second floor of Liverpool Central Library, there's a stall - sandwiched between an author with stacks of his latest book and a company which builds remote-controlled drone aircraft for the film and photography industries - which seems slightly...