Here is a statement that just got issued by the staff of Makers Market : After a seven month beta test period, we’re sad to report that we’ve reached a decision to cease operation of Makers Market and Boing Boing Bazaar. Although the concept of a marketplace for indie makers invited by the staffs of MAKE and Boing Boing received strong praise from sellers and customers alike, in the final analysis, it is not generating the kind of sales for our sellers that we expected, nor generating the revenue we need to “keep the lights on.” Working in close collaboration with Boing Boing, we attracted over 150 wonderful makers with creations so magical, we frequently found ourselves pulling out our own wallets to buy gifts, and we successfully drove nearly 3/4 million visits to Makers Market and Boing Boing Bazaar through online promotion and editorial posts, resulting in 4 million page views. However, our model was predicated on a highly cooperative premise: that a marketplace of indie makers actively engaged in their respective communities would quickly begin to draw its own critical mass

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News about Makers Market

It’s a great honor for me to be able to use this Maker Birthdays forum to offer up an entry-day shout out to one of my favorite living makers, Jeri Ellsworth . If ever there was someone for whom the fire for making appears to have blazing since birth, it’s Jeri.

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Maker Birthdays: Jeri Ellsworth

Darrel Anderson of Bon Accord, AB, created this geeky trivet as the first project with his new Mark 3 CNC. This is a trivet, in other words a thing to put a hot pot on. The design is a hilbert curve , actually 4 hilbert curves connected to make the one continuous line

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CNCed Hilbert curve trivet

Remember Adam Cecchetti and Bre Pettis’s Sudo Make Me a Sandwich Robot ?

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MAKE editor and publisher Dale Dougherty posted a pic of this Chinese issue of MAKE to his social network. Read the Full Story