New book - The New Shop Class

Our new book publishes this week from Apress, and will be available as a paperback and ebook. You will be able to get one at Apress, Amazon and many other online stores.

 http://www.apress.com/9781484209059

Who else will be at San Mateo Makerfaire next weekend?  We will be at some of our friends' booths to talk about the book and show off a copy!

UPDATED 5/14 afternoon: 

11:00 Sat and Sunday, May 16-17: CRASH Space booth
In the Expo tent

3:00 Sat and Sunday, May 16-17: Booth #1144
IdeaPrinter booth in Make:Labs 

Joan and Rich teaching free one-hour class Thursday, April 2 at CoKreeate in Alhambra.

  

Our New Blog: Making At Windward

Rich and I have a new blog on the Windward School site. Check it out at http://ctl.windwardschool.org/

Nice piece in PCC magazine today

The Pasadena City College magazine had a nice piece about the students who created a map for the blind over the summer: 

http://www.pcccourier.com/2015/02/04/students-honored-tasked-with-3d-tactile-map-for-visually-impaired/

New book coming soon

 Our new book is out in "alpha" form now - that means people can buy it and they get periodic ebook updates as new sections are uploaded. Or you can wait till May and get the hardcopy paper book! We are enjoying writing it- description at the link: http://www.apress.com/the-new-shop-class

3D Printer World Expo

Rich and I will be an "attraction" at the upcoming 3D Printer World Expo in Burbank, Jan. 29-31  We'll be answering questions about 3D printing in a little area off the show floor (http://www.3dprinterworld.com/attractions). If you are in the area, be sure and come by!

The good folks at ideaPrinter (booth 209) will be selling my Mastering 3D Printing book. The first signing will be Thursday the 29th at 3 PM - we will be setting up more times during the show after that.

Toy makers figure out girls build stuff

It's nice to see an economic victory once in a while (although philosophical victories are good too):

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-girls-toys-20141214-story.html#page=1