Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life

May 16, 2013 7:30 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Editor's Pick In Christmas 2011, Marc Roth fished out a business card for TechShop out of a shelter's garbage bin. Two years later, he's an entrepreneur with a funded laser company, and one of the Maker Movement's greatest success stories.

DARPA invests $3.5M in TechShop to create pop-up weapons factories

May 24, 2012 6:59 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

A fundamental tenet of the modern maker movement is that everyone wants to build something. Especially the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Today DARPA took a break from funding next-generation weapons systems, advanced hypersonic aircraft, and frickin’ laser beams to …