Making Sense of the Maker Movement

Oct. 8, 2024

A roundtable of Electronic Design’s editors talk about the mindset of makers and how that intersects with the engineering community.

Alix Paultre

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Electronic Design

The Maker Movement is a relatively new phenomenon in society, or is it? The desire to understand technology and create things is a drive that has existed in people since the first devices were built. We sit down with Electronic Design editors Andy Turudic and Cabe Atwell for a discussion about the Maker Movement, tinkerers, and engineering.

Also, download Electronic Design's special themed digital issue on the maker ecosystem.

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About the Author

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.