The Urgency of Doing
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo DaVinci - (maybe) In The Expanding Universe: Why the Maker Movement Matters, on the education blog, Maelstrom ("Spinning in the...
Shining our Light
"My family wants to say, can you all please, please stop the violence? Freddie Gray would not want this. Freddie's father and mother does not want no violence. Violence does not get justice." — Fredericka Gray, twin sister of Freddie Gray, NPR Almost exactly two years...
Making for Fun & Knowledge: A Look at the Scan-o-Tron!
“Creating means living.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape We've always loved making things, from the workbenches and furniture we made for our first home three decades ago (including the desk I still write from today!), to literature and art, to building projects like...
Hillsborough Women in Tech – Seminole Heights Library March 30, 1pm
The headlines regularly call America out on the issue: Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation Why it's Crucial to Get More Women into Science "Girl Day" Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Fields The White House has a page dedicated to Women in STEM and there are now...
Eureka! Factory is a Proud Supporter of Homebrew Hillsborough!
The Eureka! Factory is excited to be part of Hillsborough County's new monthly networking series, Homebrew Hillsborough, kicking off on Friday, January 30 at 8:30 a.m. at Buddy Brew on Kennedy Avenue, home of the original Tech Talks started by former county...
Season’s Greetings from Eureka! Factory
St. Pete MakerFest: Growing our Community of Makers
The Eureka Factory will be at the 1st annual St. Pete MakerFest Saturday, December 20th, joining our growing community of makers in a celebration of all things creative and self-made. We love supporting our creative community, especially at the grassroots level, where...
Making a Better Holiday: Buy Less, Live More
"...the more I buy the more I'm bought. And the more I'm bought the less I cost." - Joe Pug – Hymn #101 The holidays are upon us with a vengeance here in the U.S., commercialism steamrolling across our media saturated landscape with all the subtlety of, well, a...
The Hive and the Future of Libraries: An Editorial Response
Back in October, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story on the results of a consultant's summary report of an evaluation of the John F. Germany Library in downtown Tampa. The John F. Germany Library is the main branch of the Tampa Hillsborough County Library System, and home...
Collaboration Celebration
The Eureka Factory is a collaborative of creative individuals and business partners who believe in the power of community driven innovation to help people move from passive consumption to empowered and active creation of their future and ours. - Our Welcome Page In...