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TALES FOR MAKERS PART 1

Tales for Makers, which will be published in The Shed in eight parts, is a storytelling experiment dedicated to the makers’ community.

For each issue, I will propose a new fictional story where one or more unbelievable technologies interact with the characters, who are then challenged to solve a mystery.

All eight tales will be connected by a central theme mystery, whose solution will be discovered along with the episodes. The goal of the tales is to inspire readers to explore, hack, and experiment, creating real-world applications connected in some way with these technologies that share a common characteristic — that with a few changes and a bit of imagination can be transformed into real-world applications. I will detail the making of a project in each issue, but other applications can be created by readers or by hacking and reinventing my proposals.

It’s a team effort

I should also acknowledge the precious contribution of

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