by Michael Belfiore | Apr 29, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Like it or not, the drones are coming. Delivery services, construction and real estate companies, farmers, and of course photographers and filmmakers will all use them extensively—just as soon as government regulators clear the way. One of the technical challenges...
by Michael Belfiore | Apr 28, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Failure is good. Failure, as I learn again and again from the technologists I report on, is how you get to the stuff that works. I had this idea I could make a gazillion dollars running my own blog. That may be true, but not by trying to pound out stories every day...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 29, 2014 | Articles, Blog
After a trial run at madscienceinnovation.com, I’ve decided to switch back here, to michaelbelfiore.com, for my blogging activities. I’ll post here as I visit and interview technologists about the work they’re doing to make the world a better place,...
by Michael Belfiore | Oct 4, 2014 | Blog
Ten years ago today, a former Navy pilot climbed into a homebuilt spaceship, was carried to a high altitude by a mothership in the skies over Mojave, California, dropped into free fall, and fired the spaceship’s hybrid rocket motor to blast out of the atmosphere. It...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 27, 2014 | Articles, Blog
My extended Q&A with MakerBot founder Bre Pettis is up on the Look Ahead blog at The Economist. Pettis was a school teacher who got his start in desktop manufacturing by searching for ways to reach kids who learned best by working with their hands. MakerBot is at...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 18, 2014 | Articles, Blog
NASA’s MAVEN Mars orbiter is set for Mars orbital insertion this weekend. The unmanned probe will fire its engines on Sunday at 9:37pm Eastern Time. And then mission controllers will have to white-knuckle it for 12.5 minutes to find out whether the maneuver was...
