Road? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. – Dr. Emmett Brown. Here’s a look back at the maker world and beyond!
2011
Ask an engineer – vinyl cutter night!
@MAKE – Kindle Unswindle — how to remove the DRM from your purchased books.
2010
Adafruit has an offsite, Ladyada climbs 🙂
An overview back when Sparkfun had free days. 
@ Hack-a-day – Animatronics reference.
2009
@ MAKE – Made in Japan.
@Hack-a-day – How-to: Prepare your Eagle designs for manufacture. 
Adafruit starts to release the IceTube clock.
2008
Using terminal blocks w/Boarduino.
@MAKE – Bre Pettis leaves MAKE, goes to Etsy, then a TV pilot, then MakerBot.
@Hack-a-day – Bluetooth headset for PSP/PS2.
2007
New DigiKey site.
@MAKE – HOW TO – Use a driver’s license as an Ableton Live MIDI controller.
@ Hack-a-day – Lazy psp player (automatic woodchopper).
2006
@MAKE – HOW TO – Make lock picks (videos)…
@ Hack-a-day – DIY Fig rig.
Ladyada working on boarduino 2.
2005
@ Hack-a-day – overclock your calculator. 
Way Back In Time…
1915
1861
On January 14, 1861, the first patent for a safety elevator “called a ‘hoisting apparatus’ in the application) was granted to Elisha Otis from Yonkers.
1706
Oh, Benjamin Franklin, first great American paradigm-maker. He created the first insurance company. And the first fire station. And fiddled with keys in lightning storms (as our first grade teacher would have it). Could he be called the first great American hacker? He certainly did have a way of thinking differently. Many of his inventions were ignored or discarded for decades before their use was realized. He “discovered” the Gulf Stream, by researching maritime travel times, contributed to research of general effects of liquefaction on electrolytes. If only we could send him an Arduino…
1501
An illustration from Fuch’s text: De historia stirpium commentarii insignes
Leonhart Fuchs, the father of botany and origin of the name for fuchsia, was born on January 17, 1501. The world would be a little less purple-magenta without him…