Recently I started writing [a column for Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonobacon/).
My latest column covers the rise of the maker movement and in it I interviewed Jamie Hyneman from *Mythbusters* and Dale Dougherty from *Make Magazine*.
Go and give it a read [right here](https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonobacon/2015/08/19/a-mythbuster-and-more-discuss-the-rise-of-the-makers/).
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