Career
His work combines electronics, woodworking, and repurposing using physical fabrication to make prototypes in line with the maker culture. His open source work is professionally documented to inspire others to follow along. Warren believes that by keeping ideas open-sourced the barrier to participation is significantly lowered and transfers a static audience to an active participant.
Warren is the author of a maker book for young adults 23 Things to do before you are 11 1/2, as well as 2 all-ages books about making, and served as the technical editor for the young adult fiction Dewey Mac Kid Detective (which was successfully funded on Kickstarter and publishing in 2015).
Warren is currently a designer with Instructables and Autodesk. Mike Warren has build videos available on his YouTube channel.
In 2014, Warren created a glow in the dark (phosphorescence) table made from photoluminescent powder mixed with clear casting resin set into Pecky Cypress. This table was later republished in Wired United Kingdom magazine in 2015.
The video tutorial has over 2.5 million views.
In 2014, Warren built a centrifuge from an old circular saw. In 2012, Warren was featured in Popular Science Magazine for his project concealing a battery operated soldering iron inside an airsoft gun. The airsoft pistol had a removable ammunition clip which the batteries for the soldering iron were hidden, the trigger action activated the soldering iron.
