maker

A documentary on the Maker Movement – trailer

http://makerthemovie.com/

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loveland screening oct 2

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/make-education-relevant-and-inspiring-free-film-screening-and-reception-tickets-12760313441?ref=estw

notes/quotes:

if you have to ask what it’s for…

i liked this – in regard to – there’s never nothing going on ness. guarding against the maker movement selling out to our current obsession with productivity.

maker movements – web generation meets real world – Chris Anderson

industrial revolution: 1. mechanical 2. info 3. combo – essential democratization moment has kicked in

personal fabrication ness

desire makes maker movement

people tended to think dumb kids went to shop class

one reason shop ended – dangerous… well people can drown in public swimming pools.. – Dale

ecosystem: ed; prototyping; crowdfunding (sourcing gets ideas back); manufacturing

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biocurious

letting people know what’s possible. if you don’t know how things work – you’re got someone else telling you what to do – bio hacking

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openrov – David Lang

open source aspect of maker movement is huge

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nano satisfi

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democratizing access to exploration —–> citizen science

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patent system is flawed – too slow if you just spend your time talking

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lux research

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type a machine

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shapaways – iphone case – buy/make/sell

mass customization factory

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Carl Bass – autodesk

maker movement happen independent of 3d printers

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world economic forum – movement more like a jazz band

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the tinkerer – book

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pebble tech corp – watch

raised 10 mill in 3 days

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crowdfunding instead of banks/vc’s

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maker’s row

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dragon innovation

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Charles Adler – kickstarter

indiegogo

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lemnos labs – Hephaestas – island he had forage

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many come w/software background.. problem – hardware costs money

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Barry Katz – stanford

18th century england —-> small # of tinkerers

taken by self – look like small scale not very meaningful.. and then

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autodesk –

industrial revolution —–> mass production

now we can personalize

we reached peak of global/centralized manufacturing..

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maker’s row like netflix

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rickshaw bagmaker sf

a renaissance in micro manufacturing

(looked similar to sweatshop to me)

Mark Dwight

hybrid products

– – -local motors

mission: co-creation

cars working like what blogs did to newspaper

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Tim O’Reilly –

maker – more than electronics.. it’s about seeing things that are broken and fixing them

chicken coop

you think about – how do you solve problems – how do you make something work

– – – Navi Radjo

jugaad innovation

the macgyver spirit

india – most green fridge for like 25$

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Tony Tempt Van – Als

eye writer made for under $100

then for class at under $10

not impossible labs

twitter: https://twitter.com/notimposs

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govt’s in europe looking to support maker movement to save economy

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Dale – small groups of people can have big impact

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transformative tools in hands of regular people – Chris Anderson

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hard to see in middle of it all – but if you zoom out – 100 -5000 yrs – the silly/frivolous – may just be a fashion/fade – but what if it takes off – a new model

yes. let’s model another way – in less than 100, 10 yrs..

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find/follow:

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Dale Dougherty et al..

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maker/hacker ness et al

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oct 1, 2014 – Jerome Bruner – 99 yrs old

via Maria:

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/13/jerome-bruner-myth-identity-creativity/

Today, we hang so much of our identity on our capacity to create, often confusing what we do for who we are. And while creativity, by and large, is a positive force in the external world, its blind pursuit can be damaging to the inner.

most people are other people. trumping authenticity for attachment.

perhaps why ie: th experiment and this mit & twitter – and even maker ness – won’t get us there – until we free people up to be themselves. twitter data is irrelevant – if it’s not really us. no? how to make it not an imitation. every day.

It is hard for us to accept that people do not fall in love with works of art only for their own sake, but also in order to feel that they belong to a community. By imitating, we get closer to others—that is, other imitators. It fights solitude. – Taleb

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