Bricolagepod Dominic Morrow

Dominic Morrow speaks with Jo Hinchliffe aka Concretedog, about the etymology of Hackerspace, Makerspace and FabLab, the differences, Makerspace-gate as well as topics relating to shared workshops spaces. 

Show notes can be found on bricolage.run as they don't paste properly into here. 
 

Dominic & Gillian (@ddiasco) explore the last UK Maker Faire in April 2018. They start outside on Times Square. They chat with Dave of Rowan Wood Carving before heading inside to chat with a couple of makers. 
This bonus episode was recorded in April 2018, at the time we did not know that this was to be the last UK Maker Faire (though please don’t be confused there are OTHER UK based Maker Faire’s they’re just not called the UK Maker Faire).
I managed to chat with Ruth Amos, an inventor and engineer who is the star of YouTubes “Kids Invent Stuff” and an initiative to help build confidence for kids and especially girls to be more at ease with using tools.
Some links to Ruth’s work:
https://twitter.com/RuthAmos on Twitter
#GirlsWithDrills for her initiative with Kisha Bradley
KidsInventStuff on YouTube with Sean Brown
We got to speak to Colin Furze, probably the most successful British maker on YouTube.
Colin’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze
Colin on Twitter https://twitter.com/colin_furze

Dominic meets with Becky Stern of Instructables.com and YouTube whilst at Maker Faire in New York. They talk all things making including some tips on how to hoard googly eyes and how Becky’s distraction train derailed and killed a village of Canadians.
In this episode of Bricolage I talk with Becky Stern in a noisy cafe at the New York Hall of Science, in Queens during the World Maker Faire event at the end of September 2018.
We talk about:
The importance of audio quality
Tinkercad & online courses
Train of thought derailment (killed a village of Canadians)
Dominic likes to pioneer new things
How do you know Dominic founded a Hackerspace? Don’t worry he’ll tell you…
NYC Resistor the Brooklyn based makerspace where Becky is a member
Makerbot in Brooklyn found space for NYC Resistor
Bree Pettis proto-YouTube-Maker and influence on Becky & Dominic
The “Death” Elevator (see Instagram)
Instructables (where Becky is product manager)
Mini Golf Hole at Figment Festival (Human Cell)
NYC Resistor Dead-mans-shoes - invite only
“What 3D Printer should I get” question
Becky wins a Makerbot Cupcake no:44
Providence AS220 Fablab
Make magazine Cupcake article
Makerbot Replicator 2
Creality Ender 3
Naomi Wu
Becky’s filament box
Alex French Guy Cooking with Becky Stern
Wintergatan
Dominic laments the speed the last 10 years has gone, because he’s a man of a certain age.
Early days of Make with Colin Cunningham (an example)
Bree goes to ETSY
Blip.tv
Make YouTube channel
Dominic & Becky recall the joy of watching Make’s “Weekend Projects”
Bree goes to Other Mill (now Bantam Tools)
My Life in New York City
Becky is put in a box
On making in Brooklyn, New York
Rules for not hoarding
What is an obscene quantity of googly eyes?
Becky’s boyfriend, Smokey Nelson is a cinematographer
Project discipline
Becky has an extreme personality
Laura Kampf (name drop)
Amount of content that Becky likes to put out
Becky on Instructibles
Motorcycle
A kid says Hi to Becky
Becky’s Vespa
Dominic talks about his “Starbucks transaction" theory regards to access to cheap laser cutting, ask on twitter if interested
A kid makes a wonderful noise
Dean Segovis Hackaweek
Alex Bate
Pi Zero PeepHole Camera
Coping mechanisms for distraction
video with Estefanie (explains it all) & Naomi Wu coming up (not published at this point)
Vespa project mentioned and linked earlier
Becky plays GTA 5 online (and so does Dominic)
Optics matter & Becky takes advantage of her privilege to put funny lights on her scooter
Scarry spy gadgets from the electronics market in Shenzhen (up coming video)
Domestic violence counselors & the internet of things
Naomi Wu gives tips on spy gadgets & tastes candies with Becky
Estefannie Explains it all
The safety trolls
You can find more about Becky Stern here:
YouTube
@Bekathwia Twitter
@Bekathwia Instagram
Bekathwia on Instructables.com
and on her website https://beckystern.com/
You can find out more about this podcast on twitter and instagram linked above Or by following Dominic @ChickenGrylls see a video of the “death” elevator operated by Becky Stern at NYC Resistor! Here.

In this episode I chat with Mark Mellors who is a prolific maker and a familiar name in the British maker and hacker scene. 


We specifically talk about:

Jelley & Marshmallows http://jellyandmarshmallows.co.uk collaborations with Simon Jelley
Derby Mini Maker Faire 2012 https://makerfairederby.com/
Hitchin Hackspace http://hackhitchin.org.uk/
Alex Palforman-Brown https://twitter.com/APalfremanBrown Founder of Hack Hitchin
Makevember Manifesto #Makevemeber hashtag
Renovation at Hitchin Hackspace
Cruft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft
EMF Camp https://www.emfcamp.org/
Nottingham Hackspace http://nottinghack.org.uk/ 
Dominic has a rant about the frustration of volunteer labour
Hitchin Hackspace is a former public toilet 
Hack All The Spaces Podcast, defunct podcast project with Dominic & Kate @katemonkey now lost in the mists of time
Pareto's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Male to Female ratio in Hackspaces
Mark & Dominic attempt to check their privilage
Red Rabbits https://twitter.com/matingslinkys
Lapin Luminare Inflatable RGB IoT Rabbit  
Projects for EMF 2018
Hacky-Races at EMF 2018 http://hackyracers.co.uk/
Power Racing Series USA http://www.powerracingseries.org/
Donald Bell of Maker Project Lab see Episode.3 
Laminar Flow Fountain 
Robot Wars UK https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0873k9n
The challenges of getting a robot onto Robot Wars
Battle Bots https://battlebots.com/
Robert Berwick https://twitter.com/robberwick & Robert Kapinsky 
BigHak https://twitter.com/thisisbighak
Richard Sewell "Unsuitable Materials" #Makevember https://twitter.com/jarkman/status/935268956813905921
MarkMellors.co.uk http://markmellors.co.uk/
 
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I met Estefannie at the Bay Area Maker Faire when I shot a bit of video for Pimoroni, she had made a Daft Punk helmet as a wearable prop showing off her work. She was kind enough to agree to speak with me for Bricolage podcast.
Estefannie Explains it all YouTube channel Bay Area Maker Faire Computer Science Tutorials on YouTube Pumpkin Droid, BB8 Jack-o-lantern Smart Gingerbread House Alex Bate from Raspberry Pi Foundation Tough Mudder Deadlines & stress Finding the thing McMaster-Carr Catalogue Instructables.com Paul Beech again Matter Hackers Joel Telling the 3D Printer Guy Laura Kampf  Bob Clagett, I like to make stuff Daft Punk Helmet Estefannie Ranch Elon Musk The Boring Company Hat Hack-Farm NFC LED false nail Twitter https://twitter.com/estefanniegg Instagram https://www.instagram.com/estefanniegg For hyperlinked version visit bricolage.run