A Maker Tale A Maker Tale

I interview my college professor, Charles Steckler, a few weeks before he retires. A lifelong artist, theater nerd, set designer, set painter, and design genius.

While on holiday in San Diego, I had a chance to visit two great museums. I found two museums about 45 minutes north of the place we are staying.

The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum is the legacy of Joe Martin founder of Sherline. More info on the museum can be found here http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/ You can spend an entire day looking over the collection and reading the cards. From talking with Craig the director, I got a strong since of the purpose of this museum. To show people what a quality object can be made using small tools. After the interview, I felt a sadness that I could not sit down with Mr Martin himself to talk about manufacturing.

Another visit worth hitting is the Antique Gas and Steam Engine Museum. http://agsem.com/ I was unable to get in touch with anyone to interview but this is for sure another place worth visiting. I could have done a day at both, but did not have enough time in the schedule. some of the Photos I took can be found on my instagram. https://www.instagram.com/robertmasek/

I met Rusty at Dragon Con and he tells me stories from his 30+ years working with Cluster computing, including the first cluster, to the most recent cluster, capable of an EXAflop of computing power.