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MAKING IS HARD, AND REWARDING.
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WHAT IS MAKING? It is a new term for an old thing. It is not simply 3D printing, Arduino, Rasberry PI, LED's, robots, laser and vinyl cutters, carpentry, welding, sculpting, duct tape and drones. It is also writing, dance, film making, singing, photography, and cosplay. (It also uses skills such as design, engineering and craft). Every single time you make something from you, that didn't exist in the world, YOU ARE MAKING. Making is important, it is empowering, it is invigorating.
WHY MAKE? There are lots of results that come from making. We improve the world around us. We show people how much we care about them. We solve problems, both personal and societal.
WHY IS MAKING GOOD FOR KIDS? Nothing ever goes according to plan. Makers know that when you set out to make something, what you end up with is never quite what you set out to make. When it's really good, it's so much better than what you expected. It's cooler than you thought you could make something and it informs you, and it teaches you... The truth is though, we all fail sometimes. Every Maker in the world feels discouragement when they fail and that's actually part of the process. The failure doesn't just go away. During EVERY SINGLE PROJECT you feel this way at some point, even when your older and better at the process.
WHY TEACH MAKING? Facts without context are just noise. They don't make us better citizens or better stewards of our culture. Teachers put facts into context for you, they put them into a story that helps you make sense of the world. The world is a cool place, and we are insignificant. Sorry kids, it's totally true. Life will be full of strife, hurt, disappointment and failure. Making is how we teach kids to find the path. It's how we learn to deal with life. The joke, about how do you get to Carnegie Hall - Practice, practice, practice - failure requires practice too. We have to practice to fail better. The trick is don't give up. Keep showing up every day. Support others. Make things that you are enthusiastic about.
- Loosely quoted from
Adam Savage's speech
(linked above)
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PAST
PRESENT
INVENTION
Leonardo Da Vinci - Parachute/Helicopter/Tank
Nikola Tesla - AC Power/fluorescent bulbs/X-ray/Radio/Remote Control/Electric Motor/Laser/Wireless Communication & Energy
Archimedes - Lever/Screw Pump/Compound Pulley
Ben Franklin - Bifocals/Swim fins/Electricty
Galileo - The Thermometer/Telescope
Sir Isaac Newton
James Watt
Alessandro Volta
Charles Babbage
Michael Faraday
Samuel Morse
William Talbot
Kirkpatrick Macmillan
Percy Spencer
Hedy Lamarr
James Clerk Maxwell
Karl Benz
William Sturgeon
Thomas Edison
Alexander Bell
Alice Parker
The Wright Brothers
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Alan Turing
John Logie Baird
Philo T. Farnsworth
Enrico Fermi
Blaise Pascal
Louis Braille
Leo Baekeland
Florence Parpart
Douglas Engelbart
Ada Lovelace
Stephanie Kwolek
Alva Fisher
Johnnas Gutenberg
Josephine Cochrane
Tabitha Babbitt
Paul Cornu - Helicopter
Steve Jobs - Apple Computers, Ipod, Ipad, Iphone
Aaron Swartz - RSS/Creative Commons/Reddit/Demand Progress
Auguste and Louis Lumiere - Cinematography
Rem Koolhaas
Zaha Hadid
Charles and Ray Eames
Alvin Lustig
Edwin Howard Armstrong - FM Radio
Chester Thordarson - Transformer/Inductor
ART
Leonardo Da Vinci - Renaissance
Marcel Duchamp - Dada
Alexander Calder - The Mobile
INVENTION
Dr Shirley Jackson
Robert Noyce
Tim Berners Lee
Steve Wozniak
Bill Gates
Ted Hoff
Stephen Hawking
Jacque Fresco
Charles Hull
Martin Coope
Chris Anderson - 3D Robotics
Elon Musk - Tesla
Ayah Bdeir - Little Bits
Peter Weijmarshausen - Shapeways
Boyan Slat - The Ocean Cleanup
Andrew Turton & Pete Ceglinski - Seabin
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
Federico Faggin - Microprocessor
Bram Cohen - BitTorrent
Larry Page - Google
James Dyson - Vacuum/Silent Fan
Alex Kipman - Kinect/Microsoft Holo Lens
Rony Abovitz - Mako/Magic Leap
Ken Bretschneider, Curtis Hickman & James Jensen - The Void Gaming System
Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman - Mythbusters/Tested
Palmer Luckey - Oculus Rift
ART
Ai Weiwei - Social Justice Art
Banksy - Street Art
Brandon Stanton - Humans of New York
Stan Lee - Marvel
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg - Cinemagraph
Simon Giertz - Artist/Inventor
ENTREPRENEURS
Limor Fried
Dale Dougherty
Nathan Seidle
Sylvia Todd - Super Awesome Maker Show!
Zach Kaplan - Inventables
Neil Gershenfeld - Fab Lab
Mark Hatch & Jim Newton - Tech Shop
Paul Allen - Microsoft/Vulcan
SCIENCE & MATH
Albert Einstien - Theory of Relativity/Quantum Theory of Light
Archimedes - Geomety/Calculus/PI
David Sinclair - Resveratrol/Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)
DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
Aleksandr Rodchenko - Graphic Design
Paul Rand - Graphic Design
Saul Bass - Graphic Design
Stefan Sagmeister- Graphic Design
David Carson- Graphic Design
Milton Glaser - Graphic Design
Coco Chanel - Fashion Design
Massimo Vignelli - Product Design
Dieter Rams - Product Design
Arne Jacobsen - Architecture/Product Design
Philippe Starck - Architecture/Product Design
Marcel Breuer - Architecture/Product Design
Jonathan Ive - Apple Product Design
Frank Gehry - Architetcure
Frank Lloyd Wright - Architetcure
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Architetcure
Le Corbusier - Architetcure
Antonio Gaudi - Architetcure
Santiago Calatrava - Architetcure
FILM
Alfred Hitchcock
Orson Welles
Stanley Kubrick
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
Francis Ford Coppola
George Lucas - Star Wars/Industrial Light & Magic
Peter Jackson - LOTR/WETA
J.J Abrams -
Wes Anderson
Ang Lee
Christopher Nolan
Alejandro González Iñárritu
The Coen Brothers
Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher
Martin Scorsese
Walt Disney
MUSIC
Frank Zappa - Electronica/Music Streaming
Robert Moog - Moog Synthesizer
Léon Theremin - Theremin
Ben Franklin - Glass Armonica
Mike Butera - Artiphon
Will Glaser, Jon Kraft and Tim Westergren - Pandora
Daniel Ek & Martin Lorentzon - Spotify
VIDEOGAMES
Kenichiro Ashida - Nintendo GameCube/Wii
CARPENTRY
METALS
Tony Swatton - Blacksmith (Man at Arms)
FICTION LITERATURE / FUTURECASTING
Philip K. Dick
Arthur C. Clarke
FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
Angus McGyver - McGyver
Major Boothroyd "Q" - James Bond
“Invention is the most important product of man's creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs."
-Nikola Tesla
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