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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. 

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

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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

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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.

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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

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Whilst at the Bay Area Maker Faire in late May 2018 Dominic was able to catchup with William Osman, who Dominic first found through YouTube when he made his laser cut skateboard! This podcast episode also features a short chat with "Cameraman John", We believe this is a world exclusive as he's never spoken or been seen on anything before!

• William Osman YouTube Channel
• Laser Cut Skateboard video
• Wildfire in Ventura County California
• Cameraman John, is William's YouTube video channel partner and principle camera operator. John also does the final edit on the videos.
• Peter Sripol and Sam Foskuhl, also YouTubers were in the room with us.
• Making an ASMR, autonomous sensory meridian response.
• Getting GE General Education from VC Ventura College.
• "Han shot first" George Lucas & Jeff Waynes "War of the Worlds" and reworking your old work. Radios instead of guns in ET.
• William Osman Patreon.
• Clob Blagget (Bob Clagget), there is a running joke between Bob and William where they mock each other pretending to be an enthusiastic fan saying something like "Are you Billiam Wosman?"
• Morgan's Race Car telemetry
• Simone Gertz, Turning Cheese Louise into a computer mouse
• Diana "Physics Girl" Cowern
• The Fire.
• Dave Strain, Make Ventura
• YouTube comments
• Logan Paul Take Down
• Binging with Babish and the William Osman collaboration
• William & Chelsea Osman Fire Appeal GoFundMe
• Michael Reeves YouTube
• How to get banned from boat club video
• William's cat t-shirts
• YouTuber blinked messages conspiracy

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I was delighted to be able to have a chat with Jasmine at the PiWars event in Cambridge. Jasmine was on a visit to the UK to celebrate her Grandmother-in-law's 100th birthday but was also able to visit a large number of maker-related events! Jasmine is the "keeper of the hounds" at Tindie, managing the Tindie community and promoting the Hackaday Prize.

• PiWars
• Hackaday Prize
• Tindie
• The 1st Hackaday prize
• Trip to Space or $200,000
• SatNogs
• Libre Space Foundation
• Vomit Comet
• Development lab in Pasadena
• Nottingham Hackaday-Tindie Meetup
• UK Maker Faire
• Makercon, Heidelberg
• Hackaday Dublin
• hackaday.io
• Spencer Owen RC2014 on Tindie
• Dr Lucy Rogers
• Maker Faire
• Vanillabox, laser cutter prototype
• What this podcast is supposed to be about
• The American Dream
• Vinduino
• GitHub
• Spencer again...
• Eurorack modular synths
• Fyber Labs Wearables on Tindie
• ETSY
• Project to Product on Tindie
• Bay Area Maker Faire
• Saturday Night Hackaday meet-up in the Irish Pub
• HDDG Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic in SF
• Jasmin's 10th Burningman
• EMF Camp (Sold Out)
• ...more Spencer
• Zenball Table (that F'ing table)

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Continuing the interviews I made whilst at the Pi Wars event in Cambridge (thanks Mike and Tim). In this episode of Bricolage I speak with Tanya Fish from Pimoroni.

Links of the stuff we speak about:

• Pi Wars
• the Fish Waggon
• Pimoroni
• Pimoroni Education
• Code Club
• BBC Micro:Bit
• STEAM and STEM
• Making with cardboard
• LED throwies
• Ford Sierra
• Guild of Makers
• Cannons in the Albert Hall (this may or may not be Tanya’s family, but it was a really good performance and gives you the idea).
• Makevember
• A lathe & optimism

• LaserLife

• Laserlife pin (Bert)

• The Muppet Show
• Maker Faire UK
• GamesBrittania
• RaspberryFields
• Tanurai

Thanks as ever to Robert Nixdorf for help with the editing and sound. Also the band of the US Marine Corp for turning up in my kitchen to make the theme music which is also available royalty free on YouTube.

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In this episode Dominic talks to Lucy Rogers better known as Dr-Lucy-Rogers usually said in one breath. She is a fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. Lucy is known for being a strong presence in the maker scene and for her work in broadcasting. She was a judge on the last 3 series of BBC Robot Wars. Recently she embarked on the founding of a guild, the Guild of Makers, an organisation that supports the growth of the industry related to makers and providing them with support and opportunities to build a community together.

They met at the Pi Wars event at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory on a sunny Saturday in late April 2018. The 2019 event has already been confirmed and you can get dates and more info by joining their mailing list. The event was very well attended, with teams of makers of all ages as well as school children running their Raspberry Pi brained robots around a series of 7 challenges. It's with great thanks to organisers Mike Horne & Tim Richardson (and their sponsors) for putting on the event and allowing us access as press (got our own room and everything).

Amongst other things we talk about:

• Pi Wars listing the challenges
• We mention Brian Corteil
• The Guild of Makers and what it is
• Guild of Makers meetup
• Autodesk Birmingham
• Andy Stafford-Clark
• Pete wood RS
• Pimoroni
• Rob Ives
• Scouting & Baden Powell
• Woggle
• LED Zeppelin (IoT model that flashes when Stairway to Heaven is searched on Google, How to: will be available on DesignSpark).
• DesignSpark
• Rolls Royce, Newcastle
• Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Josh Widdicombe Will Make Your Life Better on Radio 2
• Lucy Rogers Stand-up (can't find it sorry).
• Maker Faire UK 2018
• Robot Wars and becoming a judge
• Dr Sue Black
• This podcast (you've found the place to look for that already)

• MakersHour on twitter

This episode was recorded and edited by Robert Nixdorf and Dominic Morrow (who is I'm). The music in this episode is provided Royalty Free by the Band of the US Marine Corp (oorah). It is a Morrow Works Pangolini Studio production for the internet.

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In my ongoing "hobby" podcast, Bricolage Podcast, I bring you episode number 5 which is (the first?) Tool Autopsy episode with Paul Beech (again).

The basic premiss of this new podcast flavour or segment or... something, is that me and Paul (and maybe other people in the future) go, with a pocket of loose change, to a flea-market (or boot sale or whatever) and buy a few tools. We then do no research and using only our own vague knowledge and intuition we talk about them.

The picture about (is the best picture I have) of the tools we got (don't worry there are more not so good ones later). I suppose this is a sub project of @toolotheday

In this episode:

• your hosts are Dominic Morrow (that's me) and Paul Beech of Pimoroni etc
• We went to the Saturday morning sale at the Cattle Market in Nottingham
• We talk about trugs and gorilla tubs
• We always wear Nitrile or latex gloves (our top tip)

• The first tool TOOL 1 is a bench vice

• TOOL 2 is a S8 ROHM chuck key

• TOOL 3 is two spanners one is 9/16th Inch and the other is HR Tool co DIN 838 spanner 8mm & 9mm
• Dominic mentions his laser work with smokeandmirrors.store
• TOOL 4 counter sink bit
• Paul mentions his Bosch IXO Lithium Iron handheld battery screwdriver
• TOOL 5 Engineers square (remains of)
• Dominic mentions Survivor bias (though says syndrome which isn't the same thing).
• TOOL 6 a pair of screwdrivers one generic with a square handle and the other is Hurwood made in Can by Stanley
• Dominic berates the new Stanley logo
• Dominic mentions Surform planes
• Dominic mentions Stanley tool numbers

• TOOL 7 Plier like carpenters pincer MOD NATA number 0-1836 by Wilkinson Tools

• We talk about the Broad Arrow mark

• Kindly gift of @Biram_Jones the British Army Knife
• Electrolysis for rust removal etc
• The Curious Electric Company, electronics kit company belonging to Matt Little
• Anodising Kit Gateros Plating
• TOOL 8 Shears by Rolcut
• Witness marks
• TOOL 9 Stanley Yankee 131A
• the Mystery Tool (below)

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That's your lot!

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In this new episode of Bricolage, a podcast for makers, I speak with Nick Zammeti of NZ Woodturning Co and Makers Central. Nick was very welcoming and let me have a look around his workshop where he and his son Charlie's film his YouTube channels.

Nick is also behind the upcoming Makers Central event at the NEC in Birmingham in 5th & 6th May 2018 which will include lots of varied making including electronics, robotics, woodworking and lots of big name YouTube makers. In this show we mention lots of topics and makers including:

• Nick's Waffle on Wednesdays
• Charlie the Maker YouTube channel (Nick's son's channel)
• Triton Tools (sponsor)
• Mike Waldt
• Karl Jacobson
• Jim Overton
• Heath Knuckles
• Nick's Light Sabre video
• resin4art.com
• Nick's pencil end 50k subscribers YouTube button
• Zortrack 200 3D Printer
• Harrogate - North of England Woodworking Show
• D&M The Tool Show
• UKIWS Woodturning Symposium
• International Woodworking Faire Atlanta
• Maker Faire UK
• Jimmy DiResta
• Bob Claggett "I like to Make Stuff"
• Paul & Pimoroni (upcoming guest on podcast)
• Laura Kampf (guest of Ep.2)
• Get Hands Dirty YouTube
• Glacial Arts
• Izzy Swan
• April Wilkerson
• Peter Brown
• Record Power (sponsor)
• Makers Central hamper on Facebook
• Nick's coloured swirls on InstaGram
• Nick's Hand of Many Pennies
• Matthias Wandel & Table Saw tips
• Jimmy DeRista makes a Makers Central sign

You can find Nick's channel here or follow him on twitter, facebook or instagram.

You can follow the podcast @BricolagePod on twitter.

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https://soundcloud.com/dyallas/red-velvet

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In this episode (the first via Skype) I speak with Donald Bell, he is in California and I am in the UK so we have a bit of a time difference adding an extra challenge.

We talk about:

• Donald's YouTube show Maker Project Update
• Donald Bell on CNET
• Instructables Mikeasaurus Flame Thrower Skateboard
• Becky Stern
• Donald's Makezine author profile
• The Ruiz Brothers on Ada Fruit Learning
• Cool Tools Blog
• Power Racing Series
• Bay Area Maker Faire
• Kitty Grabs Back

You can find more about Donald Bell by following his projects on twitter @MakerProjectLab and on Instagram @makerprojectlab all his videos and projects are documented on https://makerprojectlab.com/

You can follow the podcast @BricolagePod on twitter.

Music in this episode is Red Velvet by Dyallas

https://soundcloud.com/dyallas/red-velvet

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In this episode, I talk to Laura Kampf. If you have not seen Laura's YouTube channel you are in for a treat.

Laura Kampf on YouTube

Instagram & Twitter

and her website

Skillshare

Jimmy DeRista

Bob Clagett

Making It podcast

Rockler

Tom Sachs

Adam Savage

April Wilkerson

and her YouTube

Giaco Whatever

Simone Giertz

Tim Hunkin

& Secret Life of Machines

World Maker Faire New York

Chris Anderson

Jimmy DeRista Starkey

and Laura and many others will be at Makers Central at the NEC in May 2018

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In this first episode of Bricolage Podcast, Dominic speaks with Rachel Konichiwakitty in a meeting room at Imperial College, London.

The conversation touches on: Gummi toe-beans (Senjyakuame Nikukyu Paw Shaped Gummy Candy) Opening the present HEMA Science museum (Meet a scientist day) Radioactive spider bite Choosing science What about making? Phd Mindfulness (Headspace & School of Life) RasPi/Science projects Speaking at unconference Stem cells Optimism and progress E-textiles (CuteCircuit) Maid cafe #Makevember Imposter syndrome Arduino Questioning authorship "People come up with the same solutions because we all have the same problems" Standing on the shoulders of giants Small pond Podcasting Gap year - pace yourself The Winning Post Work life balance Mindfulness as a discipline (Headspace & School of Life) Article in Nature Superheroes You can find out more about Rachel and her projects @Konichiwakitty and on her website konichiwakitty.com/ This podcast is a Pangolini Studios Production with thanks to producers, Robert Nixdorf @diodenschein and research/show notes by Gillian, @ddiasco Why not follow @BricolagePod for the latest news!

December 9, 2017.