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Just Do It Yourself
Rapidly spreading around the internet right now is Chris Anderson’s article in Wired, “Atoms Are the New Bits.” Anderson talks about the spread of small-scale garage manufacturing, thanks to the...
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Making and Doing
For anyone currently in London (and by currently, I mean in early May), Cory Doctorow is giving a free talk at Nettlefold Hall in West Norwood on May 8. RSVPs are required, though – send an email to...
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This Was Once a Country Where People Made Things
Aside from the usual terrible, terrible commentary both at YouTube and the site I found this at, it’s an excellent ad (at least for the first 40 seconds). It doesn’t matter if you’re from the East...
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Africa Takes Flight
Nigerian Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi's homemade working helicopter. In a delightful example of the DIY ethos, and bearing more than a slight resemblance to the John Robb school (not to mention Cory...
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Ah, Recursion
It’s a synthesis of everything I love: a makerbot made of LEGO, printing… more things made of LEGO. The recursiveness is great. But so is the premise. Is that potentially the tipping point for the...
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On Value
Recent headlines like this: And this: And this: Are enough to make you ask: why are we still pretending that these people produce anything of value whatsoever? That their hyper-inflated ‘MegaJob‘...
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Two Steps Back
Do you get the feeling that we’re slowing down? I mean that in the entropic sense, that humanity may have gone as far as it can and is now contracting. Look at how far we’ve come since the year 1910 –...
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“I want my enviroment to be a product of me.”
Yesterday I fixed the toilet. The handle had been giving us trouble for a while; it used some antiquated metal contraption to connect to the flush valve. The handle bar was connected to the pull rod...
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