Category: Blog
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Drawbots in the wild
Great to see some people sharing projects they’ve made from Hot Glue zine. I love these videos of Drawbots in action.
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Making stuff for Maker Faire
The last few weeks have seen some of the grunt work of putting on Brighton Mini Maker Faire give way to a few more fun tasks. Making stuff, as opposed to just emailing people. So I though I’d share some pictures.
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Inventing the future at Lighthouse
I’m very excited to be starting a new job this week at Lighthouse, the international digital arts agency based – fortunately for me – in Brighton. I’ll be working as a creative producer, across the programme, but particularly on a new interdisciplinary studio we’ll be launching in 2014. We’ll be working from Alan Kay’s maxim,…
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Jane ni Dhulchaointigh: the Sugru factory tour
Sugru, the self-setting rubber that can be used to hack, mod or fix almost anything, can be found in many a maker’s toolbox. Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, who invented it, is well-known to makers in the UK and further afield. The story she tells of Sugru’s development over the last 10 years is an inspiring one…
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Lessons learned from Hardware Startup #1
Hardware Startup is the name for a new experiment I’m running with David Stoughton. We’re exploring the space where makers become entrepreneurs, when personal projects become commercial products. We’re trying to figure out what kind of community there is in the UK, and how we can help grow it.
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Fixperts: fixing is a way of thinking
At the root of making is fixing. Identifying a problem, a need, or something that could be done better, and then making something to fix it. Sometimes the problem is, this robot needs more lasers, or, cupcakes would be way more fun if you could actually sit inside them and drive around. But often it’s…
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Chris Thorpe: 3D printing the industrial revolution
The mainstream news media is awash with speculation that 3D printing is bringing about a second industrial revolution. Whether this is true or not, nowhere is the comparison more apt than with The Flexiscale Company, a small UK startup making 3D models of the great steam engines of the first industrial revolution.
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Making a zine about making stuff
Update, October 2013: Hot Glue is out. Check the write-up here. As part of the broader activity around Brighton Mini Maker Faire, we are producing a magazine for visitors to take home with project guides and inspiration to help them along the maker path. I’ve written about the project on the Brighton Mini Maker Faire…
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Brendan Dawes: sharing your work
This week, I interviewed the designer and maker Brendan Dawes for my podcast, Looking Sideways. I wrote up some of the interview here.
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My talk at Create Brighton
Last night I spoke at Create Brighton, an event about social innovation and workplace culture (but no relation to Create, Brighton Mini Maker Faire sponsors). I talked about maker culture, and some of the things that makers do that we can apply more broadly in our lives, particularly in enterprise and in business culture.
Andrew Sleigh 