An interview on Making with
An interview on Making with
Making is taking the time to learn how something actually works. Almost any activity involving your hands, even something like cooking, can be making if you take the time to understand the science behind what you’re doing.
Makers want to understand how the world around them works. They don’t want consume products and services. They want to hack and experiment to make the world better than it is today.
Making is important because the future will only be more innovative if we have people who deeply tinker and experiment everyday to make it that way. Nothing happens automatically.
One of the most exciting examples of Making are the maker spaces being built in cities around the world. These are spaces filled with equipment like laser cutters, 3d printers and often wood and metal working equipment as well. Anyone can get a membership for roughly the price of belonging to a gym and start prototyping and building their own product ideas, it’s thrilling.
Educators and students are no longer tinkering alone inside classrooms, but have access to a global network of other teachers and students making inspirational projects. It’s the global community coupled with inexpensive accessible technologies like arduino and raspberry pi that have the potential to really transform education.
In my opinion, making can change communities when families and groups decide to spend their free time tinkering and doing hands on activities instead of the normal routine of watching TV and internet surfing. It’s hard to overstate the impact that interacting and learning together can have on a community.
New technology and innovation are too often considered ‘givens’ of the future, but the uncomfortable truth is that we won’t have any new technologies in the future if people don’t experiment and tinker with new ideas now. Innovation takes time and it takes a lot of people working on hard problems. This is what excites me most about the Maker Movement, it encourages more people to throw their hat in the ring and experiment with new technologies and ideas.
Each interviewee can nominate who they would like to hear from next in the series and this is who Jesse selected
Lisa is a Maker Pro and the CEO of the hardware start-up Nomiku. She's currently manufacturing the first batch of Kickstarter backed WiFi immersion circulators in the Bay Area with her co-founders Abe and Bam.