An interview on Making with
An interview on Making with
Making is the act of creating something with ones’ own hands. Makers are engineers, though they may not have a degree or be engineers by profession.
Makers are people who have taken it upon themselves to learn how to create something, learning skills like sewing, vinyl cutting, woodworking, metalworking, 3D printing, and electrical engineering.
Making is important because it teaches more people to create new products and imagine new experiences. Makers often go on to become entrepreneurs and introduce their products to the rest of the world.
My company, Spark IO, is a great example of Making. In January 2012, I first started playing with an Arduino, one of the primary tools of Makers. I created a company around the concepts that I prototyped, and three years later I have a team of 24 people in a half dozen different countries, and tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Science and technology are powerful tools, but they can be challenging to learn when they’re theoretical. Making provides a great way to take STEM and make it something intuitive and fun for students.
Making creates jobs; I’ve seen dozens of Makers find ways to use their skills to employe themselves and others.
Making allows more people to think about and solve difficult problems, and amazing innovations come out of the Maker world.