Podcasts about maker movement

In this episode, Jason Becker sits down with Chris Hale, a visionary fabricator and community builder, to explore his incredible journey in welding, restoration, and innovation. Chris shares the fascinating story behind his ambitious project to restore a historic high-voltage laboratory and transform it into a vibrant space for makers, artists, and dreamers. Discover how Chris combines creativity, technical skills, and collaboration to bring new life to forgotten spaces while fostering a supportive community of innovators. From the challenges of welding and restoration to the rewards of building connections, this episode is packed with insights for anyone passionate about fabrication, artistry, or the power of community. Whether you're a seasoned fabricator or a curious creative, you'll leave inspired to take on your own ambitious projects and connect with others along the way. Tune in now and be part of the conversation!   Follow Chris on Instagram Here Check out his website Here Arc Junkies Podcast: Instagram: @Arcjunkiespodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@arcjunkiespodcast9253 Email: Show@arcjunkies.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-becker-45407b72?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_contact_details%3BKipEwR3uQXCmCjaEfNzo6w%3D%3D Arc Junkies Website: https://arcjunkies.com Arc junkies Merch: https://shop.threadmob.com/arcjunkie/shop/home Underground Metal Works: https://www.underground-metalworks.com/   Friends of the Show: Pro Tools Instagram @protoolsusa https://pro-tools.com/ Outlaw Leather LLC Outlawleather.com Instagram: @outlawleatherusa Use ARCJUNKIES for 15% off all in-stock leather goods SendCutSend Instagram: @SendCutSend Save 15% off Online: https://sendcutsend.com/arcjunkies/   Everlast Welders Instagram: @everlastwelders  YouTube: Everlast Welders         Online: https://bit.ly/37xJstI Use Codeword ARCJUNKIES at checkout to get upgraded to a free Nova Foot Pedal and TIG Torch with the purchase of any machine that comes with a stock foot pedal and TIG Torch. ISOTUNES: Instagram: @isotunesaudio Online: https://shop.isotunes.com/arcjunkies10.  Use ARCJUNKIES10 at checkout and save $10 on your purchase      

Alex interviews Jeff Mason, Super-Legit Car Guy as well as President and COO of The Piston Foundation, whose mission is to fund skilled trades programs to help a new generation of craftspeople build rewarding careers in the collector car industry. They start with a primer on what Piston does before moving into the strong interest in cars displayed by today's youth; how modern job readiness and technical education have evolved; the influence of the "Maker Movement"; professional skills vs. trades, and the latter as a jumping off point for both technical and non-technical careers in the collector car industry; the intersection between artistic expression and mechanical inclination; the confidence boost and satisfaction of learning to do something real; and the joy of working with purely objective quality standards. They turn to Jeff's own automotive experiences, such as piggybacking off of someone else's midlife crisis, to great effect: racing with his brother in the Carrera Panamericana, the Mille Miglia, and other famous rallies to come. The pair close by detailing the direct, meaningful downstream effects of donations to the Piston Foundation and how collectors can help change the community's workforce from "graying to growing."  Follow along! Links for the picks discussed in this episode: 1:00 The Piston Foundation 13:32 Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford (Amazon) 22:37 Riley's Rebuilds (Facebook) 25:26 Automotive Restorations (a BaT Local Partner) 32:02  Driving La Carrera 33:00 Fiat 508C Balilla 1100 (Wikipedia)  38:10 Lot #100,000: The BaT 1973 Datsun 240Z for Charity 38:23 Piston Foundation BaT user page 38:27 Support Piston Foundation Scholars With New BaT x Piston Foundation Shirts! 45:30 Cars for Piston Scholars donation program 47:00 34-Piece Scale Model Car “Grand Elegance” Collection for Charity & 47-Piece Scale Model Car “American Classics” Collection for Charity 49:09 BaT Alumni Gathering, October 19 at Coker Farm in Bedford, New York—Registration is Open! 50:15 2025 Porsche Cayman GTS 4.0 sweepstakes Got questions for the BaT staff or suggestions for our next One Year? Don't hesitate to let us know! Write in to podcast@bringatrailer.com and we'll do our best to address them. Donate to The Piston Foundation today!

Episode: 3095 Making a Revolution.  Today, the Maker revolution.

Elyse Klaidman, after 22 years at Pixar leading creative and educational programs, is now the CEO of X IN A BOX, where she leverages her background as an artist, educator and leader.Prior to co-founding X IN A BOX in 2020, Tony DeRose led the computer graphics research group for much of his 23 years at Pixar. He is passionate about project based learning and has been very active in the Maker Movement.Brit Cruise, Chief Learning Officer at X IN A BOX and creator of educational content and products, launched his career with the YouTube channel Art of the Problem, leading to working at Khan Academy and partnerships with NASA, Google, and Disney/Pixar.Dennis Henderson, VP of Education and Strategy at X IN A BOX, leverages his role as Executive Director of Manchester Youth Development Center to drive social justice through project-based education, promoting social mobility and economic opportunities.Recommended Resources:

As we begin 2024, Lauren and Bill would love to hear from you! Please send your suggestions, feedback, and ideas for topics and guests to .  Welcome to our special year-end 2023 review of the Cohere podcast. This year, we marked a significant shift in our approach. We moved away from the constraints of seasonal formats, embracing topical series that have allowed us to delve deeper into various themes, synchronizing seamlessly with our ongoing work and research. Let's walk down memory lane and revisit some of the most insightful moments from this year's episodes. Venessa Paech sheds light on the evolving definition of AI and its interplay with power dynamics. John Hovell joined us to discuss the essence of conversational leadership. A key part of this conversation was defining what conversation truly means. Meena Palaniappan's insights into impact measurement, resilience, and behavioral change in human-centered social networks were compelling. Esteban Kolsky joined us to discuss how we might navigate the customer experience landscape.  In our episode with Ed Finn,Ed Finn, the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University we discuss how to build imaginative capacity. Social learning theorists, the Wenger-Trayners, joined us to help us explore the concept of learning partnerships in communities of practice. Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu came on the show to help us unpack trust and fabrication in large language models. This conversation is crucial for understanding generative AI. We explored the rich history and the exciting future of the Maker Movement with Dale Dougherty. Jeremiah Owyang helped us consider how we might navigate the AI surge. Jeremiah tackles the rapid evolution and acceleration of digital technology cycles. Dr. Rob Hopkins to help us imagine tomorrow and to teach us how to travel to a better future. We ended the year looking back at the hype of cryptocurrency and exploring what is still happening in this space with Reneé Barton. Reneé offers insights into cryptocurrency market trends. We thank our listeners for joining us on this enlightening journey and look forward to another year of engaging and insightful conversations in 2024. Stay tuned! Again, please send us your feedback, ideas and suggestions to hosts@coherepod.com.

The man they call “The Godfather of the Maker Movement” discusses organizational purpose and how it fits into the new tech start up he's joined as Co-CEO.About the Show:The H.I.T. Podcast, Ep #1 (Powered by Montage Insurance Solutions): A thought leader in the space, curating the top news and information to deliver a brief, high impact overview designed specifically for the Human Resources professional, business person, and company executive.Find out more here: www.hitpodcast.comThank you to our Sponsor, Cigna and Equitable!

In this episode of the Cohere podcast, co-hosts Bill Johnston and Dr. Lauren Vargas welcome Dale Dougherty, the founder of Make: Magazine and Maker Faire, and a person who played a key and critical role in the launch of the Maker Movement. Dougherty shares his career journey and his belief that everyone is inherently a maker. The conversation takes a deep dive into the history and future of the Maker Movement, discussing the importance of community in both digital and real-life maker experiences. Dougherty also outlines plans for the return of the Bay Area Maker Faire, revealing a new location and expanded schedule. For those new to making or interested in starting their own maker space, Dougherty offers advice and encouragement. Finally, he expresses his excitement about the current moment in the Maker Movement, hinting at the promising future of this global community of thinkers, builders, and dreamers. In this episode, we discuss the following:  [04:26] Introducing Dale Dougherty and discuss his career journey [08:55] Discussing the return of the Bay Area Maker Faire [12:56] Exploring the history of the Maker Movement [22:06] Examining the role of community [25:10] Showcasing the power of Makers  [29:39] Considering the role of technology and generative AI [36:32] Sharing advice for someone new to Maker Faire and Making Mentioned in this episode:  Purchase tickets to the About our guest:  DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term “makers” to describe people who enjoyed “hands-on” work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.   Call-to-Action(s): If you liked this episode, check out: and For more reflections about the intersection of community and movements, subscribe to the Cohere Podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Share about future guests / topics of exploration. Check out #BookDNA for a list of books, articles, and whitepapers featured on the Cohere Podcast.  

Ron Dyrcz of Ronders Wood & Metal Works joins us on the The Fabricator Podcast to talk about his Chicago-area custom furniture business that combines metalworking and carpentry. A self-described maker, Ron discusses how he went from building furniture on the side while working at a production fabrication shop to getting laid off and starting his own small business. He also goes into how he's battling Crohn's disease, creating his iconic wall mounted bar, the value he gets out of visiting as many maker shops as possible, growing his brand on Instagram and Pinterest, his involvement with the Catskill Mountain Maker Camp, and his partnership with Granberg International. Jump to 07:53 for our conversation with Ron. At the top, The WELDER Editor Rafael joins Dan and the guys to chat about navigating roundabouts and the amount of money the U.S. government would have spent to rescue Matt Damon from space. Email us at podcast@thefabricator.com with any comments, questions, or suggestions.

U.S states face a shortage in qualified STEM/CTE instructors to effectively prepare high school and community college students for careers. Long-time educators Maura Devlin-Clancy and Kathleen White have developed Makerspace experiences and new ways of teaching to help recruit and grow a diverse teaching workforce. They join Temple Grandin to discuss their NSF funded project, Growing CTE/STEM Teachers. Maura Devlin-Clancy is Coordinator of MakerSPHERE and Faculty in Computer Networking & Information Technology at City College of San Francisco. Her work focuses on hands-on teaching and learning strategies that support non-traditional students, particularly women and underrepresented students in tech and STEAM. In MakerSPHERE, their network of makerspaces across CCSF, each and every student will find an open door to courses, work-based learning and other opportunities that can lead to high paying jobs and a way to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others. Kathleen White is the Former Chair of Child Development and Family Studies Department, and Teacher Prep Program Coordinator at City College of San Francisco. 

Pancakes! Say that word and students and adults alike can't help but smile. PancakeBot is an amazing tool to teach a love of STEM in its purest form and creator & founder Miguel Valenzuela drops by to describe how this is being used in many schools to teach about food technology and the maker movement. Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education About PancakeBot PancakeBot LLC focuses on the development of PancakeBot, the world's first pancake printer. From its beginnings in the New York Maker Faire to being showcased in the White House, PancakeBot also focuses on the development of curriculum for schools to help spread the word and tell the story of PancakeBot. https://pancakebot.com/ About Miguel Valenzuela Miguel is an inventor, artist, California Registered Engineer, and creator of PancakeBot, a pancake printer designed to inspire kids to get into technology, robotics and food manufacturing. In his spare time, he likes to work with 3D modelling, robotics, LEGO and teaching children about animation as well as programming. Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world! https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/ Know an educator who'd love this STEM podcast episode?  Share it!The FizzicsEd podcast is a member of the Australian Educators Online Network (AEON )http://www.aeon.net.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pancakes! Say that word and students and adults alike can't help but smile. PancakeBot is an amazing tool to teach a love of STEM in its purest form and creator & founder Miguel Valenzuela drops by to describe how this is being used in many schools to teach about food technology and the maker movement. Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education About PancakeBot PancakeBot LLC focuses on the development of PancakeBot, the world's first pancake printer. From its beginnings in the New York Maker Faire to being showcased in the White House, PancakeBot also focuses on the development of curriculum for schools to help spread the word and tell the story of PancakeBot. About Miguel Valenzuela Miguel is an inventor, artist, California Registered Engineer, and creator of PancakeBot, a pancake printer designed to inspire kids to get into technology, robotics and food manufacturing. In his spare time, he likes to work with 3D modelling, robotics, LEGO and teaching children about animation as well as programming. Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education With interviews with leading science educators and STEM thought leaders, this science education podcast is about highlighting different ways of teaching kids within and beyond the classroom. It's not just about educational practice & pedagogy, it's about inspiring new ideas & challenging conventions of how students can learn about their world! https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/ Know an educator who'd love this STEM podcast episode?  Share it!The FizzicsEd podcast is a member of the Australian Educators Online Network (AEON )http://www.aeon.net.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The STEAM Engine on Talking Energy Show by Oilfield Tailgate with guests Morgan Jones, AIA, NCARB, MBA, founder and executive director, Michael Whitten, VP Tier 1 Energy Solutions Inc. and board member of The STEAM Engine From steamengineokc.org - The STEAM Engine is a 501(c)3 nonprofit in Oklahoma City. We partner with existing after-school programs to bring turnkey, hands-on STEM and Arts programs to students in 3rd-8th grade. Through hands-on activities, skill-building courses, experiments, and maker challenges, we help students develop the confidence and skills they need to see themselves in a STEM career. Oklahoma ranks 45th for overall child well-being. ​According to Oklahoma Policy Institute, this includes ranking 33rd in economic well-being, 40th in family and community context, and 48th in education. Oklahoma ranks number 1 in the US for the percentage of people experiencing 2 or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). Vision A world where communities are prepared to meet 21st century problems with 21st century skills. Mission Launch the next generation of critical-thinkers, creative problem-solvers, makers, doers, innovators and entrepreneurs—equipping them with 21st century skills using tools from the Maker Movement and the disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM). Values Building and sustaining a community-focused organizational culture is the cornerstone for achieving our outcomes. OWNERSHIP Together, we are all responsible for the well-being of the organization. Each person takes responsibility for their actions or inaction and resulting outcomes (whether intended or unintended) this is how we remain in relationship with one another. RELATIONSHIP Relationship is the glue that holds everything together. Before taking any action, we ask ourselves “how will this affect our relationships with one another, our stakeholders, and our community?”. STEWARDSHIP Our community deserves the very best return we can give them on the resources entrusted to us. We have the responsibility to be faithful stewards who administer resources in an ethical, transparent, and sustainable manner. Building STEAM Support Systems 21st Century Skill Development Our youth programs are designed to help young people develop the skills they need to be successful in the 21st Century. Family & Community Engagement Our Family and Community programs are designed to help parents and community stakeholders surround young people with the skills and resources they need to be successful. Educator Professional Development Our Educator programs are designed to help educators incorporate project-based learning, STEAM, and inquiry-based learning in the classroom so that students have access to STEAM and project-based learning opportunities. oilfieldtailgate.com #oilgas #energy #podcast #news #entertainment #technology #networking #events #education #advocacy #charity

Ted Needleman is a former editor-in-chief of accounting technology and a contributing editor to accounting today for the last 25 years. He has a track record of accomplishments as a Contributing Editor in the publishing sector. Competent in marketing strategy, technical writing, operations management, social media, and advertising. Dedicated media and communication professional with an MS from Iona College with a teaching concentration. About 4,000 reviews, editorials, feature articles, and two books—including the first book ever published on using PCs in a small accounting firm—have been produced by him in his spare time. The other book is titled Accountant's Guide to the Internet. In his leisure time, he enjoys reading science fiction and action thrillers, playing with Raspberry Pi computers, and listening to music. He also enjoys reading magazines about the Maker Movement. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rush-tech-support/message

IdeaPath Teacher Mike Renne joins the podcast today. He has some interesting insight into creativity and the Maker Movement. Collaboration is so important in the IdeaPath and Mike is thinking very strategically about how to build the skill of creative collaboration for our students.

Blenster comes on to talk about the Maker Movement, Hackerspaces, community and inclusive cultures, intentionality and kindness as a social cheat code, the right to repair movement, and using tools like the arduino/raspberry Pi to bring your projects to the next level!   In the Security News: last year's open source is tomorrow's vulnerabilities, RepoJacking, I feel like there will always be authenitcation bypass, super charge your hacking, do you have your multipath, RC4 and why not to use it, here's the problem with vulnerability scanners, packages and expired domains, initrd should not be trusted, Apple kernels, oh and did you hear there is a vulnerability in OpenSSL!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw762

Blenster comes on to talk about the Maker Movement, Hackerspaces, community and inclusive cultures, intentionality and kindness as a social cheat code, the right to repair movement, and using tools like the arduino/raspberry Pi to bring your projects to the next level!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw762

Blenster comes on to talk about the Maker Movement, Hackerspaces, community and inclusive cultures, intentionality and kindness as a social cheat code, the right to repair movement, and using tools like the arduino/raspberry Pi to bring your projects to the next level!   In the Security News: last year's open source is tomorrow's vulnerabilities, RepoJacking, I feel like there will always be authenitcation bypass, super charge your hacking, do you have your multipath, RC4 and why not to use it, here's the problem with vulnerability scanners, packages and expired domains, initrd should not be trusted, Apple kernels, oh and did you hear there is a vulnerability in OpenSSL!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw762

Blenster comes on to talk about the Maker Movement, Hackerspaces, community and inclusive cultures, intentionality and kindness as a social cheat code, the right to repair movement, and using tools like the arduino/raspberry Pi to bring your projects to the next level!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw762

Frank Landon Bentum is an Open Science enthusiast and the Executive Manager for Africa Open Science Hardware (AfricaOSH). He is a strong advocate for Open Science Hardware in Africa and other parts of the world. In this conversation with Jo, he shares the aims and objectives of AfricaOSH. More details at access2perspectives.org/conversations Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494 Editing: Ebuka Ezeike Music: Alex Lustig, produced by Kitty Kat License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) At Access 2 Perspectives, we guide you in your complete research workflow toward state-of-the-art research practices and in full compliance with funding and publishing requirements. Leverage your research projects to higher efficiency and increased collaboration opportunities while fostering your explorative spirit and joy. Website: access2perspectives.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/access2perspectives/message

 The Maker Movement with Mike N6RDF

School systems and mindsets need to evolve to address the ambiguity fostered by technological advances in order to keep pace with the speed of change and innovation. Dr. Michael Nagler joins Katie Martin on this week's episode to uncover how this new generation of leaders in our fast paced world needs to be more forward thinking about what our kids are experiencing in and out of the classroom. Michael P. Nagler, Ed.D., has held many positions in his 32 years in education. He began his career as a school teacher in NYC while completing his Master's and earning his professional diploma. Dr. Nagler then went on to earn his doctorate from Columbia University and accepted an administrative position with Mineola in 1999. Believing strongly in the district's mission to create lifelong learners who contribute positively to a global society, Dr. Nagler rooted himself in the Mineola School District and never left. During his nineteen years with the district, he has been a big proponent of using technology to engage students in rigorous content. Mineola was one of the first Districts to implement a 1:1 iPad initiative. Mineola's innovative use of the iPad has led to the rare feat of having all five Mineola schools to be recognized as Apple Distinguished Schools. Mineola is a member of the League of Innovative schools; one of only 104 districts nationwide. Being a member affords Mineola the ability to be at the forefront of nationwide initiatives such as Open Educational Resources (OER), the Maker Movement and computer science for all. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram! @LCCollaborative Subscribe to our newsletter! Learner-centered tools, insights, and bright spots delivered to your inbox: https://learnercentered.org/bright-spots-newsletter/

Michael P. Nagler, Ed.D., has held many positions in his 34 years in education. Before assuming his current position as Superintendent of the Mineola Public schools, he began his career as a school teacher in NYC while completing his Master's and earning his professional diploma. Dr. Nagler then went on to earn his doctorate from Columbia University and accepted an administrative position with Mineola in 1999. Believing strongly in the district's mission to create lifelong learners who contribute positively to a global society, Dr. Nagler rooted himself in the Mineola School District and never left. During his twenty+ years with the district, he has been a big proponent of using technology to engage students in rigorous content. Mineola was one of the first Districts to implement a 1:1 iPad initiative. Mineola's innovative use of the iPad has led to the rare feat of having all five Mineola schools to be recognized as Apple Distinguished Schools. Mineola is a member of the League of Innovative schools; one of only 104 districts nationwide. Being a member affords Mineola the ability to be at the forefront of nationwide initiatives such as Open Educational Resources (OER), the Maker Movement and computer science for all, #CSforall. Mineola was one of the first schools in the State to implement a comprehensive computer science curriculum starting in kindergarten. Mineola is also at the forefront of digital student portfolios. Dr. Nagler recently utilized the Districts coding platform to create his own http://michaelnagler.oyosite.com/mainpage.html (digital portfolio). Dr. Nagler was the 2020 New York State Superintendent of the Year and was a Finalist for the 2020 National Superintendent of the Year. Here is the https://youtu.be/cTrsvGytGG0 (link) to Dr. Nagler's Laboratory video referenced in the interview. Connect with Dr. Nagler on Twitter @NaglersNotions LEADERS: How will you welcome your staff back in the fall? Now is the time to lock Darrin Peppard in for your opening events. Darrin will bring a positive, uplifting, and inspiring message to your staff and remind them that EDUCATORS MATTER! Dates are filling up fast, email darrinmpeppard@roadtoawesome.net or call (307) 371-8947 to get a conversation with Darrin today! Want to know what you'd miss out on, check this link to see Darrin in action https://youtu.be/WyQlujq6SSA (Road to Awesome breakout session - CADA 3/2022) Now is the time! Leadership teams are being reorganized across the US this summer. New members will be replacing members who are retiring or moving on to another role. New administrators will be leaping out of the classroom and into leadership for the very first time. Let's be INTENTIONAL with the development of our leadership teams for next year. High Performance Leadership Teams by Road to Awesome is designed to align each member of the new leadership team, to dig deep into the core values of the team, and to ultimately identify and plan the goals for the upcoming year. I would love to work with you and your team to help you achieve that High Performance that you are looking for, that your school and district deserve. Let's connect - email me at darrinmpeppard@roadtoawesome.net or call me at (307) 371-8947. It costs you nothing to have a conversation. Professional development with Road to Awesome is just a click away. Connect with us at roadtoawesome.net for leadership coaching and consulting, the High Performance Leadership Teams event, staff culture and climate professional development, and keynote and event/school kick-off speaking. Darrin will make your event awesome and have your team ready to roll on the #RoadToAwesome email Darrin at darrinmpeppard@roadtoawesome.net Subscribe to our newsletter at roadtoawesome.net Got a book idea you'd like to pitch to the team at RtA? Go to https://roadtoawesome.net/our-services to submit your idea. Follow me on social media at @DarrinMPeppard on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, Alignable,...

Carl shares what led to his maker passion within industrial settings and re-launching Flying Moose, how the current Russia and Ukraine war (as well as Covid fallout) will impact global supply chains, how he is advising his h/w-oriented startups to harden their own supply chain and manufacturing capabilities, his strategy for capitalizing business models with sizeable 'bits meet atoms' h/w components (tips: take the cash if available, building truly differentiated h/w products create clear moats), why the ‘blitzscaling' model often doesn't fit within industrial innovation and in some ways can be slightly destructive, and finally, tech trends on "What's Hype and What's Hot" including a shout out to fusion energy potential.

From NASA engineer to social scientist to maker space director, and from sales executive to positive psychologist to Club Z creator, our February guests are makers of their own journeys. Meet Dr. Bruce Balfour from Phoenix Forge Makerspace, and Caron Sada, faculty at Paradise Valley Community College. Learn how the Maker Movement advances workforce development and student success, and learn more about how to build a center on your campus or in your community. Don't forget to join NACCE in person in San Diego or online for make/SHIFT: the Makerspace Ecosystem Summit -- enter promo code FEB15 now through February 28 to receive a special discount on the price of admission!

The average age of hundreds of thousands of maintenance people across the globe is over 50 years old. Many have already started to retire, leaving empty maintenance positions behind. Companies are having a challenge in finding qualified workers to fill vacancies. With no one to fix broken pipes, frayed wires and brittle levies, modern nations are finding themselves in what Joel Leonard has coined, “The Maintenance Crisis.” A former vice-president of the Association of Facilities Engineers, he is taking an international lead in identifying, explaining and helping solve the problem. His creative strategies to build awareness have included holding job fairs specific to the maintenance industry, writing articles, addressing major conventions to high school classes, writing songs, developing an on-line TV network and writing books. As a result of his efforts, he has been appointed to the United States Council on Competitiveness, a national think-tank whose purpose is to work with Capitol Hill and the White House to create policy that results in legislation. Internationally, corporate and governmental leaders are seeking his advice. He has been interviewed on National Public Radio and CNBC. Working with Chicago-based Putman Media, Inc., a publisher of nine trade magazines, Joel has been writing a column for Plant Services Magazine for the past five years. The 80,000 readers have followed Joel's work onto the Internet, where, in 2007, Joel founded SkillTV.net, the first on-line television network dedicated to helping build awareness of and solve the “Maintenance Crisis.” Programming includes interviews with congressional leaders, Fortune 500 CEOs, educators and governmental leaders. In 2008, Joel received the Gold Award for his articles in Plant Services Magazine from the American Society of Business Publications Editors. He has presented and been the keynote speaker of national and international conventions since 1998. In 2008, he was the first American to address the EuroMaintenance Conference in Belgium, a meeting attended by governmental and corporate leaders from 51 nations. His songs, “The Maintenance Crisis” and “Find Me a Maintenance Woman,” have been played on National Public Radio and downloaded more than 40,000 times. They are often played at major conventions. For helping set up The Forge, a Greensboro Makerspace that helped set up over 16 new companies, 9 patents applied and over 50 people hired, the City of Greensboro recognized Joel with the Game Changer Award. Also Joel was invited to the Whitehouse to share strategies to grow the makerspaces nation-wide. In 2018 Joel met with over 60 makerspaces and visited over 35 states to grow the Maker Movement. He also connected the City of Flint with Unifi Corporation to recycle 24 million water bottles into clothing. . Joel has trained engineers from manufacturing plants around the world including Goodyear, Goodrich, Michelin and other major manufacturers. Goodyear Fayetteville Plant was able to receive over 3 million in cost saving by implementing suggested predictive maintenance technologies. In 2021to address post covid challenges, Joel launched a mobile makerspace to take education to rural and underserved communities. As a result, the Governor of North Carolina inducted Joel into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine and flew a NC flag over the state capitol. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/practical-reliability/support

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2017 Throwback: Paul Hill with Utah State University makes his first visit on the podcast to discuss the Maker Movement! Also--Meagen and Justin do a top 3 mockumentary episodes list (aka the Office/Parks and Rec)

The number of books suggesting that humanity must embrace complexity, emergence and transformational change in order to manifest better futures have exploded over the past several years. However, it's one thing to point out the need for a shift from Analysis Paralysis to a landscape of Co-Creative Emergence, but another thing to make it a reality. How can we move away from the Wicked Problem of living in a data-obsessed world to thriving under the Wicked Opportunity of biocentric anticipation? Join Yvette and Frank as they create a bridge over the troubled waters of today's “push” to tomorrow's “pull” using trends such as Transmedia, Maker Movement and Augmented Reality. (Special thanks to Simon and Garfunkel!)

Tonight we speak with master blogger Sarah Fogle (@Uglyducklingdiy) about her 1946 camper build, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the qualities of a good chocolate chip cookie. We discuss her giant carrot, the merits of pies vs cakes, and how to best loose SD memory cards. Sarah's always been a fun person to hang out with, and we're glad we got to hang out on the podcast!

Tonight we hang out with Jordan Goetz (@Growlerdomestic) a woodsmith from texas. We chat about how to make the best macaroni and cheese, we argue the merits of miracle whip vs mayonnaise, and debate the difference between "Bands" and "Groups". We talk about poop knives, mens overalls, and the struggles to stay awake late night at WBC. This guy is FUN!

Tonight we talk with Marylou Anderson (@madeby_marylou) about the importance of good oral hygiene, our favorite breakfasts, and videography equipment. At some point, Lindsay had to take a nap, everyone grabs a potato, and we really break down the poem “Gin and Juice”.
This one got particularly saucy! 


On this week's Tech Nation, David Ludvigson, President & CEO of Nanomix, talks about making their 15-minute, handheld testing device COVID-19 ready. Then Tech Nation Health Chief Correspondent Dr. Daniel Kraft sees the rise of the Maker Movement, especially now with so many people sheltering in place. And Helen Torley, President & CEO of Halozyme Therapeutics, talks about their efforts to move the time it takes IV drugs from hours down to minutes – current testing is in breast cancer in women and multiple myeloma.

Tonight we hang out with Ethan Abramson (@Thebuildwithethan) about his lifelong search for Carmen San Diego, intense games of Monopoly, and the cultural importance of Tom Selleck. We talk about Staten Island Groundhogs, sinking ships, and vegetarianism- it was a blast! Ethan is a creative and charismatic fellow, and we really enjoyed hosting some pints with this guy- so pull up a stool and join us!

Tonight we chat with Eric from @Handtoolrescue about vegetable technology, chia pets, Diariah, Taco Bell, and the value of Beanie Babies. Honestly, don't listen to this episode all the way to the end, it goes way down hill for about the last....half.It was a long evening, but it was a ton of fun hanging out with Eric!

In this episode- Jimmy Diresta talks about zippo Lighters, Farts, How Balls Work, the importance of being a good swimmer, and how to operate a canoe. We chat about jumping on a turkey, ant farm manufacturing, and repairing heavy machinery.

Tonight we talk with Dr. Sam Raimondi (@DIYHuntress) about horseshoe crabs, octopus and other cephalopods, deep sea fishing, Alanis Morissette, first cars, old trucks, how to ship live chickens, and the Jersey Shore.

Tonight we chat with JT Belkamp (@DFMToolworks) on how to attract brands as a micro-influencer. We get side tracked and talk about terrariums, hermit crabs, butterflies, composting, and terrible liquor (Jepson's Mallort).

Tonight we chat with Laney Johnson (@Pine.and.Birch) about gangster fish, Tiger King, and sunflowers.

Tonight we chat with Tyler Bell (@Tylerbell) about Touching Strangers, Eating Pets, Paper Airplane Challenge, and tools that don't suck.

Tonight we talk with Aaron Massey (@MrFixItDIY) about Aquariums, Eating Weird Foods, Trucks, Distribution of Alcohol, and Gardening.We got a little saucy on this one...

Today we chat with JD Brewer (@Apexish) about Ant Farms, Elderly Pets, Knife Making, Big Maker Events, and Welding Wounds. JD is a heck of a welding instructor, and a really fun guy!

MakerNurse co-founder Anna Young works from a fundamental belief that, with the right tools, everyday people can use their own ingenuity to create devices that heal.Anna and her team at MIT's Little Devices Lab have applied years of global experience with the Maker Movement to bring rapid prototyping tools into hospital units to enhance the natural, do-it-yourself problem-solving abilities of nurses. These Medical Maker Spaces allow providers to work alongside patients to create DIY health technology solutions for more customised and affordable care.MakerNurse, powered by Pop Up Labs, uses a virtual community called Create for transfer of knowledge among these healthcare makers.—Recorded live at the global event in Cardigan, west Wales in 2017.Watch Anna's full talk here: www.thedolectures.com/talks/anna-young-a-maker-revolution-in-health

The choice that feels most comfortable to your gut is often the worst decision for your bottom line. To be a truly wise decision maker, you have to adopt counterintuitive, uncomfortable, but highly profitable techniques to avoid business disasters by making the best decisions. That's the key take-away message of this episode of the Wise Decision Maker Guide, which describes the Wise Decision Maker Movement Manifesto. This article forms the basis for this episode: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/wise-decision-maker-movement-manifesto/You can read the transcript of this episode at https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/wise-decision-maker-movement-manifesto-videocast-and-podcast-of-the-wise-decision-maker-show/Make sure to register for the FREE Wise Decision Maker Course and get a FREE copy of the "Assessment on Dangerous Judgment Errors in the Workplace" as part of the first course module https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/subscribe/Get the book that describes in much more depth how successful leaders avoid dangerous judgment errors and make the wisest and most profitable decisions. "Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters" https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/nevergutOther articles relevant to this episode:How to Evaluate Unconscious Bias Caused by Cognitive Biases at Work: https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/how-to-evaluate-unconscious-bias-caused-by-cognitive-biases-at-work/8 Key Steps for Effective Leadership Decision Making to Avoid Decision Disasters https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/8-key-steps-for-effective-leadership-decision-making-to-avoid-decision-disasters/8-Step Leadership Decision-Making Process for Making the Best Decisions https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/8-step-leadership-decision-making-process-for-making-the-best-decisions/How to Make Decisions Quickly https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/how-to-make-decisions-quickly/10 Steps for Strategic Planning to Defend Your Future https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/10-steps-for-strategic-planning-to-defend-your-future/12 Mental Skills to Defeat Cognitive Biases https://disasteravoidanceexperts.com/12-mental-skills-to-defeat-cognitive-biases/Don't miss on your opportunity to defeat cognitive biases by connecting with me on social media:- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DrGlebTsipursky/- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-gleb-tsipursky-89ab4b23/- Twitter https://twitter.com/gleb_tsipursky- Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dr_gleb_tsipursky/

MythBusters can easily be credited as leading the resurgence of the Maker Movement in the early 2000s—and its co-hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are to thank. Adam joins The Webby Podcast to talk about the legacy of MythBusters and its new chapter, MythBusters Jr., as well as his hope to give readers permission to explore the most creative aspects of themselves in his new book, Every Tool's a Hammer.Pick up a copy of Adam's new book, Every Tool's a Hammer, and keep up with Adam @donttrythis.Follow us everywhere @TheWebbyAwardsKeep up with David-Michel @dmdlikesOur Producer is Terence BrosnanOur Writer is Jordana JarrettOur Editorial Director is Nicole FerraroMusic is Podington Bear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of Libre Lounge, Serge and Chris go back to the roots of hacker culture starting in the 1950s and 1960s and connecting that with the hacker culture of today, its challenges and how it needs to evolve moving forward.Show links:Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy (stevenlevy.com)Free as in Freedom (sagitter.fedorapeople.org)Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic (opentranscripts)The Problem with the Hacker Mystique (youtube)Eric Raymond's Jargon File (catb.org)The Original Jargon File (dourish.com)Hackerspaces (hackerspaces.org)Maker Movement (wikipedia)MAKE Magazine (makezine.com)Life hack (wikipedia)CW Chris's article on depression (dustyweb)CW Mitch Altman on Geek and Depression (bluehackers.org)CW Jason Scott on Geeks and Suicide (textfiles.com)The Microsoft Ad (ispot.tv)Poochie (simpsons.wikia.com)Wargames (wikipedia)Hackers (wikipedia)For the Love of Hacking (forbes)RepRap (reprap.org)Makerbot goes Proprietary (cnet)The Illegal Tattoo (treachery.net)A Portrait of J. Random Hacker (catb.org)

Recently, Tom went to Europe to visit the founders of MyMachine. MyMachine is a 10-year-old nonprofit in Belgium that helps brings dreams to life by recruiting college design students and high school prototypers to help bring to life the dreams of elementary students.   While visiting MyMachine, Tom asked the three co-founders — Jan Despiegelaere, Piet Grymonprez, and Filip Meuris — about the origin story of MyMachine and how they've scaled up to help over half a million students worldwide gain creativity, entrepreneurship, and agency. Tom and the founders also discuss some of their favorite, standout answers to, “If we can build a dream machine for you, what would that machine do?”; the steps and educational levels involved in the process; the growth they hope to see for MyMachine in the educational system; and all about the skill benefits students gain from MyMachine.   Key Takeaways: [:14] About today's podcast and guest. [1:20] The MyMachine founders introduce themselves. [1:44] Co-founder Jan describes the location of MyMachine. [3:21] Do the co-founders feel that the education system is not keeping up with the thriving economy in Europe? [4:25] Filip tells the story of the origin of MyMachine. [6:30] When did Piet hear about this idea and come to think about it as an organization? [8:25] What is the prompt MyMachine gives to elementary students in the classroom? [9:30] Some of the answers from elementary students and the values and agency it builds for them. [12:10] One of the MyMachine answers that stood out most for Jan. [13:50] One of Filip's favorite MyMachine ideas. [15:33] Why are three groups of students (elementary, secondary, and higher ed) involved in the MyMachine process? [18:13] The skill benefits that the students gain from MyMachine. [21:07] What benefits do Jan's corporate and philanthropic partners see in the program? Why do they support MyMachine? [23:11] What does success look like to the founders? How will the world be better 5-10 years from now with the growth and success of MyMachine? [25:10] Does Jan see MyMachine making schools better and different in the future? [26:48] Filip's thoughts on what success looks like a few years from now.   Mentioned in This Episode: MyMachine-global.org “Teaching Students How to Bring Their Dreams to Life” (Piet's blog post on GettingSmart.com)   For More on Design Thinking, Check Out: S3:E35 “What's Up With All the Design-Focused Schools?” for a review on design-focused schools and S3:E32 “Michael Fullan Sees Global Momentum for Deep Learning” to learn why Michael Fullan is so optimistic that deeper learning is a global trend.   Get Involved: Check out the blog at GettingSmart.com. Find the Getting Smart Podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Is There Somebody You've Been Wanting to Learn From or a Topic You'd Like Covered? To get in contact: Email Editor@GettingSmart.com and include ‘Podcast' in the subject line. The Getting Smart team will be sure to add them to their list!  

This week, we're taking a look at the maker movement. What does a makerspace look like? Why are libraries considered the perfect place to host a makerspace? And what does being a maker mean, anyway? First, we talk with Kristina Holzweiss, a media specialist at Bay Shore Middle School in New York who is spearheading the maker movement across Long Island. Later, we sit down with two Scholastic employees who have helped create the Klutz Maker Lab line of products, which include DIY gumball machines and remote control racecars! Additional resources: Learn more about Klutz Maker Lab Learn more about SLIME (Students of Long Island Maker Expo) Learn more about Long Island LEADS Read about Kristina Holzweiss' nomination as a Library Journal Mover and Shaker Follow Kristina Holzweiss on Twitter Follow Klutz on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Guests: Kristina Holzweiss is the school library media specialist at Bay Shore Middle School, as well as the founder of Students of Long Island Maker Expo and Long Island LEADS.  In 2015, she was named the School Librarian of the Year by School Library Journal and Scholastic. Netta Rabin is the vice president of product development at Klutz. Owen Keating is a senior packaging designer at Klutz. Special thanks:  Music composed by Lucas Elliot Eberl Sound mix and editing by Daniel Jordan and Christopher Johnson Produced by Emily Morrow

On this week's Tech Nation, how technology has enabled the economies of scale to trickle down to everyone. Hemant Taneja, a managing director at the venture capital firm General Catalyst talks about “Unscaled – How AI and the Next Generation of Upstarts are Creating the Economy of the Future.” And on Tech Nation Health, understanding more about our immune systems – and how they change as we age. We'll hear from Dr. Thomas Olin, the CEO of Kancera from Stockholm, Sweden. And the Maker Movement in Healthcare. Chief Correspondent, Dr. Daniel Kraft, talks about the niche of MakerNurse and his own experience developing a new surgical tool.

Chris Chuter: @Chris_Chuter Show Notes: 00:47 - Peeple: What is it? Why? 02:59 - Iterations and User Testing 13:32 - Complexity of Installation 17:26 - Device Integration 22:15 - Setup and Installation 25:35 - Laws and Building Codes 26:39 - Getting Started in this Space 31:29 - Ensuring Quality, Integration Testing, and Deployment Pipelines 33:18 - The Manufacturing Process Resources: If This Then That (IFTTT) Transcript: CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 82. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at the Frontside and your podcast host-in-training. With me is Elrick Ryan. Hello Elrick. ELRICK: Hey, hello. CHARLES: And today, we are going to be continuing our series on the Internet of Things and we have someone on the podcast today who's going to talk to us about the Internet of Things. His name is Chris Chuter and he is the CEO, inventor and founder of Peeple. Hey, Chris. CHRIS: Hey. How is it going? CHARLES: It's gone well. Thanks for coming on the program. Peeple, what is it? Why don't you give us a quick overview of the product? Obviously it pertains to IoT, what is it and how did you become involved with it? Let's delve into that. CHRIS: Yes, sure. Let me give you the elevator short version first then we can dive deeper. Peeple is caller ID for your front door. The idea is when you get a phone call and you don't answer the phone, what happens? It goes to your voicemail. You know someone called you. But today, if someone comes to your house, you have no idea that they came unless you're there. This is the central problem that we solved with Peeple. It's a little device, a hardware device, an Internet of Things device that fits over the peephole in your door in the inside of your house. When someone knocks or doors open, you get a push notification on your phone. You can open up the phone and you can see a live view of your peephole. In a nutshell, Peeple is a smart peephole. CHARLES: Is it more for the case when you're not home at all or do you find the people use it for what you would traditionally use a peephole. CHRIS: It depends on the person. Now, my personal use case is for keeping track of wandering kids and that's actually inspiration for this invention. I have two boys and when one of my boys was three years old, he managed to open the door, walk out, go on to the street and walk down to the end of the street. Now, I live in Austin and I live right off the edge of a very busy street. Now, my kid didn't die or anything like that. It's not a really sad story but a neighbor brought my kid home and it was one of those moments as a parent where you're like, "Oh my God. I'm a terrible parent." But being an inventor and an engineer, I was like, "I'm going to hook something up that just tells me when my door is opened or closed," and it morphed into this invention. We showed it to people at South by Southwest almost three or four years ago. That's when we realized we were on to something that didn't exist. It was just a little camera on the door. CHARLES: Tell me about those first versions. I'm so curious. It sounds like there's a lot of layers of functionality that you've been through, a lot of iterations so I'm curious about that. What's was that zero iteration look like? CHRIS: Version 0 was made in 24 hours. It was a hackathon for... I can't remember the name of it. There was a hackathon group that recently imploded and we won this hackathon. The hackathon thing was to make something... I'm not sure if this is for Internet of Things but we were all making that kind of stuff. I made this little Raspberry Pi demo with a little mini door and I had talked to my wife and this is how I was able to make this invention, to keep track the kid as I was busy doing other stuff but I talked her into giving me 24 hours to make this one thing. Then me and another guy, David we won this hackathon. We were like, "We've got to turn this into a real thing," because one of the awards of the hackathon was you go to Silicon Valley, you show this off and you do all this cool stuff with it. We were like, "We've got to actually turn this into something that's presentable." That was Version 0. It was just a little Raspberry Pi. CHARLES: Now, what were you doing to detect the state of the door? CHRIS: That's the crazy thing. The first version of the device had more sensors on it than the final version. The first version had everything. It had a doorbell, it had a knock sensor, it had a motion, it had a speaker that played Paul McCartney's 'Someone's Knockin' At The Door,' but it had an accelerometer. I threw everything in there the first thing and half of it worked for the hackathon demo but it was good enough to win. This is something that, I guess I could call wisdom now but the real thing I learned is you start with everything and then you narrow and get it more tuned and highly focused and more precise as a device, like the difference between the iPhone and the Samsung phones. One of them is to throw everything into it and then the iPhone is just really specialize into a few things really well. The next three years, we're pulling stuff out. CHARLES: What are some examples of that calling that you're describing where you're saying, "I'm to take this out? I'm going to take this out. I'm going to take that out." CHRIS: We got rid of things like the doorbell and some of the other sensors, mainly because it was just a wiring issue and as well as we wanted to keep track when the door was opened and closed. It didn't make sense to have the speaker on there at the time so we really focused more on the accelerometer and the knock sensor for the first version of Peeple. CHARLES: That is not the final version. Is it mostly just the accelerometer? What if someone doesn't knock? I assume there's some sort of detection that goes on with the camera. CHRIS: That's the next version. That's something that we've been working on right now, what we're going to be delivering. We have delivered our first, I would say Version 1.0 of Peeple devices to our customers. There's a thousand of these or so in the wild, all around the world and the next version we have added -- and I guess this my first real announcement of this -- a motion detection module. It's not a camera-based. It's more or less magic and it just works through the door. That's the most I'm going to say on it right now because we're probably the first hardware device that it's actually using this technology. ELRICK: That's an excellent pitch. Everyone loves magic. CHRIS: Yes, it's basically magic. It works through the door. ELRICK: As you were going to these iterations, were you doing like user testing to see what users wanted? Or did you internally say, "This doesn't make sense. Let's just take this out." CHRIS: Absolutely. That's the second part of this story. After this hackathon happened, we prepared to go on the road show to go and show it off to Silicon Valley but in the meantime, this hackathon group, I think it was called AngelHack, it imploded. One of their founders made all these disparaging comments about homeless people and what essentially happened is we lost the award. They said, "We're sorry. We can't give you the award," but we had spent about three months fine-tuning, making something pretty and putting a pitch together. I went in and I pitched at a TechCrunch Meetup in Austin and we came in second at that but during that meetup, I met one of the reporters and said, "You really need to talk to these guys in San Francisco called Highway1," so I did. We eventually ended up moving to San Francisco. Now, the reason I mentioned that to answer your question is they understand this idea of user testing, I think better than a lot of people. Even though they were focused on working on hardware and getting an IoT device that works out there, they were drilling it into our heads is, "You have to get this in people's homes now. I don't care how bad it is. I don't care if you have to hire people, to sit at a peephole and just look through it and pretend like there are hardware device. You got to do this and you have to find out what the problems are, what works. I want you to look at your biggest fears of this thing and you quash them and you do that before you put any Silicon down," so we did that as best we could. CHARLES: So you did that with the Version 0 and Version 1 devices? CHRIS: Exactly, just a Version 0, I have all these pictures. We put them in about 12 to 20 homes and we have these long extension cords powering this thing because we didn't have the batteries to figure out. We had these huge lag problems. It would take like 30 seconds to a minute before something would happen. We had all these issues but in the end, people were still like, "It had these issues. You couldn't do this," but the fact that I had a door log, a door diary as what we're calling it now, that's something I never had before. That's where your secret sauce is so we ran with that. CHARLES: Yeah. That's the kind of thing it never even occurs to you. CHRIS: Exactly. In the app, or at least the early versions of the app, is you have these versions like a calendar that are like, "Okay, I got 10 visits yesterday. I got 20 visits today. No one came to visit me today. I'm so sad," but I have a calendar of, I think it was May of last year when I got visited by three or four magazine salesman in one week so you could correlate that with, "Did we have any break ins?" or something like that. CHARLES: Yeah, it would be interesting to be able to share that data with your neighborhood or somehow coordinate that. one of things I'm curious about too is you did this user testing you were talking about, doing the wiring and the installation, it's a conversation that always comes up when you're talking about custom hardware because there's always the drive to be small, there's always the drive to be have a small form factor and then you have challenges of power like how do you power this device. How cumbersome is the installation onto someone's door? CHRIS: Yeah, we had it all. That's a big difference, I think between San Francisco or Silicon Valley and other towns is there's this acceptance and there's this readiness to participate in the tech scene. We did a call out for volunteers and we had no problems finding them. They didn't mind us coming to their house and hooking up these big, bulky things and just being real intrusive. The fact that we found these people and they were the key to this early stage of, "Do you become a product or do you not?" We were only there for four months but by the end of this time that we were there, there was this legitimate tangible feeling of we're not a prototype anymore. We're a product and we didn't have a product. It was just prettier but we could see the light at the end of the tunnel. I don't think that would have happened had we not gone through this very painful experience with all these poor people that we inflicted our device on. CHARLES: This actually is fascinating because obviously, you're back in Austin now and I never heard of programs like that, like sign up to have someone come up and test it at some alpha stage prototype in your home. That sounds crazy and yet, it sounds like they were just going out of the woodwork. CHRIS: In San Francisco, it's not a problem. If I put the call out now, I probably have to really like, "Here's an Amazon gift card." I have to start doing a little bit of bribery. ELRICK: I think I would sign up just to see the cool tech. CHRIS: Yeah and those people exist. I think we don't have the means to really find them. That infrastructure already exists. In Silicon Valley, you just go down to Starbucks. CHARLES: There ought to be some sort of meetup for people who want to experiment with very early stage IoT devices here in Austin. Maybe, we'll have to look at it. If that doesn't exist, I would love being a guinea pig. I actually think there is an untapped willingness here but there's just not -- CHRIS: I think you need a critical mass of hardware people and hardware devices that are ready to be put in doors or put in the houses. There's definitely some in there. I have a lot of friends and there are hardware meetups that we go to but this stuff takes so long and it's so hard as hardware is hard. There's that small window of, "We got this little idea of a water sprinkler. Do you think anyone want to try it out?" or something like that and then the moments gone. Then six months later, there's another one. CHARLES: Yeah. I wonder if there's a way to really decrease that iteration cycle so that you can get feedback more quickly. I guess the problem is when you need a physical device, you just needed a physical device. CHRIS: We're talking about the Maker Movement and the MakerClub. If you're part of those, these people are hard to find. People that go to Maker Faires, that's the people you're looking for. CHARLES: Right. Now, transitioning because ultimately your target customer base is not makers, not people who are willing to put up with wires and cabling and people doing protracted installation. What does the kind of 1.0 product look like? Because what I'm curious is what immediately jumps to mind is this thing sounds like it's going to probably consume a lot of power. How do you get the power to that and what are the challenges and what are the tradeoffs that you have to make to try and get that power consumption down or get the installation complexity down? How complex is it today to install? CHRIS: I guess, I'll toot my own horn a little bit but I think we have one of the easiest IoT devices on the planet to install. You can possibly not even need tools. You can use your fingers but the biggest challenge for any IoT device is getting that home network connection. If there's been a few technologies through the years in which they've tried to fix this problem, basically just like self-pairing or things like that, like how Bluetooth can sometimes be really cumbersome. Now imagine that with Wi-Fi, it's the same thing but now you've got a password you've got to throw in there. That's really the only real hiccup with the installation on our device and we tried a few things. We went through about three different Wi-Fi chips before we settled on what we were using now. The first Wi-Fi chip was a TI one, which offered this nice pairing capability but it just didn't work half the time. Then we switched to a Broadcom chip, which was really solid and stable but turned out to be the most expensive component in the whole device so we had to get rid of that. The Wi-Fi issue was something we had to solve early because it goes also toward your power consumption. We have a camera and a Wi-Fi chip and both of those take up to 140 to 200 milliamps of juice when they're on. We had to be really smart of when this thing was going to be on and that's essentially when we went in parallel with the knock accelerometer. This device stays asleep most of the time and that's how we get the many months of battery life out of it. We put a rechargeable battery inside, it only turns on when it needs to and it's just hanging around waiting for an event for the rest of the time. Those were the things we were solving to get the Version 1. CHARLES: Now, it's waiting for some event but in order to receive the event, doesn't the accelerometer need to be on? Or is there some motion detector that --? CHRIS: That's a solved problem. good news was that accelerometers are extremely low power in the nano or picoamps but that's also another reason why the motion detection was going to be a hard problem because that is not, unless you're using what's called a PIR that is not a low power solution. CHARLES: Acronym alert. What is a PIR? CHRIS: It's an infrared proximity detection. That's how almost all motion detection cameras work. They have one hole for the camera and another hole for the PIR. The problem with these are is they don't work well in sunlight, outdoor-light and things like that in one of our use cases so we were kind of stuck. That's why we've recently come up with this new motion solution that doesn't rely on that technology -- the magic solution. CHARLES: All right. When we're going to find out about the magic solution? CHRIS: As soon as I ship this next version because it is being used in a few products but it's not really stateside yet and I want to save my thunder but it's something that I think is really cool. It really is magic. It's just amazing to me that it works. CHARLES: Well, I'm eager to see it. You were talking about Wi-Fi being one of the biggest challenges. That's a perfect segue. The connection to the network for something that we're always curious is discovering a new and interesting device is always a pleasure and then the next thought that almost funnels immediately after is how can I integrate this with other strange and wonderful devices to make something even more wonderful? A question we ask everybody is have you thought about how this might be a participant in an ecosystem so if there were other devices around the home, how would they even talk to the people? How might it offer information to someone looking to, maybe do some custom integration in their home? CHRIS: That's a lot of questions in one. Essentially, there's two ways of looking at it. You can look at it from your customer's perspective, what kind of customer do I think is going to have this or is going to use this the most. Back when we came up with this, there were a lot of do-it-yourself types and If This Then That protocol was out there but we really wanted to focus on something that was incredibly easy to use and didn't require you to program anything. I was really frustrated with the whole idea of Internet of Things because it almost implied that you had to be a programmer to use it. I didn't like that at that time. I've since come around to it because there's all these great tool kits out there. We initially looked at integrating with HomeKit. We thought they'd be perfect but what a lot of consumers don't realize is early HomeKit -- I don't believe it does that anymore -- made you modify your hardware to put in this special Apple hardware. When you're making a device, it is so hard just to get the hardware down. It's so expensive. To add anything or to put anything else in there, it's a huge friction point. It's really something that small startups just can't afford to do. A big Nest or a company like that have no problem but when you're making a one device, this is a big deal so we weren't able to really leverage something like HomeKit for an API. But we do have our own cloud-based API. We're RESTful API but it's just not documented and put out in a way where we want to have people programming it. But the good news is we did leverage several APIs when we were making things like the app and doing things like the push notifications and things like that. Now, it turns out that a lot of the case we used are now integrating with things like Alexa and other device protocols so we essentially get those for free. This whole ecosystem is forming around us. Just most important is to get your device out there because you have a vision for what the device will be used for. But then your customers tell you what the device is really useful for and that's when the real work starts. CHARLES: Right. I guess, it's true you have your first line of customers and I guess the use case what I was thinking of is me being a developer. I'm thinking what products could be built then using this as a component, so to speak. Have you'd given any thought to that or have anyone had approached you to say, "This is amazing. I'd like to build this meta product that integrates that," or is it kind of early days? CHRIS: Early on, that was the approach of the Internet of Things and it merged away from that in my experience. Early on, it was all about building blocks. You got to understand, these are old Zigbee Z-Wave programmers and that was the whole concept. Then it got turned on its head by, "I really have this problem that I need to solve and I don't want to have to make a bunch of building blocks to do this." For attacking it from the other side, like you're saying, building up into pieces, I really recommend you talk to the Twine guys -- super mechanical -- they're here in Austin as well. A year or so before, we came out with Peeple. They put out this device which was exactly what you're talking about. An Internet of Things type hub where you just add in all the pieces and then you integrate with everything. They can better give you a story of how that lifeline goes. CHARLES: Yeah, because it's always something you think about because you've got all these wonderful things. CHRIS: Yeah, some would say, an Internet of Things. CHARLES: Yup, or at least a floor plan. ELRICK: When someone gets a Peeple device, what is the full installation story and set up? What is the walkthrough for that? CHRIS: We have a little video of that. What you essentially do for Peeple when you're installing it on the peephole in your door, you unscrew the peephole. Now, the way Peeple's work is they need to handle doors that are variable width, depending on where you live. There's no real standard. All of the Peeple's work by having a shaft that you screw onto another side so it's basically two pieces. Now, one of those shafts holds this bracket that we include in the package. You screw that onto your door with the peephole holding it to the door, then you turn on the Peeple device and you connect it to your home Wi-Fi and then you're ready to go. That's it. CHARLES: That's the hardware side of the onboarding and then what about the software? How do I go and look at my door diary? CHRIS: You do this during the installation. You go to My.Peeple.io and there's a little button to add your Peeple device. UI-wise, it's one user interface among all the platforms whether your Android, iPhone or on a browser. You just go to that webpage and associate your account to your Peeple devices. You will have to log in. You can log in with Gmail, Facebook or just a regular email. Then you add your device and any time you go back to that page, it will show you only the videos from your device so you have a list of all the events from your Peeple device on that page or in that app. CHARLES: That is interesting. I'm looking at the videos right now online. Although my problem actually is I've got a glass door. CHRIS: Yes, we got you covered as well. CHARLES: You do? CHRIS: Yes. The reason you have a glass door or a peephole and many people don't realize this is it because it's required by law. If you ever plan to have run out your house as a multi-family unit, you have to have a peephole or a window surface to where people can look out. Once we figured that, that's when we realized we were onto something. The first versions of Peeple came with these little adhesive pads that we called gecko skin and this is where we learned a valuable lesson. No matter how sticky you make your stickers, they're not sticky enough. We included three of these little tabs in every device to put on a glass door, if you had glass so the Peeple device would work the same way for glass door, except that you would use a sticker, instead of unscrewing the peephole. The only problem with the stickers were is they were not sticky enough. If there was condensation or a weather event or something like that, these things would fall off so we made a modification. We found better stickers and I mailed those out to all the people. But this is why hardware is hard. You're going to make these mistakes. In all our testing, we didn't find this but of course, once you have a thousand testers, you find a little more. ELRICK: That's interesting that you brought up the laws about the peephole. Were there any particular building codes or anything of that nature that you guys had to be concerned about when having Peeple installed things on their doors that you had to figure out before shipping them out? CHRIS: Not really. The Texas property code is more geared among making landlords do the right thing. In case you're wondering, I think it's Texas Property Code 94-152 that covers this. There must be an external viewable portion for all multi-family units to the front entryway. Now, this is just the Texas law. We had to look this up in a few other states and it turns out there's one in San Francisco, there's one in Virginia but they're all different. But so far, we haven't had any issues with any property codes or building code issues. CHARLES: This has been an almost four-year odyssey for you that you've been on, right? CHRIS: Right. CHARLES: You've been involved in this scene and working with hardware probably for a long time even before that, it sounds like. For people who are just getting into it, because I feel like there's this wave cresting now, where these types of startups and these types of side projects and hobby projects are just starting to enter the mainstream. Do you have any advice for anybody who would want to get into this space? CHRIS: Well, that's a great question. Of course. Now, contrary to what you just stated, I didn't have much of a hardware background. I'm a software guy. I can personally attest to the pains of becoming a hardware guy. Now, the irony of this is I do have a master's degree in electronics engineering but electronic engineering is so huge. It's such a big field that you can spend your entire career not doing much hardware. But I always had the ability to go back and build some circuits but I would say the number one thing, if you're not a hardware guy is go to some of these meetups or get involved in a community and find yourself one, someone who has experience doing hardware because coming from the software room, you're used to this flexibility of changing a few lines of code and being everything changing. Now, when you get a hardware guy onboard and our hardware guy's name is Craig, when he comes to work -- CHARLES: Or gal. CHRIS: Yeah, or gal, of course. When they look at the same problems you're looking at, they're like, "Hold on a second. Let's step back. Let's test this." There's this quantitative slowing which you need to have as hardware because once you build a PCB, a circuit board, you are now stuck with that board for the next month or so because it takes a while to make another one so get that right before you jump around and do all these changes. My first advice would be is get help. There's no shame in going out there and you might be surprised. There are so many people out there that want to join in. If you have a good idea, there's plenty of people who want to contribute. CHARLES: Would you say that there are communities out there like the software communities where you have meetups? Some of the software meetups are just fantastic, where people are so welcoming and they're just so excited to share the information that they themselves are so excited about. CHRIS: Yes and there's the same thing as on the hardware side. You would definitely go to a few hardware meetups, there are several in Austin. There's at least one every week and it's a great chance for people to tell these kinds of stories. This is a maker type community so they welcome these ideas because that's what fuels their enthusiasm. Every time someone is doing something new, they want to hear it. That's the change now. This decade has happened to where you can go out and buy a few modules and make your little device. Then there's the next big step of turning it into going from prototype to hardware but you can get all those kinks out without having to make your own printed circuit boards, without having to have a huge firmware background. Just knowing a little bit of tech and a Raspberry Pi, you can test out your inventions at this early stage without having to invest all this money and these other things. There's never been a better time to do it. I would leave your listeners with is if you got something swirling around your head, get a Pi, get a little Arduino and do it. There's nothing stopping you. CHARLES: Yeah, it's shocking how affordable they are. CHRIS: I don't even touch on China, by the way but that's the next step. CHARLES: That's the great thought that I want to leave everybody with but I actually have more questions so we won't leave everybody with that. We'll keep on going because I want to talk about China and I want to talk about something that was in there. You've touched on it a couple of times when telling your story how you go from this just do it, get it out there, get it into people's homes, just get the Version 0 out, just buy an Arduino, slap together something terrible, that is at least one millionth of the dream that you have and you've taken your first step on that odyssey. That's a very common story in software. The way that we develop software too is have these agile methodologies and these techniques to reinforce them, testing, continuous integration, continuous deployment. How does that play out? A fascinating subject to me personally is how do you do that in the context of hardware. A question that I love to ask is how do you do things like ensure quality? How do you do integration testing? How do you have a deployment pipeline if you've got these Peeple devices out there on tens of thousands of doors globally? How do you push out a bug fix or a feature update? What's the automation around that look like? CHRIS: The over-the-air updates are your friend. If you're going to make a hardware device, I recommend making a Wi-Fi enabled device because then your firmware is not locked, then you can do over-the-air updates. That has been a lifesaver. We've done maybe a dozen software updates to our device to date, sometimes little changes, sometimes big changes. But what happens is any time the Peeple device wakes up, it says, "Hello, server," and the server says, "I got an update. First, let me give you all these images." Give me the code. The devices are constantly upgradable, just like you'd expect with software. Now, with some of these Bluetooth devices, you can't do that. You've got to go out the door being ready to go with no issues. It's a friction point to tell someone, "Your headphones can't work now. You need to plug it into a computer. You need to download this firmware upgrade. You need to update the firmware doing it by hand." That just isn't going to fly in today's consumer market so I would recommend if you can, make your device a hardware Wi-Fi device, get a Wi-Fi module in there and that opens up the world to you on doing a lot of these updates, to answer the last part of your question. CHARLES: You mentioned China, since you're touching on the manufacturing process or just the market over there or --? CHRIS: Yeah, be ready to fully commit. I've been to China, maybe four times now. I have a 10-year visa. It took a while to find the right partner and you've got to be boots on the ground in the factory for a couple of weeks just getting the whole line up. It's a whole another product when you're at the manufacturing stage. You're making all these little test things, they've got to hook up the boards to certain devices, they've got to put the firmware on it, they've got to do these things. It's a whole another job. That's why when you do these Kickstarter. They say, "We're going to be out in three months," and then six months later, "We're still working on it." I have a lot of empathy for this because I've lived it. You think, "I've got everything done. My hardware works. All I have to do is team up with someone to just make it and with them, we'll ship it." There's a whole another level to just a manufacturing piece and you can't really learned. There's no real textbooks to learn this because every factories are different. Our factory is right north of Shenzhen and we talked to some US manufacturers but they just weren't competitive to be in the discussion so you pretty much have to go overseas and then you have to sit down with them and just a little bit of communication difficulties can bring down a whole manufacturing line so it's very important that you're very hands on and you see your product all the way to package. ELRICK: That's interesting. I know of it but I never really thought about it because I was really not in that position. What are some of the higher level of things that you should look out for when evaluating a manufacturing partner? CHRIS: We talked to about a half a dozen before we decided on our manufacturing partner. The big one for me was cultural fit. I talked to some of the big ones like the one that makes the Apple phones, we talked to them for a while and I just found that I would say, "We would like to do this or we need this," and then the next week, they'd be asking a question, "What about this?" and I'm like, "Oh, you didn't understand what I was really asking," so you would lose weeks just by tiny misunderstandings. I found a manufacturing partner that has a subsidiary here in the US and my main contact grew up in the United States but he also goes to China every other week. Having that kind intermediary made everything so much easier. The communication was never an issue. I was able to get things done almost twice as quick with the other manufacturers I was talking to. In the end, they also came up with a great price so it turned out to be a win-win. I would recommend talking to the bigger manufacturers but spend a lot of time on the smaller ones and really figuring out is the communication up to snuff to really make your product. It's huge. CHARLES: What a story. I'm really glad that we got to have you on the podcast, Chris because you have the story that starts from literally slapping a Raspberry Pi and an accelerometer and speaker and apparently a bunch of other things on your front door and with an extension cord and walking a continuous path to where you're flying back and forth between China and Austin to inspect and ensure your assembly line and making a real product. It demonstrates that it can be done by the fact that you have done it so I think it serves as an inspirational case for a lot of people out there who might think that this is something that they might want to do. Or think that they're capable of. Thank you so much for coming and talking about Peeple. Everybody, you can go ahead and check it out. It's Peeple.io, right? CHRIS: That's correct. CHARLES: All right. Also, is there anything else that you'd like to announce other than the magic, which you're going to keep a lid on? CHRIS: Yes, I know I'd appropriately teased everyone about that but you can go to our website. If you go to Shop.Peeple.io, we're taking preorders for this next magical version, the Peeple Version 1.1, I guess I'll call it. I would like to add just before we go is if you're going to endeavor to do something like this, make sure you have a very understanding family because they couldn't have done it without a wife and kids that understood my craziness and allowed me to have just a complete mess of our house for, I guess, for three years now. CHARLES: Thanks again and thanks everybody for listening to this episode. You can get in touch with us on Twitter. We're at @TheFrontside and you can always find us on the web at Frontside.io and there's a contact form and we'd love to hear from you, for any reason whatsoever. Thanks, everybody and we'll talk to you next week.

This week, we're switching things up, going DIY, and welcoming Dale Dougherty to the show. Dougherty is pretty much the godfather of the current Maker movement. On this episode, we chat about why DIY and "tinkering" are important skills for kids, why the Maker message can be so compelling, surefire methods for engaging kids with STEM subjects, the shifting roles and dynamics Dougherty has seen among the genders at Maker Faire, the Amazon show Annedroids (which he consults for), and where he'd be on the perfect day.