Dominic meets with Becky Stern of Instructables.com and YouTube whilst at Maker Faire in New York. They talk all things making including some tips on how to hoard googly eyes and how Becky's distraction train derailed and killed a village of Canadians.
In this episode of Bricolage I talk with Becky Stern in a noisy cafe at the New York Hall of Science, in Queens during the World Maker Faire event at the end of September 2018.
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The importance of audio quality
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Tinkercad & online courses
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Train of thought derailment (killed a village of Canadians)
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Dominic likes to pioneer new things
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How do you know Dominic founded a Hackerspace? Don't worry he'll tell you…
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NYC Resistor the Brooklyn based makerspace where Becky is a member
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Makerbot in Brooklyn found space for NYC Resistor
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Bree Pettis proto-YouTube-Maker and influence on Becky & Dominic
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The "Death" Elevator (see Instagram)
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Instructables (where Becky is product manager)
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Mini Golf Hole at Figment Festival (Human Cell)
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NYC Resistor Dead-mans-shoes - invite only
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"What 3D Printer should I get" question
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Becky wins a Makerbot Cupcake no:44
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Providence AS220 Fablab
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Make magazine Cupcake article
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Makerbot Replicator 2
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Creality Ender 3
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Naomi Wu
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Becky's filament box
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Alex French Guy Cooking with Becky Stern
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Wintergatan
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Dominic laments the speed the last 10 years has gone, because he's a man of a certain age.
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Early days of Make with Colin Cunningham (an example)
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Bree goes to ETSY
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Blip.tv
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Make YouTube channel
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Dominic & Becky recall the joy of watching Make's "Weekend Projects"
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Bree goes to Other Mill (now Bantam Tools)
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My Life in New York City
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Becky is put in a box
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On making in Brooklyn, New York
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Rules for not hoarding
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What is an obscene quantity of googly eyes?
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Becky's boyfriend, Smokey Nelson is a cinematographer
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Project discipline
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Becky has an extreme personality
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Laura Kampf (name drop)
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Amount of content that Becky likes to put out
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Becky on Instructibles
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Motorcycle
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A kid says Hi to Becky
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Becky's Vespa
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Dominic talks about his "Starbucks transaction" theory regards to access to cheap laser cutting, ask on twitter if interested
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A kid makes a wonderful noise
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Dean Segovis Hackaweek
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Alex Bate
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Pi Zero PeepHole Camera
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Coping mechanisms for distraction
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video with Estefanie (explains it all) & Naomi Wu coming up (not published at this point)
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Vespa project mentioned and linked earlier
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Becky plays GTA 5 online (and so does Dominic)
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Optics matter & Becky takes advantage of her privilege to put funny lights on her scooter
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Scarry spy gadgets from the electronics market in Shenzhen (up coming video)
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Domestic violence counselors & the internet of things
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Naomi Wu gives tips on spy gadgets & tastes candies with Becky
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Estefannie Explains it all
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The safety trolls
You can find out more about this podcast on twitter and instagram linked above Or by following Dominic @ChickenGrylls see a video of the "death" elevator operated by Becky Stern at NYC Resistor! Here.