Our guest this week is Simone Giertz. Simone is a Swedish native who now resides in San Francisco. Millions of people come to watch her build shitty robots on YouTube and she recently launched her own astronaut training program to get herself into space. Simone's videos have been featured on The Ellen Show, The Late Show, Mashable, Business Insider, Wired, Conan O'Brien, and more. Whilst most recently joining master builder Adam Savage's tested team.

Our guest this week is Danielle Applestone. Danielle is a material scientist, co-founder and CEO of Other Machine Co., the leading manufacturer of high-precision desktop CNC milling machines. Formerly, Danielle ran a DARPA project to develop digital design software and manufacturing tools for the classroom. Danielle's team took that technology and launched Other Machine Co. in 2013.

Our guest this week is Dale Dougherty. Dale is the founder and CEO of MAKE, which produces MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire, in addition to books and kits for makers young and old. He lives in Sebastopol, California.

Our guest this week is Robyn Miller. Robyn co-founded Cyan Worlds in the late 1980s, where he designed and directed the landmark video games Myst and its sequel Riven. In 2010, he co-founded Zoo Break Gun Club LLC, with producer/filmmaker Mischa Jakupcak. ZBGC has produced several films and has projects in development for film, television and virtual reality.

Our guest this week is is Eric Moore. Eric is the IT manager at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. He previously worked for Apple in its Information Systems and Technology Department. Having grown up on a farm in Georgia, he's a tinkerer by nature who loved to break things and put them back to together to learn how they worked.

Our guest this week is Danny Haeg. Danny is currently the Director of Creative Collisions at the Tech Museum in San Jose, California. He moved here from Minnesota to jump into the simmering maker-melting-pot that is Silicon Valley.

Our guest this week is Alan Henry. Alan is the editor in chief of LifeHacker, a site that offers tips, tricks, and downloads to help people live their best, most productive, and most fulfilling lives. He's also a recovering physicist, music lover, and self-proclaimed lover of dorky and niche hobbies.

Our guest this week is Arion Paylo, the son of an artist and carpenter, Arion was initially drawn to the keyboard instead of the table saw. After 11 years at Apple he's gone from thinking about how Genius Bars work to how coffee bars work. At Blue Bottle Coffee, he strives to create cafes that foster memorable moments with delicious coffee.

Our guest this week is David Pescovitz. David is co-editor and managing partner of Boing Boing and a research director at Institute for the Future.

Our guest this week is Paolo Salvagione, an artist who works at the intersection of engineering, participation, and levity. He has sent his studio visitors out a one second-story window and back into another on a 900-pound steel wheel, and created scent-based sculptures that use smell as a touchstone for memory. He worked, for over a decade, as lead engineer on the 10,000 Year Clock of the Long Now Foundation.