Maker Riot

Josh Miles (branding guru) talks with us about how to brand and market the maker movement.

We share the things that we learned, and the things we wish we would have learned sooner when we created our makerspaces. We share the mistakes that we made and the important lessons that we learned in the process. We finish with a segment on new tools that we have or want for our space.

Show links
Twitter: @MakerRiot1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/makerriot
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
Website: www.makerriot.com

Show Notes & Links:

AdaBox a curated box of goodies by subscription from Adafruit. https://www.adafruit.com/adabox/
Hub & Spoke is a new makerspace opening in Fishers in 2020. https://hubandspoke.works/
Launch Fishers is a business incubator in Fishers https://launchfishers.com/
Nickel Plate Arts is the arts organization for Hamilton County. https://nickelplatearts.org/
Maker Educator Collective is the organization founded by Adam Maltese. https://www.makereducator.org

More about the Fishers Maker Town Hall can be found at https://www.fishersmakertownhall.com/

Cool Tools:
Lightbox https://www.dickblick.com/products/gagne-porta-trace-led-light-boxes/
Rabbet Cutter https://www.dickblick.com/products/foam-board-rabbet-cutter/
Screen Printing Clamps https://www.dickblick.com/products/speedball-deluxe-hinge-clamps/

Joel has a conversation with Jenn Deafenbaugh and Nan Braun about the 2019 Survey of Makerspaces which comes out on October 1.

For more information go to https://makethedata.org/

Get involved with the project:
Contact Jenn @ [email protected]
Contact Nan @ [email protected]

Engage with the Nation of Makers @
https://nationofmakers.us/
https://www.facebook.com/nationofmakers/

Joel reports back from the Infosys Pathfinders Institute at IU-Bloomington where he worked with educators to train in maker education as part of the Maker Educator Collective.

Maker Educator Collective is https://www.makereducator.org/
Infosys Pathfinders is at http://www.infosys.org/infosys-foundation-usa/pathfinders/

We discuss the Nation of Makers Conference & the American Library Association conference, and we interview two of Joel's former students, Trevor & Sharon.

In this episode, Joel takes on a maker challenge to build a graphics generating machine using a Raspberry Pi. The project uses the Processing Development Environment (PDE) which you can find and download here:

https://processing.org/

We also talk about Spoonflower, a site where you can submit patterns to have fabric or wallpaper made with your pattern. Check it out at:

https://www.spoonflower.com/

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In this 1st of a 2-part series, Katelyn takes on a low-tech maker challenge to create a Mars Colony Biome for the summer reading program "Universe of Stories." We listen along as she struggles through creating the biome.

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Be sure to check out the new blog post on the possible closing of the Bay Area MakerFaire.

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We will not be releasing a new episode. Work schedules got in the way of completing our new episode. We will release as soon as we can. We are really excited about the new episode. We are going to be putting more effort into our social media presence over the next couple of months also. Find us on Instagram, Twitter (@MakerRiot1) and on Facebook. Give us a follow, leave us a message. Let us know you're listening. Check out www.makerriot.com while you are at it. Talk to you soon.

Dominic Senibaldi of Cat Head Press and Jeff Stevenson of the Imagination Station in Toledo join us for a discussion about creating programs for a makerspace. How do you identify your audience? What are programming highlights? What is on your bucket list of programs for the future?

Check out Cat Head Press at http://www.catheadpress.com/about
Check out Imagination Station at https://www.imaginationstationtoledo.org/

As always you can come to https://www.makerriot.com/ to listen to previous episodes.

In this episode, hosts Joel Bruns and Katelyn Coyne set out to answer the question "why makerspaces?" Why are they important in the world? What are the benefits of participation? A variety of guests are interviewed including Mike Senese of Make Magazine, Rebecca Grabman of Makeshop in Pittsburgh, Adam Maltese of IU Bloomington, Consuelo Poland of Ruckus Makerspace, and more.

For more information about the show go to www.makerriot.com.

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contact Joel Bruns at [email protected] or Katelyn Coyne at [email protected].