Here are the questions for Thursday 18th December, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
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Q1: Hello, this is the last Makers Hour before Christmas.
Tell us what your ‘Ghost of Christmas Future’ might show you?
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Q2: Thinking of the future, what trends or changes do you foresee in the creative and making world? Are they good or bad for you?
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Q3: What improvements or changes do you most look forward to in your personal creativity?
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Q4: How far ahead do you plan, or look towards, when considering future projects? Just to the end of the project, or beyond that, to whatever that project leads on to? What influences that?
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Q5: Putting aside any dystopian thoughts, describe what would give you the ‘warm fuzzies’ in the coming years/decades.
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Here are the questions for Thursday 18th December, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1: Hello, this is the last Makers Hour before Christmas.
Tell us what your ‘Ghost of Christmas Future’ might show you?
#MakersHour

Q2: Thinking of the future, what trends or changes do you foresee in the creative and making world? Are they good or bad for you?
#MakersHour

Q3: What improvements or changes do you most look forward to in your personal creativity?
#MakersHour

Q4: How far ahead do you plan, or look towards, when considering future projects? Just to the end of the project, or beyond that, to whatever that project leads on to? What influences that?
#MakersHour

Q5: Putting aside any dystopian thoughts, describe what would give you the ‘warm fuzzies’ in the coming years/decades.
#MakersHour

@MakersHour #MakersHour

Q5. Tell us about a childhood toy that you still remember and miss, and how might your making be able to recreate that feeling?

The tamagotchi is cliche at this point. And besides, I now own several.

You know what I don't own anymore, though? The old LEGO MIndstorms hardware. In a way most of what I do is more advanced than that, but it REALLY would be cool to find a toy or something I can use to play with that style of like... robotics. Not in the android or chatbot sense, but like, working out sensor configurations and gear ratios and stuff.

I suppose if I ever did get my own machining hardware, I could just make up some stock of gears and motors and stuff. Though it's probably cheaper to tackle specific projects than build a general toybox.

@Indigoatcrafts
We need to help rattle that guilt, shame and inadequacy out of you! 😉

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#MakersHour A3)

Possibly to sound a bit wanky, but I honestly don't remember a time I didn't consider the world... modifiable.

Surely that's the state all humans are born into. Saldy I suspect a lot of people have it trained out of them from a young age. Boxed in, given boundaries. I was just lucky enough to be in a family context with fewer boundaries than the average I suppose.

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Q3. How did you feel when you first discovered you had the ability to create something that would not have existed in your life otherwise?

Because I'm a multidisciplinary maker and absolutely compulsive learner, I actually get to have this feeling every couple of years, when I create a thing that is a whole new kind of thing from the things I've otherwise created.

I can no longer really distinguish the act of creation from the act of living.

@_thegeoff
Your Dad set it off?
I wonder how that could have happened when he should have been in bed waiting on Santa! 🤔 😂

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Here are the questions for tonight 11th December, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
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Q1: Hello, there are two more Makers Hours until Christmas.
Tell us what your ‘Ghost of Christmas Present’ might show you?
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Q2: Thinking of the present, share a creative, or making, memory from something you have been working on recently, or currently.
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Q3: Do you smile while you are working on a creative project? Does the joy come from the doing or the finishing?
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Q4: Looking at the world around you today, what are the influences that drive your creativity?
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Q5: Share with us something you have with you that brings you comfort while you are working on a project. That could be like a mascot, or a good chair, or some company.
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Q5: Share with us something you have with you that brings you comfort while you are working on a project. That could be like a mascot, or a good chair, or some company.
#MakersHour

@MakersHour #MakersHour A4: A lot of it is about improving my environment. Warm things to wear, pretty things to hang on my wall, moments of peace and quiet, turns of phrase that make the people around me smile.

@MakersHour #MakersHour A3: I smile on the inside, but usually I just look like I'm concentrating. Most of my crafting joy comes from the process, but at some point most projects become things that I'm looking forward to having done.

@MakersHour #MakersHour A2: Here's my main WIP for #FastenOffYAL . I've been having a lot of fun with it.

@MakersHour #MakersHour A1: the sweater I promised @storm after we got married, which I've promised her I'll work on while we visit her parents

Here are the questions for tonight 11th December, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1: Hello, there are two more Makers Hours until Christmas.
Tell us what your ‘Ghost of Christmas Present’ might show you?
#MakersHour

Q2: Thinking of the present, share a creative, or making, memory from something you have been working on recently, or currently.
#MakersHour

Q3: Do you smile while you are working on a creative project? Does the joy come from the doing or the finishing?
#MakersHour

Q4: Looking at the world around you today, what are the influences that drive your creativity?
#MakersHour

Q5: Share with us something you have with you that brings you comfort while you are working on a project. That could be like a mascot, or a good chair, or some company.
#MakersHour

Here are the questions for tonight, 4th December, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1: Hello, it’s December and three more Makers Hours until Christmas.
Tell us what your ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’ might show you?
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Q2: Thinking of the past, share a creative, or making, memory from your childhood.
#MakersHour

Q3: How did you feel when you first discovered you had the ability to create something that would not have existed in your life otherwise?
#MakersHour

Q4: Is the creativity and imagination of the past, or your childhood, still influencing what you make now?
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Q5: Tell us about a childhood toy that you still remember and miss, and how might your making be able to recreate that feeling?
#MakersHour

@MakersHour #MakersHour A5: I had a bunch of magnetic ball and stick sets that I did a whole lot of geometric exploration with. I've been looking for more of them as fidgets, but the models they sell these days are mostly shapes instead of sticks. Harder to accidentally swallow, but there have to still be sets for older people.

@MakersHour #MakersHour

Q5. Tell us about a childhood toy that you still remember and miss, and how might your making be able to recreate that feeling?

The tamagotchi is cliche at this point. And besides, I now own several.

You know what I don't own anymore, though? The old LEGO MIndstorms hardware. In a way most of what I do is more advanced than that, but it REALLY would be cool to find a toy or something I can use to play with that style of like... robotics. Not in the android or chatbot sense, but like, working out sensor configurations and gear ratios and stuff.

I suppose if I ever did get my own machining hardware, I could just make up some stock of gears and motors and stuff. Though it's probably cheaper to tackle specific projects than build a general toybox.

@MakersHour #MakersHour A4: I feel like I picked up a lot of my artistic themes in high school and college. Geometric doodles, aspirational portal fantasy... and to look at my work even more broadly, I'm Alex now because that's a name I used for self-insert characters starting in high school.

@Indigoatcrafts
We need to help rattle that guilt, shame and inadequacy out of you! 😉

#MakersHour

#MakersHour A3)

Possibly to sound a bit wanky, but I honestly don't remember a time I didn't consider the world... modifiable.

Surely that's the state all humans are born into. Saldy I suspect a lot of people have it trained out of them from a young age. Boxed in, given boundaries. I was just lucky enough to be in a family context with fewer boundaries than the average I suppose.

@MakersHour