Where anyone can put on a cloak that frees them to inhabit themselves

Where the walls move by time of day, where everything can be painted on

Where everyone who has something to teach is offered a venue, and everyone is offered a feeling that they have something to teach

Where the importance of movement practise cannot be understated

Where there is an indefinite quantity of soup for anyone carrying a bowl

Failing that, I want the space and the resources to plant a pollinator garden.

Q5: You have a cardboard box, a plastic bottle, an elastic band and a paper clip, what are you making?
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A4: I’m going rogue. I wouldn’t do an installation as such, but I would have a space to showcase different types of making, the mental health benefits and how you don’t need to spend a lot of money to get started. The idea would be to promote accessibility to making.

(Would that, in fact, *be* an installation? I’m not sure!)

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Where anyone can put on a cloak that frees them to inhabit themselves

Where the walls move by time of day, where everything can be painted on

Where everyone who has something to teach is offered a venue, and everyone is offered a feeling that they have something to teach

Where the importance of movement practise cannot be understated

Where there is an indefinite quantity of soup for anyone carrying a bowl

Q4: You have the opportunity (and sponsorship) to create an installation or "piece" to highlight an issue that is important to you... tell us about your plans…
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It's either all abstract concept design and you seek the materials out for it, or the tools and objects hang around for a while, gathering texture, waiting to find out how they will be used. It never feels that direct

Q3: Is there a tool, or an unusual object, that inspired you to a particular project? You saw it and thought "I know what I'd make with that!”.
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Not a tool, but material - literally. Browsing the bedding section in a charity shop for patchwork fabric, I found a lovely pale blue duvet cover with a design of birds and plants on it, and I'm currently wearing the pyjama bottoms I made from it....

Q3: Is there a tool, or an unusual object, that inspired you to a particular project? You saw it and thought "I know what I'd make with that!”.
#MakersHour
@makershour@a.gup.pe

Q3: Is there a tool, or an unusual object, that inspired you to a particular project? You saw it and thought "I know what I'd make with that!”.
#MakersHour
@makershour@a.gup.pe

Thought about starting a version for hacker camps, Harmonic Ancient Cosmic Kinetics, aiming for #why2025 was too soon... https://mastodon.scot/@ultrazool/113384772703696422

I am Pete, and I made good progress on my "Beat Bike" this week which is a bike with a drum machine mounted to the handlebars that can play a sequence and control the tempo by how fast you pedal. I plan to bring it to Maker Faire Milwaukee, and maybe ride it around the neighborhood. 😉

https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/115104112436435084

https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/115098296690660304

Q2: Tell us about one of your dream projects, something you've been planning, brainstorming or sketching up for a while? Is it something that will happen one day, or something that you are happy to just dream about?
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It's #MakersHour! The questions look good. #Q1 Hi i'm J Random Hacker and work indiscriminately in every medium

One thing made this week is the first of a set of hanging panels, white cloth maybe .5m X 2m, get six of them out of a charity shop duvet cover, a stick of bamboo scavenged from the gardens of the local student halls, sewn into the top and bottom

Part Chinese-style long canvas, part Japanese-style door curtain, part window blind, for a modular outdoor structure we'll get to in #Q2

I am Pete, and I made good progress on my "Beat Bike" this week which is a bike with a drum machine mounted to the handlebars that can play a sequence and control the tempo by how fast you pedal. I plan to bring it to Maker Faire Milwaukee, and maybe ride it around the neighborhood. 😉

https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/115104112436435084

https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/115098296690660304

This week I finished up a lacy hat and started swatching for the sweater my fiancee asked me for nearly a decade ago. (I said "marry me first," and here we are.)