Here are the questions for tonight, 4th December, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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?
#MakersHour

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?
#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?
#MakersHour

Here are the questions for Thursday 27th November, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
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Thank you.

Q1: Hello! Tell us who you are and what you’ve been up to! #MakersHour

Q2: What tool, or bit of creative kit, gives you the most satisfying sound when you use it? #MakersHour

Q3: What tool do you regularly use that you would most want to be powered, but isn't, and how would you power it? Alternative: What power tool do you use that you feel most guilty for using and why? #MakersHour

Q4: What tool or process do you use regularly that you would most like to be automated and any ideas how to go about it (yet)? #MakersHour

Q5: What is the most unusual tool that you have duplicated at different scales - like a more extreme version of a full set of spanners? #MakersHour

Here are the questions for Thursday 27th November, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1: Hello! Tell us who you are and what you’ve been up to! #MakersHour

Q2: What tool, or bit of creative kit, gives you the most satisfying sound when you use it? #MakersHour

Q3: What tool do you regularly use that you would most want to be powered, but isn't, and how would you power it? Alternative: What power tool do you use that you feel most guilty for using and why? #MakersHour

Q4: What tool or process do you use regularly that you would most like to be automated and any ideas how to go about it (yet)? #MakersHour

Q5: What is the most unusual tool that you have duplicated at different scales - like a more extreme version of a full set of spanners? #MakersHour

Q3: @MakersHour
I live above my workshop so it is close. What would suit you, living close to your workspace, or having distance to switch off at the end of the day?

A3: I love being really close to my workshop space. I’d choose a workshop with accommodation over accommodation with a workshop! Even if my workshop was in a barn that was away from the house a little way, I would end up building a covered walkway between the two that would eventually turn into a corridor bringing the workshop into the house.

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Q3: @MakersHour
I live above my workshop so it is close. What would suit you, living close to your workspace, or having distance to switch off at the end of the day?

A3: I love being really close to my workshop space. I’d choose a workshop with accommodation over accommodation with a workshop! Even if my workshop was in a barn that was away from the house a little way, I would end up building a covered walkway between the two that would eventually turn into a corridor bringing the workshop into the house.

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Here are the questions from @Indigoatcrafts for Thursday 13th November, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
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Q1: Who are you and what have you been up to this week? #MakersHour

Q2: I'm currently working on a make with an "autobiographical" dimension. Do your makes reflect aspects of you such as your life, beliefs or personality? #MakersHour

Q3: Is there a story, song, myth that has warmed your creative heart? #MakersHour

Q4: I realise that I have always been a "maker" and am saddened that I never got the chance to undertake an apprenticeship and become skilled. What sort of training would appeal to you? #MakersHour

Q5: I may not be a classroom teacher anymore but I still want to reach out and inspire young children to be makers. What could, would or do you do to this end? #MakersHour

Here are the questions from @Indigoatcrafts for Thursday 13th November, at 8pm UK time, Tooted every 12 minutes throughout the hour.
Please remember to follow us, and tag #MakersHour.
Thank you.

Q1: Who are you and what have you been up to this week? #MakersHour

Q2: I'm currently working on a make with an "autobiographical" dimension. Do your makes reflect aspects of you such as your life, beliefs or personality? #MakersHour

Q3: Is there a story, song, myth that has warmed your creative heart? #MakersHour

Q4: I realise that I have always been a "maker" and am saddened that I never got the chance to undertake an apprenticeship and become skilled. What sort of training would appeal to you? #MakersHour

Q5: I may not be a classroom teacher anymore but I still want to reach out and inspire young children to be makers. What could, would or do you do to this end? #MakersHour

Dear #MakersHour folk could you please give @disabledknitters a welcome (and the intro post a boost)?

You're also very welcome to join us if it applies to you. The #chronicallyIll knitters and #Spoonies are very much appreciated and part of the pack, but a group description has only so much space. 🧶

https://zirk.us/@aurora/115512145643155190

Dear #MakersHour folk could you please give @disabledknitters a welcome (and the intro post a boost)?

You're also very welcome to join us if it applies to you. The #chronicallyIll knitters and #Spoonies are very much appreciated and part of the pack, but a group description has only so much space. 🧶

https://zirk.us/@aurora/115512145643155190

@MakersHour

A4: I saw Adam Savage talk about this once and I realised I do the same - purchase the cheap version of something, then get the nice version once the cheap one wears out.

I'm enough of a grey beard that I've started on my nice "round" of tools. I'd be happy to trade up some of my older cheap ones, but I'd hate to lose my nice Wera screwdrivers.

#MakersHour

@mycrowgirl I’m Al. I setup an Icecast audio streamer that streams a random mix of songs from my music library to my home network 24x7. The playlist is on Mastodon, but the station isn’t on the Internet (yet).

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Q1 Hello! Tell us who you are and what you’ve been doing this week.

A1 Hellooo! I’m Lisa, and I am rewiring a lamp base that has had a mangled power supply and missing shade for too many years. I’ll also be installing a proper harp holder as the old shade was a lightweight clip-on style.

Once the rewiring is done, I’ll make a new stained glass shade for it. @MakersHour #MakersHour https://cupoftea.social/@MakersHour/115504526810223235

@WizardOfDocs @MakersHour squeedles? #makersHour

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A4: I saw Adam Savage talk about this once and I realised I do the same - purchase the cheap version of something, then get the nice version once the cheap one wears out.

I'm enough of a grey beard that I've started on my nice "round" of tools. I'd be happy to trade up some of my older cheap ones, but I'd hate to lose my nice Wera screwdrivers.

#MakersHour

@MakersHour #MakersHour A4: I would lean even more heavily into the better ergonomics choices I've made in the last few years. All of my needles will be square.

Q4 If all your making tools and equipment was lost and you got the new replacement value for them would you replace like for like, or would you make substantial changes to your kit? #MakersHour

@MakersHour #MakersHour A3: I'm gonna count the process of getting myself re-onboarded at Google as an outside vendor.

I've been between projects for so long they locked my company laptop. It's taken me over a month to get to the point where that lock is all that's standing between me and full employment, and I'm sick of it and really discouraged. I swear the mass layoffs have completely destroyed HR's institutional knowledge.

At least I can bill part-time for my efforts.

@WizardOfDocs @MakersHour grrrrr technology. I have a new phone and I am fighting the urge to throw it at a wall. Right now #MakersHour please excuse my less than polite internal dialogue as I'm really struggling to see the text on my tablet

Q3 Have you had a project that seemed determined to try your patience, stamina, positive approach? Did you triumph? What happened, and how? #MakersHour