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Hi, how are you?

Build a Makerspace

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Hi, how are you?

The Augmented Reality

Sandbox

Energize Your Community

with a Makerspace

What is a Makerspace?

Makerspaces are

Everywhere

• Urban Locations

• Suburban

• Rural (challenges)

Challenges

• Population

• Transportation

• Lack of awareness

• Busy-ness

Values, Strategy,

Tactics

Values

Community

• Events, large and small for

children to adults, girls and

boys alike

• Get together and make stuff

Knowledge

• Learn by working together

• Teach others

Craftiness

• Cross-disciplinary approach to

creation

• Hard and soft crafts

• For everyone!

Strategy

Become the Hub for

Makers in Your AreaMembership and Community

Educate Yourselves and

Your CommunityLearning

Bring in members who

encourage the creative

endeavors of others

Craftiness

Tactics

Become a Maker Hub• Partnerships with local makers

• Girl & Boy Scouts

• Library

• Local Unions

• Hobbyist Groups

• Hackathons

• Speaker Events

• Location!

• We are all makers. Educate.

Become a Maker Hub

• Invent an event

• Maker Faire?

• Hackerspaces in Space

• PPPRS

Become a Maker Hub

• Meetup

• Slack

• Google Groups

• Wordpress

• Twitter

Educate• Host Classes & post on Meetup

(also helps drive maker hub)

• How to solder

• How to program

• How to sew

• Photography 101

• Using the tools at the space

• Speaker Events

• Business workshops

Educate

• We are All makers!

• Local newspaper

• Local TV

• Events outside your

core group

Creativity• Tools

• 3D Printer

• Arduinos

• Raspberry Pis

• CNC Mill

• Saws

• Welder

• Plotter

• Etc.

Creativity

• Projects

• AR Sandbox

• Badges

• Power Wheel

• Sensor Arrays

‣ RESOURCES

• makezine.com

• http://makezine.com/2014/10/07/how-to-start-a-

makerspace-in-small-town-america-2/

• hackaday.com

• hackerspaces.org

Jay Margalus@jaymargalus * jaymargalus.com * [email protected]