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We Are All MakersTake 2
Dewayne Hendricks
Topics• Personal Log• Project Notion• The Pieces• The Adventure Begins...
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Personal Log• Native of Detroit• Cass Tech (Science & Arts)/WSU
(Monteith College)• Left 1970 to SIU Carbondale & World
Game• Silicon Valley 1976• Serial Entrepreneur• Back to Detroit August 2010
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Ford Rotunda
Ford Rotunda
Amateur Radio
Whole Earth Catalog
World Game Workshop
Project Notion
Setting: Maker Faire Detroit ’10
• Making Connections
• Merge/Extend Past/Present/Future
• Start with major collections at THF
• Wright Brothers Cycle Shop
• Bucky Fuller Dymaxion House
• Thomas Edison Menlo Park Lab
• ‘Connections’ in 1978 on BBC
• Science historian
James Burke’s Connections Series
Example of making connections
First Premises• First comes a technology
• As time passes it becomes more accessible/affordable
• “Good Enough” is acceptable for most folks
• More then we know is always happening under our ‘radar screens’
• Wireless is one of our technologies which is most akin to magic (Clarke’s 3rd Law)
‘First Flight’ Events
As fast as it gets
Telegraph - 1830’s
From ‘Foot Speed to ‘Light Speed’
Early “Wire Head”
First signal across Atlantic - 1901
Cornwall,England
St. Johns,New Foundland
“From Lightspeed to Lightspeed”
Wireless Commercial Service started in 1903
Early “Wireless Heads”
Industrial Age to Information Age
“From Lightspeed to Warpspeed”
The Internet
• Ten years now since the start of the commercial Internet (May, 1995)
• ‘Same day service in a nanosecond world’
• The ‘pioneers’ get the arrows
New Devices - New Rules
• The Tools Make the Rules
• ‘Code is Law’ Larry Lessig
• The rise of End-to-End or Peer to Peer
• Smart Radios
• Cognitive Radios
Edison Lab Connections
• First industrial lab in the U.S.
• System for making and enabling inventions
• Value of patents
• Value of diversity
The Adventure Continues
Roadmap• Make contact with current Makers• Feed the website!• Search for collaborators• On going Exploration• Site: maker.warpspeed.com
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