My dad was a maker. He was a professional designer and a classically trained painter. Back then, he was designing and building window displays for Oxford Street shops. One of his things were paper sculptures. He made galleons, desert islands, trees, and fairy tale characters of exquisite detail out of carefully cut and folded snow-white sheets of fine card.
My dad was a maker. He was a professional designer and a classically trained painter. Back then, he was designing and building window displays for Oxford Street shops. One of his things were paper sculptures. He made galleons, desert islands, trees, and fairy tale characters of exquisite detail out of carefully cut and folded snow-white sheets of fine card.
He was a decent carpenter too, and he built the furniture for our living room. For us kids, he built a slide for our tiny back garden, and a rocking horse following the designs laid out by my sister. Once it was finished, it seemed so enormous to four-year-old me that I cried when my mother tried to sit me on it.
Although he didn't want us, his children, to be artists because he thought we would always be poor and miserable, he tried to instill in us his love for DIY and creative handicraft. He bought us tools and gave us leftover pieces of wood and, at the weekend, we'd go out into our back garden and toil away with hammers, saws and sandpaper, trying to build a rocket, a go-cart, a Dalek, or what have you.
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During the 2015 – 2016 school year, I organized and managed my child’s school computer club. I trained as a teacher, so I was not intimidated by the kids. On the contrary, I found the experience fun and stimulating, especially considering there was no stress of exams or grades.
Raspberry Pi engineer Rob Bishop brings his roadshow to Kansas City
Curious makers gathered in the Big Apple for Maker Faire NY 2014.
The LeMaker Guitar and Odroid-C2 are hobby computers that were created as competitors for the Raspberry Pi 2, but we discovered they can even challenge the Raspberry Pi 3.
From all over Germany, Raspberry Pi fans went to Trier in mid-June for "Pi and More 3." For a whole day, visitors of all ages enjoyed lectures and participated in hands-on workshops.
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