Talk given at MakerFaire Detroit '12

1. We Are All Makers
Take 2
Dewayne Hendricks

2. Topics
• Personal Log
• Project Notion
• The Pieces
• The Adventure Begins...
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3. 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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4. Ford Rotunda

5. Ford Rotunda

6. Amateur Radio

7. Whole Earth Catalog

8. World Game Workshop

10. Project Notion

11. Setting: Maker Faire
Detroit ’10

13. • 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

14. James Burke’s
Connections Series
• ‘Connections’ in 1978 on BBC
• Science historian

15. Example of making
connections

16. 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)

17. ‘First Flight’ Events

18. As fast as it gets

19. Telegraph - 1830’s

20. From ‘Foot Speed to
‘Light Speed’

21. Early “Wire Head”

22. First signal across
Atlantic - 1901
St. Johns, Cornwall,
New Foundland England

23. “From Lightspeed to
Lightspeed”

24. Wireless Commercial
Service started in 1903

25. Early “Wireless Heads”

26. Industrial Age to
Information Age

27. “From Lightspeed to
Warpspeed”

28. 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

29. 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

30. Edison Lab Connections

32. • First industrial lab in the U.S.
• System for making and enabling inventions
• Value of patents
• Value of diversity

33. The Adventure Continues

34. Roadmap
• Make contact with current Makers
• Feed the website!
• Search for collaborators
• On going Exploration
• Site: maker.warpspeed.com
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