Dale Dougherty: We are makers

Dale Dougherty started his speech with the message that all of us are makers.

Whenever you do something, you do it as a maker. It may be cooking or playing toys with children and their toys. We are makers, he says.

Then he spoke about "Maker Faire". It is the largerst DIY festival. DIY is an acronym for  decrypts as "Do It Yourself". Many guys with strange things come to this festival. For example he shows us one strange car covered in tons of mechanical fishes. And the car's driver may arrange these  manage this fishes as he wishes.

Then he spoke about hackspaces. This is a very interesting social spaces developed by him where you can do all you want by with your hands(manually). There are many tools in these spaces. This tools are such as screwdrivers, hammers and so on. Different 3D-printers and other expensive tools are available too. You might meet like-minded persons in such places. Hackspaces share knowledge, tools and expertise.

He also separatedly spoke about the small and cheap microcircuit Arduino. Anyone can do his their own smart things with Arduino. He revealed showed a smart postbox as an example. This smart postbox reports whenever it was is opened. Such things are easily accomplished may do with Arduino.

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