Oct 4, 2018
Dominic meets with Becky Stern of Instructables.com and YouTube whilst at Maker Faire in New York. They talk all things making including some tips on how to hoard googly eyes and how Becky’s distraction train derailed and killed a village of Canadians.
In this episode of Bricolage I talk with Becky Stern in a noisy cafe at the New York Hall of Science, in Queens during the World Maker Faire event at the end of September 2018.
We talk about:
The importance of audio quality
Tinkercad & online courses
Train of thought derailment (killed a village of Canadians)
Dominic likes to pioneer new things
How do you know Dominic founded a Hackerspace? Don’t worry he’ll tell you…
NYC Resistor the Brooklyn based makerspace where Becky is a member
Makerbot in Brooklyn found space for NYC Resistor
Bree Pettis proto-YouTube-Maker and influence on Becky & Dominic
The “Death” Elevator (see Instagram)
Instructables (where Becky is product manager)
Mini Golf Hole at Figment Festival (Human Cell)
NYC Resistor Dead-mans-shoes - invite only
“What 3D Printer should I get” question
Becky wins a Makerbot Cupcake no:44
Make magazine Cupcake article
Makerbot Replicator 2
Creality Ender 3
Dominic laments the speed the last 10 years has gone, because he’s a man of a certain age.
Early days of Make with Colin Cunningham (an example)
Bree goes to ETSY
Blip.tv
Make YouTube channel
Dominic & Becky recall the joy of watching Make’s “Weekend Projects”
My Life in New York City
Becky is put in a box
On making in Brooklyn, New York
Rules for not hoarding
What is an obscene quantity of googly eyes?
Project discipline
Becky has an extreme personality
Laura Kampf (name drop)
Amount of content that Becky likes to put out
Motorcycle
A kid says Hi to Becky
Dominic talks about his “Starbucks transaction" theory regards to access to cheap laser cutting, ask on twitter if interested
A kid makes a wonderful noise
Coping mechanisms for distraction
video with Estefanie (explains it all) & Naomi Wu coming up (not published at this point)
Vespa project mentioned and linked earlier
Becky plays GTA 5 online (and so does Dominic)
Optics matter & Becky takes advantage of her privilege to put funny lights on her scooter
Scarry spy gadgets from the electronics market in Shenzhen (up coming video)
Domestic violence counselors & the internet of things
Naomi Wu gives tips on spy gadgets & tastes candies with Becky
The safety trolls
You can find more about Becky Stern here:
and on her website https://beckystern.com/
You can find out more about this podcast on twitter and instagram linked above Or by following Dominic @ChickenGrylls see a video of the “death” elevator operated by Becky Stern at NYC Resistor! Here.