What - and who - makes a maker?
That is what AnnMarie Thomas asks in her book, "Making Makers." She takes a look at innovative adults, successful engineers, and leaders in their field and asks them what their childhood looked like. They discuss the path their lives took, what their parents' actions (or inactions) did to help them on their maker journey. Inspiring pictures are sprinkled throughout.
Some of the makers profiled in the book called their parents and said "what were you thinking?!" after talking over their childhood memories with Ms. Thomas. She outlines what the parents *were* thinking and what this generation of parents need to look at if they want to raise innovative makers ourselves.
Acceptable risk, letting failure occur, providing materials and finding mentors are just a few of the subjects discussed here. I think it's a must read for all parents, especially parents who have children that have interests that do not mirror their own.
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| Making Makers | Zero to Maker 2nd Ed | Maker Pro | |
| Theme | What makes a Maker? Childhood. | What makes a Maker? Learning skills. | What makes a Maker? Grasping the challenges of manufacturing and distribution. |
| Spaces Explored | Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, Evil Mad Science Labs, Education Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Maker Faire, MIT Media Lab, Monterey Bay Aquarium. | Haxlr8r, Maker Faire, Noisebridge, TechShop, FabLabs. | Hack Factory, Hacker Farm, LEGO Imagination Center, Noisebridge, NYC Resistor, Maker Faire, MIT Media Lab, TechShop, Tokyo Hackerspace. |
| Maker Backgrounds | 3D Robotics, DEKA R&D, DIY Girls, EASE Lab at Olin College, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, MIT Media Lab, Sassy Knitware, Scratch, SparkFun Electronics. | DIY.org, Instructables, Inventables, Jellyfish Tank, Maker Media, Mozilla Foundation, ShapeOko. | BioCurious, Brickstuff, Chumby, Freaklabs, Good Life Lab, MakerBot, Tindie,. |
| Take Away | Lifelong creativity is a learned skill, one fostered and nurtured in childhood. In this collection of essays and interviews, the featured Makers discuss how lighting stuff on fire, blowing stuff up, and having the freedom to experiment with failure sparked an interest that has sustained them into adulthood. | When author David Lang lost his desk job, he realized that he had no skills that didn't involve sitting in front of a computer. Over the course of a year, he set out to learn essential Maker skills, eventually launching an open source underwater robotics company. If he can do it, anyone can. | What does it take to make the leap from hobbyist to professional? In this series of essays and interviews, professional Makers examine the obstacles, challenges, and rewards of making what they love to do actually become a career. |
| Desire With Which You'll be Seized After Reading This Book | To hand your child matches. | To explore an underwater gold mine. | To quit your day job. |
| Featured Makers | Chris Anderson, Kipp Bradford, Molly Black, Leah Buechley, Christy Canida, Judy A. Castro, Dawn Danby, Lindsay Diamond, Will Durfee, Lenore Edman, Woodie Flowers, Holly Gates, Bradley Gawthrop, Susan Grudem, Danny Hillis, Steve Hoefer, Mimi Hui, Jeffrey Jalkio, Steven Jevning, Eric Jonas, Dean Kamen, David Kelly, Sophi Kravitz, Allison Leonard, Luc Mayrand, Paul McGill, Amon Millner, John Edgar Park, Mitch Resnick, Luz Rivas, Eric Rosenbaum, Nathan Seidle, Raquel Vélez, Jane Werner. | Chris Anderson, Alex Andon, Dale Dougherty, Edward Ford, Jesse Harrington Au, Susan Hoff, Zach Kaplan, Andrew Sliwinski. | Mitch Altman, Jimmy DiResta, Eri Gentry and Tito Jankowski, Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Rob Klingberg, Sophi Kravitz, Joe Meno, Emile Petrone, Zach Smith, Wendy Tremayne, Chris Wang. |
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