Dale Dougherty (@dalepd)

The New Shop Class

Dale Dougherty — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:09:51 +0000

Lasers, 3D Printers and Lasers: The New Shop Class.

It’s sort of a mashup of a shop class, a computer lab, an art class, and maybe a bio lab.

Great coverage by DIY Education author, Anya Kamanetz, on our DARPA Mentor launch of pilot schools.

Paper Marbling Session for Maker Camp

Dale Dougherty — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:20:35 +0000

It was fun to be a camp counselor and demonstrate paper marbling techniques at Maker Camp this week. Here’s a video of my G+ hangout.

Cyberoptix Tie Lab’s Terrific Posters for Maker Faire Detroit

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:03:28 +0000

Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptix Tie Lab silkscreened these “smart and fancy” posters for Maker Faire Detroit.

Maker Faire Detroit

Dale Dougherty — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:52:48 +0000

I’ll be speaking in this theatre at The Henry Ford at Maker Faire Detroit at 1pm. My talk is the rise of makers and the maker movement.

InventorLabs

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:25:40 +0000

On Friday night, I spoke at Glenn Reid’s Peninsula Product Design Meeting in Redwood City. Glenn is a product designer who had worked previously in software at Apple and Adobe. At Apple, he developed iMovie. Glenn was also involved in PostScript early on and was the lead author of the Postscript Green book on program design. Today, he has a design studio and a fabrication shop called InventorLabs.

He sees InventorLabs as a “reusable startup”. They develop and sell off products but keep the core team intact. Glenn said he prefers hardware to software, and he likes figuring out products that people will pay for. Developing software, he said, is now like TV, where all programming is free. Glenn talked about redesigning the washer-dryer as a single machine that doesn’t require moving clothes from one machine to another.

Glenn and I had a good conversation about Make and how makers relate to product design and fabrication. The ability to create prototypes more easily and iterate rapidly through design and fabrication is opening the door to new people and new ideas.

There were some interesting folks in the audience. David Procter is developing Internet enabled dice. I met Ted Selker, a professor at CMU Silicon Valley and IBM fellow. Also, three young guys talked about building an open wifi network from Silicon Valley to SF and the developing wifi shields for Arduino and Raspberry Pi boards to allow devices to utilize the network. I also re-connected with Leticia Britos Cavagnaro who I had met at the d school on an education project. She’s now Associate Director of EpiCenter, National Center for Pathways to Innovation. As I understand it, the center is an NSF-funded program to change engineering education in higher education.

Phil Torrone and Limor Fried in SoHo

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 23:11:07 +0000

Phil and Limor gave us a tour of their new space in SoHo. They hope to move in ten weeks. I caught them both for a picture outside the building today.

VLAB 3D Printing Panel

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:47:48 +0000

I moderated a panel on the state of 3D printing at the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLab) on April 17, 2012. The panelists were:

Peter Weijmarshausen, Founder & CEO, Shapeways
Rajeev Kulkarni, VP, General Manager, Consumer Solutions Business, 3D Systems, Creator of Cubify
Gonzalo Martinez, Director, Strategic Research, Office of the CTO, Autodesk
Philip Delamore, Director of Fashion Digital Studio, London College of Fashion, University of Arts London

I thought the discussion was engaging and informative. We had an audience of 200-300 people.

My June Trip to Asia

Dale Dougherty — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:05:03 +0000

My trip to Asia included visits to Tokyo, Seoul and Taipei.

Here’s my overall trip report, which I created for the Make team.

In Tokyo, I spoke at the Maker Conference, which was held at Mirai-kan (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation).

Here’s My Video Journal of Maker Faire Seoul.

Here are the some of the published interviews and reports from my trip:

Interview with Japan IT Media [Japanese]
Interview on Korean IT TV channel in Seoul. I think the piece turned out well but the taped interview itself was kind of ridiculous.
Interview with James Powderly for the Creators Project. [In Korean] [In English].
Interview with Ctimes in Taipei Ctimes [Chinese]:
Report from Liberty Times [Chinese]

Jimmie DiResta’s NY State of Mind

Dale Dougherty — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:04:29 +0000

The “I Make” NY license plate.

The Next List Interview: We Are Makers

Dale Dougherty — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:07:33 +0000

I was featured on CNN’s Next List program with Sanjay Gupta, which first aired in February 2012.I talked about Make, Makers and what it means for the future of education.

CNN’sThe Next List: Dale Dougherty