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What is your business? PJRC: Electronic Projects where are you located? Portland, Oregon, USA Do you attend a makerspace? Which one?Yes, DorkbotPDX and PDX Hackerspace. I must admit I don’t manage to make the trek across town as often…
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“I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else,” poet Diane Ackerman wrote in her Cosmic Pastoral, which so enchanted Carl Sagan — her doctoral…
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Theodor Adorno celebrated punctuation as the “friendly spirits whose bodiless presence nourishes the body of language.” Mary Oliver jested that each writer has a lifetime quota of them, to be used judiciously. Indeed, the wielding of these…
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In 1885, at the age of only twenty, Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864–January 27, 1922) composed and published a searing letter of response to a man who, as the father of five girls, cynically questioned what girls are good for. At twenty-two, she…
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Tell us a little about your space. ADX is chock full of creative space of all shapes and sizes. Created for people who are tired of working by themselves, whose rent is getting too expensive, or who are seeking a community of like…
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Name: Blake HodgsonHome: Mission, KSDay Job: Project manager by day, prototype developer by nightMakerspace: Hammerspace Workshop in Kansas City, MO. How did you get started in making: I have always enjoyed make things, but the…
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The latest itty bitty powerhouse from PJRC has been released this week. The teensy line of dev boards has hit 4.0! They have managed to keep a tiny footprint, like you’ve come to expect from the Teensy. They’ve gained some serious…
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Name: Kelly LuckHome: Kansas City, MODay Job: Software Developer Makerspace: Hammerspace Workshop in Kansas City, MO. How did you get started in making:I used to work staff at various local fan-cons, and would see groups like the R2-D2…
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Walt Whitman considered trees the wisest of teachers. Hermann Hesse found in them sweet consolation for our mortality. Wangari Maathai turned to them as a form of resistance and empowerment that earned her the Nobel Peace Prize. “The tree…
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What does home mean and where do we anchor our belonging in a world of violent alienation and alienating violence? I use “alien” here both in the proper etymological sense rooted in the Latin alienus, “belonging to another,” and in the…
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