Guild of Makers
The Guild of Makers is a membership organisation. It exists to encourage Makers to support, encourage and help each other.
Definition of a Maker for the purposes of this Guild:
A practical person who takes pride in creating physical items using their imagination and skills.
The Guild of Makers was started just over a year ago back in 2018 and had their first annual conference in March last year. I joined just before that and hence became one of the founder members.
Unfortunately, I missed the first conference as I’d already booked tickets to Makers Central and could not justify the time/cost for both events. So I decided to switch this year and visit the Guild of Makers Conference instead. But I did re-use my badge from the previous year.
I set off from Euston at 7:13 but due to engineering works and general incompetence by the train company the journey took nearly 4 hours. However, I did get to travel part of the way with @pinski1 and @konichiwakitty as they also got stuck at Northampton.
By the time we arrived, we’d missed 3 of the talks but were in time for the tea break and followed by talks by Hanna Varga –
I’d missed Alfred and Sue’s talk on impostor syndrome and building things for the Western Approaches museum. But got to meet up with them at the swap table. “Hey Andy, Big
After lunch we had a tour of AutoDesk’s advanced manufacturing facility where they use welders strapped to 3D printers, 3D printers strapped to robots and really expensive materials strapped to really expensive milling machines. A really enthusiastic tour guide explain how they like to get everyone from the company into their makers lab so they understand making as well as software.
The tour was followed by a show and tell, so I showed off Babbages Baggage, a giant key, The Kuriologist’s Skull, and The Knight from the Dragon Detector. This was also the time to meet with the other makers and I met so many fantastic makers from all sorts of fields and specialisations.
In the afternoon we made micro peg based automata in a workshop run by Rob Ives. I spotted afterwards that I had glued my legs on in the wrong place so I fixed that at home.
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Over the weekend the family tried out the Design Spark VR Headset and we got started on building
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
[…] In February, there were some hasty repairs to the back of the Workshopshed. The neighbours had removed the back fence and that gave me a unique opportunity to see the rear wall. Unfortunately, it was quite rotten so I needed to quickly patch it up before they replaced the fence. The rotten wood was chopped out and replaced with a big slab of OSB. The front of the shed got a minor facelift too with the addition of a vent hole connected to the extractor fan provided by Alfred from the Guild of Makers. […]