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Rich Olson Embodies the Spirit of the Maker Movement (Video)
What kind of person builds a cloud chamber at home in his spare time -- and wants to make it easy for other people to make them, too? How about someone who uses a 3-D printer to make shifters for his bicycle? And then there's the spherical speaker enclosures and the alarm clock that shreds money if you don't wake up. The clock isn't original. Seattle resident Rich Olson (whose URL is nothinglabs.com) says someone else originally made it and he liked the idea. No 3-D printing or laser cutting required; just buy and hook up some inexpensive, easy-to-find components and off you go. Despite its lack of originality (which Rich freely admits), this little project got Rich mentioned everywhere from financial publications to the New York Daily News to Huffington Post's UK edition, which is somewhat amusing when you realize that Rich is not famous (outside of a small circle of maker-type people) and doesn't have anyone doing PR for him.
By day, Rich is a humble mobile app developer. But when he's done working he becomes Mr. 3-D and laser cut cool designer guy who does fun things in his workshop with CAD software, a 3-D printer, a laser cutter, and (of course) traditional cutting, drilling, and shaping tools. Since he's an open source devotee, Rich posts almost all of his designs online so you can make them yourself. Or modify them. Or use them to spur an entirely new idea that you can then make, and hopefully pass on to others. While it's interesting to see that Martha Stewart is now selling 3-D printer designs, Rich and his hobby are what the maker movement is really about. If you're so inclined, you can follow Rich on YouTube, where he posts a video now and then that shows what he's made recently or follow his low-volume blog to see what he's up to.
By day, Rich is a humble mobile app developer. But when he's done working he becomes Mr. 3-D and laser cut cool designer guy who does fun things in his workshop with CAD software, a 3-D printer, a laser cutter, and (of course) traditional cutting, drilling, and shaping tools. Since he's an open source devotee, Rich posts almost all of his designs online so you can make them yourself. Or modify them. Or use them to spur an entirely new idea that you can then make, and hopefully pass on to others. While it's interesting to see that Martha Stewart is now selling 3-D printer designs, Rich and his hobby are what the maker movement is really about. If you're so inclined, you can follow Rich on YouTube, where he posts a video now and then that shows what he's made recently or follow his low-volume blog to see what he's up to.
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Autoplaying embedded videos is Gawker bullshit.
What the FUCK is this doing on Slashdot?
Seriously Slashdot, do you not know your audience? Fuck off with this bullshit.
An alarm clock that shreds money? I'm pretty sure that destruction of legal tender is a somewhat serious crime.
I sleep because it's a biological imperative, not because I don't want to be awake. If it was entirely up to my conscious decision-making and willpower, I would never sleep. Besides, oversleeping has its own consequences -- why add artificial ones?
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Loose the video or loose the peeps following the site.
Your call.
Subsitute "Hobbyist" for "Maker" and you have the same thing. This only SEEMS like a new fangled thing because most Millenials can't fix anything. To find someone who can actually machine a part, build a shed or repair a car might be shocking news to a 25 year old hipster, but it's called being an adult.
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systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
no autoplay. no complaints. for almost every site i visit .. DUH.
Seriously, why the fuck would you have a video that auto plays with no way to keep it from loading and NO VOLUME CONTROL?!?!
Dice, seriously, stop this shit. Beta is bad enough, but now you're wasting people's bandwidth by forcing this bullshit upon us. Yes, you figured out how to embed a video in a webpage. Goody for you. Gold star. Now how about doing something constructive, like fixing the lack of unicode support or any number of usability issues?
Oh wait, that doesn't please your advertising overlords so it's not a priority. Well in that case, go fuck yourselves.
"So after all this, you make my case for me. To end this stalemate, you must die..."
Until Dice stops their blatantly user hostile behavior, I will be boycotting their services, and I encourage you to join me. My company occasionally posts ads on Dice, but we we no longer do so. We will also try to avoid buying from any company that advertizes on a Dice Holdings website.
If Dice wants to stop this boycott, they need to post a public message stating that the auto-play videos will stop, and that Slashdot Beta is permanently cancelled.
If we want to see changes, we need to hit them where it hurts.
He is a white male! Don't you know "makers" must be women? Rich Olsen is a sexist asshole, and he should be required by federal law to hire a female employee immediately.
AUTOPLAYING VIDEOS THE SOCIOPATHIC BASTARD COUSIN YOU ALL WISH YOU COULD TAKE OUT BACK LIKE A SICKLY OLD HORSE. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. THE MAKE MOVEMENT - THEIR FEET SMELL Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I didn't know Roblimo was actually Rich Olsen. Weird.
BTW Rich, sorry for all the crap you're going to get on this article. The problem isn't you. It's the drooling, ass-kissing submittal that's most likely irritating people. And, apparently, the autoplay video. Whatever.
He is a white male! Don't you know "makers" must be women? Rich Olsen is a sexist asshole, and he should be required by federal law to hire a female employee immediately.
Also we need some government intervention here. We have 70 years of copyright that he's needlessly throwing away! We have to harvest the worth of this stuff, we can't just let people give away useful stuff. Think of his children! They are going to be losing out. We need more legislation to protect those children.
Hey I've got tons of money and time, so let me get famous for a quirky hobby too!
Elapsed time to Lovejoy's Law: 3 hours 14 minutes
/highfive.
Not bad for a 3D-printing article,
Also known as "hobby".
No Flash here, but it still began playing in Safari --- fortunately I always have my speakers muted.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
See subject: It, unlike IE of any version & FF/Chrome too (minus addons afaik) has ALWAYS had "by site" preferences such as Cookie control, Mask or Identify as (insert browser here), Enable plugins (ONLY ON DEMAND, meaning YOU have to activate them manually, ala Flash vids etc.), Javascript, IFrames/Frames, & Send referrer information AS YOU SEE FIT only AND with individual settings for EACH site as you see fit...
Good stuff!
E.G. - YouTube told me "YOUR BROWSER IS DEPRECATED" since they also moved to HTML5 video playback: Guess what?
From those features I just extolled, I used "Identify As FireFox" & voila: I am STILL able to play videos there, AND USE OPERA 12.17 64-bit, using Flash (though it blows due to security problems galore constantly, lol)...
Funniest part is, this older version of Opera's HTML5 capable too but YouTube's apparently *trying* to "kill it by force", & those options (most flexible of ANY browser I've ever seen, even vs. Chromium on the commandline) saved me...
Question is - for how long though?
* I can't BELIEVE Jon Von Techzner dropped the PRESTO engine like he did!
(... & I wish he'd "Open SORES" it... I'd be on it like "white-on-rice" to fix the ONLY part that was 'wrong' with it (strong adherence to EMCA script/javascript standards, so SOME sites won't render 'properly'... no big deal to me - I only use JavaScript @ online banking or shopping/e-commerce sites, or test-taking sites etc. that demand it along with cookies))
APK
P.S.=> I have VERY HIGH HOPES for "Vivaldi" from him -> http://www.networkworld.com/ar... which, already from that link & the performance tests in it, debug-code & all, is outracing or keeping pace with FULL release Chrome, IE, & FF - now: IF he puts in the featureset he had in the older version of Opera I use? It WILL be my new browser (even if Chromium based like the newer "Chopera" is, which I have *not* tried)... apk
Did you have to mention Martha Stewart? Such an insult to put her name in the description of Rich Olson's work. That's cold.