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Maker Faire Detroit 2010
Generations of Makers: Is the Past a Source of Inspiration or Is It a New World?
- Generations of Makers: Is the Past a Source of Inspiration or Is It a New World?
Anderson Theater Sunday 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Ted Hall, developer of the ShopBot digital fabrication tools used by many makers today, recently attended the enshrinement of his grandfather, Warren Grimes (1900-1975) into the National Aviation Hall of Fame. Many of the Aviation Hall of Fame personages are famous pilots or astronauts, but Grimes was a mid-twentieth century tinkerer, inventor, and innovator -- a maker -- whose garage workshop puttering became the familiar red, green, and flashing lights we see on airplanes in the evening skies. Grimes ran away from an orphanage at 15. He claimed he was 16 in order to get a job here at Ford where he soon attracted Henry Ford’s attention, eventually providing lighting for the Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Grimes built a major aviation manufacturing business from his garage tinkering. Ted will reflect on the then and now -- his grandfather’s tinkering, and the challenges for today in growing small, community- based, technology businesses.
Web site: www.ShopBotTools.com
Video URL: www.ShopBotTools.com
About the Maker(s)
Ted Hall
Ted Hall is founder and CEO of ShopBot Tools, developers and manufacturers of tools for digital fabrication (CNC tools). Ted is a neurobiologist by training and is Professor Emeritus of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University. He was led by his own backyard tinkering into producing robotic tools that are oriented for use by individuals and small shops. His focus has become digital fabrication technology and,via 100kGarages.com, the encouragement of new forms of production and distributed manufacturing.
