Movement Maker: A way to practice DIY
The Maker Movement assumes that anyone can make their own objects.
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The Maker Movement is an extension of the do-it-yourself (or "do it yourself" in English, abbreviated DIY) culture. It all started in early 2005, when the magazine Make Magazine, raised in the United States, promoted the Maker Faire (Fair of Makers). The fair was so successful - it received more than 250,000 people - that from that day on, giants such as Samsung, Intel, Microsoft, Raspberry, Arduino and Microchip began to develop technologies exclusively for the makers (doers).
movement maker
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The idea of the Maker Movement is to encourage ordinary people to make their own objects. In this sense, the maker culture assumes that anyone can build, repair, modify, manufacture and develop the most diverse types of objects and projects with their own hands; eliminating the need to buy them ready-made.
Access to technologies such as 3D printers, laser cutting machines, vinyl cutting machines, printing systems. software and hardware Open and easy to program, like Arduino technology, was the great driving force behind the Maker Movement.
Makerspaces
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Access to technologies makers was facilitated by makerspaces, which are spaces where production facilities are shared.
there are more than a thousand makerspaces around the world and many of them are developed by local communities. You makerspaces are part of a culture where people who use digital tools to create designs for new products, share these for free. designs on the network; to be reproduced by any person or factory, in any quantity.
Fab Lab
"Fab Lab - De Waag Society, Amsterdam" by Rory Hyde is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Fab Lab is an abbreviation of the English term “manufacturing laboratory”. You Fab Labs they are manufacturing laboratories where rapid prototyping (presentation of a first model of something) of physical objects is done. One Fab Lab bundles a set of professional-grade but low-cost machines. Examples are laser cutting machines, 3D printers, vinyl cutting machines, etc.
Openness is the main feature that sets the Fab Labs in makerspaces and the traditional rapid prototyping laboratories, which can be found in companies, specialized centers dedicated to professionals or universities. You Fab Labs they are spaces open to everyone and do not require qualifications such as diplomas, specific projects or experience.
The first one appeared in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in 2001. But there are already hundreds of Fab Labs around the world and in São Paulo there are some opened by the city hall.
Some other prototyping fabrication spaces often call themselves Fab Labs; however, many of them do not have the characteristic of openness, which makes the self-denomination erroneous.
Benefits
The maker movement is a practice that helps to avoid waste, because the items are made according to demand. In addition, custom item development increases the bond between the maker and the product, which possibly increases the useful life of the objects, preventing premature disposal. Thus, the culture maker has the potential to be a driver of the practice of ecodesign and a strong opponent of planned obsolescence - an unsustainable practice that increasingly shortens the life of products. To learn more about this topic, check out the article: "What is planned obsolescence?".
Thinking, developing and manufacturing a product are practices that stimulate creativity, artistic and manual skills - and can also serve as a therapeutic activity.
Furthermore, starting to manufacture the objects themselves can awaken the desire to make the culture maker a source of income. And in a world where everything is industrialized, products with more human touches can have special value.Examples of productions maker
amateur scientific equipment
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With the advent of low-cost digital fabrication, it is becoming increasingly common for scientists and hobbyists to manufacture their own scientific devices from design projects. hardware it's from software free. This involves creating scientific instruments for citizen science or open source laboratories.
- DIY: homemade pH meter
Clothes
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Imagine being able to make your own clothes with just a few clicks on the computer, without needing to understand much about making. This is already possible thanks to fully electronic sewing machines that can be connected to computers, Arduino boards that automate the process and clothing prototypes made available on the network.
But it is also possible to reform clothes and turn them into accessories using homemade techniques, avoiding new purchases.
- Do it yourself: turn your old t-shirt into a sustainable bag.
Feeding and composting
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Food and composting are also areas that are present in the culture maker . Examples are homemade bread, homebrewing (home brewing), winemaking, food growing and more! right here at eCycle portal we have a series of do-it-yourself materials on food and composting available:
- Learn How to Make a Home Composter with Earthworms
- Organic garden: eight steps to make your
- Discover switchel, the home-made sports drink
Domestic cleaning
Another area that has a presence in culture maker is home cleaning. Making the cleaning agents themselves, in addition to being an economic practice, is often sustainable .
- Homemade furniture polish: how to make
- Do it yourself: spray against "number two" bad odors
- How to make homemade disinfectant
- How to make liquid soap for washing clothes
natural medicine
The culture maker it also rescues the ancient practice of home medicine, an accessible way of treating and preventing illnesses.- Homemade recipe acts as headache remedy
- How to unclog your nose naturally
- 18 Sore Throat Remedy Options
cosmetics
O maker cosmetics develops perfumes, creams, lotions, shampoos and more. The tools used are cups, scales, thermometers, pH paper, essential oils and even more homemade tools.- Learn how to make homemade deodorant
- Home scrub: six how-to recipes
- How to make homemade perfume
Finishes and structures
Using homemade materials and or even discarded objects, it is possible to make finishes and structures for the home, office or public areas.- DIY: exposed brick wall
- DIY: rustic sliding door from pallets
Musical instruments
The concept of homemade and experimental instruments in music has its roots before the movement maker , but the Maker Movement rescues this practice.
tool creation
Manufacturers can also make or manufacture their own tools. This includes knives, hand tools, woodworking tools and even your own 3D printers!
Vehicles
One kit car, also known as component car (component car), is a set of automotive parts - made available by manufacturers - that allows each consumer to assemble their own car according to their wishes.
