Playing With Technology in History

The #pastplay photo gallery is now publicly available. Click the image to to visit it… Rob MacDougall also has a new blog post about #pastplay at Old is the New New.

Devon Elliott used one of our 3D printers (a MakerBot that he built) to remake a working toy from a 1944 edition of Popular Science. Pictures and open source plans available on Thingiverse.  Something like this would be too complicated to print at our workshop, but can be easily designed, made and shared in a [...]

I’m assuming that at least some of our activities in Niagara-on-the-Lake will be in the form of an unconference.  This means that the schedule is up for grabs, people aren’t presenting stuff as such, attendees can vote with their feet (and no hard feelings) and awesome, competing activities will be scheduled into the same time [...]

Hi, all.  Really looking forward to seeing a lot of you again, and to meeting those I don’t already know.  In keeping with my focus on making stuff, I am happy to bring various things for people to play / experiment with.  These could include (but are not limited to) some or all of the [...]