JRock

Mon Dec 16, 2019

Hi All! Many call me JRock, since my last name is hard to pronounce. I'm in Software by trade, I work for a large software company leading a team of architects. My 50w 5030 laser is one of my many tinkering machines in my workshop. I also own the standard fair of power tools, small electronic devices, and a 3D printer. I think the modern term is "maker", although I tend to tinker more than make anything

What else can I say? Anything anyone would like to know?

-Tim

Mon Dec 16, 2019

Welcome Tim. Lots of fellow makers here.

Mon Dec 16, 2019

Welcome, you are in good or bad company depending

Tinkerer or Hobbyist seems to have fallen out of fashion and when I get called a maker by others I tend to correct them depending on what they refer to I have made.

As an Elec Eng I take offence at being told I am a maker because I built black box or electronic widget and as a long term Aeromodeller I was a hobbyist a very long time before that. 3D printing hasn't helped as non users think it is just a button push for a result. I think it diminishes the accumulated skills built up over decades in a lot of cases to a youtube/farcebook term.

Mini rant over now time for coffee

and no I am not a Barista in the Italian sesne of the word just a Barista in training

Tue Dec 17, 2019

For the old school folks, I do think digital fabrication is a detractor of skill in their minds. For the younger folks they look at digital fabrication with the same wide eyes that they do anything else. I try not to worry about what others think so much, I enjoy what I do and that's all that matters at the end of the day.

Tue Dec 17, 2019

It takes a bit of skill to design in 3D and be able to print a good looking and serviceable part. There are many kinds of skills and we collect them as we live... and then we die. I read somewhere that when an old man dies... it is like a library burning.