<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Ron,<br></div>Bravo! The maker movement has potential for "disruptive innovation". See the <span style class="">Wikipedia</span> article: <a href="http://en">http://en</a>.<span style class="">wikipedia</span>.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation It is the progeny of our community tool libraries and cooperative art and craft spaces. In our society sharing was a disruptive innovation 40 years ago.<br>
<br>"The term "<b>disruptive technology</b>" has been widely used as a
synonym of "disruptive innovation", but the latter is now preferred,
because market disruption has been found to be a function usually not of
technology itself but rather of its changing application."<br><br></div>My last metal studio space was a sublet in a "maker space" in Seattle. Seattle is a hot-spot for the maker movement and I benefited a lot from that experience. I think the evolution of the <span style class="">Estufa</span> <span style class="">Finca</span> <span style class="">biochar</span> stove did as well. I will be in Seattle for a few days before the ETHOS conference, I plan to share a new prototype stove at the conference. I will be fine tuning it at the Ballard Maker Space next week. So, I can not 3-D print a stove...yet, but now I can realistically dream about doing it and that is the important 1st step in making it happen.<br>
</div>Art<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Ronal W. Larson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rongretlarson@comcast.net" target="_blank">rongretlarson@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p></p><div>Lists:</div><div><br></div><div> On a different list, there has been mention of the “maker movement”! I have a vague understanding, as I saw a bit (first year this year) at grand-daughter’s high school (3-d printing for instance). I can see lots of potential in the stoves and biochar areas. Anyone utilizing this new very low cost resource to develop products?</div>
<div><div><br></div><div> A video on this brand new (claimed to be very disruptive) activity is at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2013/09/22/the_maker_movement_manifesto" target="_blank">http://fora.tv/2013/09/22/the_maker_movement_manifesto</a></div>
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