Yep…understood. Maybe reaching out to the Foothills folks to see if they might be able to gin up some local write-up (if they haven’t already?) and ask them to be sure to mention DMS?
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Not sure if Reddit counts.
Mentions not an article
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Does this help?
EDIT ADDITION:
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Was this made at DMS or did the person just get interviewed there? It only mentions DMS once but I think it could count towards ongoing coverage if there’s a Nerdist article too? I don’t wiki so maybe way off base. Either way it’s pretty cool if this is a member.
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This seems like something that should be linked here…
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Several of his costumes were made at DMS and he is a member.
I am trying to get a PDF copy of the several page article on DMS VECTOR from Pinball Magazine where Nic, Jayson and myself were interviewed. This magazine is a international magazine that focuses on pinball and arcades. Each issue is 200+ pages and more like a collector book. Our article was published in issue 4. We have also been mentioned numerous times on Pinball News that reports on pinball happenings, events and games and many other arcade gaming websites.
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I can’t distribute the journal, but here is another DMS mention excerpt:
- For instance, Dallas Makerspace lists the following tools on their spaces wiki: TM733 VHF/UHF Transceiver, DX-SR8 HF Transceiver, R-2000 Receiver, EV Charging Station, Bike Repair Stand, Wheel Truing Stand, Microscope, Freeze Dryer, 120W Laser Cutter, 100W Laser Cutter, 3-D Printers, 3-D Scanner, 3-D Plotter/Router (Works with Foam, Soft Woods—Missing Parts), Vinyl Cutter, Screen Press, Computer Controlled Knitting Machine, Sewing Machine with Computer Controlled Embroidery, CNC PCB Router, Microscope with Light, Power Supply, Universal Counter/Timer, Oscilloscope, Switch/Control Unit, Function Generator, LCR Meter, ESR Meter, Decade Resistance Box, Air Compressor, Honeywell Compressed Air Dryer System (attached to Quincy Compressor), Electric Kiln, Small Kiln, Knee Mill, Gear Head Lathe, CNC Milling Machine, Parts Washer, Metal-Cutting Band Saw (20′′), Drill Press, CNC Plasma Cutter, 6′′ Cut-Off Saw, 14′′ Cut-Off Saw, Propane Fired Forge, Stick Welder, Lincoln Electric MIG Welder, Flux Wire Welder, Hobart Handler 210 Welder, Anvils and Other Blacksmithing Tools, Angle Grinder, Acetylene Torch and Regulator Set, Horizontal Band Saw, Sandblasting Cabinet, Grinder, 5-Ton Hydraulic Press, MultiCam CNC Router, 12′′ Wood Jointer, Planer, Double Bevel Miter Saw, Table Saw, Tracksaw, Random Orbital Sander, Orbital Finish Sander, Dust Extractor, Router Table, Joiner, Scroll Saw, Lathe with 12′′ Swing and 34.5′′ Bed, 12′′ × 33-3/8′′ 3/4 HP Wood Lathe with Reversible Head, Drum Sander, Edge Sander, Belt and Disc Sander, Band Saw.
Eric Joseph van Holm (2017). Makerspaces and local economic development. Economic Development Quarterly, 31(2), 164-173.
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Here’s another excerpt from somebody’s Doctoral dissertation.
Open Community Events
From 2013 to 2015, I organized several pop-up style events that were open to the public. Parents and kids came together at locations including Dallas Makerspace in Dallas, TX, Alpha One Labs in Brooklyn, NY, and Travis Heights Elementary School in Austin, TX to experience a range of hands-on learning opportunities.
These workshops are informed by Seymour Papert’s constructionist theory, which sees “learning as a reconstruction rather than as a transmission of knowledge…Learning is most effective when part of an activity the learner experiences as constructing a meaningful product.”
A typical event is structured with concurrent workshops, all happening at the same time. They are self-paced and are facilitated by volunteer mentors. These mentors typically come in with no technical expertise in the workshop they’ll be leading, so training is important. A ratio of around five kids to one mentor is ideal. We strongly encouraged parents to stay and participate so they could go deeper into anything they learned when back at home. Since any given event provides only an introduction, it is important for parents and teachers to be able to expand later on what they learned.
These events have included do-it-yourself (DIY) biology experiments like strawberry DNA extraction, prototyping with microelectronics, paper circuits, stop- motion animation, DIY musical instrument creation, robotics, and more. I didn’t invent most of these workshops; there’s a huge community of “maker-focused” educators creating loads of amazing curricula for this sort of thing. However, learning from them has informed my own designs greatly.
In a workshop at Dallas Makerspace the kids learned to create new musical tools, both high-tech and low-tech. In one room kids were creating their own instruments from a pile of donated cardboard boxes, rubber bands, balloons, straws, and glass jars.
In another room kids learned to solder and created contact microphones from piezo disks – a small and extremely cheap electronic component that makes the terrible noise in your smoke alarm. They used these to turn any object in the room– a trash can, a pencil, someone’s face—into an instrument they could run through a guitar amp.
Source:
Dixon, B. R. (2015). Technological doodling as a learning and design practice (Doctoral dissertation).
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We are already listed under Notable Hackerspaces on Wikipedia but with no page.
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But we need our OWN page
I totally agree. I’m just saying that Wikipedia already accepted that it is notable and should grant us a page like they did many others on the list.
At one time someone said we needed more print coverage for staisfy the
This mention in a book could help with that, If nothing else I am sure that later this year we will
get some more for the expansion
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Not particularly proud of this work, but if you can look past the fact that it is mine, most of the content from this was converted into a summary table and included in the following journal paper:
Singh, N., & Chandra, N. (2013). Retrospect of machine learning techniques for designing secure system. International Journal of Computer Applications, 68(20).
Cited as:
Mark Havens, “Brief History of Computer Security”, Dallas makerspace, 2010.
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We need to figure out the weight of all our tools !
Perhaps we need to get out and do something in the community more rather than staying in our space.
- Find out if we are the biggest makerspace in the world after we expand.
- Cosplay! Host a makery event at a mall / show our stuff at a movie theater / of course local comic cons.
- Start teaching classes off-site and in public.
- Start having more things like the what they print making people did but under the Dallas Makerspace banner.
- Devote more money to doing these kinds of outreach
- Pay Honorariums for outreach
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Find out if we are the biggest makerspace in the world after we expand.
Making a claim and having that claim printed in the paper would be enough for Wikipedia, per their rules, actually. We just need three full feature articles to established the credibility that would make DMS notable.
Our name is already a link, just begging for someone to click on it and create a page…
On another topic, when I was in college a long time ago in a place far far away, we had something we called the “student shop.” For an annual fee, we were given a key to access a small woodshop. Today, that would be called a makerspace. I wonder whether they have since added a 3D printer, laser cutter or other CNC tooling.
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Creating a page and getting it to stick are two different things. If someone creates a page without following the guidelines… it will be gone in a few days. Or at best, you’ll get into a dispute with other editors until someone gives up, gets blocked, or gets banned.