MAKING

If you get to know my mom in any way, she will inevitably tell you the story about how industrious I was as a toddler.

She would ask me “Cameron, what are you doing?” and I would answer “I’m making”, while I played with my Legos or fashioned fortresses out of fenceboard offcuts or poured food colouring into bowls of flour and made general messes.

I’m still making.

But, these days, people keep giving me cooler and cooler toys to experiment with.

Most of my making in adulthood has involved some sort of digital component. I’ve made a lot of different things from a lot of different materials using a lot of different strategies and tools. While I’m designing things in computer space, I’m thinking about how I’m going to make them in the real world. I’ve gotten fairly good at figuring it out.

I’ve divided my manufacturing and assembly skills into a few broad categories: