Why are you a Renaissance Man?

I picked the title somewhat tongue in cheek, but the more I think about it, the more I like it. The Renaissance was a period of great exploration and thought. It lead to innovative ideas and people questioning what, how and why.

Yeah, me too... not!

I actually picked it as a double entendre- meaning that I am trying to keep the crafts of hundreds of years of human history alive in a time of disposable knowledge and technology. If you are my contemporary, odds are you've owned a record player, a black and white television, a rotary phone and and American made automobile. Odds are also that you were raised with a different sensibility. We didn't throw things out when they broke- we fixed them.

The "good old days" of my youth in the 1970's and 1980's seem like ancient history. As a graduate of a high tech engineering school, I have worked with computers since graduation. In technology, we forget everyhting we know every three years and replace it with some other temporary knowledge. Woulding it be nice to learn something that you could actually use the rest of your life?

Welcome to my blog, where I will share my thoughts about how I started making things. How making things lead to exploring parallel fields, or all new fields, to enable making more things. Most importantly, I hope this blog inspires you to make something.

And we'll do it the Renaissance way- with hundreds of years old technology!