The Kitchen-Table Industrialists

Chris,

I disagree that this is off-topic. The environment in which we are forced to work, if we wish to "get 'er done" is as on-topic to the heading as anything can be.

I cast my vote for your entry being "on-topic"

BTW, look up Barnes Wallace and the Dam-Buster bomb of WWII. Find the video about him, and that bomb. Its a pretty fascinating look into how back-yard inventing can change the face of a war. I daresay a lot of his work is still being applied today.

And it shows that inventing can be done "on the cheap, and on the kitchen table".

Just took it from the link.

For me a workshop is a living organism that can chameleon its self into any need. If DIY requires a microscope well that is the workshop. These guys just looked so unproductive, funny really.

Worried about me? No worries at all. What we should all be worried about is cronyism, nepotism, self serving a** covering attitude (lifestyle) of some of our peers. It is this, my diagnosis, that worries me.

I am very disappointed about the education level of some of these makers and shakers and am by now certain that it has method. I mean the way a single identity entrepreneur is seen and treated is just shameful but seems to have been taught in some human response seminar. The reaction to single achievements and achievers is reliably the same.

Jobs for the boys! Not looking good. Once politics get involved or sees a chance of sneaking in all hell brakes lose and nobody stands up for nothing but their own safe job. I liked what you said one day:

"If you swim with sharks don't behave like food"

Still swimming but the water is getting a bit pink by now. Its not painful but its a bad feeling if you know they are taking small bites at a time. I have seen others being eaten alive and am sad to hear about the guy you were assisting. Hope all goes well.

Talk soon, Ky.

Ky,

I know you have a thicker hide than me...

and sometimes I need an aussy dictionary to understand you...

but you continue to inspire with your dedication to invention.

Thank you for that. It makes the world a brighter place.

cheers

Chris

I'm not sure who they are either, Chris, but, Ky, I'd call it a workshop if they get work done in/on it.

I had a shop in a closet under the stairs in my house in Guam, and one in an outdoor drying shed (no roof, slat sides) in my house in Japan. I've had them in clothes closets, laundry rooms, and now, outside, on my patio (weather permitting). Shops are where you have to put them, if you wish to use tools that won't fit elsewhere. I've even had an electronics workshop on my dining room table (my wife didn't like it, but we had nowhere else available, and it worked.)

Just don't try to entertain, and impress, possible customers in that kind of environment.

Interesting article.............................I have to agree with chris though, in that, if the government were to step out of the way, the spirit of invention would really take off.

As awesome as some of these garage projects are, the local, state and federal regulations, combined with tax codes, forming a legal enterprise, etc. are far more daunting. For people that invent cool stuff, piles and piles of needless paperwork just don't compute.