Unleash your inner inventor!

After my talk at Nerd Nite, I’m encouraging people to exercise their imaginations, create, create, create and come up with your own inventions.

Places to play in San Francisco:

TechShop
Has classes and all the tools you could ever want to make your brain buzz with creativity
techshop.ws

Workshop
Offers classes on everything from using tools to quilting to pickling
workshopsf.org

Noisebridge
has lots of hacker events, mostly tech but some other stuff too. Regular meetings on Tues nights, and a big space in the Mission with an actual darkroom! And lots of machines and stuff for crafting.
noisebridge.net

Sewing workshop
Holds classes for all skill levels and  on a wide range of sewing-related endeavors
thesewingworkshop.com

Get inspired by the stories of great inventors:
Leonardo
www.mos.org/leonardo/museum.html

Edison
memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html

Archimedes
www.ancientgreece.com/s/People/Archimedes/

Check out media and reprints from historic American innovators:

History of invention in America, Library of Congress:
Ben Franklin, Alexander Bell, origins of flight, animation and the recording industry, and more
www.loc.gov/topics/content.php?subcat=77

“Who Made America”
www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/index.html