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Zero to Maker, 2nd Edition
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Zero to Maker, 2nd Edition

by David Lang
September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
6h 27m
English
Make: Community
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6 Digital Fabrication

Bilal Ghalib doesn’t do handshakes, just hugs. The first time I met Bilal, at the first Maker Startup Weekend (a weekend-long making event at TechShop in San Francisco), he came up and gave me a big squeeze.

We had traded a few emails and a brief phone call in the days prior, but we had never met in person. I was organizing the event and was introduced to Bilal as someone who might be a good candidate to teach the 3D printing class we were offering to participants. He seemed like a nice, gregarious guy, but I was still a little shocked when he showed up with rainbow-dyed hair and wearing a bright purple blazer. As it turned out, Bilal’s outgoing and inimitable style made him the perfect person to teach 3D printing—instantly ...

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