If Bruce Lee Was a Maker

Tasker Smith is a technical instructor at MIT's Pappalardo Lab
for Mechanical Engineering. As you'll hear through this
interview, his background has a striking resemblance to
television's Adam Savage of MythBusters. That is, he's held roles
in all sorts of environments: performance, toys, consumer
products, and lucky for the young mechanical engineers at MIT he
wound up eventually making his way to higher education,
cultivating young talent to be as skilled technically and
emotionally to enter a world of professional engineering as they
can possibly be.


We talk about approaches from the lab that I think will be of
interest to everyone, but especially those educators who are
serious about maker education, and the role that pre-engineering
programs play in schools and afterschool all over the country. If
you're looking for tips and best practices, just curious what
goes on in the Mech E lab at MIT, or excited to learn more about
how Tasker went from studying theatre arts to modelling toys,
stick around.


A special treat from this episode, Tasker offers a set of files
for the poster panels that come up toward the end of the
interview for listeners to grab and repurpose in their own shops
and maker spaces. Do check out the shownotes at
NoSuchThingPodcast.org to find that gift from him.


Links from this episode:


Pappalardo Lab on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/pappalardolab?lang=en


Japanese drawers links:
http://digg.com/video/japanese-joinery-drawers


Tasker's Make Mag Leather Article:
https://makezine.com/2018/07/09/use-3d-printing-shape-leather/


Z Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Corporation


Continuum Innovation, Boston:
https://www.continuuminnovation.com/en/


Caine's Arcade: https://youtu.be/faIFNkdq96U


Statasys: https://www.stratasys.com/


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