Moreland Rising Cleveland Makers’ Alliance… Located in the back of The Dealership, the Makers’ Alliance is open to the public on Tuesdays from 7-10 pm and occasionally on Saturdays. Membership is $30/month or $50/month for a household. Members have 24/7 access to the space. Learn more about the Alliance at makersalliance.org or email info@makersalliance.org. Visit the Makers’ Alliance exhibit at Shaker Makers where enough materials to create 100 kazoos will be ready and waiting. Make one to form a kazoo band in the Memorial Day Parade. See you at Shaker Makers on April 22! A Makers Event A Different Take on Make When: Saturday, April 22, 10 am – 5 pm Where: The Dealership, 3558 Lee Road All ages welcome. Free. Makers make things. What things? Almost anything. Things from metal, wood, paper, yarn, plastic, electronic parts, light, sound, food, motors, spare parts, broken parts. Big things and little things. Things you use, things you eat, things that make other things, things that move…or don’t. It’s technology. It’s art. It’s both. Makers are tinkerers, creators, DIYers, innovators, and builders, and they learn by doing. Are you a maker? We have a place and an event for you! Makers are having a moment. In fact, they are having a movement… a big mashup of people who like to make things, and collaborate, and be social so that ideas are ricocheting off each other and something really cool gets made. Shaker Heights is full of makers. In fact, it’s kind of in our DNA. The Shakers, who settled here in the 1800s, could be considered the originators of the makers’ movement. The Shakers worked together to make and invent things: chairs, brooms, a version of the circular saw. It was a collaborative community of DIYers. It seems only fitting then, that the Cleveland Makers’ Alliance, one of only a few northeast Ohio makers groups, is housed right here in Shaker Heights at The Dealership, 3558 Lee Road. It’s the place to get your hands on a Tektronix 434 Oscilloscope or an HP 1901A Pulse Generator, or build an Arduino-compatible microcontroller board, explore a MaxNC CNC machine, or tinker with the MIDI interface and sound card for a Raspberry Pi computer. How about making a bathtub car (they did this) or a tool from the 3-D printer (they did this too)? If just hearing about these things turns your crank (even a little bit) then you might be a maker, and the Makers’ Alliance may be the place and community for you (see sidebar to the left for more information). And, that’s not all. We have an event for you, too. Riding the wave of maker enthusiasm, The Dealership, in partnership with the City, Library, and Cleveland Ingenuity, will host Shaker Makers, an interactive maker event that is free and open to all ages, interest levels, and abilities. It will be held on Saturday, April 22 from 10am-5pm (see sidebar to the left for more information). Showcasing dozens of makers, thinkers, tinkerers, and DIYers, including members of the Makers’ Alliance, this first-of-its-kind event in Shaker is sure to generate big and small ideas, and DIY projects from the simple to mind boggling to the super tasty. We know it will delight or uncover the maker in you. Shaker Makers: We Make Things 14 SHAKERONLINE.COM | SPRING 2017
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