Olivia Snyder talks about her pottery innovations, as well as her experience running (and expanding) TheLab.ms makerspace through a pandemic.

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 1:20 - Tackle boxes are great for organizing small parts. Plano, IL is indeed where tackle boxes come from!
  • 2:09 - Olivia has a pottery business and two kids
  • 3:52 - Olivia explains how pottery works
  • 7:57 - Can Pat learn to do pottery at home?
  • 9:19 - Microwave kilns?!
  • 11:20 - Find your friendly local pottery community to get started!
  • 12:11 - Olivia has mined some of her own local clay!
  • 13:25 - Olivia explains how kiln temperatures are checked with cones
  • 15:42 - Olivia’s 3D printed clay extruders are amazing
  • 23:34 - Olivia restored a 1970s pottery wheel using 3D printing
  • 24:43 - Olivia designed an extruder that creates clay tubes
  • 28:01 - Coffee Break!
  • 29:35 - Talking to Olivia about TheLab.ms Makerspace!
  • 31:43 - TheLab.ms makerspace just had elections
  • 33:52 - TheLab.ms moved to a much bigger space this year!
  • 37:41 - New equipment at the Makerspace
  • 39:30 - Olivia talks about collaboration, socialization, and continuing education
  • 44:40 - New Oracle Deck available at Faeriehive.com
  • 45:28 - Pat complains about Davinci Resolve 17.2
  • 47:19 - I can’t complain but sometimes I still do
  • 47:33 - What’s Jeremy been working on?
  • 49:16 - Where can we find everyone on the Internet?!

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