Author: GeneratorVt

  • Matt Flego’s CNC class at Generator

    Matt Flego’s CNC class at Generator

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  • Generator Success Story: Pete and Ben

    Generator Success Story: Pete and Ben

    Meet Pete Talbot and Ben t. Matchstick

     

    Pete Talbot and Ben t. Matchstick received Generator Maker-In Residence for January and February of 2015.  Before the residency they were creating imaginative cardboard arcade experiences with scissors and razor knives and a few other basic DIY tools.  Through Generator they learned the magic and speed of laser cutting, rapid prototyping and the beginning of scaled production.  

     

    Their bonafide cardboard pinball prototypes enabled them to establish their LLC in September 2015, though had been DBA Cardboard Teck Instantute since 2006.

     

    They launched their Kickstarter for the PinBox 3000 in June 2015 and by July had raised $15,000 to initiate production. Make Magazine’s feature and inventory purchase in September 2015 nearly doubled their production.  New York Toy Fair in February 2016 generated strong relationships, including with Martinex in Finland for EU production of the PinBox 3000.  They sought out a large scale manufacturing plant in Philadelphia, and are planning higher volume production starting in September 2016, following their next Kickstarter this fall.

     

    After returning to their tiny and over stuffed studio in Generator from Toy Fair NY, they realized there was so little room in their studio that they couldn’t even access it.  They recycled old prototypes and removed anything that was ‘in process’.  It had become a challenge to spread out to see what was being built and impossible to create large-scale set pieces or theatrical space.  Pete and Ben have graduated to join the ALTernator space where they can spread their wings.

     

    Pete and Ben are one of Generator’s “graduate” success stories. Generator is a platform to help good ideas become great businesses.

     

    Learn more at https://cardboardteckinstantute.bigcartel.com/ or pinbox3000.com

     

    Most recent update, 12/15/16!

    We’ve manufactured over 7,000 units in our Philly factory, working w a marketing firm 20nine, we’ve raised over $100,000 for the P3k, now working regularly with projection films out of Middlebury, and we’re in more than 50 stores & counting across the US (Marbles the Brain Store & others), things are shaping up for the Alternator & this new PinBox 3000 has glowing reviews!

    Keep on keepin’ on Pete and Ben!

  • VPR: Generator Maker Space Eyes A Move To Burlington’s South End

    VPR: Generator Maker Space Eyes A Move To Burlington’s South End

    generator (1 of 1)-26Check out this VPR piece on Generator! It explains a lot about what’s coming up soon!

    VPR: Generator Maker Space Eyes A Move To Burlington’s South End

  • Frog Hollow Exhibit opportunity!

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    Frog Hollow is looking for 20 Generator crafters for a August Maker Show!

    Here is there current catalogue as reference:

    https://issuu.com/frog_hollow/docs/material_matters_catalogue?e=7320888/36108425

    The timeline is short – here’s what you need to do by COB Monday 6/27 to make things work:
    1) Visit https://froghollow.org/content/our-gallery to learn more about them
    2) Email Lars ([email protected]) up to three images of three different pieces you’d like to show. Include title, dimensions, materials and prices (retail)
    3) Include in your email a paragraph on the tools and processes used to make the art/crafts
    4) Include an artist bio
    Please note: Generator will not be involved in curating this show in any way; Frog Hollow will make all selections based on finish (quality of product) and diversity (an inclusive range of materials, functions and processes).
  • Generator Success Story: M//E Designs

    Generator Success Story: M//E Designs

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    Meet Matt Flego and Erik Cooper

     

    Matt Flego is Generator’s oldest member.  He joined Generator as a volunteer and helped build the Generator space. Matt and Erik had the first studio at Generator. They established M//E Designs in 2011- producing handcrafted furniture and products as well as providing design services.

     

    Generator created a very fertile environment for networking – connecting M//E to various politicians, the Mayor, local business owners, potential investors, and other like minded businessmen. Their front door facing studio got them several walk-in clients looking for 3D printing, design services, and custom fabrication. M//E stools are currently sold in Vermont and NYC. Room and Board. stools will be sold internationally in the 2017 catalog. One of many big mile markers was their participation in the ECHO Science Center Data Visualization sculpture, which was built at Generator starting in spring 2015 and installed in October 2015. Matt and Erik were featured in Seven Days, WCAX,  Reconciledit promotional video, Generator Meet the Maker, and local news networks on ECHO.

    Thier growing success and contract with Room and Board confirmed their need to expand the company. In June of 2016 they moved out of Generator into the ALTernator: 388 Pine Street, Suite 3-M-1 in Burlington VT.  Matt and Erik have created a private studio to house M//E Designs, Cardboard Teck Instantute, Tim Peters and John Yasaitis- some of Generator’s rapidly expanding businesses.

     

    Matt and Erik are the shepherds of some of Generator’s top talent and have helped foster many “graduate” success stories. Generator is a platform to help good ideas become great businesses.

     

    Learn more at https://www.mattanderikdesign.com and www.strigiformes-design.com

  • Generator Success Stories: Aaron Wisniewski

    Generator Success Stories: Aaron Wisniewski

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    Meet Aaron Wisniewski

    Aaron Wisniewski and Sam Wisniewski are co-founders of Alice and the Magician, a flourishing business distributing edible scents for optimal cocktail experiences. This unique business started as a single product out of Aaron’s apartment- a space which he quickly out grew. Through word of mouth, Aaron got a studio at Generator and was quickly plugged into the Generator network. Generator helped him develop a business plan and become a finalist for the December 2014 Pitch it Fab it. He received $1500 worth of time and materials from IMF. In May of 2015 Aaron was a finalist for Launch VT for the business mentorship. Hard work and perseverance results in rapid momentum! By July of 2015, Aaron had physically outgrown the Generator studio space and was transplanted into 266 Pine St, Burlington VT. Alice and the Magician products are currently being nationally distributed and it is predicted that they will be international by the end of the summer 2016.

    Aaron Wisniewski is one of Generator’s first “graduate” success stories. Generator is a tool to be utilized to help good ideas transition into great business.

    Learn more at https://www.aliceandthemagician.com

  • Just Two Days Left To RSVP for Big Maker

    Just Two Days Left To RSVP for Big Maker

    If you are an art lover and wish there was something to do about the destruction of art that Isis and other regimes have inflicted, then this upcoming Big Maker talk is perfect for you.  RSVP NOW.

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    Event Description

    For the last several years, artist Morehshin Allahyari has been exploring cultural and historic preservation at the intersection of art, technology, history and terrorism. Join Morehshin for an extraordinary evening of ideas as she explores the first in her ongoing project, Material Speculation.

    Material Speculation is a digital fabrication and 3D printing project that inspects Petropolitical and poetic relationships between 3D Printing, Plastic, Oil, Technocapitalism and Jihad. The first series “Material Speculation: ISIS” is an in progress 3D modeling and 3D printing project focused on the reconstruction of selected (original) artifacts (statues from the Roman period city of Hatra and Assyrian artifacts from Nineveh) that were destroyed by ISIS in 2015. “Material Speculation: ISIS” creates a practical and political possibility for artifact archival, while also proposing 3D printing technology as a tool both for resistance and documentation. It intends to use 3D printing as a process for repairing history and memory.

    Morehshin Allahyari is a new media artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work extensively deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects; a poetic mean to document the personal and collective lives we live and our struggles as humans in the 21st century. Morehshin has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world including Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Pori Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Miami Art fair, and Material Art fair. She has been an artist in residence at CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (2015), Autodesk Pier9 Workshop in San Francisco (2015), and BANFF Centre (2013), among others.

    Her work has been featured in NYTimes, Huffington Post, Wired, NPR, VICE, Parkett Art Magazine, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, Dazed Digital, Neural Magazine, Global Voices Online, and Al Jazeera among others. Morehshin is the Co-Founder of the Experimental Research Lab at Pier9/Autodesk.

    Learn more about Morehshin’s Material Speculation project at morehshin.com.

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    Champlain Room – Center for Communication and Creative Media, Champlain College 163 South Willard Street, Burlington, VT 05402 – View Map

     

  • Brian is leading by example for entrepreneurs!

    Brian is leading by example for entrepreneurs!

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    Take note entrepreneurs! Brian Merrill makes a great example for all of us on taking good steps to up his game by inviting Kai Mayberger, another professional in the flute making world, to critique his work.

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  • Member Activity: Brian Merrill

    Member Activity: Brian Merrill

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    Generator member, Brian Merrill is hard at work again. Check out his laser cut/hand crafted wood flutes! It’s amazing what can be accomplished with a combination of tools from different disciplines. Take a tour at Generator anytime between 11am to 9pm to check out what members are working on.

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