New maker video log and project videos Gil has created his own YouTube channel to help share the maker experience with everyone. Starting next week, Gil will be video blogging his trip to the US, meeting makers and exploring the maker community in the United States....
Gil recently was inspired to learn a new skill. After watching people using a bandsaw Gil wanted to see if he could replicate the results they were getting. While Gil had no doubt that what I was watching came from years of honing personal skills, he still wanted to...
I get asked all the time why a large number of my personal projects seem to be based around futuristic technology found in film and television. It is no surprise that I have had a lifetime love affair with cinema, especially films in the science fiction genre. There...
Contours – Charting the fringes of independent games in Melbourne and Australia. October 10 – November 11, 2016 Gallery exhibition Level 1, Library at The Dock One of the bigger projects I have been working on for Melbourne Library Service and Library at...
Mini Make Day 3 – Wearable Art Show – Library at The Dock Library at the Dock was host to the third Mini Make Day on the last weekend in August. As part of Melbourne fashion week, the theme for this Mini Make Day was Wearable Art and concentrated on...
On 30th and 31st of May this year, Brisbane was host to Edutech 2016, the largest education technology conference held in the Southern Hemisphere, looking at technology and education. Part of the conference was the Future Library Congress looking at the idea of...
Gil will be talking at EduTECH 2016 at the end of this month, international congress and expo all about education and technology. EduTECH will host the largest education event in the Asia-Pac and southern hemisphere. Gil will be talking about what he loves, making and...
Today I had the pleasure of hosting Danielle Wishka at Library at The Dock. Danielle is the media specialist at Saint Andrew’s Middle School in South Carolina USA, and has travelled down to Australia to see how the Maker and Teaching communities do things down under....
It is no surprise that I love robots. Growing up in the seventies, all I saw on the movie and television screen were representations of robots interacting and helping their human counterparts with skills and strengths that far exceeded mortal man. Essentially walking...
Early in the year, I was invited to head up to Wodonga (which is about 3 and a half hours out of Melbourne) to come and share what 3D printing technology is about and how people can get involved. The first thing that surprised me when I arrived at the Town...
