Miles L
Dreamer and doer. As interested in building organizations as building things. Driven by a love of learning.
Interested in: stop motion animation, 3d rendering, 3d printing, public art projects, robots, DIYbio and just about everything else.
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Robert Narracci
Rob grew up in East Haven, CT and has lived in New Haven for the past 20 years with his wife Gina. He is a Senior Associate at Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and likes aggressively creative endeavors; whether virtual design or physical making. Rob recently discovered a new method of tying a little known knot called the Zeppelin Knot.
Interests: Rob is interested in Graphic Design, woodworking, Collecting Software, Historic Building Restoration, Vinyl Records, Writing, Bourbon, Sculpture, Vintage Triumphs, Cooking and Eating, Skyscraper Design, Archaic Tools, Trees, Film, Puppies, Reading, Video Games, Arc Welding, Knot Tying, Bread Baking, and in general, Things that Fold.
Skills: Jack of all trades…except coding; don’t know anything about that.
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Michael Mckien
Mike was born in Bridgeport, CT . . . outside of 5 years spent living in Seattle, WA, he has lived here in coastal CT all his life. He has had a varied working career starting with accounting but later taking up a path in the architectural millwork industry.
Interests: 3d printing, Wooden Boats, Building circuits, Learning what I don't know and teaching what I do.
Skills: CAD, CAM, CNC, Cabinet Making/Woodworking |
Ryan Zaveruha
Degree in Electrical Engineering from RIT in 2003.
Self tuning guitar as a senior project.
Currently professionally involved in green energy lighting and building control devices.
Main hardware and firmware designer for over a million devices in operation.
Principal inventor of Patent 8,111,131, "Occupancy sensors programmed to determine loss of lamp life as lamp is used".
Main designer of nLight protocol.
Android application developer of Zedonk released to Google Play.
Currently developing WiFi enabled embedded devices utilizing the MSP430.
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Anne Gatling Haynes
Anne arrived in New Haven in 1991 and has enjoyed helping inspire and start activities in the City that make us all happy. Anne is an architect by training, having worked for Cesar Pelli for 13 years, and has been working in Economic Development in NYC and HVN for the past 5 years. She enjoys food, both making and eating, and enjoys spending time with people that make things. She wished that she made more things (she has welded among other crafty ventures), but when on vacation in Maine, she paints things that are made (buildings and objects).
Interests: Cities, and amazing million dollar ideas that will continue to help them thrive.
Skills: Helping catalyze organizations, activities, and enthusiasm for city-living. |
Kam Lasater
Played with electronics as a child. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon. Have been working on databases and web programming ever since. |
J.R. Logan
A tinkerer by nature J.R. is interested in learning from others about how learning to make and fix things can be empowering. He has a small Internet startup serving the website needs of United Way's and works part time at United Way of Greater New Haven. He volunteers as board chair of the New Haven Land Trust and would like to better understand how community and environmental work can benefit from technological know how.
Interests: arduino, electronics, music, woodworking, homesteading, brewing, science, processing, visualization
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Bob Juliano
pilot, modeler, gamer, builder, writer, and tutor = MAKER
Interests: a little bit of everything
Skills: some soldering, design, guy with many reference books |
Rick and Jeremy Bronen
I am a sophomore in high school. I started tinkering with electronics when I was around 14 years old. Since then I have been working on expanding my knowledge and making more things. My first project was an iPhone that I assembled and soldered together. I have recently done light metalworking and a fair amount of woodworking.
Interests: electronics, woodworking, metalworking, welding, 3d printing, Programming, arduino, engineering
Skills: Soldering, basic programming, amateur woodworking |
Robert Nikander
Rob has a background in computer science and is starting to study electronics so he can get creative building physical gizmos. Other interests: computer music, running, water sports, cleaner energy & environmental protection projects. |
Jonathan Wigglesworth |
Karen Bliss
I'm a math professor and I have more interests than I have time for. I'm looking forward to getting some brewing equipment up and running soon! |
Rob Bettigole
My father was an engineer and took me book shopping at an engineering book store in NYC when I was 12. I still have "The ABCs of LASERs and MASERs" on my bookshelf. I am a licensed professional engineer in the state of Connecticut and I can solder reasonably well. Never did get that 10 MHz Heathkit oscilloscope working, though. As a venture capitalist who works with scientists and engineers to launch new businesses, I've learned to seek out people who favor more delicate tools than my favorites (Sawzall and wedge+8 lb sledgehammer).
Skills: Threadforms spoken: Whitworth
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Tim McHugh
Excited by all things directing electrons to accomplish tasks, mobile pervasive computing, adding intelligence to everything and understanding what all the smart people know that I do not... Started with electrical engineering, added a little computer science and always a dash of hands on...
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Ben Berkowitz
Ben grew up in New Haven. He is the son of a local carpenter and grand son of a furniture designer and has always been inspired to build and create. Post college he worked in construction management while concurrently starting a small web design company where he did all of the programming and design. He is currently a co-founder and CEO at SeeClickFix and is working with his pal Miles Lasater to create http://www.insideoutnhv.com
Interests: bicycles, games, electronics, 3d printing
Skills: Graphic and Web Design, Woodworking, No-handed roadbike trackstands
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Jeff Myer
Jeff is a Manufacturing Engineer/IT Professional who currently resides about one half hour North of New Haven but is more than happy to make the trip for anything involving making/building/creating..... or really good falafel. Being the son of an Engineer, he was encouraged to take things apart to see what made them tick ever since he could hold a hammer...uh err a screwdriver that is. Jeff is a co-founder of CT Hackerspace and firmly believes that there cannot be too much advocacy for do it yourself technology. With interests ranging from traditional woodworking with hand tools to 3d Printing and CNC Machining Jeff enjoys thinking of ways to marry old school craftsmanship with cutting edge technologies.
Interests: Making Anything, Sustainable Living, Organic Gardening, arduino, Programming, Beer Brewing, Convergence of Art and Technology, Shiny Baubles
Skills: CAD, CAM, CNC, Soldering, Welding, electronics, Database Design, Visual Basic, Drupal Wannabe, PHP Wannabe, Woodworking, Metrology, Automotive Repair |
Nicholas Schupbach |
Scott Petersen
Scott Petersen (aka s c a c i n t o | s k ɑ ʃ ɪ n t o ʊ | ) is a composer, performer, electronic musician and laptop improviser. His current research and work revolves around improvisational electronic music, analog electronic instrument design, experimental music programming, and multimedia installation. His output is diverse and includes works for large orchestra, small ensemble with and without electronics, works for large homogeneous instrumental groups, film/animation, sound installation, and laptop improvisation with custom designed hardware and software interfaces. Scott is a founder/member of the collaborative New Haven Electronic Music Composers group (El MuCo), and founded and curates the FridayNightThing, an ongoing new music and arts gathering. He is currently the Assistant Director of the Yale Music Technology Labs and serves as the Music Technology Specialist for the Department of Music at Yale University.
Interests: supercollider, arduino, processing, analog audio gear, space, quantum physics
Skills: music composition, improvisation (laptop, instruments), programming, electronics, analog-digital I/O
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Brad Conant
Primarily I am a sculpture artist.
Graduate of the Ringling College of Art and Design B.F.A in Illustration.
Worked for the last 9 years as a Prosthetic artist for a cosmetic prosthetics company.
Interests: Inspire me. : )
Skills: Sculpting, painting, silicone manipulation (fabrication and repair), basic woodworking, 3d cake design, cardboard costume design, some puppetry and graphic design . |
Marcus O. Notz
Marcus grew up and lived most of his life in Germany, surrounded by a family of gear-heads and electronics tinkerers who definitely influenced his life greatly. After studying electronic engineering, computer technology, an excursion into art with a major in graphic design, and a move across the big pond to the US, he now works as CIO for a major non-profit in the greater New Haven area, while also operating a small graphic design studio with a hand full of loyal clients as a side business.
Making, hacking, modding, tuning and general geek-dom have always been a part of his life, be it related to IT, electronics, automotive tech or music. Restoring and racing cars, Electronic/Industrial music and DJ-ing are some of his hobbies.
With a touch of ADD, he is always into something, seldom has his mind at rest and is currently toying a lot with custom built electronic fuel injection systems, home automation and linux smb servers, while trying to learn Japanese.
Interests: Everything geeky, anything that involves transportation tech and hacks that make life more awesome for everyone.
Skills: electronics, it, graphic design, automotive tech, home automation, fabrication, vinyl graphics
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Scott Halpern |
Kieran Sobel
I live in New Haven and work as a software developer for Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Skills: programming, cooking
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Andrew Chastain
Andrew has enjoyed making and breaking things for many years. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 2008, majoring in Math, Physics and Chemistry. After graduating he worked for an apparel company as a master data analyst, managing data integrity of a US retail database that was linked to a number of global and regional systems within the company. For the past two years he lived with his wife in Berkeley, CA working in a molecular biology lab that studied protein interactions in the developing retina. In addition to his biology and technology interests Andrew enjoys baking and cooking (since cooking is just chemistry you can eat).
Interests: brewing, woodworking, microelectronics, circuit-bending
Skills: Wet bench (molecular biology), Soldering, machining, baking, some programming, database design (Access, SAP, some MySQL and FileMaker), jewelry making |
Heather Strycharz
Heather is a new media artist and web designer currently living in New Haven, CT. She has a BFA in Media Arts from Hartford Art School and recently graduated with an MA in Media Studies at The New School in New York City. Heather runs the design firm, Love Local Design which specializes in web design for small businesses & start-ups. Heather also teaches web design at the college level, and will run workshops on web design & Wordpress. While Heather is not an expert seamstress by any means, she is also planning a series of simple crafting workshops for the MakeHaven space.
Interests: craft 2.0, craftivism, slow textiles, sustainable craft, screen printing, natural fabric dyeing
Skills: web & print design, video, sewing, muay thai kickboxing
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Frank Pelliccio
Frank began disassembling everything he could get his hands onto from an early age, mostly electronic gizmos. At some point he actually learned how some of those disassembled items worked, and began building his own [occasionally working] stuff. He plays it safe by earning an honest wage developing websites, databases, and desktop applications...but he is secretly a mad scientist, working feverishly in the basement of his Branford home. He thinks a microprocessor can be programmed to solve any problem. He only sleeps about 5 hours per day, rarely going to bed before 1am. He's also secretly a rock star, playing bass for fun, and writing mind-bending electronic music under the monikers krystov, hurtmachine, and indigen [partner to David Keith].
Interests: Many [mostly tech geek]
Skills: Programming; electronics [master of emancipating hidden smoke]; electronic noise, err, music
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Jeff Gates
Trained as an industrial designer, I have had the great pleasure to work with some wonderful designers, thinkers and tinkerers over the last couple decades (or so). Lived/worked in Syracuse, Rochester, L.A. and Atlanta. Now reside near the CT river and shoreline. Looking forward to contributing to (and tinkering at) makehaven.
Interests: small technologies and smart materials
Skills: industrial design and product design for manufacturing. |
Jason Maloney
Not a lot is known about Jason, Co-Founder and CEO of diffr3nt. Some say that he was born in a remote land where he developed a distaste for products that failed to differentiate themselves from others in the marketplace. Some say he's a normal guy who will take on anyone who challenges him to COD (that's Call of Duty for the non-gamers). One person claims "I saw him jump out of a plane". Others believe he doesn't even exist..... if so, who wrote this cleverly crafted bio?
Interests: All Things Digital, 3d printing, anything that has to do with a laser
Skills: Marketing, a touch of creative, and a desire to learn
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