Glossary

These are makerspace and Protospace specific terms that you should know.

bay 108

• The bay containing the metal shop.

bay 110

• The bay containing the wood shop.

bikeshedding

• Futile investment of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
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DMZ

• The area between the mitre saw and garage door in the woodshop (bay 110).
• (also called the no-fly zone)

dogfooding

• The practice of using one's own products or services to help find bugs.
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do-ocracy

• An organizational structure in which people are encouraged to set goals and accomplish tasks on their own, rather than leaders assigning tasks or roles to a particular person or group. Individuals are “free” to do tasks that they feel they should be done and minimal supervision or permission is required. The success or failure of a particular project is linked directly to the efforts of the people who do the things.
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microwave hour

• The time it takes for someone to complete a project you can do in about an hour with a salvaged microwave oven transformer. We have never completed a Microwave hour.

toast

• A unit of volume, weight, distance, equal to a single slice of standard toast.

yak shaving

• Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem.
• A less useful activity done consciously or subconsciously to procrastinate about a larger but more useful task.
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