Glossary

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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.

bar o’clock

  • Pre-pandemic social gathering after Meet & Geek.

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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