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b'You are surrounded by products. Most of them, factory-made. Yet there was a time when building things by hand was commonplace, and if something stopped working, well, you jumped into the garage and fixed it, rather than tossing it into the circular file.\\nParticipants at the Maker Faire are bringing back the age of tinkering, one soldering iron and circuit board at a time. Meet the 12-year old who built a robot to solve his Rubik\\u2019s Cube, and learn how to print shoes at home. Yes, \\u201cprint.\\u201d\\nPlus, the woman who started Science Hack Day \\u2026 the creation of a beard-slash-cosmic-ray detector \\u2026 the history of the transistor \\u2026 and new materials that come with nervous systems: get ready for self-healing concrete.\\n(Photo is a model of the first transistor built in 1947 at the Bell Telephone Labs in New Jersey that led to a Nobel Prize. Today\\u2019s computers contain many million transistors \\u2026 but they\\u2019re a lot smaller than this one, which is about the size of a quarter. Credit: Seth Shostak.)\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nLucy Beard \\u2013 Founder of Feetz\\n\\n\\n\\nMark Miodownik \\u2013 Materials scientist, director of the Institute of Making, University College, London, and author of Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World\\n\\n\\n\\nSteve Nelson \\u2013 Team K.I.S.S. Robotics, maker of Beer2D2\\n\\n\\nDan Lankford \\u2013 Managing director, Wavepoint Ventures\\n\\n\\nAriel Waldman \\u2013 Founder, Spacehack.org, global instigator of Science Hack Day\\n\\n\\n\\nSaurabh Narain \\u2013 12 year-old participant in Maker Faire\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'