What is the difference between a Maker and an Artisan?
Over-involvement in science fiction?
(e.g., there isnāt a difference, but for certain stereotypes - Artisan: cabin in the woods and traditional materials. Maker: New media and new mediums)
I have a sculpt kb and mouse also. The tab key brokeā¦and then I lost the dongle. And you canāt replace the dongleā¦ each is permanently hard coded to the particular mouse and kb.
So I have a dongle-less sculpt kb and mouse (missing a tab key) if anyone wants them.
Plus the mouse is so TALL it makes my
wrist all puckarooā¦or however you spell it
Editā¦I did like the kb though. Too bad they are $$ $ down here ā¦$269 at Harvey Norman!
I have a stack of those also, just out of reach as I write this. 
@ Pete Brown - The robot is very cool, any chance of getting a BOM for that guy? Or at least where to get the āgirdersā and wheels.
They custom machined the wheels, but the materials are from Makeblock. High-quality building materials for sure.
I have a bunch of that stuff. Warning: Itās expensive. You can drop $500 and only have a small box of parts to show for it.
Another to consider is the building materials from servo city:
https://www.servocity.com/html/actobotics1.html
Finally, this tank chassis from DFRobot is larger than it looks (itās about a foot square), and is surprisingly high quality (despite those cheap yellow motors). I have a Gadgeteer-based robot mostly complete:
For powering the Raspberry Pi on a robot, I use one of those micro USB mobile phone battery packs. I use a separate power pack for the motors.
Pete
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Not heard that term for years. I remember it fondly when I grew up as a slogan for a soft drink from Scotland. āMade in Scotland from girdersā was heard often during the adverts in the 80ās for Irn-Bru
Interesting to read that site though and see the changes in attitude over the years and how politically correct we all have become since around 2000+ in the section under controversy. Sad to realise that we donāt have the same sense of humour anymore and some take such pleasure in complaining about so many small things 
One of my favorite building toys from when I was little.
Pete
Interestingly, they are being remade:
They donāt seem to have remade the airport set, though.
Maker and/or an Artisan
Iām a long time woodworker and I would say you must be both.
My very favorite toy as a child was the GILBERT ERECTOR SET NO. 10 1/2 BUILDS MERRY GO ROUND PARACHUTE JUMP.
It even had a MOTOR!
My mother had to hide it to get me to go outside and playā¦
http://www.strangebusiness.com/content/item/168583.html
I had some of these also:
The good old days of sharp metal, line current and real chemicals for children. I was such a nuisance, my dad gave me an old vertical-shaft gas engine bolted into a little table. Man was he surprised when I got it going. How does one grow up without a bit of hazard, smoke and noise?
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@ mcalsyn -
I loved the oneā¦ and real chemicals for children
Yes! You could order almost anything from adds in the back of Comic Books!
My brother and I made some HUGE firecrackersā¦
That was some engineering porn right there. Awesome stuff.
Pete
My fav was the childās chemistry set with real uranium and a cloud chamber:
How many of these comic book ads do you remember?
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@ mtylerjr - I always wanted one of those hovercrafts.
Sea Monkeys. Most oversold thing ever.
I was so disappointed when I saw what they actually looked like.
Pete
āAutomatic firing machine gunā
āFires 10 rounds as fast as you can pull the trigger.ā
: /
$1.98
āDevelops deadly target skill.ā
Do you really need deadly target skill if it fires as fast as they claim (assuming no recoil since its a pellet gun)? Oh, the good ole days when a kid could hike down the highway with a shotgun on his shoulder and no one thought anything of itā¦ How did we get here???