Sven Gasser is a pretty capable guy—the kind of guy who can build an electric guitar from scratch (it doesn’t have to sound good to still be a really cool experiment). For the past two years, he’s been hammering away at a boat in his garage; a boat that he one day hopes to navigate across the Panama Canal.
No, he’s not a craftsman. Nope, he’s not an artisan. Yes, he’s a bit crazy. He calls himself simply “a maker,” the kind of person who learns by doing and bravely dives into that great unknown.
“I mean, I had no idea how to make a boat when I started, but I didn’t let that stop me,” the former math and science teacher said.
Trying and trying again is a big part of the maker movement—it’s the…
