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A conversation with Jude Pullen Trying to repair almost anything can be a frustrating exercise.  Repair is made more difficult by the way devices are

Jim Sweeney of NoVA Labs My guest on this episode of Make:cast is Jim Sweeney, the treasurer of NoVA Labs, a community makerspace in northern Virginia.

A short walk from Momentum Studios toward town leads you to a warehouse with vibrant, orange letters reading COCOOP and a whimsical little free library.

Locating the faire outside of the tech-centric Peninsula also brought community members to a part of the Bay Area they may not have visited. “So many people in Vallejo said ‘Thank you for doing it here. It means something and it's a positive thing to happen here in Vallejo.’" Dougherty said. "I think that having the Maker Faire here is a good example of how the community isn't just about San Mateo and San Francisco and Silicon Valley.”

When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was...