Fire making 2004-ongoing Fire making I learnt how to make fire using the ancient technique of spinning a stick on a board. It was a slow process that got started when reflecting on what I knew about how things are made. Pushing buttons and using all sorts of wireless devices on a daily basis, I have no idea where to get started to make a wire or a plastic knob, let alone a signal-carrying microwave. After some research I settled on trying to master the mother of all technologies: fire making. I am using the bow-drill technique.