Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show! - Adam Savage

Maker Faire Bay Area 2012: Day 2

TechNinja — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 14:59:38 +0000

(Continued from Maker Faire: Day 1) The streets strangled by traffic, we arrive a bit late (show up early folks!). Hopping out of our car and hoofing across the south lot, we're totally ready for Adam Savage's talk at 11. First a quick stop off at the magical steampunk village, to see the amazing machines, sculptures, and perchance to write an olde fashioned letter with a fountain pen.

Just as we finish our letters, we got a call from our pal Brooklyn to head over and see our friend Joey Hudy in the Maker Shed, he was sad that Becky wasn't there to walk around and do interviews with Matt for MAKE Live, so he suggested that he and Sylvia fill in! Who would pass up an awesome chance like this? Not us!

Off we ran to the Shed for some preliminary interviews, then Adam Savage himself, then onto the back of a golf cart to tour the sights and sounds of the Faire. Soon seeing such awesome things as Makerbot's robot petting zoo, the giant fire snorting dragon, and Los Angeles Maker Extraordinaire, Tara Tiger Brown (all seen in the video)!

Rounding out a long fun tour of the grounds and sights, they headed over to the Whiskey Drunk Cycles arena, it was time to dunk a MAKE editor! Sylvia was first to pitch, and without breaking a sweat somehow managed to pull out a fast ball and dunked her on the second shot! I guess that single season of softball finally paid off.

After her fun trip with the Make crew and Joey, we set out on our own to inhale the last invigorating breaths of Maker Faire. Into the expo hall we stopped by and said hi to all the booths we could. Handing out stickers, cards, smiles and hugs. Met up with incredible electronics master Andrew 'Bunnie' Huang, he even signed Sylvia's Chumby One!

We saw our nice friends from Parallax showing off their red line follower bots, and Sylvia's favorite Ping))) BOE bot, then over to the fabulous Tinkercad, showing off 3D printed versions of their favorite models, some even in ceramic and metal. Stopping by one of our favorite booths, Sugru showed off their awesome "kid-proof" camera made safe with only their colorful air-curing rubber. Then finally off at the Robotis booth to check out the awesome Ollo bug bot kit, and to even hold one of the incredible DARwIn-OP humanoid bots (too bad his battery was dead).

By the time we finished strolling through the expo hall, it was time for the very last EepyBird Diet Coke and Mentos show! We ran outside and set ourselves up in front before the crowds got too thick, hoping for to get close enough to "experience" the soda fountains, and we were not disappointed! (totally got soaked when the wind picked up)

Not long after, it was time for the awards ceremony for the Fun Bike Unicorn Club Figure 8 races. Due to our constantly popping tires, derailing chain and eventually the front right wheel coming off, we were tied for last place. Though because we kept on trying, and even went to a store to buy replacement tubes to race again the following day, we won "Best Effort", and hold the trophy proudly (Actually, driver and welder TheD holds it)

The fair has now officially ended. Patrons and booth runners alike; pack, clean up, and head out. People gather outside as they leave to marvel at the eclipse, turning simple tree shade into a crowded sea of crescents. We make our way through buildings, slowly meandering our way to the exit. We love to walk through the slowly emptying halls as the excitement, stress and heat of thousands of hurried bodies drains out, leaving only the people who came here some few days ago to put everything up, just to take it all down again. On our way through we spotted a hard at work Sophi hacking away at an cell phone signal detector hat for the big post-Maker Faire hack dinner at Harry's Hofbrau. Sylvia helped her solder a bit, and then we headed out to the dinner ourselves.

It was packed. Almost every patron was from Maker Faire, and an entire section of the restaurant was devoted to the elite hackers showing off their incredible inventions and physical sketches. Everything from Jeri's C-64 Bass, Benheck's briefcase 3D printer, Garret Mace's LED matrix glasses, to a high pressure CO₂ fruit carbonator. After an hour or more of mingling, showing off of cool things, and planing with like minded makers, Sherry and Dale walked in causing every single table to erupt in spontaneous applause. The entire event after the event was incredible, and we ended up staying far beyond our limit, leaving over three hours later than we expected... of course, it was worth it.

Sylvia finished collecting her "photoception" picture-in-a-picture shots as best she could on this last day of Maker Faire. Sunday netted her: Mr. Mythbuster Adam Savage out signing after giving a great talk and getting interviewed by Sylvia herself! (3 years), head of the Maker Shed, Mr. Marc de Vinck (2 Years), MAKE editor in chief and Boing Boing founder Mark Frauenfelder (2 years), Masters of soda fountains, the Eepybird guys, Fritz and Steven (3 Years), and uber-modder and pinball fanatic Ben Heckendorn (2 years).

And thus concludes our tale of Maker Faire Bay area 2012. Made lots of friends, saw lots of amazing things, got so many ideas, only good can come from so much sharing.

Stay tuned for another multi-part tale of our adventures at Maker Faire Kansas City, 2012, then Make Summer Camp 2012, then Constructing Modern Knowledge 2012!!

Maker Faire and so much more!

TechNinja — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:50:25 +0000

May 21st brought us to the 10th annual Maker Faire (The 6th in San Mateo), with Sylvia and I running two demos at the Make: Live stage.

Our very first time presenting together, the demos were a little harrowing, but still lots of fun. For the first demo we showed everyone how to mold and cast a miniature pointer finger we’d made out of sculpey. When the demo was done, we gave out a bunch of finished Composicast urethane resin mini pointers to everyone! The audience had a great time and so did we.

For our second demo, we attempted to show off and of our version of an Arduino Laser Tripwire Alarm, though because of laser and microphone difficulties, it ended quickly and without much fanfare. At least we had some fun with it, and the code is out there for all to use and enjoy.

Sylvia gets out of school soon for summer break, and she'll be posting up her own log of the incredible makers she met and things she did this year. Not to be missed!

As for the future; we’ve signed up with Make Magazine to do a volley of Mini Maker shows, about once a month (or more often if we can make it) for the summer and beyond, as long as we can keep the show ideas flowing, and near as we can tell, there’s plenty to be made. We're also going to start a brand new post section called "Show and Tell", that chronicles the adventures of people like you, kids, adults, teachers, moms, ninjas and the rest. People who actually got out there and made something because of the show, and want to tell the world.

If you or someone you know made something and feel proud about it, drop us a line on our contact form!

At the end of June we’re heading off to Maker Faire Kansas City, our very first out of state Maker Faire! We’re going to try and do something great for the community there, and hope to see all our favorite makers, and hundreds of new ones. Arc Attack will be there, and maybe Sylvia and I can work up the courage to get in the Faraday cage like Adam ;)

Obviously we'll have to work on our "Robot" skills that don't involve servos and micro-controllers.

Maker Show Episode 2 - Maker Faire 2010!!

Super-Awesome Sylvia — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 03:12:50 +0000

Sylvia Goes to Maker Faire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUT2bi24mXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEB7CVVPjMg

Me and my Dad finally finished episode 2 of my Super-Awesome Maker show, and here it is. Have fun! Tell your friends! Submit an idea!. And most of all, let us know what you think of the show in comments, here or on youtube. Thanks again for watching!

Sylvia Goes to Maker Faire

Dadmin — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:23:14 +0000

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Super Awesome Sylvia goes to Maker Faire 2010! it's so epic it takes TWO parts to complete.
In part 1, we visit (in order):

Mauro Ffortisimo, Piano liberator:
http://mauroffortisimo.com

Gogh Bike, the drawing bicycle:
http://sn.im/goghbike

ORB v.2, full color orbital POV display
http://artmagnitude.com

Fish bug, art sculpture:
http://fishbug.net

Project: Making the "Sound Sandwich"
http://lawrencehallofscience.org and http://howtosmile.org

TechShop CNC plasma cutter:
http://techshop.ws

The Theascope (Now as of June 11, called the ForeSight), 3D augmented reality powered by smart phones
http://galaxykate.com

LUNAR Rocket club saucer launch
http://lunar.org

Thermite demo by Jeffery Schwartz
http://amazingrust.com

Super Awesome Sylvia goes to Maker Faire 2010! it's so epic it takes TWO parts to complete.
In part 2, we visit (in order):

The Raygun Gothic Rocket, giant cool silver rocket. 'Nuff said.
http://raygungothicrocket.com

Mondospider, super amazing multilegged electric and steal crawling beasty
http://eatart.org - http://mondospider.com

Land Sharks, EL wire animated ankle-biters
http://sn.im/landsharks

Project: Making something with Scrap
http://scrap-sf.org

Meeting the makers:

Limor Fried
http://ladyada.net - http://adafruit.com (maker of the Drawdio kit!)

EepyBird: Coke + Mentos + Eepybird = Too Much Awesome for one stage
http://eepybird.com

John park, Public TV Make show host
http://jpixl.net - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/author/john_park/

Full episode list, favorite comments, Idea submissions and Sylvia's blog
http://tn42.com/maker-show

Support Sylvia's college goal: M.I.T. by 2019!
http://cafepress.com/SylviasCollegeFund

Songs used during this episode part (all licensed under Creative Commons Share-alike v2.5 license):
-Dhalius - The Road Scene
-The Wavers - The Longest Day, Surfin' Mosquito, Inigo

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Lawrence Hall of Science (via YouTube)Sylvia, you rock! We are big fans of your show and are so happy to see that you featured the sound sandwich from the Lawrence Hall of Science/SMILE Maker Faire booth. We love the experiments you came up with for the sound sandwich. *High 5!*
UberEgnaro24Sylvia, thanks for making these videos. You are truly inspirational. Can't wait for episode 4!
thrashishanother superawesome show!
doctorzegoSylvia it does my heart good to see that kids are still getting out and making things keep it up!

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