Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show! - away http://sylviashow.com/tags/away en RoboGames 2015 SASVlog! http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2015/06/24/robogames-2015-sasvlog <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><iframe width="892" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/13ghmvKphos" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p>Hey guys! Here's my second Vlog. It's all about Robogames 2015!</p> <p>This year I entered into the lego robotics competition and had my friends Schuyler St. Leger and Roger Fachini III showed off their hacks and improvements on the WaterColorBot.</p> <p> </p> <p>Check out Roger's WCB demo files here:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/rogerfachini/spiraudio">https://github.com/rogerfachini/spiraudio</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Check out Schuyler's demo files here:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/docprofsky/wcb-double-pendulum">https://github.com/docprofsky/wcb-double-pendulum</a></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/docprofsky/meggyjr-cncserver">https://github.com/docprofsky/meggyjr-cncserver</a></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/robogames" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">robogames</a>, <a href="/tags/schuyler-st-leger" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Schuyler St. Leger</a>, <a href="/tags/roger-facini-iii" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Roger Facini III</a>, <a href="/tags/watercolorbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">WaterColorBot</a>, <a href="/tags/robots" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">robots</a>, <a href="/tags/art" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">art</a>, <a href="/tags/competition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">competition</a>, <a href="/tags/combots" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">combots</a>, <a href="/tags/battle" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">battle</a>, <a href="/tags/sparks" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">sparks</a>, <a href="/tags/electric" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">electric</a>, <a href="/tags/grant-imahara" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Grant Imahara</a> </span> </div> Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:42:54 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 110 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2015/06/24/robogames-2015-sasvlog#comments Illinois Computing Education (ICE) SASVlog http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2015/05/26/illinois-computing-education-ice-sasvlog <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><iframe width="892" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3DhggVxARqE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p>Welcome to the first SASvlog! (Super-Awesome Sylvia vlog!!)</p> <p>Like I promised, the Illinois computing educators conference vlog is out. It includes my crazy little journey from February 23th to 28th and features silly moments, fun adventures, and snippets of the conference.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/sasvlog" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">SASVlog</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/ice" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">ICE</a>, <a href="/tags/illinois" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Illinois</a>, <a href="/tags/chicago" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Chicago</a>, <a href="/tags/watercolorbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">WaterColorBot</a>, <a href="/tags/adventure" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">adventure</a>, <a href="/tags/snow" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">snow</a>, <a href="/tags/keynote" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">keynote</a>, <a href="/tags/scratch" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">scratch</a> </span> </div> Tue, 26 May 2015 18:53:18 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 109 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2015/05/26/illinois-computing-education-ice-sasvlog#comments Super-Awesome Channel Relaunch! http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2015/05/13/super-awesome-channel-relaunch <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><iframe width="892" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pi3kjeP3Qy0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>After two years of....basically nothing... I am re-launching my channel to become more creative and fun! There will be more videos, more diversity, and more 'super-awesomeness'. I hope you guys enjoy, please subscribe and tell your friends! ( ^ w ^ )</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/video" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">video</a>, <a href="/tags/announcement" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">announcement</a>, <a href="/tags/future" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">future</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/home-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">home</a> </span> </div> Wed, 13 May 2015 17:42:00 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 108 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2015/05/13/super-awesome-channel-relaunch#comments Distractions, Adventures, and a year making a book that’s finally here http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2014/11/26/distractions-adventures-and-year-making-book-that%E2%80%99s-finally <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Hello everyone! I’ve been busy!! ...course I’m </span><em>always</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> busy. Since I left you last on the blog, I’ve traveled to the White House Maker Faire, Rome Maker Faire, Disneyland, and between every trip, I’ve been writing and finishing my very first book!</span></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/book_announce.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/book_announce.jpg?itok=i8BtTtOz" alt="Sylvia pointing at a physical copy of her new book, &quot;Sylvia&#039;s Super Awesome Project Book: Super-Simple Arduino&quot;" title="It&#039;s finally complete! WOOT!! Go check it out at superawesomebook.com" /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">The book is called “Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Project Book: Super-Simple Arduino”. It’s got three awesome projects, bonus ideas for you to explore, and fun little doodles and robots to help you along! It’s based on <a href="/arduino">the episode I did 4 years ago when I was 9</a>, but it has a whole new project, tons more about programming, and its </span><em>COOLER!!</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> It also has some science project ideas, builder ideas, and artsy ideas too. The first of a series of books I plan on making about making stuff, the series even has it’s own dedicated website at <a href="http://www.superawesomebook.com">superawesomebook.com</a>. If you're wondering, I got my glasses only a month ago! Yes they're perscription, everything is <em><strong>IN FOCUS!!</strong></em></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">This book was </span><em>the</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> most difficult project I have worked on yet. At first, I totally thought it would be easy...and it wasn’t. It took a lot of drawing, writing, revising, revising again... and </span><em>again</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">… It got quite frustrating. But I am super excited it’s finally done though!! I hope my book can be an opportunity for kids and adults to get into making and building, and to let their creative juices flow!</span></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_6437.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_6437.JPG?itok=Knil6BIe" alt="Sylvia poses outside the back of the White House with her arms in the air." title="We had such an amazing and humbling time at the very first White House Maker Faire. " /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Anyways, for my second trip to DC: The White House Maker Faire was so cool (even though it was 95 fahrenheit with 90% humidity)! It was a </span><em>flipping</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> </span><strong>Maker Faire</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> inside the </span><strong>White House! </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">The robot giraffe was even on the lawn!</span><strong> </strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">I met amazing people, got to hear the president speak, and saw a lot of old friends. It was really great, and I was very honored to be there. Even though I didn’t get to present anything, I can’t wait for their next one. </span></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1261.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1261.JPG?itok=eX9oMFsh" alt="Sylvia sitting on the rim of a fountain in Rome, Italy." title="Rome was AMAZING! So totally awesome." /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Next up in September, I went to Rome in Italy, which was not only my first time to that country, but one of the most memorable trips I have ever been on. I got up on stage and talked about my adventures in making, then we walked around the HUGE Maker Faire there, which was </span><em>AWESOME</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">. There were a lot of aspiring makers that got to talk to amazing people, see incredible projects, and ask questions. Rome was beautiful, exciting, and a crazy trip. We walked around for hours around the city and saw all the ruins, and we got stuck waiting for a bus that never came and ended up getting soaking wet in a minor flash flood. We ate pasta, and pizza, and weird licorice gum. Italy was extraordinary, and even though we missed our flight on the way back, we got to stay an extra day outside of Rome, and I can’t wait to go again.</span></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2079.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2079.JPG?itok=QmtANQXP" alt="Sylvia smiling while riding next to her sister Talulah through Disneyland." title="Disneyland was more than I could have hoped for, SO awesome." /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">After that and just for fun, for the first time in my life, I got to go to Disneyland! I know that doesn’t seem like much, but I seriously felt like a 6 year old again, and I had a ton of fun. I went with my sister’s girl scout troop and I totally thought the whole trip was going to be boring...but I actually made some new friends. I went on a bunch of awesome rides and met a few princesses. Unfortunately on my last day, I sprained my ankle running around on pirate island! I was in crutches for 2 weeks, and I have to wear a brace for the next month... but I still had fun!!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">SO! You’re probably wondering whats going on with my videos. Yea, I haven’t made any....in a</span><em> really</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> long time. Making a book, taking trips, 7th and 8th grade homework, doing talks and leading my younger siblings at home has taken </span><em>all</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> my time. But now since I’m older, the style of videos I made when I was eight doesn’t quite match up to who I am right now. I plan on changing it up. The videos will include more silliness, references to awesome shows and fandoms and stuff, and I may even try to get out video blogs more regularly. It’s very hard for me to make videos, with school getting in the way. If I don’t make a video, I will make a instructables or a blog post on what’s going on! =D </span></p> <p> <span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">I hope you guys enjoyed your summer and have a happy thanksgiving/holiday season! Always remember... GET OUT THERE AND <em><strong>MAKE SOMETHING!! </strong></em></span></p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/white-house" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">White House</a>, <a href="/tags/super-awesome-book" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Super Awesome Book</a>, <a href="/tags/arduino" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Arduino</a>, <a href="/tags/rome-maker-faire" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Rome Maker Faire</a>, <a href="/tags/italy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Italy</a>, <a href="/tags/massimo-banzi" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Massimo Banzi</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/home-0" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">home</a>, <a href="/tags/distractions" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">distractions</a>, <a href="/tags/adventure" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">adventure</a>, <a href="/tags/tapper" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">tapper</a>, <a href="/tags/strobe" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">strobe</a>, <a href="/tags/riff" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">RIFF</a>, <a href="/tags/growing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">growing up</a>, <a href="/tags/maker-faire" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire</a>, <a href="/tags/glasses" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">glasses</a> </span> </div> Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:13:15 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 107 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2014/11/26/distractions-adventures-and-year-making-book-that%E2%80%99s-finally#comments Project Books and White House Maker Faire http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2014/06/16/project-books-and-white-house-maker-faire <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>For those that missed it, Sylvia has been working like crazy for months cooking up a brand new set of real life project books! ...also she's been invited to attend the White House for their very first Maker Faire on Wednesday June 18th, 2014!</p> <p><img alt="Sylvia-book-cover-for-web-not-final-300x300.png" src="/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/Sylvia-book-cover-for-web-not-final-300x300.png" style="display:block; height:300px; margin:0px auto; width:300px" /></p> <p>Announced as her surprise project at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014, "Sylvia's Super-Awesome Project Book" series is going to be a set of books published by <a href="http://superawesomebook.com">CMK Press</a> featuring project topics from various episodes, along with a bunch more in-depth details and project extras that we just couldn't cover in the show. First book should be out late July 2014, titled Super-Simple Arduino.</p> <p>Happening a <em>little</em> sooner, Sylvia (along with me, CraftNinja mom and little sister Terrific Talulah) will be in Washington D.C. this week for the very first White House Maker Faire, thanks in part to travel sponsor <a href="http://atmel.com">Atmel</a>'s unwavering dedication to education and the young Maker community, <em><strong>they rock!</strong></em></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/atmel_shirt.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/atmel_shirt.JPG?itok=hYoMyNGA" alt="Atmel Logo on a shirt" title="Atmel - Sylvia&#039;s travel sponsor for the White House Maker Faire" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://makezine.com/day-of-making/"><img alt="dayofmakinglogo.png" src="/sites/default/files/post-images/dayofmakinglogo.png" style="float:left; height:160px; margin-left:25px; margin-right:25px; width:160px" /></a></p> <p>For the majority of Makers wishing to take part in the festivities, don't worry! June 18th has been officially proclaimed as the <a href="http://makezine.com/day-of-making/">National Day of Making</a>. Get together with your local maker space, hacking group, or just your family, and get out there and make something! Post pictures and use the hash-tag  <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nationofmakers"><span style="color:#ff0000">#nationofmakers</span></a> to let the world know that you're doing your part and making something awesome <em>together</em>. There's tons of other suggestions on the Day of Making site, so go check it out!</p> <p>We'll be tweeting from the event live as long as we've got connectivity, so check <a href="https://twitter.com/makersylvia">@MakerSylvia</a> for updates before, during, and after for all the fun and surprises we're bound to find there.</p> <p>Good luck makers, young, old, and future. Lets all get out there and make something this June 18th and prove we are (even around the world) a <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23nationofmakers"><span style="color:#ff0000">#nationofmakers</span></a>.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/white-house" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">White House</a>, <a href="/tags/maker-faire" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire</a>, <a href="/tags/secret" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">secret</a>, <a href="/tags/bay-area" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bay area</a>, <a href="/tags/washington-dc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Washington DC</a>, <a href="/tags/day-making" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Day of Making</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/nationofmakers" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#nationofmakers</a>, <a href="/tags/ssapb" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">SSAPB</a>, <a href="/tags/book" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">book</a>, <a href="/tags/atmel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Atmel</a> </span> </div> Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:45:19 +0000 TechNinja 105 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2014/06/16/project-books-and-white-house-maker-faire#comments I'm not dead! Just busy. Also: MAKER FAIRE! http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2014/05/15/im-not-dead-just-busy-also-maker-faire <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">HI GUYS!!! So, How have you been doing? Good, good. Oh really? Awesome!</span></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Well, </span>I <span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">have been doing pretty well, </span><em>but</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> I’ve been hecka busy. Sorry even though I keep promising new episodes it just doesn’t happen. School has been torture, I started Karate, and Girl Scouts has been fun but selling cookies is a chore, and I’ve also been working on </span><em>secret </em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">projects (hee hee hee) and traveling the world for STEM and showing the WaterColorBot.</span></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">It’s been crazy. Everything is crazy. <em>You’re crazy.</em> <em><strong>I’m crazy!</strong></em> No, just kidding... let’s get on with the blog post!</span></p> <p><strong>GUESS WHAT</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">: January 2014 was the first WaterColorBot anniversary! 1 full year of awesome progress and watercolor painting awesomeness. Yay! I wanted to make a birthday cake for it to paint.. but then got busy again. Geeez! February and March were boring catching up with school and stuff, but also some planning for April!</span></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/genevapanel.jpeg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/genevapanel.jpeg?itok=8nlHqpCV" alt="Sylvia and other panelists on the Girls in ICT Panel at the ITU for the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on April 15th, 2014" title="My very first UN panel! I wasn&#039;t the least bit nervous!... ok maybe a little. So honored for the chance to do it!!" /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">I was invited to go to Geneva, Switzerland to talk at the UN for International Girls in ICT day! </span><em>The UN</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> </span><em>peoplez!!</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> It was so cool, and I got to talk about ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and STEM and why I think it’s really awesome for girls to get into it and work it. Also talk had fun and made and made an awesome mobile app and showed off the WaterColorBot (which everyone really liked)! I’ll have to do a full post on that one day soon. </span>Here's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E0dFzTg6A&amp;list=PLDDD2E4F143C930A4">quick video they shot</a> to give you an idea of what it was like.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/2014-04-15%2008.58.06.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/2014-04-15%2008.58.06.jpg?itok=vX1D-FxR" alt="Sylvia talking about her WaterColorBot at the ITU/United Nations in Geneva Switzerland" title="I had an interpreter to speak French for me, it was crazy!" /></a></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">So yep! That was fun. Oh! And hey, I’m making this awesome- </span><em>wait!</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> It’s secret!!! I almost told you what my super secret project is. </span><em>Phew!</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> If I did, you would know all about-</span><strong>OOP!</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> I almost told you again! Well, I guess I could </span><em>just</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> say that we will be announcing something incredibly super awesome on Saturday at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014! And, soon after we will blog about it and how its about- </span><strong>ARG</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">. Anyways...</span></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">This summer, I <em>really</em> want to take charge and </span><em>own</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> my time. Here’s my goal list for the next four months:</span></p> <ul><li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Make 5 episodes or more, changing to format of the episodes a bit: More humor, easier editing! :D</span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Try and build more stuff and explore new fun ways to make the shows.</span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">I want to make at least 100 different projects </span></span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Aluminum casting my own sword with lost PLA casting from 3D printed thing!</span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Begged parents for Ukulele, earned money from WaterColorBot, got it, learning right now! YAY!</span></li> <li><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">Mostly built an electric Go Kart for my science faire project, but couldn’t find the right parts in time, argh! I want to finish that puppy NOW! (Well, not now, but as soon as possible. ;) )</span></li> </ul><p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">But before all that...</span> <span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"><em><strong>Come see us at Maker Faire!</strong></em></span></p> <p><img alt="logo2.jpg" src="/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/logo2.jpg" style="display:block; height:337px; margin:0px auto; width:337px" /></p> <p><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">We don’t have a booth this year (I need my time to go see the faire!), but I will be doing fun demo stuff with the WaterColorBot and an Arduino at the Make live stage in the Expo hall on Saturday at 11:30 with </span><em>the</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> special announcement at the end. On </span><strong>Sunday</strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000"> at the education stage at 11:00am, we will be talking in detail about </span><em>the announcement</em><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">, and you can ask questions and stuff then too! Also I’ll be hanging around the Atmel Truck both days and building simple Arduino projects with kids for a bit. Hope to see ya at Maker Faire!! :D </span></p> <p><em><strong><span style="background-color:transparent; color:#000000">EDIT:</span></strong></em> Oh! Almost forgot, my latest fun project with my dad and <a href="http://twitter.com/makerblock">@MakerBlock</a> is <a href="http://makerbingo.com">MakerBingo</a>! Print your own bingo card for Maker Faires everywhere! Share it with your friends, give em to family! Go out and have fun!!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/geneva" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Geneva</a>, <a href="/tags/switzerland" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Switzerland</a>, <a href="/tags/united-nations" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">United Nations</a>, <a href="/tags/girl-scouts" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Girl Scouts</a>, <a href="/tags/fun" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">fun</a>, <a href="/tags/summer" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">summer</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/go-kart" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">go kart</a>, <a href="/tags/maker-faire" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire</a>, <a href="/tags/san-mateo" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">San Mateo</a>, <a href="/tags/special-announcement" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">special announcement</a>, <a href="/tags/secret" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">secret</a>, <a href="/tags/atmel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Atmel</a>, <a href="/tags/arduino" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Arduino</a> </span> </div> Thu, 15 May 2014 18:19:17 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 103 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2014/05/15/im-not-dead-just-busy-also-maker-faire#comments A Maker Summer to Remember 2013: Part 2 http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2013/12/23/maker-summer-remember-2013-part-2 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Such a summer has been had this last year by us, it’s taken nearly 6 months to get an update. Busy doesn’t <i>start</i> to cover it!</p> <p>With the creation of her incredible <a href="http://watercolorbot.com">WaterColorBot</a>, Sylvia then <a href="http://watercolorbot.com/kickstarter">launched her Kickstarter</a> to make it into a kit for everyone to enjoy, which then launched her on a tour around the world. Picking up <a href="/blog/techninja/2013/07/16/maker-summer-remember-2013-part-1">where we left off back in July</a>, just from momentum we breeze past Summer and on into Winter:</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/2opHfc-UCMUIT0qzECXO-V-27gLdOetjQtN-etcMalI.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/2opHfc-UCMUIT0qzECXO-V-27gLdOetjQtN-etcMalI.jpg?itok=HXL1q4Se" alt="Sylvia standing in front of a set of giant rocket nozzles, and a huge rocket body at NASA Space camp in Alabama." title="HOLY MOLY MAN! These rockets are huge, NASA SPACE CAMP ROCKSS!!!!" /></a><br /><b>August 10th:</b> Riding the wave of her success at the <a href="/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2013/04/27/my-crazy-dc-adventure">White House Science Faire in April</a>, Sylvia was given a full scholarship to NASA Space camp, flew across the country on her own, had an incredible, unforgettable time, and even got a custom made NASA twitter badge which she now proudly wears on her lab coat.</p> <p><strong><i>Sylvia says: </i></strong><i>"It was really really fun! I got to meet so many cool friends, and I went on the multi-axis trainer and spun around, but didn't get dizzy. I also did two awesome missions where I was one of the ISS commanders and did a bunch of experiments, and another where I was doing moon mission control in the future. I am totally going back as soon as I can!!"</i><br /><br /><br /></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/0523ae5c8f26e546c363d4172e526b5d_large.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/0523ae5c8f26e546c363d4172e526b5d_large.jpg?itok=aAdJ6zAX" alt="SYlvia&#039;s Water Color Robot witht he words &quot;Thank You Kickstarter&quot; painted on a piece of paper at Evil Mad Scientist Headquarters." title="Thank you Kickstarter! You guys rock the bot!" /></a><br /><b>August 15th:</b> We made it! With <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1894919479/super-awesome-sylvias-watercolorbot-0/backers">the community's help</a>, we demolished our goal of $50k to raise nearly $90k towards the <a href="http://watercolorbot.com">WaterColorBot project</a>. Now in December and January, bots are shipping and backers are getting their hands dirty with robots, CNC, and watercolors!</p> <p><strong><i>Sylvia says: </i></strong><i>"WOO HOO! So happy and excited to finally complete the Kickstarter so bots could get out to people. Thank you everybody who contributed to make this goal happen, and for those that got one, hope you liked the cards I made :) "</i><br /><br /><br /></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1839.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1839.JPG?itok=WtE8NJA2" alt="Sylvia helps solder a watch kit with Xeni Jardin and a fan at the Boing Boing Ingenuity hack day" title="Having fun at Boing Boing! You can see Joe messing around with something cool on the left there." /></a><br /><b>August 17th:</b> After her return flight from Space camp, we stopped off at Boing Boing: Ingenuity with the WaterColorBot. In the first hour we formed the most incredible team in the universe, with me, Sylvia, Joe Grand, and Ben Krasnow, proceeded to create a <a href="http://boingboing.net/2013/09/03/car-tells-robot-artist-what-to.html">Ford XC controlled Water Color Painting hack</a>. We then won first place grand prize (a MakerBot Replicator 2) totally by accident, and freaked out.</p> <p><strong><i>Sylvia says: </i></strong><i>"I still can't actually believe we got the grand prize! I had total blast with Joe and Ben, who are unstoppable incredible uber-makers and I can't wait to do more awesome stuff with them!"</i><br /><br /><br /></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2284.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2284.JPG?itok=45GpoYNk" alt="Sylvia talking to a group of girls, Intel employees and the Intel CEO about the WaterColorBot and Intel headquarters." title="All the girls really seemed to like the bot, and so did the guys!" /></a><br /><b>October 10th:</b> After a quick invite, Sylvia was incredibly pleased to attend and talk to young girls at <a href="http://blogs.intel.com/csr/2013/10/so-what-does-girls-education-have-to-do-with-musical-pumpkins/">Intel to celebrate the international day of the girl</a>! She talked all about the incredible journey she’d taken, did some Maker Makey experiments, inspired some girls, and was given a brand new <a href="http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/galileo-maker-quark-board.html">Arduino Galileo board</a> from Intel CEO himself Brian Krzanich.</p> <p><strong><i>Sylvia says: </i></strong><i>"Super cool to meet the CEO and all the awesome girls making fun experiments with Makey makey and scratch, and I can't wait to try to make something cool with my new Galileo board."</i><br /><br /><br /></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2637.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2637.JPG?itok=llJ1nER_" alt="Sylvia describing how her robot works to a group of enthralled patrons to the Mozilla Science Faire at MozFest 2013 in London, UK." title="Everyone loved the bot again in London. Check the photo gallery on G+ for more pictures!" /></a><br /><b>October 23rd:</b> With summer over, well intentioned plans altered by a loss in the family, we continued on and arrived in London for <a href="http://mozillafestival.org/blog/science_fair/">MozFest</a>. Where Sylvia and I spoke and presented all about the WaterColorBot and it’s open source APIs, and showed off our <a href="/blog/techninja/2012/03/15/dml-wrap-make-photoshoot-and-more">web interface demo</a>. So much fun, so many new fans of this little painting platform and the show. <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/102649665767942479588/albums/5943952960139470097">Full photo album here.</a></p> <p><strong><i>Sylvia says: </i></strong><i>"Going to London was SOOOOoooooo cool! I met so many amazing, creative people and got to tour around London, and it was one of the best trips I've had yet. I'm going to make my web game and submit soon!"</i><br /><br /><br /></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_3199.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_3199.JPG?itok=WwvNjiSg" alt="Sylvia dissasembles a Cubelet robot at the hacking table to extract a servo while at RobotsConf 2013 in Florida." title="RobotsConf!! I wasn&#039;t really doing anything helpful here, but it as still fun hacking the cubelets. Check out the Gallery on G+ for more photos!" /></a><br /><b>December 5th</b>: With November nearly uneventful, <a href="http://robotsconf.com/">RobotsConf</a> in Florida headed up December with Sylvia and I doing a quick Keynote about the crazy adventure we’ve had this year, with her making the WaterColorBot, and me making the desktop software to drive it <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/102649665767942479588/albums/5956210472830877441">(Full photo album here)</a>. Once that was out of the way, we dove in and hacked together an awesome AR Drone with Spark Core triggered servo grabber controlled entirely by Leap Motion hand gestures.</p> <p><strong><i>Sylvia says: </i></strong><i>"I love Florida! And yea I was a little scared to do my keynote, but me and Dad winged it and had fun, and the rest of the conference was all about making awesome robots, so that's never not awesome!"</i><br /><br /><br /></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/Bbd6ytVCEAAQ9fO.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/Bbd6ytVCEAAQ9fO.jpg?itok=xe1-Yp5y" alt="Sylvia giving her talk on stage at TEDx San Diego 2013." title="I was SOOO nervous, but I really did do it. Thanks to everyone that helped me out!" /></a><br /><b>December 12:</b> Only just returned, she’s off again to her third <a href="/blog/techninja/2012/09/20/tedx-redmond-wrapup-and-new-york-bound">TED</a> <a href="/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2012/12/26/tedx-san-jose-wrapup-and-goodbye-2012">event</a>, <a href="http://tedx-sandiego.com/">TEDx San Diego</a>! Sylvia spoke all about her incredible adventure so far with the show, and the WaterColorBot from inception, to incredible difficulty getting through iterations, and how she conquers the innumerable hard problems keeping her from her dreams every day (including doing the talk!). Video to be posted soon.</p> <p><strong><i>Sylvia says: </i></strong><i>"Phew! Glad that's over. Yes, it was fun and amazing, and exhilarating, but man how stressful. I think I'm going to wait a bit to do anymore talks for a while. For now I'll stick to fun videos :) "</i><br /><br /></p> <p>And that just about wraps up for this year. It’s been an incredible whirlwind of activity, and though the WaterColorBot has been big, Sylvia really hopes she can now focus on more episodes and outreach to teach the magic that is getting hands on and making things.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/watercolorbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">WaterColorBot</a>, <a href="/tags/mozilla" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mozilla</a>, <a href="/tags/mozfest" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">MozFest</a>, <a href="/tags/2013" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">2013</a>, <a href="/tags/london" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">London</a>, <a href="/tags/san-diego" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">San Diego</a>, <a href="/tags/san-jose" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">San Jose</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/international" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">international</a>, <a href="/tags/hack" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">hack</a>, <a href="/tags/makerbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">MakerBot</a>, <a href="/tags/intel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Intel</a>, <a href="/tags/boingboing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">BoingBoing</a>, <a href="/tags/nasa" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">NASA</a>, <a href="/tags/space-camp" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Space Camp</a>, <a href="/tags/kickstarter" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Kickstarter</a>, <a href="/tags/hacking" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">hacking</a>, <a href="/tags/robotsconf" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">RobotsConf</a>, <a href="/tags/robots" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">robots</a>, <a href="/tags/tedx" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">TEDx</a>, <a href="/tags/brian-krzanich" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Brian Krzanich</a>, <a href="/tags/jess-klein" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Jess Klein</a>, <a href="/tags/ben-krasnow" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Ben Krasnow</a>, <a href="/tags/joe-grand" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Joe Grand</a>, <a href="/tags/ar-drone" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">AR Drone</a> </span> </div> Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:55:37 +0000 TechNinja 92 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2013/12/23/maker-summer-remember-2013-part-2#comments A Maker Summer to remember 2013: Part 1 http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2013/07/16/maker-summer-remember-2013-part-1 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>TV show appearances, Multi-Maker Faires, and Crazy Robot Adventures? All part of a regular summer for us here at SSAMS.</p> <p>When we last left our heroine “Super-Awesome” Sylvia, she had just started to recover from a whirlwind trip from RoboGames to the White House with her Watercolor painting CNC platform, the <a href="http://watercolorbot.com">WaterColorBot</a>. Now in only a short 2 and a half months, we’ve gone around the country and back again. Here’s the highlights, in <em>reverse</em> chronological order:</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/wcbot.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/wcbot.jpg?itok=yaxgHGWo" alt="The contents of the WaterColorBot kit" title="The robot is now a kit! What&#039;s in the box? All this awesome stuff!" /></a></p> <p><strong style="font-size: bigger;">July 16th:</strong> Sylvia launches her <em>very <b>first</b></em> original product, the WaterColorBot, as it’s own <a href="http://watercolorbot.com/kickstarter">educational kit on Kickstarter</a>. Supported and manufactured by the incredible staff at <a href="http://evilmadscientist.com">Evil Mad Scientist</a>, this one is sure to be a game changer, not to mention it’s fun and incredibly educational, but we’ll have to make our goal of $50k before August 15th! Can we make it? Check out the widget on the front page, or just tell all your friends, family and teachers to go to <a href="http://watercolorbot.com">watercolorbot.com</a> for more info.</p> <p><strong style="font-size: bigger;">July 16th:</strong> Sylvia and Lenore of Evil Mad Scientist will appear on Maker Camp! Sylvia will be driving up to Makezine HQ and talking all about the bot, and taking questions from viewers around the world. Check the <a href="https://plus.google.com/events/c81c46l8fukpgabjdanb2gmv44s">Maker Camp event page</a> to ask questions and see them in action!</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1463.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1463.JPG?itok=OR-5honx" alt="Sylvia standing with the jib camera operator on stage at ABC studios in New York for the Katie Couric show." title="Sylvia gets a real hands on lesson on how to work the million dollar telescoping camera jib on the Katie Show sound stage in New York. WOW!" /></a></p> <p><strong style="font-size: bigger;">July 11:</strong> To New York, for a quick appearance on the Katie Couric show, airing Tuesday July 16th, 2013! Sylvia shows off a few awesome science demos, and the WaterColorBot tries to draw the Katie show logo. To a nation looking to improve their science and engineering literacy, hopefully this will help to inspire them all. Check out more and some <a href="http://www.katiecouric.com/features/fun-summer-science-projects-for-you-and-your-kids-sylvia-todd/">web exclusive content</a> from Sylvia on <a href="http://katiecouric.com">KatieCouric.com</a></p> <p><strong style="font-size: bigger;">July 6:</strong> Sylvia turns 12! This anniversary also marks the beginning of her fourth season of Maker Show, this year is going to be spectacular.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/mfkc.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/mfkc.JPG?itok=3i6EGEvl" alt="Sylvia standing behind her table at Maker Faire Kansas City" title="Maker Faire Kansas City this year was awesome, and not just because everyone loved the robot :)" /></a></p> <p><strong style="font-size: bigger;">June 29:</strong> To Missouri, for Sylvia’s third year at the Show me state’s greatest show and tell, Maker Faire KC! Sylvia and her bot painted over 35 portraits over 2 days, not to mention we had a great time at <a href="http://www.hammerspacehobby.com/">Hammerspace</a>, playing with the robots, and playing around at Science City.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/atmel1.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/atmel1.jpg?itok=DGyhByZ9" alt="Sylvia poses in front of a giant poster for Atmel bring your kids to work day." title="Picture courtesy of Atmel." /></a></p> <p><strong style="font-size: bigger;">June 19:</strong> To Atmel, microchip headquarters of the world! Sylvia was featured at their bring your kid to work day, celebrating education, engineering of all kinds, and awesome experiments, most involving microprocessors like our favorite, the Arduino. Read more about Sylvia's jaunt into integrated circuit fame on <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/atmel-hq/">the EMSL blog post</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0518.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0518.JPG?itok=vi2JBgAj" alt="Sylvia sits on stage at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 being interviewed by Mark Frauenfelder, Editor in Chief of Make Magazine." title="Sylvia gets on stage at Maker Faire Bay area, gets interviewed by Mark Frauenfelder!" /></a></p> <p><strong style="font-size: bigger;">May 18:</strong> Maker Faire Bay Area, and incredible bustling non-stop exciting amazing everything at once kind of thing. Lots more makers this year, so much to see. Sylvia manned the booth for a while, but still got a chance to escape and really enjoy the faire, always a good thing. Thousands came to see the bot, and almost everyone walked away with a smile.</p> <h4>To the future!</h4> <p>This summer isn’t over yet, Sylvia will be co-leading an Extreme Engineering camp July 22 to 26 with Gary Stager, then off to Space camp in August thanks to the amazing support of fans. Not to mention so, so much more to come, like new episodes (really, we mean it!), books, and things we can’t even imagine. See you all soon, and don't forget to breath... and get out there and make something!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/maker-faire" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire</a>, <a href="/tags/maker-faire-kc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Faire KC</a>, <a href="/tags/maker-camp" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Maker Camp</a>, <a href="/tags/watercolorbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">WaterColorBot</a>, <a href="/tags/steam" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">STEAM</a>, <a href="/tags/gary-stager" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Gary Stager</a>, <a href="/tags/katie-couric" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Katie Couric</a>, <a href="/tags/lenore-edman" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Lenore Edman</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/new-york" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">New York</a>, <a href="/tags/kansas-city" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Kansas City</a>, <a href="/tags/kickstarter" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Kickstarter</a>, <a href="/tags/robot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">robot</a>, <a href="/tags/atmel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Atmel</a>, <a href="/tags/arduino" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Arduino</a>, <a href="/tags/science-city" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science City</a>, <a href="/tags/mark-frauenfelder" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Mark Frauenfelder</a> </span> </div> Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:04:54 +0000 TechNinja 91 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2013/07/16/maker-summer-remember-2013-part-1#comments My CRAZY DC Adventure http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2013/04/27/my-crazy-dc-adventure <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><b>WHite HoUse SCience FaiR?</b> <i>WHaaa?</i> This month has been crazy!! Robogames 2013, TWO Science Fairs, and an interview with Bill Nye and Levar Burton... in the same week?! <i><b>HOLY MOLY!!!</b></i></p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/2013-04-21%2011.00.07.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-r" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/2013-04-21%2011.00.07.jpg?itok=WFLr2STV" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia posing with her custom made white cardboard box that reads &quot;Super-Awesome Sylvia - WATERCOLORBOT - Evil Mad Scientist&quot;" title="It&#039;s done!! Windell at EMSL helped with the logo and design, and the box fit EVERYTHING we needed, it was AWESOME! Loved the handle." /></a>Just a few weeks ago, I got a call from the White House staff, and they invited me to go to their 3rd ever science fair! Last year, Joey Hudy got chosen to go for making awesome kits, <i>and</i> got to show off his big orange marshmallow cannon. This year, MAKE magazine and Cognizant nominated me to come! The most insane part was that I only got one week warning, my school 6th grade science fair was on the same day as the white house one, <b><em>and</em></b> we’d have to leave on the last day of <a href="http://robogames.net">Robogames</a>!!! <strong><em>OH NOEsS!!</em></strong></p> <p>Luckily my dad helped organize and put together a fundraiser on <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/sylvia-science-fair">gofundme</a>, and we raised the full goal amount in less than a day thanks to all the awesome people who donated and helped get the word out! WOO hoo!</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9266.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9266.JPG?itok=z-joNLJ3" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia posing in her bicycle blouse at her hotel, ready to leave to the White House." title="Ready to go to the White House! Mom helped me curl my hair, and I got some new patches on my lab coat," /></a> On the Thursday before the Science Fair, I left to San Mateo to compete in Robogames 2013 with my WaterColorBot paint pen plotter (fill wrap-up post coming later). After an exciting couple days at Robogames (and winning a silver medal!), I boarded a plane to Washington DC, with my robot and project board all wrapped up in my awesome custom made carrying box. I was <strong><em>SOOOO</em></strong> excited!!</p> <p>We got to our hotel at 2am, slept ‘till 6am, got dressed all fancy, then left for the White House! (Not much sleep. :P)</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9274.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-r" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9274.JPG?itok=Hh-5vUp1" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia standing behind her science fair table at the White House, ready to display the WaterColorBot." title="At the White House, and I&#039;m ready! The letters above the board were painted with the bot, as were the other examples too." /></a>When we got there, I was checked by security and led to the room where I was supposed to set up in. I didn’t have much stuff to assemble, so I had a ton of time to figure out exactly how I would do my demo, and what the heck just happened. Craziness!!</p> <p>After about an hour, some people started to come by and I showed off my WaterColorBot. My demo worked with a Raspberry Pi as the computer, and connected to the iPad with a WIFI adapter that my dad help me make into an access point. After all of the other kids set up and looked around, we went outside and had some lunch and talked with lots of important people. After lunch settled down, I got interviewed by Levar Burton and Bill Nye!! Oh My Gosh!</p> <iframe style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GqSL4ciJqvg#t=1292s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p> At 12:30, the science fair officially opened to the rest of the staff and VIP’s that got invited. I talked to a BUNCH of cool people and really had some fun talking with them all about how the bot works, how I came up with the design, and how I think it'll be perfect for girls my age to get into engineering with once we make it into a kit. I also talked lots and lots about other things I liked doing, plus all about my show.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9312.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-c" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_large/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9312.JPG?itok=y26sSLar" alt="Sylvia showing Nate Ball, host of PBS Kids Design Squad, and a group of onlookers how her WaterColorBot works" title="Showing Nate from PBS Kids Design Squad and all the cool VIPs how it works, and that it&#039;s cool!" /></a></p> <p>I hadn't had much sleep, but even though I'd been standing and talking for hours, I was totally pumped. It's hard to describe, but getting up there and talking about something awesome that you know pretty well, that people really want to hear, and have interesting questions about, is a lot of fun, and you wouldn't think so. But it is.... and I knew I had to hold out for the POTUS!</p> <iframe style="margin: 0 auto; display: block;" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2HfgGDOZPCQ#t=1910s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p> When it was time for the president to come in, all the regular people were moved into the entry hall. He then came in, said hello and started talking to the first booth. After a few teams/groups had talked with the president, I was next! He walked up, said hello and shook my hand. We talked, and then he held up my watercolorbot painted picture of the white house logo the press, and lots of camera shutters went off. He then talked with me a bit and drew something on the iPad for the bot to draw, “GO STEM!”. At the end he shook my hand again!! I was thrilled!</p> <div style="width: 105%; margin: 0 auto 0 0; overflow: hidden;"><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/24sylvia-span-articlelarge.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/24sylvia-span-articlelarge.jpg?itok=Azk_pCUx" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia standing behind her science fair table and her WaterColorBot while President Barack Obama displays the White House logo drawn by the bot." title="WaterColorBot: US President Approved!" /></a><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9338.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9338.JPG?itok=CXFkljvC" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia holding the finished painting that the president made with the iPad WaterColorBot demo." title="And here it is! What the president actually wrote on the iPad. It didn&#039;t come out perfectly because I ran out of water, but it&#039;s still awesome!!" /></a><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9339.JPG" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_9339.JPG?itok=sIe-Lia6" width="200" height="200" alt="The iPad showing what President Barack Obama drew for the WaterColorBot to paint." title="This is it! The actual iPad drawing the president made." /></a><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/800_6rvxe0fhmiwj3htdsxx6euujnyy7toih.jpg" class="yoxview_thumbnail"><img class="post-img-l" typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_small/public/post-images/Dadmin/800_6rvxe0fhmiwj3htdsxx6euujnyy7toih.jpg?itok=e-kju0hd" width="200" height="200" alt="Sylvia instructs President Barack Obama as he draws the words &quot;GO STEM!&quot; on the iPad for the WaterColorBot to draw." title="Here&#039;s the president actually giving the iPad app a try! Thanks RobotGrrl!! " /></a></div> <p>Meeting the president was so incredible and exciting! I had a TON of fun in Washington DC and I really hope to go there again. Even though I got to meet the president, I’m still just regular old me, and I think any kid my age could get to be where I was, if they just don’t give up and keep going at their crazy ideas. Even if nothing new happens because of my trip, I’ll be sure and keep my friends at the White House forever.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/white-house" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">White House</a>, <a href="/tags/science-fair" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science Fair</a>, <a href="/tags/watercolorbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">WaterColorBot</a>, <a href="/tags/paint" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">paint</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/washington-dc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Washington DC</a>, <a href="/tags/barack-obama" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Barack Obama</a>, <a href="/tags/bill-nye" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bill Nye</a>, <a href="/tags/levar-burton" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">LeVar Burton</a>, <a href="/tags/interview" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">interview</a>, <a href="/tags/joey-hudy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Joey Hudy</a>, <a href="/tags/science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">science</a> </span> </div> Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:44:59 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 89 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2013/04/27/my-crazy-dc-adventure#comments White House Science Fair & Robogames!! http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2013/04/15/white-house-science-fair-robogames <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>White House? Yes! Robogames? Yes!! Crazy non-stop roller-coaster of life? <i>Definitely</i>.</p> <p><b><i>UPDATE:</i></b> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/04/20/watch-live-2013-white-house-science-fair">Sylvia announces the Science Fair for the White House!</a> And be sure to watch the live event at <a href="http://wh.gov/sciencefair">wh.gov/sciencefair, or at </a><a href="http://wh.gov/live">wh.gov/live</a>, beginning at 11:30am EDT (8:30am PDT) on Monday, April 22, 2013.</p> <iframe width="840" height="560" style="display:block; margin: 0 auto;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rSEWp9c_Voc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p> <i>Original Post:</i><br /><a href="http://www.bwscampus.com/about/STEAMday/index.aspx">Brentwood School STEAM Day</a> was a <i><b>blast</b></i>, we saw the sights, and helped over 40 kids walk away with a brand new mintyboost, and a respect for making things with their soldering irons. Both worksheets used at the event are now available in the <a href="/printables">printables section</a>. Wrap-up post to come.</p> <iframe width="840" height="560" style="display:block; margin: 0 auto;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/54wVd4T2NgA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p> Not long after, Sylvia was invited to a hangout to talk about the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/03/27/white-house-hangout-maker-movement">Maker movement with Tom Kalil at the White House</a>, bringing together a bunch of other really awesome maker peeps to talk about how we can make things better in education with making things. We even managed to get the WaterColorBot to have its own video feed while it drew the White House Logo!</p> <iframe width="840" height="560" style="display:block; margin: 0 auto;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vtgJILMBjFU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><p> Then only about 3 weeks later, we got one more call from the White House: an invite to their 3rd ever Science Fair, and to bring a project of Sylvia's choice!! Though the date was only a week away. What could she possibly bring? The WaterColorBot! With a few hardware tweaks, and some software help (from Dad, and from <a href="http://robotgrrl.com/">Robotgrll</a> for the iPad app), she thinks she's ready.</p> <p>Then there was the problem of how to fund such a crazy trip with less than 4 days to do it. We asked <a href="http://www.evilmadscientist.com/">Evil Mad Scientist Labs</a> and they graciosly promised to match all donations up to $1,242! We then managed to pull together a funding campaign with GoFundMe in about 4 hours, and once it was launched, made our funding goal in less than 23 hours thanks to the incredibly awesome people on twitter and facebook!<br /></p><h2><i>You guys rock!!!</i></h2> <p>You can still donate to Sylvia and the cause <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/sylvia-science-fair">here</a>, and extra funds go towards making awesome shows, and getting young girls into tech. </p> <p>So now we've made our goal, bought our tickets, and now we're ready to go.</p> <p>If you're in the San Francisco area, come see Sylvia and her White House bound Watercolor painting robot at <a href="http://robogames.net">Robogames</a>! We'll be there all day Friday and Saturday, then fly out Sunday at 3pm and head out to the White House Science Fair. No you can't join us there, but you will be able to see it broadcast live online at <a href="http://whitehouse.gov/live">whitehouse.gov/live</a> on Monday, exact time TBA.</p> <p>See you out there!</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"> <h3 class="field-label">Tags&nbsp;</h3> <span class="field-items"> <a href="/tags/white-house" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">White House</a>, <a href="/tags/science-fair" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science Fair</a>, <a href="/tags/robogames" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">robogames</a>, <a href="/tags/robots" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">robots</a>, <a href="/tags/robot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">robot</a>, <a href="/tags/watercolorbot" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">WaterColorBot</a>, <a href="/tags/robotgrrl" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Robotgrrl</a>, <a href="/tags/president" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">President</a>, <a href="/tags/drawing" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">drawing</a>, <a href="/tags/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/funding" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">funding</a> </span> </div> Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:27:13 +0000 TechNinja 88 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2013/04/15/white-house-science-fair-robogames#comments