Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show! - steel http://sylviashow.com/tags/steel en Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2012/05/15/maker-faire-bay-area-2012 <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>The first and <em>best</em> <a href="http://makerfaire.com">Maker Faire</a> is coming around again this year, and for our 5th year, we'll be there! </p> <!-- break --><p> Unfortunately, because of a badly timed whole house move of our family of 6, the projects and demos we had planned on bringing have been <em>completely</em> disrupted and left in a state of half-packed and half-done.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2487.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_2487.JPG?itok=6SW1wHP7" alt="Sylvia posing with her preliminary Maker Faire Badge" title="Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 here we come!" /></a></p> <p>Not to worry though! We'll be there for the entire event and hopefully be out and about for Maker Faire fishbowl interviews and possibly a makeshift demo, and we'll be rooting for our very own Pedalcar! Family friend "TheD" brought his welding skills and we created our very first real steel construction. It's far from perfect, but with a little work and not very much money, we were able to make something rideable.</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_2468.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_2468.JPG?itok=-Dbk3A98" alt="" title="Super-Awesome Sylvia&#039;s Pedalcar the &quot;Flying Fishmonger&quot;, in it&#039;s unfinished state, waiting for a bit for flair." /></a></p> <p>We'll be posting more updates soon, so stay tuned! But real quick, here's a few things we can't wait to see at <em><strong><a href="http://makerfaire.com">Maker Faire</a></strong></em>:</p> <ul><li>John Edgar Park's <a href="http://jedgarpark.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/arduino-grande-2/">Arduino GRANDE</a></li> <li>All the awesome pedalcars for the <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/maker/fun-bike-unicorn-club/">Death Defying Figure 8 Races</a></li> <li>Joe Grand's favorite <a href="http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/7418">Prototype this projects</a></li> <li>Getting to meet <a href="http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/8234">Bunnie</a> formerly of Chumby</li> <li>Other great young makers like <a href="http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/8451">Caine Monroy</a> and <a href="http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/7361">Joey Hudy</a> showing kids that making something is <em>always awesome</em></li> </ul><p><em>(Continue the adventure with <a href="/blog/techninja/2012/05/18/maker-faire-education-day">Maker Faire: Education Day</a>)</em></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/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/pedalcar" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">pedalcar</a>, <a href="/tags/welding" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">welding</a>, <a href="/tags/steel" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">steel</a>, <a href="/tags/construction" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">construction</a>, <a href="/tags/bay-area" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Bay area</a>, <a href="/tags/san-mateo" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">San Mateo</a> </span> </div> Tue, 15 May 2012 18:51:26 +0000 TechNinja 71 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/techninja/2012/05/15/maker-faire-bay-area-2012#comments