http://sylviashow.com/tags/hammerspace en http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2012/06/23/were-maker-faire-kansas-city-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>Hey everyone! Even though we didn't finish our Maker Faire Bay area posts yet, here we are at another one, <a href="http://www.makerfairekc.com/">Maker Faire Kansas City</a>!</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0713_0.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_0713_0.JPG?itok=Dh60LB6t" alt="" title="KC Maker Faire!" /></a></p> <div style="overflow:hidden; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0805.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_0805.JPG?itok=kJVqIIl9" width="200" height="200" alt="" title="My trinket box. I designed it, the flower is a Frangipanni" /></a>Last year we didn't have nearly enough time to explore, so we this year we stayed for a whole week! We went to the absolutely incredible <a href="http://mcckc.edu/fablab">MCC FabLab</a> and made wooden trinket boxes on their laser cutter, <a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0845.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_0845.JPG?itok=YglEL3KV" width="200" height="200" alt="" title="Over at the HMS Beagle science store, all the little bottles are essential oils, they smell so much!! Good, bad, strong &amp; crazy!" /></a> then off to the <a href="http://hms-beagle.com/">HMS Beagle Science Store</a> for the <a href="http://makekc.org/">MakeKC</a> meetup, pizza and looking at <strong>all</strong> their amazing stuff.</div> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_0912.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_0912.JPG?itok=cVdrIVDu" alt="" title="Here I am with some day camp girls, showing them how to solder" /></a></p> <p>Then I got to teach some <a href="http://www.sciencecity.com/">Science City</a> Day Camp kids all about squishy circuits, and how to solder for the very first time!! They all did really great, learened a lot, and left with their own blinky Maker Faire robot pins they made all by themselves!</p> <p><a href="http://sylviashow.com/sites/default/files/post-images/Dadmin/IMG_1318.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_1318.JPG?itok=AG8C9UXf" alt="" title="Me, Joey and my sister Talulah playing Squishy Space Race at the Hammerspace" /></a></p> <p>Then we met up with our maker buddy <a href="http://lwjm.us">Joey Hudy</a> and did a bunch of other stuff, eventually getting to go to the absolutely amazing <a href="http://www.hammerspacehobby.com/">Hammerspace</a>!!! Sooo cool!</p> <p>A LOT happened so far, with even more still to come! Techninja will help write it all down in a blog post soon. 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/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/away" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">away</a>, <a href="/tags/fun" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">fun</a>, <a href="/tags/joey-hudy" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Joey Hudy</a>, <a href="/tags/education" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">education</a>, <a href="/tags/science-city" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Science City</a>, <a href="/tags/hammerspace" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Hammerspace</a>, <a href="/tags/science" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">science</a>, <a href="/tags/fablab" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">FabLab</a>, <a href="/tags/kc" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">KC</a> </span> </div> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 02:51:46 +0000 Super-Awesome Sylvia 76 at http://sylviashow.com http://sylviashow.com/blog/super-awesome-sylvia/2012/06/23/were-maker-faire-kansas-city-2012#comments