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Dan in the Makerspace

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Luigi, Lianna, Ryan and others, they also had what looked like road-kill dissections

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This was an exhibit that spins up a giant larriot loop

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Circuit blocks with facinating de-furred stuffed animal toy movements

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very very popular - really nice interface - each target had an IR receiver with a motor that made somthing happen

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Two copters fight in a netted-in area. Pretty amazing and the crowds went wild with each crash

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This was a giant dance floor with each section that was powered by an arduino - they all communicated to eachother through cool copper connectors

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Printrbot | Affordable high resolution 3D printers

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Driven by technology and passionate about innovation, Ultimaker offers a range of high-quality 3D printers, software, materials, and support.

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here are a couple I saw demoed that looked very promising

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Dan was nice enough to let me couch surf so I could visit the Maker Faire

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Played with the new module - they had a demo up and running that sent back sensor input to the Processing app... it also lets you compose with the Synth Kit

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LittleBits Brings Open-Source Electronics Home

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Introducing: The littleBits Arduino at Heart Module

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More at: http://littlebits.cc/bundles/arduino-starter-bundle You focus on the code. We'll focus on the electronics! Make your own Etch-a-Sketch™! Program a visual display! We'll walk you through the basics using the Arduino programming environment, without the breadboarding, soldering or wiring normally required. Perfect for hackers, designers, makers and tinkerers of all levels.

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Circuit Stickers by Ji Qui who developed the paper circuit work 

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Circuit Stickers by Ji Qui who developed the paper circuit work 

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I hoped to meet Ji, but she was surrounded by folks making circuits - but I did get to meet Patricia Ng the Managing director of their new business

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(link to a 30mb PDF

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Lindsay was in the Young Makers area sharing paper engineering with rolled paper structures(roll paper around a dowel, then tape it - thats it - start building! She was a Maker Corps member in 2013 and helped to produce an amazing cookbook of their activities (paper engineering is one)

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Otto - RasberryPi - based hackable animated gif camera

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Otto - RasberryPi - based hackable animated gif camera

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Cool project for the inexpensive Rasberry Pi computer

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Next Thing Company's Dave Rauchwerk discusses Otto, their custom hackable camera based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module Camera.

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in this cool area collected clothes are available to take and remake right there with folks to teach you to sew by hands, machines and alternative approaches

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the template - its great because it has a nosecone template - something visitors want to make - a pointed cone

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This activity was in the parking lot area... and they used a launching station with compressed air tank launcher - rockets flew 50-100 feet! notice the button for launching

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Cool textile area - Make a hotpad by weaving recycled t-shirts

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Cool textile area - Make a hotpad by weaving recycled t-shirts

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This was a simple activity made engaging from the facilitation of a 12 year old. As she put it "its a sustainable and fun" activity that the really young and older can do. She helped to create the wood frames for weaving ( art canvas frames with sheet - metal screws all around the frame) The t-shirt cuffs and neck were all removed and hung on one series of hooks, and the rest of the T's were ripped/cut into strips and hung on another diy rack. From there you sit down and start weaving

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they did not have edible fish in their system

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Agponics DIY blog

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Since the problem with using a 5″ HDMI display was worked with the Raspberry Pi. A new problem developed that needed to be addressed. Running Arduino IDE on Raspberry Pi using the 5″ HDMI display at 800 X 480 resolution. The problem is that the Arduino IDE bleeds off the edges of the display (see picture below).

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a slide from the presentation - about a book she read that really helped her think about this work

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While we were talking he was making something with the tape. He stuck this little pipe on my shirt when we were done talking

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I went to the Faire with a pretty specific agenda to find activities for our Activate program (simple materials, construction kits), to meet Makers who were working on interesting projects, to look at activites that might ressonate with our Making Connections grant and to do some geeking out

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I met the maker Danny Scheible who is an social artist who uses all sorts of kinds of masking tape to create large scale social sculptures - he teaches you how to do tapagami and then you add to the big installations. Danny also creates mythologies about the work. I got a How to Book to help us try this in activate

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TAPIGAMI workshops are a wonderful way to learn a new skill and open your imagination! After the workshop, many begin to view every day objects not for just their purpose, but also for their potential. Designed for all ages, TAPIGAMI workshops are as much fun for kids as they are for adults.

TAPIGAMI has been taught at:

Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville,Ca
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, Ca
The Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, Ca
The Maker Faire, San Mateo, Ca

Our introductory workshop is designed around the idea of social play and interactive learning. Participants will learn all the basic TAPIGAMI skills and techniques for creating sculpture out of tape.

Interacting with tape through play allows our guests to have fun while exploring the depths of their own imagination in a truly unique method for creating art.

Interested in a TAPIGAMI workshop? For schools, company's, institutions, or even parties, contact us via email: contact@Tapigami.com

Upcoming Events

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Tapigami - Applying Imagination to Tape.

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TAPIGAMI workshops are a wonderful way to learn a new skill and open your imagination! After the workshop, many begin to view every day objects not for just their purpose, but also for their potential. Designed for all ages, TAPIGAMI workshops are as much fun for kids as they are for adults.

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I wandered the Faire looking for aquaponic and hydroponics systems that we might learn from for the Bits2Bits project I did not meet the builder - he was talking to other folks but here are some photos of their disblay - a big system that had towers for the plants all with PVC piping. What was really nice was that the build a mini-scale working prototype that they do all the adjustments and testing and actually programming and once it works they can use the same changes in the full-scale system

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Peggy Monahan from the New York Hall of Science introduced me to Erik Thorstensson, one of the creators of the Strawbees. This is a very nice new construction kit - especially since it incorporates straws which we seem to use in a lot of our activities. The other cool thing about Erik is that they are open to selling the dies and die machine for making these - as an alternative to buying lots of kits

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CREATABLES is raising funds for STRAWBEES - dream BIG, build BIGGER! on Kickstarter! Strawbees, a fantastic prototyping toy for makers of all ages. Build huge mechanical objects from standard straws and cardboard!

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Cool presentation by Alice Taylor is CEO of Makielab, a London-based startup that 3D prints personalized action dolls called Makies talking about how she learned to make toys / start a business