Monday, October 6, 2014

NoCo Mini Maker Faire

Failures, faces and fun. This past weekend I attended the NoCo Mini Maker Faire as a maker.

We had a lot of curious, inquisitive people of all ages at the SHARC / Bot Thoughts booth, where they found Ted's Shapeoko, my Hero Jr which failed miserably (fodder for a future post), Sawyer's robots, and my newest robot (also blog fodder):



Assembled and programmed in under 2 hours to demonstrate the PIPduino and OpenMV Cam, it was fun to ask the kids (and adults) to figure out what the red robot was doing.

Outside we were demonstrating the self-driving, robot Jeep, though it was up on jack stands. Many great conversations ensued.

I only got to use my GPS rope demonstration only once, on two adults, instead of the dozens of kids I envisioned would be crowding and pushing around the Jeep to take a look... Um, yeah.

Sparky's Widgets was our indoor neighbor. It was good to talk to Ryan as I hadn't seen him in awhile.

It was good to see Samuel from CyberHedz Technologies with his awesome Dalek that was a show hit.

In all, a good show.

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