Gatobot is an interactive cardboard robot by Rhiannon Johnson in Dan Frazier’s art class at Benicia High School
Kit car Hadron XR can go zero to 60MPH in 2.8 seconds. Kickstarter launching soon!
Stan Clark designs and sews giant inflatables – like our custom Makeys!
Stan’s Astro Botanical forest recently hung upside down from a ceiling at an event
Marty Kulmus and his Hooka Smoking Caterpillar – made for the Vallejo Mad Hatter parade
Compressed air rockets undeniable fun
FIRST team RoboDogs #2085 from Vacaville High School is headed to the FIRST World Championships!
Chyrsanthanthemum’s Mini Cardboard Arcade
DDR Maker-style! StepMania: A DIY Dance Dance Revolution StepMania is a dance game that runs entirely on user generated content
The robot scans all sides of the cube first – then decides how to solve
Saurabh Narain used an existing algorithm but built and programmed his own motors to make this jaw-dropping Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot
The Pinball Pirate points out the big innovation in 70s solid state pinball: the board that drove the electronic speech!
Christopher Kuntz “the Pinball Pirate” repairs pinball machines
Dentist Victor Chaney demos his backpack guitar. He also makes giant rolling ball sculptures
Arts Benicia make zone
Dale Dougherty-founder of Make: and Maker Faire-signing autographs after his talk
Glorious spring weather graced the first annual Benicia Mini Maker Faire (about 30 minutes north of Oakland, CA in the San Francisco Bay Area).
The lovely thing about Mini Maker Faires is how easy it is to have conversation with these always-interesting makers. The other aspect is the local community feeling: most makers I talked to lived in the surrounding Solano County area.
Congratulations to the Benicia Makerspace and Board Member Aaron Newcomb for organizing and hosting!
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