Month: September 2012

Joe, from Renga Arts in Sebastopol, CA, delights the crowd, especially young makers, in the Make: Workshop.

This blinking T-shirt senses your heart beat and displays it on a heart-shaped LED array. The creators, Heart-felt Robot, said the T-shirt is dry-cleanable but not washable. It runs on three AAA batteries.

I stopped by Robert Hermes’ Zombie Detector Photo Booth and learned a bit of bad news. It must have happened when the guy sitting next to me on the flight to New York sunk his jaws in my forearm. At the time, I just thought he was just hungry because the plane wasn’t serving lunch.

Yesterday was a whirlwind of activity as the gates opened on World Maker Faire 2012 and we prayed that the rain would be held at bay and NYC train troubles wouldn’t prevent fairgoers from getting to the NY Hall of Science. Neither of these could keep tens of thousands of people from enjoying a day of makers showing off their wares and discussing what they do and why

Rebecca Strauss spent many months working on her interactive kinetic sculpture, Touched. Its articulated tentacles are woven with conductive thread, and respond to a human’s touch by extending or retracting. Find out more about Rebecca’s creation here .

It was great to see Audrey Armstrong, age 9, successfully complete her first solderless breadboard project at our breadboarding workshop. She built a 555 timer-controlled blinking LED circuit with a photo resistor to control the rate of the blinking. I was impressed. Great job, Audrey!