Month: May 2011

Autism Initiative Announced at Maker Faire

Autism Initiative Announced at Maker Faire

Today, on the Center Stage at Maker Faire, Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, announced Hacking Autism, a social initiative for advancing and making accessible technologies to tackle the challenges that people with autism face every day. At the Faire, Phil will be encouraging software developers to join their team. This announcement ties […]

Blipboard at Maker Faire

Blipboard at Maker Faire

Blipboard is a geo-location social app. The Blipboard team has developed a nifty custom Blipboard sub-domain for Maker Faire. It’s a wonderful way of finding events and people at the Faire, based on your tagged interests and areas of the Faire where you’ve “checked in.” There’s also a schedule of events in the app and […]

Sylvia’s Super Maker Show: Mod Podge

At Maker Faire, there are always opportunities for “fangirl” moments. Celebrities like Mike Rowe and Adam Savage will be around this weekend, but my big fangirl moment came yesterday when I stumbled in to Sylvia of Sylvia’s Super Make Show. If you haven’t seen Sylvia’s videos before, take a moment to go watch them. She’s […]