Walking in a Maker Wonderland: Makerland Day 3
What happens when 300 makers square off in a hackathon?
What happens when 300 makers square off in a hackathon?
Images from from Seattle’s Mini Maker Faire.
Why do we educators do it? It’s fun enough tinkering around with projects on our own, so why must we bang our heads trying to involve a pack of screaming kids from the neighborhood?
Last weekend, I traveled down to Northern Virginia for the NoVa Mini Maker Faire. I joined Adam Kemp, author of our book The Makerspace Workbench. His exhibit was, appropriately, called Inside the Makerspace Workbench.
Seattle retail makerspace Metrix is pushing the envelope of tool access with their Advanced Circuits Lab. Their LPKF Protolaser S is the only such machine available to the general public in the world.
They’re almost too pretty to put in your mouth.
Makers showed off some great projects at Poland’s Makerland conference.