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Applications are open for Maker Faire
[edit | edit source]hicksu — 2019-02-02
Applications are open for Maker Faire
Maker Faire
Call for Makers - Maker Faire Bay Area
[edit | edit source]Bring your brilliance to Maker Faire! Show off your projects, process & demo your skills with the largest celebration of invention, creativity and hands-on learning.
Event Date: May 17, 18 & 19, 2019
Location: San Mateo County Event Center, San Mateo, California
Noisebridge, being a non-profit hackerspace, gets a free booth at the show if we apply. I’ve had the honor to coordinate the NB Maker Faire booth the last four years (with winning awards the last three ), but this year I’ve decided not run it . If anyone would like to take this on please let everyone else know so Noisebridge doesn’t submit multiple applications.
Its fun, but running the booth is a lot of work and expense and Noisebridge doesn’t get too much of a donation or visitor boost from it. The event is mostly attended by families and children who generally don’t come to NB, except for perhaps CHM. The only benefits to NB having a Maker Faire booth are those we create for ourselves: such as a project to work with new people on and build for the space, a chance to be a part of Maker Faire, free tickets to Maker Faire, a strict deadline to motivate a team to finish a project, etc. It is a lot of work so one has to really be interested in making it happen. Nevertheless, if this is the case, the whole thing is one of the best sorts of stressful adrenaline rush type fun project management and making exercises, in my opinion. I’ve conned a lot of wonderful, otherwise sensible, people into working on these things and had a great time working with them.
NB doesn’t need to have a booth, but anyone is welcome to lead a team to represent NB at the show. If anyone is interested and has questions about applying or coordinating stuff for the show, feel free to message me.
lee — 2019-02-02
I like the maintenance of former Maker Fair projects idea. Ordibooth 2019
gaardn — 2019-02-04
Thanks for making NB’s Maker Faire projects happen these last few years, Jarrod! It’s been a seriously rewarding experience spending time at the booth and talking to people about the magical hacker wonderland that is Noisebridge.
This would be a fantastic project for one of the guilds to pick up.
Bernice — 2019-03-02
Hi @hicksu!
@pyconaut has actually signed us up for Maker Faire this year.
I have an idea for Maker Faire.
We can make a DIY touch-sensitive surface with a projection mapped into it!!
Details are here:
Idea For Maker Faire 2019 Project - DIY touch-sensitive surface with game projection Projects
> I have an idea for a Maker Faire project. > It needs to fit 3 criteria: > > It has to be easy to carry and bring around. > It needs to be interactive, because those are more popular. > I am taking inspiration from 2 sources: > 3.a I saw this at Alt-Ctrl-GDC last year: this was the touch-sensitive surface that I was talking about: https://notaquestion.carbonmade.com/projects/6668719 > 3.b The Microsoft Xbox Adaptive Controller, which is it is something that is EASY for ANYONE can use, and they can use any…
Aside from that, we can the popular things like:
- Simbridge
- Brainduino
- etc.
What do you think???
Bernice — 2019-03-02
Hi @lee
Good news!! There’s a project for repairing the Ordibooth already.
Ordibooth refresh Projects
> Ordibooth stopped working after a corrupted raspi SD card. r and I have looked into it a bit, and I have decided to rebuild the image pipeline it from scratch to understand how it worked. The project is currently here, and is close to being ready. Each individual function works, but im slowly integrating them to be, at a minimum, a photobooth. > Once the photobooth works, stipplegen can be added, then finally axidraw integration. > > > Let me know if you want to help. Other people learning the too…
Ordibooth refresh Projects
> Ordibooth stopped working after a corrupted raspi SD card. r and I have looked into it a bit, and I have decided to rebuild the image pipeline it from scratch to understand how it worked. The project is currently here, and is close to being ready. Each individual function works, but im slowly integrating them to be, at a minimum, a photobooth. > Once the photobooth works, stipplegen can be added, then finally axidraw integration. > > > Let me know if you want to help. Other people learning the too…