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We had a blast at the first meetup for Tam Makers, our new makerspace in Mill Valley. We hosted this free event at the wood shop at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley on June 8, 2016.
A diverse group of people came to the visit the shop, learn about our classes and discuss how to grow our maker community. Participants ranged from experienced artists, technologists, makers and woodworkers, to people interested in learning new skills, as well as high school and middle school students and their parents.
We opened the shop at 6pm and folks started to connect right away, checking out some of our demos, showing off recent projects and touring the space. At 7pm, we gave a presentation on Tam Makers, and talked about our first courses, meetups and tools for adults and youth. We then discussed these programs as a group and received some really helpful feedback.
Most people were very interested in participating in Tam Makers and using the makerspace regularly. They also liked the mix of classes, ranging from maker art to technology and woodworking. Some people signed up for classes on the spot and most wanted to join more meetups. Many offered to volunteer as well. One person said this event had a great community feeling, unlike more commercially motivated makerspaces.
We’re really happy that this first meetup went so well and that so many folks want to participate actively. We look forward to collaborating with our new maker friends very soon!
Learn more about Tam Makers:
Learn more about this Welcome Meetup:
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Views from Maker Faire Bay Area 2019.
For photos of the LEGO exhibit I was part of, see www.flickr.com/photos/billward/albums/72157707155303811 or my blog at www.brickpile.com/
ACU Occupational Therapy students create prosthetic hands in the Maker Lab. Photo credit: Paul White, 2015.
Just got an Esbit coffee maker. It's design is inspired by Italian moka pots, and it uses Esbit solid fuel tablets. It took about eight minutes to brew a cup of coffee. It was decent though a bit on the weak side, so I'll need to play around with roasts and grinds to get the optimal strength.
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photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
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Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.
Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.
The original Maker Faire was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2013 celebrated its eighth annual Bay Area event with some 900 makers and 120,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in four years to 600+ makers and 75,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, Newcastle (UK), and Shenzhen are the home of "featured" 2014 Maker Faires (200+ makers), and almost 100 community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world, including right here in Portland.
Photo by Gia Goodrich
This year's Scholastic Art & Writing Awards winners from across the US attended the first-ever Maker Prom at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC on June 5th, 2014. Hive NYC organizations facilitated maker activities, including LED corsages, sonic portraits, and more. The event was also a lead-in to Mozilla's global Maker Party campaign.
We are teaching two robot classes this fall, to help students create their own artistic robots. These classes are taking place at the Lycée Français in Sausalito (for 4th & 5th graders), and at Tam High School in Mill Valley (for adults and teens). During those classes, students learn how to build a robot from scratch, then make them move in a variety of ways, using a programmable Arduino board.
This photo set is about the custom robot kit we created for these classes at Tam Makers, our community makerspace. It includes a laser-cut chassis with motors and wheels, an Arduino Feather M0 with assorted electronics, an Arduino-powered remote control, as well as body parts and servo motors to make them move.
Our robot kit is similar to commercial products, but with a lot more features, at a lower cost. It was a lot of work, but we’re very happy with the final results, and our students seemed to really enjoy the class. We hope this will encourage other teachers, students and makers to create their own animated characters, for art and technology’s sake.
View photos of our ‘Robot World’ class:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157687758927575
View photos of our ‘Create a Robot‘ class:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157687842857094
Read our online student guide to learn how to create your own robot:
Learn about our ‘Robot World’ class for children at the Lycee:
fabriceflorin.com/2017/08/18/robot-world/
Learn about our ‘Create a Robot’ class for adults at Tam Makers:
www.tammakers.org/create-a-robot/
Learn about our Maker Art classes:
fabriceflorin.com//teaching-maker-art/
Learn about Tam Makers, our makerspace in Mill Valley:
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Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.
Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.
The original Maker Faire was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2013 celebrated its eighth annual Bay Area event with some 900 makers and 120,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in four years to 600+ makers and 75,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, Newcastle (UK), and Shenzhen are the home of "featured" 2014 Maker Faires (200+ makers), and almost 100 community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world, including right here in Portland.
Photo by Gia Goodrich