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Eepy Bird getting ready for their next Coke and Mentos fountain show<\/p><\/div>\n
Click the photo to view a small photo set from the Faire. Adafruit has a much larger gallery of pictures posted here.<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to the exhibits, there are learning areas, including Learn to Solder, lockpicking classes, and build an air-powered rocket for kids, as well as short 20 minute or so talks at multiple stages throughout both days, and some large exhibits such as the human-sized mousetrap show and Eepy-Bird’s Coke and Mentos fountains extravaganza.<\/p>\n The presentations I went to included Multirotors 101, Shrinking the Size of Your Arduino Projects, Hacking the Unhackable: How We Can Make the Entire Word Interactive, and Getting Started with the Arduino YUN.\u00a0 My son attended talks\u00a0including ones on\u00a0the Rasberry Pi and on how the Maker Faire is, in its own way, continuing the traditions of Worlds Fares of old.\u00a0 The Shrinking the Size of Your Arduino project was about a product I hadn’t seen before, the TinyDuino<\/a>.\u00a0 This is an Arduino-compatible board the size of a quarter, WITH it’s own set of shields!\u00a0 It’s the latter that really distinguishes it from other tiny Arduino compabitle boards.<\/p>\n It was definitly a fun weekend, with stuff for the whole family.\u00a0 I’m very glad we drove up to New York and spent the weekend. Now having attended the World Maker Faire, I don’t feel the need to make it a must-do\u00a0annual trip, but I definitely want to\u00a0return repeatedly\u00a0. We went for a day and a half, but for the future, will probably make it just a one day event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife and son and I went up to New York City last weekend to attend the World Maker Faire. \u00a0It was our first. \u00a0It was very impressive to see all the makers. A journalist described Maker Faire as being … Continue reading