National Makers Faire 2015 - Washington DC

I attended this event with Phil Oles, a fellow member of make717 ( www.make717.org ).

It was crazy steamy hot and humid!  But we had some great conversations with makers and got some face time with Matt of www.PrintedSolid.com and Sophia of www.Morphiapp.com

Pictures from the event:

This lady has some really amazing "folding" works of art.

Phil and I met a scouting troop that specializes in EN-able 3d printed hand workshops.  Seems like a no brainer for them to visit make717! (from the DC area).  www.crew2013BSA.weebly.com 

 I was impressed with these 3d printing demo's of material properties.  www.kt421.wordpress.com

NIST was showing the Watt balance made of legos, which uses magnets made by a local company, Electron Energy.

 I love this design project, kids create positive/negative or neutral aerodynamic objects in the air up-flow tubes.

Phil and I ran into Dickinson multimedia specialists, Brenda Landis and another person that I didn't get contact info for.  They are responsible for makerspaces on campus, they have also realized that they already had maker areas throughout their campus.  This is probably also true of Stevens College!

We spoke about laser cutters/engravers from Epilog with John Ketchem.

Riverpoint Academy has a makerspace in a public school in Pacific NW, operated by TREP STUDIO.  They told me they are big fans of Bright Star lasers .

I met a director of LVL1.org the home makerspace of a valuable source of info, Caleb Sheehan who studied 25 makerspaces last year and is visiting more this summer.  We hope he stops by our space!  We are supposed to email directors@LVL1.org and they will help spread the word for our social venture pitch.

In the vein of Caine's arcade we saw a kickstarter cardboard pinball game from Pinbox 3000 .  Their prices seem high...

I got some great e-textile help for my next TechGyrls summer camp project from www.alevasi.com and www.threadwitch.com .

A great day, too bad it was such a sauna.