Highlights of 2015 NoVA Mini Maker Faire

WOW, what a Mini Maker Faire...of course it helps to be in a tech centric area like Reston, VA...but I was impressed with the quality of makers I saw while "helping" +PrintedSolid .

My mentions in no particular order:

Josh (I think) of MakeDesignTeach and #3dprintgumball Hall of Fame had this cool color process for 3d Printing:

 I don't think I helped PrintedSolid much, but at least Matt got some food and walk around time.

This iTapArcade project was one of the coolest I have seen...would be a great bike build module:

This was a mosaic at the beginning of the day...hopefully I returned to get the end of day pic!

Sponsors...

rubberbands and dowels...nice build system!

small dowels and color bands like kids make bracelets out of...really cool build system.

Nova Labs I believe:

A really cool thing that The Lancaster Science Factory should add:

more building inspiration:

Wylolum had some amazing and cool clocks, game systems, etc.

 more building, newspaper and tape is all it takes!

I did return to the mosaic done by visitors!

Great conversation with the Synthetos ( TinyG motion control board)...a force to be reckoned with, I want the Inventables CNC mill!

Wyolum again, these LED grids can be bought from SEEED studio.

Embrio, easy to learn programming without a ceiling!

This looks like my new favorite recipe to introduce students (middle school aged and up?) to Arduino, programming, and physical computing.

www.embrio.io

and

http://www.jechavarria.com/2014/02/27/k4s-keyboard-arduino-use-scratch/

I have tried everything along the way, preferring S4A over all others.

But when the web based Scratch (2.0) launched this created a problem for me.

Along came Embrio, and my initial thoughts are WOW!  The beauty of Embrio is the ceiling is much higher than all previous entries in the "easy to program" world.  You have so many options without living life inside the Arduino IDE.

Try this new Embrio software out and tune in tomorrow for updates from NoVA Mini Maker Faire.

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