Mini Makerfaire Silver Spring 2013

     SO this is ridiculously late so bear with me here.. All the way back in September I went to the Mini Maker Faire in Silver Spring, MD and I was lucky to be a part of a display put on my schools FIRST Robotics institution. To say the least, it was awesome. I took plenty of photos, which is great so instead boring you to death with endless words, you can look at photos instead.
     The Maker Faire was hosted by the K.I.D. Museum, they did a great job and they made a pretty good job at making a video, which you can find here: http://kid-museum.org/video-recap-2013-silver-spring-mini-maker-faire/ Though I must say, there was much more awesome stuff that the video didn't show. Not that I like to brag or anything, but my 3D printer and Rubik's cube robot were featured several times! Heres the link to the Silver Spring's "Official" page: http://makerfairesilverspring.com/
Look out for this.....

   
       On another note, If you missed this maker faire, and your in the Northern Virginia (NoVA), DC, or Maryland area, and this looks like something you don't want to miss then I would definitely suggest marking your calendars for the NoVa Mini Maker Fair.
Information HERE: http://makerfairenova.com/
It should be a ton of fun and i'll most likely have a table scoped out somewhere. Hope to see you there!




Anyway back to the maker fair...

 I'm just going to take a moment in self revelry for a moment and show some of the activities going around my area during the day..

 The 3D printer, or cource was on display for the entire day hard at work printing some sweet eccentric gears, which eventually finished. (on display above)

 The biggest got though was the LEGO mindstorms Rubik's cube solver I made. Its a design called the Tilted Twister, instructions here: http://tiltedtwister.com/, its always a big hit.

National  rocketry clubs... Check it out! http://www.nar.org/

NASA had a table.

The event location was pretty amazing too. The concourse is new, super modern and clean, definitely worth a visit if you're in the area. Of course you can see here it was jammed packed with people.

Amazingly good large prints of an Ultimaker

I really liked this netting here, made of zips ties and some plastic rings. They look really neat hung over the walls.

WOODEN QUADCOPTER!!

Local pumpkin chunker.

Who doesn't need a 3D printed banana cutter? I mean really..

3D Printed robots and quadcopter... so cool!

This was really cool. Not only because it looks likes something out of an Asimov story, but because it is actually a 3D scanner. This was actually put on by the Smithsonian Institute, and he was giving live demos of scanning a real human skull.

The Smithsonian was also sporting on of the new CubeX Duo 3D printer. Famous for not only its massive build area, but also its high resolution, and 2 color printing. Check it out here: http://cubify.com/cubex/store.aspx

HEY, thanks for making it all the way to the bottom here! Glad you survived, I hope you enjoyed it, this was my first blog post here so I hope to be increasing the quality and frequency of my posts in the near future.. Keep it awesome!
-Jacob