The panel at Maker Faire consisted of three wearable computing innovators, and their mentor, Lynne Bruning. Each maker used different techniques for their projects, and each project went a different direction. Ally Seeley‘s project was the most serious and the most elegant. She’s turned toward using tiny electronics into a glove, and later, perhaps other …
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Code Is Literacy: Code Hero
I was warned that the Code Is Literacy people are fanatics, but I attended this session to hear about the intriguing-sounding game, Code Hero. However, the at least the first third of the presentation was a summary of the CIL tenets. When Alex Peake finally got around to describing the game, there was no time …
Intricate parking dance
Bikes tearing up the track (and each other?!?)
Maker Faire: The Secrets of Secret Doors
The folks at Because We Can have made some seriously cool secret doors. There were a couple of helpful concepts I took away. Context – a hidden door by itself stands out. Having other bookcases, or other similar design elements provide necessary camoflage. Location context can prove valuable, as well. If people don’t expect a …
Tapigami monster master
One of my first sights upon entering Maker Faire this afternoon was this guy and his cool creations. He could reposition parts of the creature because the masking tape still had some exposed glue parts.