{"id":139,"date":"2012-08-02T15:48:11","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/08\/02\/maker-faire-detroit-boomerangs-conference-bikes-soldering-and-over-priced-treats-chrissalzman-dgoings-nostarch-makerfaire\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T15:48:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:48:11","slug":"maker-faire-detroit-boomerangs-conference-bikes-soldering-and-over-priced-treats-chrissalzman-dgoings-nostarch-makerfaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/08\/maker-faire-detroit-boomerangs-conference-bikes-soldering-and-over-priced-treats-chrissalzman-dgoings-nostarch-makerfaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Faire Detroit: Boomerangs, Conference Bikes, Soldering, and Over-Priced Treats! (@chrissalzman @dgoings @nostarch @makerfaire)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Up to now I’ve focused mostly on the work end of Maker Faire Detroit, which sorta elides the fact that the point of doing the work is in order to get a chance to run around and check out the fruits of everyone *else’s* labors. When we weren’t wigging out with cigar boxes and guitar strings<\/a> or spreading the water rocket love<\/a>, we got to gawk and blather and climb a big huge geodesic dome and eat some pretty darn deliciously overpriced faire-food (Big props to whoever tossed $20 of food tickets into one of our boxes. I don’t know if that was an unlikely wind-blown boon, or if someone surreptitiously helped him\/herself to a copy of my book and elected to pay in meal tickets, but finding these in the middle of the first afternoon was a God send of ice-cream sandwiches, lemonades, and bottled waters.) Also, I finally got to ride the conference bike (*this exact conference bike,* although clearly none of those kids is me):
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\nMy booth at the Faire was directly adjacent to a table staffed by some students from the Henry Ford Academy, a small high school operated on the Henry Ford Museum campus (which is a pretty rad place to have a school; the older kids are out in some converted box cars in Greenfield Village and the first-year kids are tucked in behind the Dymaxion House<\/a> in the museum itself). I spent a few days working with the kids last month, and they spent Maker Faire teaching folks to play Go, Tafl, Hex, and how to build cardboard boomerangs<\/a> (a few pics below, once again courtesy of charming Chris Salzman<\/a>):
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\nI also got to help my six-year-old solder his *second* MAKE robot blink-eye project (multi-color LED eyes this year; *very* exciting):
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\nPost-Maker Faire relaxation:
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Up to now I’ve focused mostly on the work end of Maker Faire Detroit, which sorta elides the fact that the point of doing the work is in order to get a chance to run around and check out the fruits of everyone *else’s* labors. When we weren’t wigging out with cigar boxes and guitar … Continue reading “Maker Faire Detroit: Boomerangs, Conference Bikes, Soldering, and Over-Priced Treats! (@chrissalzman @dgoings @nostarch @makerfaire)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}