Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire
☑ Attending!
Had an amazing time supporting the Prewired table at the Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire on Sunday. I printed a load of flyers and posters, and helped haul laptops and lego, but then the kids did all the work. I was so impressed with how they pitched and demo'd their projects, told parents and kids all about Prewired, and generally enthused. I felt pretty safe sitting back and knowing they had things covered.
- Andrew (age 10) showed his webcam/gesture-controlled Scratch bubble-bursting game.
- Albie (age 9) demoed iPad app Wormy Drawing (which is in the app store with over 1k downloads!)
- Harry and Kiran (age 10) showed their fish-eating, physics-heavy Scratch game.
- Marley (age 13) brought his Raspberry Pi and Arduino based robotic arm, that moves around and picks things up in response to commandline short codes, or a Wii remote.
- Sean and Toby (age 12) showed their Arduino model bus, which uses an ultrasound sensor to prevent accidents involving low bridges.
- Adam (age 8) showed his Scratch pong game.
(ages approximate, I'm pretty bad at figuring them out..)
TODO: photos! (but also see @Prewired).
Also massive thanks to Eder, Cameron and Harry who stuck it out all day and helped with carrying, setting up and demo-ing hardware, and Martha and Rikki who came for the last few hours (after most of the kids had left) and helped with take-down. These people are awesome.
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Edinburgh Mini Maker FaireHad an amazing time supporting the Prewired table at the Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire on Sunday. I printed a load of flyers and posters, and helped haul laptops and lego, but then the kids did all the work. I was so impressed with how they pitched and demo'd their projects, told parents and kids all about Prewired, and generally enthused. I felt pretty safe sitting back and knowing they had things covered.
- Andrew (age 10) showed his webcam/gesture-controlled Scratch bubble-bursting game.
- Albie (age 9) demoed iPad app Wormy Drawing (which is in the app store with over 1k downloads!)
- Harry and Kiran (age 10) showed their fish-eating, physics-heavy Scratch game.
- Marley (age 13) brought his Raspberry Pi and Arduino based robotic arm, that moves around and picks things up in response to commandline short codes, or a Wii remote.
- Sean and Toby (age 12) showed their Arduino model bus, which uses an ultrasound sensor to prevent accidents involving low bridges.
- Adam (age 8) showed his Scratch pong game.
(ages approximate, I'm pretty bad at figuring them out..)
TODO: photos! (but also see @Prewired).
Also massive thanks to Eder, Cameron and Harry who stuck it out all day and helped with carrying, setting up and demo-ing hardware, and Martha and Rikki who came for the last few hours (after most of the kids had left) and helped with take-down. These people are awesome.