Today we all went to session 2 of the North Bay Young Makers group. We started out by going around to different tables that had examples of various useful Maker stuff, such as circuit building kits, mechanical cardboard sculpture, and a table for making cool fabric and duct tape wallets and purses. Art taught us about electrical circuits and we built some simple circuits.
Afterwards we had a "plussing" session during which we told about our project ideas and saw other people's. We showed the cardboard prototype pics, the iMac pics, and the start of our Scratch layout prototype. We talked about how we would like to add electronics for interactivity. Tony gave us some good ideas for using infrared photosensors for sensing in the dollhouse.
The last part of the session had a great, inspiring talk by Carley Jacobson of Instructables about how she got into making stuff. She shared some of her many "instructable" projects on the site including an awesome Xena costume, a bookshelf bed, plumbing pipe shelves, and beef jerky underwear! Then Mark Harrison of DIY Drones showed us some of his homemade drones and video of them flying. We got to find out how they're made and what it costs to make them (from super-cheap to pretty expensive).
Afterwards we had a "plussing" session during which we told about our project ideas and saw other people's. We showed the cardboard prototype pics, the iMac pics, and the start of our Scratch layout prototype. We talked about how we would like to add electronics for interactivity. Tony gave us some good ideas for using infrared photosensors for sensing in the dollhouse.
The last part of the session had a great, inspiring talk by Carley Jacobson of Instructables about how she got into making stuff. She shared some of her many "instructable" projects on the site including an awesome Xena costume, a bookshelf bed, plumbing pipe shelves, and beef jerky underwear! Then Mark Harrison of DIY Drones showed us some of his homemade drones and video of them flying. We got to find out how they're made and what it costs to make them (from super-cheap to pretty expensive).
Making circuits. Below, Art shows how electrical circuits work.
Yoda and Hippo approve of Chelsea's LED circuit.
Andrew works on cyberdollhouse bed design in GIMP.
Prototyping the layout in Scratch.
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