It’s mid-afternoon Saturday: The great hall at Union Station is packed, shoulder to shoulder. There’s a crowd at the far end, straining to see the ArcAttack! Show of singing Tesla coils and a willing volunteer plucked from the audience to dance along to the electric music. There’s a lineup of kids near the bike that… Continue Reading
Meet the Maker: Ray Scheufler
Ray Scheufler is a freshly graduated computer engineer. He enjoys designing circuits in his free time. If it has not been done before, he might take a crack at it. Clocks, Clocks, Clocks At Maker Faire, Scheufler is bringing three different types of clocks that he built himself. The internet clock uses the internet to set itself. The logic clock… Continue Reading
Meet the Maker: Super Awesome Sylvia
Super Awesome Sylvia and her equally awesome parents, TechNinja and CraftNinja. are coming to Maker Faire KC. If you haven’t heard of her, she is a young girl on the West Coast who started an instructional video series called “Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Mini-Maker Show” that shows audiences how to make cool projects from rockets to clay putty, side-walk chalk to molding… Continue Reading
Faire Gets Rolling
Makers and guests experienced the electrifying sounds of Arc Attack tuning up and the sleek forms of artful choppers during opening events the night before the first Maker Faire Kansas City opens to the public on Saturday. Maker Faire founders Tim O’Reilly and Dale Dougherty set the tone for the Faire, calling makers an important… Continue Reading
Founder Of FabLab Concept To Speak At Maker Faire
Neil Gershenfeld MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld, creator of the FabLab concept, will be speaking live at the tent of the United States Fab Lab Network. The USFLN is a network of fabrication laboratories promoting digital fabrication through “The ABC’s of Fab”: Academics, Business, and Community Outreach—plus Research. It is a cooperative effort of domestic fabricators who subscribe to the(MIT) Fab Lab Charter. At… Continue Reading
Art Cars That Are Out Of This World
Pat Slimmer is one of the organizers for the Lawrence KS Art Car event and paradeArt Tougeau. He has been interested in all things mechanical and art from a very early age and built his first motorized bicycle when he was 12 years old. Slimmer has been a professional automotive mechanic since… Continue Reading
Maker Faire on KCTV5
Maker Michael Curry, 3D-printing extraordinaire, and Union Station representative Tony Cook spoke with KCTV5 about Maker Faire. See video below.… Continue Reading
Meet the Maker: Austin Feathers
Austin Feathers is a junior at Shawnee Mission South, where he is active in the Robotics Club and Science Olympiad. When not having fun with high volotage, he can ussually be found working on my other projects, such as my current one which is turning a large deisel turbo charger into a propane and diesel fired jet… Continue Reading
Meet the Maker: Korey Haug
Korey Haug is a senior at Pembroke Hill High School. Next year, he will attend Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh for Electric and Computer Engineering. Active in his school community, Korey leads the FIRST robotics team, participates in Science Olympiad, and has taken a variety of higher level science classes. He is also an Eagle Scout.… Continue Reading
Meet the Makers: TechZoneCommunications
DIY 3D Printer Kits TechZoneCommunciations was created in 2008 to provide communication services to the Forest Service. The company stumbled upon the OpenSource RepRap 3D Printer designs and has not looked back since. Today, they make and sell DIY 3D Printer Kits. At Maker Faire, TechZoneCommunications will display the largest collection of operating 3D printers: from… Continue Reading