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Want to configure your own Raspberry Pi? Want to make your own electronic dice kit? Check out Chicago Electronic Distributors, a proud sponsor of Mini Maker Faire Chicago. We so pleased to have them back to the Faire. Chicago Electronics Distributors offers a variety of electronics for…
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Want to make a cardboard grabbing claw that reaches the ceiling? Check out Chicago Children’s Museum “Cardboard Mechanisms” at the Faire! The Chicago Children’s Museum strives to “improve children’s lives to create a community where play and learning connect.” For over the past two years, the Tinkering…
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Ever want to touch artwork? Have you ever wanted to shout at it? Then check out Kat Granat’s Interactive Art Booth! Ms. Granat’s art focuses on breaking down inapproachability of the art world and bringing together art and technology. Kat Granat creates wonderfully interactive pieces that breakdown the boundaries between…
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This year, Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire is excited to present the three largest hackerspaces in the Chicago area! We sat down with them to learn more. Workshop 88Workshop 88 is a hackerspace and makerspace located in Glen Ellyn that provides a space for people to come…
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Will you survive the Zombie apocalypse? Want to master potions like Harry Potter? Then check out The Laboratory at CNS Maker Faire!The Laboratory just opened its doors in Bucktown this past March, and is run by experienced teachers Ed and Amy Kang. The mission of The Laboratory…
I’m also blogging for my Oral History Project. Here is a post about my interview with Sarah Becan, comic artist who created The Complete Ouija Interviews and webcomic Sauceome. https://elisa-shoenberger.squarespace.com/blog/2015/4/15/interview-with-sarah-becan That’s all for now!
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Make a circuit with dough! Make music with circuits and magnets! Join YOUmedia at Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire and learn how! YOUmedia, a program run through the Chicago Public Library since 2009, has now expanded to 11 libraries throughout the city. YOUmedia provides spaces for teens…
Good morning Readers! I’m going to take a little hiatus from the blog until after May 3rd. Right now, I’m guest blogging for the Chicago Northside Mini Maker Faire for CNS Mini Maker Faire on May 2nd. Check it out here: http://makerfairechicagonorthside.com/ I’ve been interviewing makers all over the city and continuing my oral history […]
Read More Brief HiatusThen it was our last day in New York. It was a bright and beautiful Easter day. We had a lovely breakfast at Les Halles and then walked back to the hotel. On the way home, we wandered by Gramercy Park. It’s a tiny private park, more of a postage stamp than park, which looked […]
Read More Part 5: Spring in NYCNow to continue talking about our adventures on Saturday in NYC. After Bryant Park, we went to a Broadway musical. It was a preview for the new musical Something Rotten that takes place in Elizabethan England. I love that the advertising outside the theater riffs on the fact that it’s preview time. There’s a quip […]
Read More Part 4: Spring in NYC
Not Without My Bowler Hat 