Today, I attended my first Maker Faire at the Silk Mill in Derby. Took a couple of hours to get there, and I have to say it was worth every minute of travel. Raspberry Pi highlights included Steve Upton and his Wall of Enlightenment (huge strings of blinkies), Brian Corteil’s Micro Pi Noon and Derek Woodroffe’s Tesla Coils driven from a Raspberry Pi Zero. There was loads of stuff on show – bizarrely lots of micro:bit stuff – including plastics, wood, metal, textiles. Anything you can name under the broad heading of “things we make” was featured. There were around 100 maker stands and the setting was wonderful. Highly recommended for next year! I took some video footage of the day and cut it together into a 20-minute highlights reel which you can see below:
The members of Noisebridge in San Francisco recently attended the Bay Area Maker Faire. They took with them Flaschen Taschen - a 10' by 9' display of 1575 clear bottles with WS2801/Neopixel strips embedded inside. Using a Raspberry Pi, these daisy-chained strips are controlled to display various effects (such as plasma etc)…
Maker Medinc has taken a Raspberry Pi, a couple of Tiny Lidar sensors and a 32x32 LED matrix and created a practical parking assistant. The two sensors are attached to the car at the back and side and then wired through the car to a Raspberry Pi. The Pi is then…
Some of the Raspberry Pi Foundation team were out in San Francisco this past week at Maker Faire. MAKE interviewed Clive Beale about the Pi and recent developments with their education effort.
2 comments for “Derby Mini Maker Faire 2016 – thoughts and a highlights video”
Hi Michael
Did you get any video of our (Leicester Hackspace) sand box, Wimshurst machine etc – to the left of Cambridge Pi-Noon? We were very busy all day – I’m glad you enjoyed your day out – exhausting, wasn’t it.!
Tony
Hi Michael
Did you get any video of our (Leicester Hackspace) sand box, Wimshurst machine etc – to the left of Cambridge Pi-Noon? We were very busy all day – I’m glad you enjoyed your day out – exhausting, wasn’t it.!
Tony
Hi Tony. No, I don’t think I did – it was very busy around your stand when I was nearby so couldn’t get near.