Faire Category:
Activity
Activity, Fiber Arts, Making for Good
Part of our Making for Good focus, learn how to make a hand-crank machine-knitted hat in 15-minutes flat. Donate the hats to people with cold heads. The process is rather meditative and a productive way to pass some time.
Michael Beck
Activity, Art, Building, Mechanics/Gears
Test your foot skills with the giant mechanical hand. Each digit is operated separately by stepping on the foot pedals and using levers and pulleys.
Paul Winder
Activity
Use binary code and punch cards to write your name in secret code. It also functions as art!
Activity, Exhibit
For this zoetrope animation, clay masks were made from a mold taken from an eyeglass mannequin. The masks are positioned so that they appear to be rotating and levitating as you look through the zoetrope mirror.
Paul Winder
3D Printing, Activity, DIY, Demo, Design, Digital Fabrication, Film, Toys
Vintage animation technique meets modern-day technology for this hot pink horse zoetrope. Zoetropes “produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion.”
Weston Millen - 3D Horses
Jeff Clark - Concept and scenery
Paul Winder - Zoetrope construction
3D Printing, Activity, CNC, Demo, Exhibit, Laser Cutter, Maker Spaces, STEM Education, Spectacle, Technology, Textile/Sewing, Woodwork, Youth
The Thanksgiving Point Makerspace has an afterschool program providing classes in a variety of maker skills, come see what our students have been working on this year. Tools we use: laser cutter, CNC, 3D Printing, e-textiles, woodworking, electronics, …
James Baldwin
Mirielle Sanford
James Balden
Sara Wootten
The Operation Inquiry students
Activity, DIY, Design, Engineering, Recycling and Upcycling, Toys, Woodwork
These pinball machines are made with thrifted toys and scavenged parts. The smaller pinball machines competed with an entire arts festival and had kids around it nonstop. I had no idea what to expect as it was my first pinball table and first big proje …
Beth Sallay + other makers
