GeekMom Will Be at Maker Faire This Weekend!
GeekMom, along with GeekDad, will be at Maker Faire in San Mateo, California, this Saturday and Sunday! If you plan to attend, please stop by our booth in the Expo Hall and say hi.
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Help Make a Young Maker’s Dream Come True
“Don’t be bored… Make Something!” This is Joey Hudy’s mantra. Joey first came to my (and most of the rest of the world’s) attention when he and President Obama shot a marshmallow cannon in the White House during the 2012 White House Science Fair. I even reported on a video about the incident shortly after […]
Continue Reading10 Takeaway Lessons From Maker Faire New York
Last weekend the kids, husband, and I attended the 2nd annual Maker Faire New York at the New York Hall of Science in Corona, Queens. We were all blown away by the experience–I spent the weekend happily geeking out: touching stuff, pushing buttons, exclaiming repeatedly to anyone who would listen This is what our SCHOOLS […]
Continue ReadingSave the Date: Maker Faire NYC is September 17 and 18
The second-born child came up to me a few days ago and announced gravely: “Mom! ComicCon is in October and I need to prepare. I think today I would like you to teach me how to make a sword.” “You mean: a cardboard sword, right?” “No, no, no! A metal sword–steel.” Looking piercingly out […]
Continue ReadingCasting Call For Volunteer Knitters and Crocheters
Last fall at GeekMom we wrote about guerrilla knitter Robyn Love’s “Messages to the Universe” project for Maker Faire NYC. Robyn had put a call out to fabric artists requesting donations of 12″ x 12″ squares that were then sewn together into yarn “flames” and draped from one of the rockets on the site at […]
Continue ReadingMaker Faire 2011, San Mateo: Wrap-Up
This was my third year attending Maker Faire and helping at the GeekDad booth (this year, the GeekDad/GeekMom booth!). Every year is different. Our booth and the Faire have only grown each year, but the experience has also been fundamentally different each time. The first year I attended (2009), we had a lot of things […]
Continue ReadingBuild Your Own Theremin
My husband is hard to shop for, so I find it quite satisfying when I find him an interesting, unexpected gift that he enjoys. This year it was a kit to build your own mini-theremin. I’ve always found the theremin to be an intriguing instrument. It’s perfect it produces such spooky, Dark Shadows-y sounds, because […]
Continue ReadingMartha Stewart Does Maker Faire New York
Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow, October 20th, Martha Stewart is devoting her entire show to her coverage of the recent World Maker Faire in New York. Martha Stewart Living Magazine was one of the media partners for the event, and it was a great meeting of DIY forces. Martha has always been about doing things yourself, […]
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