First up was Robin Matlock who would be introducing us to today's presenters.
The first presenter was Jay Silver - Founder of Joylabz.com and is a Maker Research Scientist at Intel Labs
What is this white stuff? Used a peeko sensors with LEGO pieces to collect the wind and temperature from a laptop. People can see the invisible. This guy took a piano wire and attached it to a circuit board and is able to create sound by attaching this circuit to different objects to create some amazing sounds. The circuit is called the makeymakey circuit. He hooked up two bananas to the circuit to control the screen. Then hooking up this up to other people or anything conductive. Makeymakey.com
This guy was very animated and you could see how much fun he was having and has had in making this product. Watch a great video of him on TED.com below. Quite informative.
Keller Rinaudo -
Robotics
Robotics is the
intersection between humans and computer science.
Great kickstarter
success.
'Romo is an amazing robot companion that learns while you play! (iPhone only)
A great way
to teach kids (and adults) to learn coding - robot coding.
This guy was really good on stage too just not as animated or a showman as Jay was. Still, through his vision of robots, you can see that more can be done furthering our mere human world. Below is the link for his kick starter project.
3D Printer
Bre Pettis CEO
Makerbot - 3D scanning and 3D printing
Creator of http://www.thingiverse.com/ They have a 55,000
square foot warehouse in Brooklyn where they make things. ( This got some great applause) NASA:JPL approached
him.
Robohand - two
individuals needed fingers on a hand.
Instead of a $10000 prosthetic, they were able to create this hand for
less than $5 of material for printing.
Very passionate
about kids
Kacey - is a set
creator and now uses this printing for prettysmallthings.com who makes doll
house sets. Quite cool.
Bre was an art major
and teacher - so he's been creating things for quite some time.
"The Cult of
Done Manifesto"
"The Makerbot
Way"
This guy is the real deal. Want to know more about him? Just click http://www.brepettis.com/ or head over to http://www.makerbot.com/
Hard to get to him because many people wanted to talk to him. Just a great mind to listen to.
Well it's time to head home early today but not before I share these final pictures of a live mural going on. I wish I had seen this guy earlier so I could have set up a photo opportunity as he progressed. Oh well, maybe next year.
I was ready to hit the road, so there was no way I was staying to finish watching this guy.
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