I’ll be at @Maker_Faire_Kansas_C at Union Station all day Saturday and Sunday, come find us in the Sprint Festival Plaza, near the entrance to Science City! http://kansascity.makerfaire.com
Hope you have a good show.
Well that was exhausting, but fun, and I got a blue ribbon!
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Postmortem notes:
I tried to follow these great tips: https://hackaday.io/project/25481-how-to-maker-faire, but I definitely still took too much. I used our large rolling suitcases to pack almost everything, and a portable folding dolly for the boxes that wouldn’t fit. Packed and carried the tree in fully assembled.
I ran out of cards 3/4 through the first day. I taped the last card to the table with a sign that said: “Last card, take a picture. :)”
The arcade button strip was extremely popular with kids (and adults). We made a little “Press my buttons” sign on the spot. Should have made a blinking sign or something, still had to prod some people to do it. But if there was one person playing, there were lots waiting impatiently. I kept asking kids which buttons to press at the same time to make other colors (pink, purple, orange). I should have made another sign, but it was definitely fun interacting with them. After they were done playing, I suggested they open the box and look inside, and told them they could make one and create their own games.
The RGB/HSV tutorial wasn’t quite as popular, but still kept kids entertained that were waiting for the arcade strip.
A surprising number of people hadn’t even messed with Arduino, let alone NeoPixels, FastLED, etc, or heard of Adafruit or FastLED. My next set of cards will have http://adafruit.com and http://fastled.io on them.
I tried to convince every kid at the booth to find a project on http://make.com, adafruit, or sparkfun to try (bracelet, necklace, shoes, etc).
Met a few really great folks from the community (local and online). Looking forward to collaborating with them in the future!
Yeay blue ribbon!
Good job on sharing with the kids and helping inspire.