MakerFaire

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We're doing a Maker Bench with a series of sessions showing people how to make:

special emphasis on the interaction of electronics and sewn items.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s Mad (magazine) used the word along these lines, especially in its send-ups of big business. "North American Veeblefetzer" was the subject of satires of corporate annual reports, an in-house company newsletter and more. A Veeblefetzer, in their case, was a robot-like device that did something or other.


[edit] Schedule

each day:

Veeblefetzer session 10:30 - 11:30
Tribble session 12:00 - 1:00

Veeblefetzer session 2:00 - 3:00
Tribble session 3:30 - 4:30

People can show up any time during the first half hour of the session and we should be able to get them going with a project.


Things to Take on the day of


Display items:

  • Come up with other furry e-items
  • Come up with talk related to the items
  • Specific details to work on and discuss:
  • Sewing items (we expect most of our audience to be more familiar with electronics)
    • sewing
    • clipping
    • 3-d shape considerations


Rachel ToDo:

  • Contact Raphael ask about toy class and what he usually talks about He hasn't taught a toy class, said our proposal "looks great"
  • Ask Raphael if he would be willing to lend some of his items for display Probably not as he has a table at Maker Faire also, but not 100% final on that. Will follow up.
  • Make more of whatevers

Annie ToDo:

  • Contact CTP ask about toy class and what he usually talks about
  • Come up with design for blinky eye toy
  • send away for conductive thread
  • arrange lunch meeting with CTP


Resources:


[1]Good source for tin foil hats and conductive fabrics
[2]Leah buechley's stuff, she's awesome


Random thoughts:

For led . we should make people prepare their own LEDs
Need enough tools for everyone. needles for conductive thread
need to have tester boards so people can make sure their circuits are not not working because of bad parts.
tell people to not cut the hole for the grommet too big

  • fabric switches. don't sew by machine, the switches don't work properly (see samples). i suspect, but have not verified (how? barring a microscope), that small fragments of conductive material are broken by the machine needle and pushed through to the other side where they short out the switch.
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