Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire: Success!

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By Matt Mets
Posted 2009/08/31 @ 10:07 am
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Congratulations to the Ann Arbor Mini Maker team for a successful Faire! Over 1100 attendees blew smoke rings, rode the worlds largest (claimed) bristlebot, piloted robots, made music, silk-screened t-shirts and had a great time! Missed it? Be sure to check out the Flickr pool, or read the excellent writeup at the Ann Arbor Chronicle!

Photo credits: Matt Mets, Dug Song

In the Maker Shed

Gift Certificate

BeagleBoard BeagleBone Black

Makey Makey Standard Kit

Telegraph Decoder Kit by Spikenzie Labs

6 Responses to Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire: Success!

Anonymous on August 31st, 2009 at 6:31 pm said:

wished we lived closer!!! my cousin attended and said they enjoyed it. we may have to come up to ann arbor from the the carolinas next year for this faire.
thanks for posting in make.

s

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Brainiac27 on August 31st, 2009 at 8:25 pm said:

How could I have missed this?! The closest maker fair/hacking space I hear about is in New York and suddenly I read a post about a faire about an hour away! They better have one next year.

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- Matt Mets on August 31st, 2009 at 8:40 pm said:
  
  If you’re in the Detroit area, you should talk to the people at http://www.i3detroit.com/ for a hackerspace, Go Tech (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/notbago/), or YAARC (http://www.yaaarc.org/) for enthusiast groups.
  
  Otherwise, there is the Pumping Station in Chicago (http://pumpingstationone.org/blog/) and Hack Pittsburgh (http://www.hackpittsburgh.org/), both of which are closer to MI then NYC. You are certainly welcome to visit .
  
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youevolve on September 1st, 2009 at 6:34 am said:

Do it again! Do it again! Bigger! MUCH bigger!

..and publicize more…

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cyenobite2 on September 1st, 2009 at 11:24 am said:

You know I luv you, but as ‘youevolve’ points out… you all need to publicize these smaller maker faire events. What happened to the Maker Faire in RI? Since that last blog post (couple weeks ago) I see no mention of it anywhere. I just went to the makerfaire.com and again no mention of the RI event.
Still no maps or any additional information on the http://makerfaireri.com/ site?

I booked a hotel, and I hope I won’t regret the expense and travel time, if no makers show up.

Beat the drums! Sound the horns!

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Erik Meinke on September 1st, 2009 at 1:51 pm said:

Is there any chance it could be a bit sooner next year? College classes started right after that weekend so I couldn’t attend. I tried to find contact info for the group running the fair, but that part of the website is broken.

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