Comments on: Portland’s First Maker Faire http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/ DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers Wed, 22 May 2013 12:39:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dana Hutchins http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-1044845 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:31:26 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-1044845 Here’s an even better reply.

http://www.gq.com/food-travel/travel-features/201011/coolest-small-cities-in-america#slide=7

]]> By: Criminal Crafts | outlaw projects for scoundrels and armchair detectives http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-733119 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:54:18 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-733119 [...] Oh man the Portland Mini Maker Faire at OMSI was so much fun, I’m only just beginning to recover, that and my bail money finally came through.  The number of cool things to see and do was astounding from indie computer games, 3-D printed toys, the 30 foot trebuchet, fractal designed copper furniture and chocolates you could shape yourself into exotic flowers. I spent a good portion of the weekend ducking arrows coming over the top of the Tracker’s booth, thank goodness they’d replaced the steel tips with sponges!  Wire’s Geek Dad blog has a great re-cap of the Faire  and Dale Dougherty founder of Make Magazine and Craft, and the brain child of Maker Faire gatherings was also in attendance, his blog post is here . [...]

]]> By: Scott MacHaffie http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-729062 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 04:11:57 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-729062 The mini-maker faire was great! All four of us (me, my wife, and two boys) had a great time.

I put together a writeup for each day:

http://scottmachaffie.com/articles/?p=52

http://scottmachaffie.com/articles/?p=53

]]> By: Mini Maker Faire Action: Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Vermont, Columbus, Portland…and New York! http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-724812 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:03:10 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-724812 [...] Shed and I were able to participate at the very first Portland Mini Maker Faire.  Dale did a great photo roundup already, but I thought I would share mine as [...]

]]> By: ○DIY/Tip▶ Mini Maker Faire Action: Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Vermont, Columbus, Portland…and New York! « dot dot dob tob tob http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-724623 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:13:53 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-724623 [...] Shed and I were able to participate at the very first Portland Mini Maker Faire.  Dale did a great photo roundup already, but I thought I would share mine as [...]

]]> By: MAKE | Mini Maker Faire Action: Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Vermont, Columbus, Portland…and New York! http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-724613 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:01:59 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-724613 [...] Shed and I were able to participate at the very first Portland Mini Maker Faire.  Dale did a great photo roundup already, but I thought I would share mine as well. WP_SLIDESHOW_IMAGES = { load: [...]

]]> By: Sabrina Merlo http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-724082 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:45:59 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-724082 rayceeya: We did have a couple of posts leading up to the event, and sorry that you missed them:
SEPT 7 — MINI MAKER FAIRE ACTION _ A new column that we will run every other Wednesday to share the news on upcoming faires and active call for makers.
http://bit.ly/QAorxz

SEPT 11
http://bit.ly/SdRyG6

SEPT 15
http://bit.ly/RpZkSN

This was Portland’s first year and it came together in a relatively short amount of time. We are looking forward to OMSI growing this Portland (OREGON!) Mini Maker Faire this as an annual event.

]]> By: James T. Jordan http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-724068 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:05:07 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-724068 well since I live near the one in Maine, I was very excited to hear about maker fair activity near my home town. only to be very dissapointed to find that the author was talking about portland oregon. I think portnald oregon residents often totally forget that they are not the only portland in the world. Speaking of wich if there are any Maine makers out there we need to have an upper new england event!

]]> By: Stefan Jones http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-724037 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:44:40 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-724037 The lead time was sufficient to allow Oregon Rocketry to get a booth together, and from what I was able to see of the show there was a pretty good selection of exhibitors.

However, it was really by chance that I found out about the Mini Faire. Every Mini Faire should be announced to the MAKE newsletter mailing list, and have a makezine.com blog post.

]]> By: Marc http://blog.makezine.com/2012/09/16/portlands-first-maker-faire/#comment-723923 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:02:59 +0000 http://blog.makezine.com/?p=239763#comment-723923 Agreed!
On Sunday 16 Sept I was sitting @home alone working out how to get two Raspberry Pi’s to talk with each other, when I could have been at a makerfaire at Omsi.

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