The Norfolk Scope was host to a Mini Maker's Faire this Saturday. What is a Maker's Faire? Well, according to their site, it's a "family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement." Pretty much it was a lot of engineer-y and a few artist booths. There were rockets, LEGO robotics, planes, and lots of homemade things like furniture. Think of it as a homemade fair, lots of jewelry, artwork, comics and more to be seen.
This was a machine that would produce a spark if you kept turning the handle. It took awhile before it generated enough electricity for the spark.
Possible Gift Alert! It's an all paper roller coaster for marbles. As you can guess you make it yourself out of a kit. Design your own roller coaster, cut and tape your paper together and roll your marbles on down.
Hobby airplanes, very different from model airplanes. These even had cameras attached so you can have an eye in the sky. I didn't even think to see how much a kit would cost because it's safe to assume it's not cheap.
One of Isaac's favorite things at the faire had to be this Chaos Machine. It was like a mega large K'Nex track with lots of moving parts that the participants were allowed to change and move around. Marbles rolled through the machine, sometimes they fell out but it was really interesting seeing all the paths that they take.
These were small robotics made out of Legos. The table was set up like game where you had to maneuver the robots around the table to knock down little displays of lego pieces.
One of my favorite things (besides the art table that I didn't get a picture of with the artist who was doing free portraits that I also didn't get) was a display of solar power. Think if that window as a large magnifying glass focusing the sun's energy into one spot. As soon as the demonstrator placed a piece of cardboard in there it ignited. Very cool. isaac even got a turn holding a soda can in the ray of light and watching it burn. Supervised, of course.
All in all it was really fun and I'm really happy that Carissa let me horn in on her fun. :)
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