Maker Faire Mission Success
Happy Wednesday Everyone,
Maker Faire was a ton of fun this past week. I got to meet some of you in person which is always awesome, and it was so great to get to let so many folks get hands on with Maslow and see it for the first time. Seeing people’s reactions and excitement is so motivating.
I didn’t get any photos of the booth when there were people at it because it was non stop packed from the minute the gates opened until after closing.
This was my first time doing the faire at the new location. It’s a lot smaller than the San Mateo location, but still super cool. Setup was a little hectic, but once we figured out where our spot was and got power things went really smoothly. I ran the machine pretty much non-stop for two days which was something that I haven’t gotten to do in a while (I’m usually focusing on testing one feature or fixing something). We cut out about a billion of our logos, made some signs for our booth, and even knocked out a couple signs for neighboring booths.
My only regret was that I made the QR code so big that nobody could see it unless they took like four steps back 😂.
The old shipyard has a lot of cool industrial buildings which were fun to explore. I’ve seen them from the outside before, but I hadn’t gone in.
Projects this Week
We have a handful of excellent projects competing for project of the week! Vote here
First we have @Andith with some wall art that will make you say “That’s No Moon”. The finish on this is really interesting, with the wood grain and the black and gray, check out their post for a description of the process.
@smarcus3 has been working on a kid’s kitchen step stool! While we previously posted this in project of the week, it was only partially complete and the end result deserves some time to shine too!
Last week @John_Brucker posted his hitchhiking ghost cutouts and inspired @Thunderscreech to make a set of their own! Very spooky! We love to see this kind of collaboration in the forums, inspiring each other and getting some new ideas churning is what it’s all about!
Last but not least, we have @darrenhearn with a small jointed box. @darrenhearn wrote an extremely detailed post on his experiments with getting the machine up and running and fine tuning it to achieve the precision he was after. If you look closely at the joints on the box you can see how he used the different step downs to account for the bit radius and eliminate the need for dog bones. So cool!
Firmware
I (Bar) am still in California this week tending to some family things so I don’t have a way to test them, but we’ve got some good look pull requests and firmware changes so expect a firmware update next week.
Have a great week everyone!
-Bar and Anna(I’m back!)
