Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire

Today’s Featured Maker:
The Girls of Steel
The Girls of Steel is an all-girl high school robotics team with facilities and mentors based at the Carnegie Mellon Field Robotics Center. Starting its second year in the international FIRST Robotics Competition, the Girls of Steel hope to share their knowledge and opportunities with girls and boys alike and demonstrate their robots Crush, a 100+-pound robot, and Squirt, a minibot.
Visit The Girls of Steel website.
See all of the participating makers.

This project comes with a great impact both in size and sound:

Today’s Featured Maker:
Dana Dolfi
The Great American Horn Machine
The Great American Horn Machine is a mobile operational collection of steam whistles and Ship and Train air horns.

Here’s one more of the amazing, inventive, inspiring makers who you can meet at the Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire:

Today’s Featured Maker:
Rita Shewbridge
Sonic Threads
Sonic Threads is a dress that tells children’s fairy tale stories through audio when you touch its embroidered threads. Learn more at http://shewbe.net/portfolio/wearable-computing. See all of the makers on the Maker tab above.

So we’re featuring one maker each day until the big day is here – consider it the 12 Days of Maker Faire.

Today’s Featured Maker:
Jesse Hemminger
Sauerkraut Powered Robots
See what comes of a few dinner parties, fermented cabbage and a desire for transformation.  These wee robots are powered by a chemical reaction between copper and zinc electrodes placed in a jar of sauerkraut.   Learn more at http://jessehemminger.blogspot.com/