Maker Faire NYC Reinstated My Faith in Humanity.
Why, you may ask? Well, I’m going to answer with links: Lumarca by Matt Parker, Albert Hwang, and Elliot Woods is a gorgeously simple/complicated 3D projector. Eric Singer’s Lemur makes beautiful music beautifully. The EyeWriter seeks to empower a paralyzed graffiti artist. Orbotix makes adorable spheres controlled via smartphone. Dan Wilcox wouldn’t explain robotcowboy to me but it sure looked interesting!
Mind you, these are only the folks I got cards for. I was amazed by the chariot races, the ferro-fluids, the remote controlled gliders, and the Madagascar Institute. This was my second Maker Faire and certainly not my last.
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Sorry for not explaining robotcowboy. You caught me at one of my most depressed times of the faire. It was hard to maintain enthusiasm after a morning of constantly being asked “What’s this?” delivered not as a question but as a challenge, as if I have to justify their attention for 10 seconds after putting so much time and effort into something I feel should be very obvious. I think if you had asked me anything else, I would have responded much differently.
I was my first time with the project in this context and was a bit surprised that most people didn’t seem to get what I was doing. In the future, I would try to get official demo times or play on one of the stages as this is the best way to show my music/art project at a science fair.
Thank you for the comment, it means a lot! I understand your stress, people can be hellish. Your work seemed interesting even from a purely aesthetic standpoint, which is why it’s mentioned in this post, and I hope you continue to show the piece (and when you do, let me know where!)