Massive Maker Expo high-five to Conestoga College for supporting us with funds and some of their makers. I stopped by to see their year-old makerspace on Doon campus last week. But today, my friends, today they’re coming to you because you’ll be at Maker Expo at Kitchener City Hall and so will they. DW here. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2015
#IStandWithAhmed
Darcy here. Earlier this week, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought a home-built electronic clock to school and ended up being expelled and arrested. The CBC has a great interview revolving around Ahmed’s story, talking about the freedom to tinker. The motto of Maker Expo is “We Are All Makers.” Our goal has been to make Maker […]
Sam will get you to Maker Expo
Sam and I were at a Geek Week organizers’ meetup last week and she said “Man, I’m helping you guys with Maker Expo next year.” Says I: “No need to wait, Sam. I need help bustin’ through the Region’s construction fatigue.” DW here. You know: that pesky social inertia that can start to creep in […]
Learn to Solder
Hello Everyone, Cam here. We’re less than 24 hours from the big event. By this time tomorrow the rain will have stopped and we’ll be in full swing celebrating Waterloo Region’s maker culture. In preparation for that we bring you an account of how our 2015 Learn To Solder badge came to be. Come, read […]
Allan Caine: electronic clockmaker at Maker Expo
“I wanted to learn more about electronics and how it works… this was a good way to understand more about hardware and also to produce something lovely.” Electronic clockmaker Allan Caine, one of the great makers joining us at Maker Expo, shared a few thoughts on with me yesterday on the making that he loves […]
Laurier entrepreneurs meet the makers Saturday
DW here. Remember waaay back in June when, in collaborative maker spirit, we first started talking about hooking up Maker Expo with all the bright entrepreneur students at Laurier’s Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship? That meeting with Laura Allan, Stephen Preece, and Victoria Larke led to two amazing developments: 1. The Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship sponsored […]
Amy Ferrari crowd paint
[Jen:] I am very excited to report that we will have a very large mosaic to put together at Maker Expo, courtesy of local artist, Amy Ferrari. She has worked very hard to come up with a super cool image, and then she cut it up into over a 100 pieces. These paint-by-number style squares will be […]
Wettlaufer’s Wheel coming to Maker Expo
This is the Wheel… and this is the Wettlaufer. Mr. Brent Wettlaufer, intrepid photographer, Senior Interpreter-Education at THEMUSEUM and clearly a hardcore maker. He built this 7-foot ferris wheel over many dozens of hours out of K’NEX pieces rumoured to number somewhere around 8000! DW here, again, all the time. We, the MEEPs, had been […]
Maker Expo volunteers make it happen
DW here. It’s no exaggeration to say that without our awesome volunteers, there’s no Expo. So when you see volunteers at Kitchener City Hall on Saturday during the Expo, please offer a high-five and shout “Thanks for volunteering!” You’ll know them by their t-shirts that say “volunteer” on the back. Ask them questions. Ask for […]
Mayor Berry’s bot garage
Hey DW here, just 3 short days away from Maker Expo! Last night, Ravi and I checked in on Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic’s makeshift robot garage at Kitchener City Hall. It is right in this very place that the Expo is happening, Saturday September 19 from 10am to 6pm. Free-no-pay. We’ve got the mayors of […]