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Austin Mini Maker Faire Review

anne — Mon, 14 May 2012 01:28:00 +0000

The first Annual Austin Mini Maker Faire seemed like huge success. Kudos to everyone who made it happen!

Marshall and I teamed up to put together a booth of our own about tiny cool things. Keeping to my obsession with miniature worlds, I lasercut a little light-up village that utilized contact plates on the back of turning gears as a switching mechanism. And Marshall put together some awesome BEAM robots: one-motor walkers, beetle bots, bristle bots, a light-seeking mousebot, and most of a solar popper. The kids loved them. In the end, three of seven survived the adoration.

The ATX Hackerspace (from where we often base our electronics and fabrication adventures) had their own booth running a continuous Learn-to-Solder station with blinky bat badges, selling member-created kits, and generally being badass Makers.

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Austin Mini Maker Faire!

anne — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:48:30 +0000

Austin is throwing itself a Mini Maker Faire May 12, 2010, and we’re participating! (Well, if our project is approved that is!)

Marshall Vaughan and I are collaborating to create a show & tell style demo of tiny derpbots, bitty buildings, and whatever else we can pull out of our electro-craft bag by May 12.

Come see us, and all the other homestyle Austin makers! Check out the Austin Mini Maker Fair website for directions, tickets, and more info.

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The Lady and the Unicorn

anne — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:40:58 +0000

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Rock Planter with Lights

anne — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:44:20 +0000

Had this and an older painting work in a show at the Phoenix Trades Depot.

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For Marshall

anne — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:37:56 +0000

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tiny wonderboxes

anne — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:35:16 +0000

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Urban Exploration San Antionio

anne — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:10:09 +0000

This was a sad adventure. Having explored this old Aquarina before, we saw amazing and mysterious wonders: an abandoned stone cable-car port full of echoes and vines, a sunken submarine mermaid theater with Venus clamshell at the bottom of the bay, a sky-lift ride that sang in the wind and was full of angsty teen graffiti, a once-chintzy covered bridge that had accumulated coolness and lichen growth since the 70s, and some kind of long-abandoned animal enclosure that had been taken over by nesting buzzards… If ever there were a magical place, this was it.

But progress moves on. Six months or so later we return to find half of it leveled, and the other half barb-wired off as bulldozers and backhoes prepare for its ultimate destruction. We visited what was left to get to, and were glad we had the chance to experience this place in its finest, derelict, form.

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Random Phone Photos

anne — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:05:35 +0000

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New Year

anne — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:01:39 +0000

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wooden flashlight kits

anne — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:34:12 +0000

Little kits that let you build an impractical wooden flashlight… it’s a soulderless simple circuit you can put together using only wood glue. Someone suggested “Victorian Flashlights”; I thought about “hipster flashlights”, but whatever they’re called people seem to really like them (especially chicks). I’m thinking of reinvigorating my etsy store and selling these kits online (as well as more complex kits that are in the works!).

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