hi I'm Brooklyn with make and Baker fair
and we are hanging out with the Kansas
City Mini Maker Faire all the way over
in Kansas City we have Joey Sylvia and
Sabrina say hi guys I House Maker Faire
going really fun what have you guys been
doing we didn't we have booze we both
have a business and we've been looking
around and having a lot of fun what's it
your booth Sylvia oh I have squishy
circuits where you swish completo on two
copper pads and it makes your spaceship
go across screen really yeah it's
play-doh but it conducts electricity
yeah how does it do that well there's a
lot of salt inside potato so electricity
can go through it and the Arduino bleep
it has reaction so then it moves the
earth we move to the locket chick felt
as far as we sleep it that's amazing so
it's almost like a potentiometer when
you squeeze the play-doh now oh you are
so smart I can't believe it you Joey
what's what what's at your booth um I
during that week you Barney are sealed
and the air can what's the UM what is
your LED Arduino shield the LED cube
Arduino shield it's a three by three by
three display of LEDs and you program
director beam of light them up in it
whatever time you want oh we have one of
those that make labs and it's like
really cool because the it's a big
square but it doesn't really have much
space inside of it yeah and then they
all light up yeah Oh awesome and is that
a kit that you make Jimmy yes and where
can people buy your kit Oh Matt make Oh
make a shed or at flip with Joyce
McKinney dot blog spot.com maker shed or
the are my website look what Joyce
making look what Joey's making dot yes
dot net or dog spa
ok so it's look what Julie's making dot
blogspot com yes awesome and so you guys
are a long way from home right yeah well
I'm from California in your Arizona Wow
and so last time I saw you we were at
maker faire bay area all around the
country going to Maker Faires yes only
been to the san mateo in kansas city i'm
hoping to go to New York and hopefully
see toy probably not i hope i hope so
too what about you Joey which make your
ears of you become California New York
Detroit and it's my first time back in
city that's so cool and so what's the
difference between maker faire Bay Area
Joey and maker faire Detroit or New York
Bay Area's a lot like double size pretty
much yeah and New York New York so we'll
make a fair so you have a lot more
people out of country and then a Detroit
is more of just a u.s. one ok and then
Sylvia what's the difference between New
York are between Bay Area maker faire in
Kansas City oh wow bay area is much much
bigger like joey said and um it's like
more familiar if it has this year at
cannes pretty it's a bit more like
selling than making the bay area is more
amazing than technique yeah i mean it
makes sense that like it's great that
maker faire gives people a place to sell
stuff that they make right yeah sort of
like a little mini economy in its own
right yeah so um what are the makers the
same or the makers different makers are
almost like pretty much insane but I say
they're good friends yeah um people
thanks what we have to if it's the same
type of things with different people
okay so what are some of the same kind
of things wristbands robots the
squirrels yeah yeah I like tests urine
and as other people that brought their
own two squirrels take them anyone and
what's really cool about the kids
deberias at their science city and
there's a titanic exhibit open here yeah
I haven't been to if I really really
want to walk like probably today I can
see I think that's what's in the
background right yeah that's your
attaining that's so cool that's great oh
yeah Sabrina says that there's a maker
do you guys want to introduce us uh I
don't know dawn don't know it come walk
you talk to ya torti are you using it
I'm show you later okay bye bye pepper
clin you Sabrina how's it goin great
thanks for us this way a little bit just
to get a different Wow such a cool
building there i know i want to show you
actually after the swing I wonder if you
can see any of like rad Wow old train
station and it's such a spectacular the
statistic popular environment stage it's
a cool background so Sabrina for people
who don't know who you are you are the
organizer of all the Mini Maker Faires
sort of everywhere right well organized
work with all kinds of organizers all
across the country so many major peers
are independently produced and their
community based typically so we work
with them to help them with some tools
how to organize I'll do a call from
Akers different things will be for find
over the seven years that our team is
introducing me prepare to give them the
skills to get out there and they'll make
repairs in their town wow that's great
and if somebody was watching this and
they wanted to start their own Mini
Maker Faire how would they begin that
process well there's a you can actually
just google how to make a maker faire in
our page on maker faire com will show up
so that's probably the easiest or you
can go to maker faire Tommy
all the way to the right and learn to
see all the Bears and then they'll be
information there okay cool so I wanted
to introduce you here to Jordy because
he lived in the other night when we did
a were invited down to the hammer space
makerspace here it's the also that kind
of gathering grounds for the cowtown
computer Congress soccer club and that
Geordi was actually finishing up this
cool with his walk wing sauce rig when
we were there and had turned it on right
like for the very first time I'm it man
during that during the party so I saw
him walking by and I thought he might
eat lunch talking to show their office
yeah I would love to see it right how's
it going Jordy no wonder if I should why
don't I give you it's going to be too
constricting for you to have a here bud
you can try high five how's that sound
will come to you so much sounds good
yeah okay can you hear me yeah we can
use a little faint oh hi what's your
name hi my name is Jordi and you made a
wasp queen backpack yes that's it I
can't wait to see it oh the orange wings
have been having issues it's beautiful
though super cool ah it's beautiful like
most projects there right there's why
well that's what's beautiful about when
you make something you can more easily
repair it right you have a better
understanding of how to fix it when you
build it hmm
often and show the mechanism to the
screen other noodle without being to
talk about like the process of making an
icy air some cool yeah it's all pretend
really i'll let you have the
conversation it's absolutely gorgeous
and i totally get the idea of what it
would do if it was working where did you
get the idea for it sorry I the motor
was some reason he activated and so it's
oh oh ha madness lookin at a wire come
on plug um old I'll have my friend is
commissioned me I'll chief jasmine I can
make her a pair of wings for the costume
and she said she wanted them to unfold
and then flap and I does just look
around online and I gave a cross on when
want a softer i winged mechanism where
any time there's just this cam here that
as it rotates it brings the wing let me
silicon oh yeah I said manually and it
so it lifts the wing something
I can tell from here that those are
that's like 3d printer blue yeah we
decrypted 3d printed and the black parts
are laser-cut oh well that reason yeah
by noon it's actually gone the other way
so how I'm going to take you to make
that back being there um I've been
working on this for about a month how
heavy is it it's not really all that
heavy it's actually only like I seven to
ten pounds ok so that's not bad at all
for wearing around at a party and
pretending to be washed and all I need
to do is get two more padding on the
straps for the soldiers and it'll be
acting rather comfortable so what kind
of mechanism controls the flapping of
the wing you said it was an ornithopter
um yeah it's pretty much on this orange
cylinder here has a 15 degree angle I on
the top and that's what the wing is
actually mounted on the flap and so as a
rotates both the wing I goes up around
and them down and actually grabs
actually does a figure-eight motion like
I fight insect wings do and so it
actually moves a lot of there with the
wings are made to go there and wiggly
fesco and what's the wingspan on it um
are about six feet oh it's amazing six
or seven my wall I measured well welcome
a that's so sad you also walking around
on the still yesterday yeah like I made
some I disagreed Stokes other adversity
stilts that can be unit in my costumes
where you need an animal wait like in
chronicles of narnia the
tar by wearing silks and so Wow where
did you get where did you get started
making these elaborate animal replicator
anthropomorphic costumes um again the
stilts were done for the same friend he
cheated and she knew its costume
I for Halloween last year and asked me
if I can make stilts so the initial
built time on the still just three days
the wings how many how many hours have
you got into those all the wings just
the 3d printing alone I can't even
imagine how long that would take for
those prints to crank out I'll lose a
couple days like a printing yeah it took
a while and are they from halloween this
year oh no I conference is actually
going to some convention in August I
think our plan on going to a convention
and there she's making a lost pulse tube
it's gonna be great the three dimensions
that you are from the hammer stays
hackerspace yeah do you want to want to
talk about that for everybody because I
think that hacker spaces are really cool
it's like I may prepare every day right
I kind of this time we have our general
like open house meetings every every
Thursday and it was actually two
different communities at hammer space
there's a hammer space people and then
there's the couch on computer Congress
in Kansas City and I that's for my boy
to almost use lie but ultimately our
loyalties go to hammer space because we
paid to you space
and yeah every I every Thursday there's
at least like six three printers Wow
recently there was a group by of like
eight people but the electronics and
suffer run up why we're making mindel
max or prusa printers and so the reason
we got all the parts in and printed and
they've been assembling those and we'll
prom that that's so cool those are the
3d printers where you sort of have to 3d
print the parts to make the printer
right yes there are countries written by
printers so meta and will most likely be
used to create more printers absolutely
that's they just need to be more
printers yeah so if people want to check
out more of your work or they want to
know more about your computer Congress
where could they find that information
um yeah the website for the patent Kyra
Congress Knight c3 que sea org and is
also a facebook group for it currently I
don't have any website for myself I
probably will start that as soon as I
get everything finalized and I'm i
started making them on finition yeah
it's going to say you'd have to be ready
for all kinds of girls all across the
country being like I want butterfly
wings I want to be a mockingjay I could
probably use this exact same mechanism
for other insect wings bird wings dragon
wings hell I want dragon wings they have
to be sparkling with LED lights embedded
into them please and there's all that's
just on the I the animal side of things
there's also steampunk I
we look at all those gears oh they're
great though they're really great how
many are there do you know um there are
eight years and for timing belt holes
okay so yeah let's talk if you have a
second more let's talk about sort of the
technical details I saw some look like
some kind of servo down there what have
you got going on what are the real this
year is the servo that will fit or is
worth it the servo that will eventually
be responsible for raising the wings I
will be I was trying to do it but the
servos two weeks was drawing too much
current for my I present circuitry and
the circuit died I on Friday okay the
night before makers fair for I have I
had to rig on this up to rate the wings
give a comp I and then the actual wings
flapping is all controlled by just one
motor I he turns all the gears to pop
the wings and then I all the programming
control is done on an Arduino Uno
awesome and about I could probably use a
smaller hiker controller but I'm
borrowing this Arduino from another
member of the space we have a good is
being serenaded Oh awesome yes and then
the power supply is a full volt two amp
hour battery that it's really low
profile it's just right in there grace
liver Wow and so what's the what's the
capacity on that for the output all
right
12 volt two amp hours but it's such
meanie yeah well my dad works for a
battery distribution company so I was
just like hey do you have any batteries
that I could use and you're probably
that it's awesome you're like that's
exactly what I never even knew I totally
needed well it's amazing thank you so
much for sharing it with us hello yeah
thanks Geordi thank you not really nice
to meet you when you get when he gets on
his still maybe hold 150 accurate
actually on a trip to still talk because
I want the rubber pads I the metal of
the still worth through the corner and I
was scratching the pavement outside oh
god I didn't want I don't want to mess
up the nice floor here and yet it's
almost floor around here so gorgeous you
know oh wow very thoughtful of you and I
also think it would probably be a little
slippery tune with that oh well thank
you so much really nice to me too we
have a seal out if you have another
major that's easier to talk to you yeah
yeah I want to see it really different
it's different kind of making all
together yourself here hi where's aren't
very good my name is Dave Booker why
don't you put the headphones on it's
that will help you hear a little better
at least one left what they left alien
guy that's walking right show it off
up to good at these I don't like waiting
there we go there we go you hear me now
yes yeah awesome so you must be Abby
vision if you are a man who's this an
arguable here yeah exercise'll my
extensive vocabulary musical instrument
artisan actually I'm how this time in
August and I don't work in the shelter
look in the studio hello found on shops
years but I call it the studio to
business and it is just any many much
art comes out of that studio tell me
about the kind of art well mostly what
I'm a master carpenter so that's how I
got the building these things that's
pretty interesting it's absolutely
gorgeous and it has a lot of a design on
it is that enough like a mother of pearl
ivy leaf delay well I guess you can see
yeah you can see it then goes yeah never
get this thing right yes it is all
divine I actually follow this one
confetti it's the IC IC kind of a
frankly beautiful thing you can sit yeah
excel is that it's like it's mostly
green a belong or power abalone from New
Zealand green abalone from Mexico and
Southern California and it's a goes all
the way up and down the fingerboard and
there's also some on the flat plate
right here it also has the ice wood on
it yeah what it looks like takes a
couple different types of wood what
kinds are they the words it's on here is
Adirondack red spruce the side is
specific big leaf maple in a bubble
quilt the back is wave quilt the same
stuff this is a Michigan lock sugar
maple herds I everybody's heard of fur
to the Blackwood is all
ebony sri lankan tip of the indian
subcontinent you can see the head here
has really nice what is that that's how
I museum that one Wow there you go it's
amazing um when did you start making
instruments well I started 22 years ago
um complicated story but basically I've
been playing since I was 15 and in 1990
i just i was a building custom homes
kitchens and bathrooms and i decided to
try to make a guitar the first ones
actually over there it's pretty
interesting looking this one is 18 years
old yes I've made this for myself this
is a show piece called presentation
grade and it's rather banged up because
I I play it I played it for a couple of
specific songs at coffeehouse gigs on
but it's not really a very good sounding
guitar because of the shape of its body
it's actually a citroen irish style
which is what I mostly make irish style
to turn bouzouki senaka mandolins and
Appalachian mountain goats me right now
making a lot of your days just her hot
yeah there's tell attendee everybody's
got to got to have one the one gonna
make are very expensive and very nice
then I'm just beginning to go into 52
music which is Portuguese music so over
there on my table is a bit Tata for 2k
seven a Portuguese guitar which is has a
body like this and as 12 strings it's
kind of like a big mandolin and it is
we're making what's called the saddest
music and world really amazing and
people in the United States even
Portuguese people don't know much about
it but it is the national music
of the country and in 1840 42 I think it
is a very famous national hero in
Portugal being my rya Civetta who died
at the early age of 23 etiquette is she
was a master at portuguese guitar and by
doing music she's the national hero
amazing well that's wonderful is it if
it's as if Betsy Ross was a great guitar
player awesome so let me think of makers
and especially carpenters I feel like
carpenters are specifically problem
solvers but what type of problems are
there for you know making a guitar as
opposed to making a custom cabinets well
if you are not got ten books on how to
make a guitar each one would describe
how to make it differently because there
are as different as the people who wrote
them they might have gotten some of
their ideas from someone who came to
floor or they might have arrived at them
by themselves holy which is kind of me I
take what I like I leave the rest as far
as problems there's all sorts of if you
walk through here you see most as the
makers are not like me they're not
making things how to find woods and
materials they're doing other things but
the engineering is all the same you know
this this is in it has about a hundred
and eighty pounds of pull on it the
strings need to remain about an eighth
of an inch above the neck at all times
if they drift and get too high or too
low you can't play it also has to look
good so there are three major elements
to musical notes from spring musical
instruments won the first in my opinion
is aesthetics the second is
functionality Alec plagues third is how
it sounds a lot of musicians will
reverse that and they'll say aesthetics
aren't that important
unless you plan maybe you have a sky
like in town well style to me is
extremely important so I put aesthetics
first however if it doesn't sound good
doesn't play well it's not worth
anything if there's an expression it's
called expensive firewood and
unfortunately a lot of routers snooty
musicians like to say that really fancy
things like this are expensive firewood
and I know why it is because they're
conservative but it Gibson guitar Kevin
is much less conservative than Mark
Martin's very conservative and their
instruments are considered to be the
best part they just are everybody knows
it since 1833 louise sonoma county so i
gotta i gotta rep for rebecky you you
you what i said i live in oma county so
i gotta stand up for rebecky I know Tom
Rebecca oh well I'm from Santa Rosa
California oh well I'm in Monte RIA
right now you can see the redwoods by
domani real well yeah I grew up groupon
sonoma mountain and i lived here 10
years ago from Mendocino County from a
little town called anchor bay right on
the ocean well it's just know i went to
montgomery high school and I I know most
of the luthiers and music lessons people
in sonoma county there's a lot of them
it's an amazing an amazing place for
people who are really good if you look
in there you can't sit let's see if you
can I can see a little label a label
that says wall Allah California omolola
that's wonderful well that's that's
where my mailbox was so be cool that's
that's why I'm if I've been your tenure
and I miss it there trust me if you
watch TV and you see all the winding car
ads you know the cars on the country
roads most of them are filmed there
where I'm from is there are so many
movies if you live there you know
Ontario's on the Russian River yeah it's
gorgeous here it's great them there's a
real theater total quantity but I
I've seen hundreds in that theater right
down the hill that's awesome
straight-line fixed it up it's a good
spot it's a good spot it's a for people
who don't know what we're talking about
it's a Quonset hot metal corrugated pipe
they don't have movie here so it's
pretty great by the way Tom we're back
to use a great pajama yes yes he is will
you play us a little music well I could
a vision here on all 4 10 team but just
a little just a little taste before we
before we have to say goodbye I got
really played here I can't hear anything
it's not intended I'm just here sometime
it's be right there you go it's not an
award-winning guitar instrument by the
way it has many awards I looking at new
to share of topperjack's bros even
before you go will you tell us on where
people who are interested in your
instruments can find more information
well there is a website gwc bo em at com
www CD well you see Bo am calm and on
Facebook my name easy to find I
photograph everything I do I'm working
on some serious professional stuff right
now that applied to be on record soon I
won't be playing I'm just making
instruments and doing the artwork so on
but if you want to know about that look
up this is it it's www by UEFA do novato
and a bao gio nav ato like tongue basta
santa rosa dot-com and that is the group
that is has been formed to introduce the
midwest 25 you music well if you ever
listen to it you'll never forget okay
let's see what have we got going on over
there oh yes I've seen a lot of that
type that's just kidding there was a lot
of it rock and all you know robo
I'll talk to you later nice to meet you
thank you so much yeah Kansas makers and
then you end up with collin county
leaker so how does that happen
I'd say yo it's a small world and that's
what's so cool about doing these
hangouts and having all the Mini Maker
Faires everywhere is it just reinforces
what an amazing web and community the
maker faire is really created totally do
it i'm jordi got his wings going thing
is going to show you oh yeah I want to
see him now with their burka yeah okay
go ahead Jordy ah they look so great wow
they are incredible huh I'll see you
lucky that he's wise the motion is
amazingly dynamic on them I can tell
what he means when he was saying they do
if they do like an actual figure 8 knot
just flapping right there beautiful Wow
check out this guy Brooklyn I love them
oh that's a crazy costume what costumes
are big in Kansas City I see more I've
seen more of these rad really
intricately designed and produced
costumes here than I remember even in
our maker faire last month I know I
can't believe those children are running
up to that you can kind of freaking me
out it's a little bit scary yeah it's
hilarious and then does the later and
background that's pretty great though
people people absolutely love it Wow
yeah there's a i sold that mr. o+ taters
getting in the elevator those guys are
going to come by but they are going down
the elevator lab there is that I guess
we're well since we're hardwired to this
information booth here for the business
of bandwidth issues we can't really take
you on a tour but I hope you saw the
picture I posted on Facebook of the main
of the main gallery in the train station
here at a it's a housing station
gorgeous every piece um that I can see
like every wall it's just a little would
work on the the frame of the wall over
there is amazing yeah it's a really nice
venue and I think
apparently the attendance almost doubled
yesterday from last year so they're
really excited about that it's been why
I wasn't here myself last year so I
can't I can't compare but we sold I
think we've sold all 10 makerbot's that
we've had in the maker shed damn yeah
and there you know the crowds people are
just thrilled when I have interactions
with pulps there you know there's a lot
of newcomers who just found out about it
who are so excited Maker Faires come to
Kansas City is there a lot of popularity
about like Arduino projects are they as
popular in Kansas City as they aren't
bay area they are and and I didn't know
this before i got here i wish i could
stroll with this with this computer but
3d printing is a huge there's sort of
like huge center of 3d printing interest
here in Kansas City and then out of that
cow town computer club just just people
have been doing it for a while and so
you know that was part of the reason why
MakerBot really showed that in force
here is to have relationships and know
that this community is pretty familiar
with the technology and interested in it
but Arduino is everywhere and you can't
believe how much of it I mean where the
maker shed is we're right kind of at the
entrance pretty much the whole audience
funnels right by the front of our of our
store and there's you know incredible
amount of people that are buying Arduino
or asking questions but but not a lot of
like what is this you know because
people are so familiar with it now you
know it's it's amazing to me how how I
named us the Internet i guess the power
of the internet where you know knowledge
travels fast yeah well i would say with
the 3d printing i would specifically um
attribute luis rodriguez to some of the
major popularity of 3d printing in
kansas city i know i wish i'd like to
actually wonder if the lease is anywhere
near here because it would be fun to
have him to say hi for people who don't
know why don't you describe who he is on
what his role is for the Kansas City
Maker Faire
police as first like has been a member
of that hackers love for I'm not sure
how many years but he certainly been
around for a while and then has been a
part of the hammer space that they that
that club moved into last year and he
was working for the Kauffman Foundation
and I think I'm gonna now Sabrina but
huh right behind you great do they want
to call her and talk to us I think so i
don't know if he talked though Brooklyn
um maybe we could just see some of the
amazing details of the costume nice look
that's Brooklyn what's your name venice
and what what kind of costume is that
are so quiet in there what kind of
costume is what is this person
incredible gold predator predator yeter
and um it's just amazingly it can be
maybe having turn around in a circle so
we can see some other reason right 315
yes we can see you Wow
oh the details are amazing how long did
it take you to make this he says it took
him about a year and a half to put this
thing together uh it's so creative and
it's so so cool what what it what is
that about yeah hey Brooklyn have you
seen the movie predator I don't have
tolerance for those kind of emotionally
fragile i watch alien and I decided I
was done I mine ended with me at
phantasm and i think i was about age 10
and it was over never again a bird if I
had known that people could made stuff
like that out of those kinds of movies i
might have paid more attention yeah then
use it rad yeah it's really pretty great
he apparently that the skull is the
prize that the predator collects in the
film ah but it's a good look and there
yesterday there were yeah there's a
tremendous amount on what the story is
on the costume scene or whether they
know each other Cassian other questions
how do you know all these other people
that are wearing their in it like
involved costumes for the club yeah yeah
i took a great picture and posted it on
facebook from Make Magazine and there's
like only crazy number of like Allah and
some but you didn't know each other when
you are making the costume so they
didn't know each other when they were
making it but there and then the Darth
Vader do you know them is it a club like
their name what
most of them to start super a
stormtrooper Star Wars armor you know
and they also do have other customers
from Star Wars save their group that
kind of grew up people make their own
costumes and just go to the events and
what's the name of it again five hundred
and first I and I think it is something
like that do they have a website I'm
sure they do but I don't know you
googled 500 first yeah stormtrooper
you'd find it Wow nothing is so amazing
his feet are really good I don't know if
you can see the feet am i showing the
feet I'm kind of not doing that very
well am i anyway so here we are it's a
wonderful day I Kansas City Maker Faire
it's a five we could hang out Brooklyn
asked a little bit of that internet
internet controversy we were having yeah
thank you so much Serena thanks for
making it happen yeah and thanks for
your all your help that you do with
Maker Faire programming everywhere and
with you know getting all the minis
organized it's it's really cool yeah
it's exciting out I've been talking one
of the interesting thing that's been
going on a Kansas City the same time
that we're here at for maker faire
Kansas City it's something called the
skills National the national finals of
this almost like a vocational training
organization I don't know enough about
it but there are like thousands of kids
here doing competitions on auto repair
and beauticians and machining and they
I'm going to go visit it tomorrow and
check out apparently they have 17
football fields full of exhibits and
competition spaces it's all about making
thank you oh thanks oh that's the best
sign off ever cool late Sabrina yeah
there need to be more more maker trades
in SL
operated especially with youth
involvement yeah so we're hoping they
have it and we have a bit more play with
them next year at maker faire Kansas
City but anyway we will Willa to you
soon Brooklyn thanks for checking in
with us yeah have fun I hope you have a
great rest of the day with the
friendliest predator I've ever seen all
right bye-bye for meeting at the city
see you later