by tmw2010 | Apr 10, 2015 | 3d printing, Education, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Makerspace
To date, we’ve been featuring the Makers who will be at Gulf Coast MakerCon. We thought you might enjoy meeting some of the folks who are making Gulf Coast MakerCon possible, starting with event producers, Eureka! Factory. The Eureka! Factory developed as an...
by tmw2010 | Apr 3, 2015 | 3d printing, Art, Automotive, Cosplay, Costuming, DIY, Education, Electronics, Entrepreneurship, Gaming, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Handcraft, Heritage, inventors, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Makerspace, Mechanics, Music, Props, Radio, Robotics, Science, Textiles, Young Makers
Gulf Coast MakerCon 2015 is more than twice as big as our 2014 event, featuring more than 75 Maker groups representing a wide diversity of interests, skills, hobbies, trades and professions ranging from textile and other heritage crafters, to amateur radio, inventors...
by tmw2010 | Mar 27, 2015 | 3d printing, Education, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, inventors, MakerCon, Young Makers
We’re excited about the wide range of exhibitors we have this year, including the diversity of inventors and product developers. Among our commercial makers this year is Ingocraft, which calls its product line “Modern Tools for Maker Kids.” We like...
by tmw2010 | Mar 26, 2015 | 3d printing, Education, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers, Young Makers
Educator Kyle Wright brings his great students from Oak Grove Middle School in Pinellas County, to Gulf Coast MakerCon this year. Long successful with their FIRST LEGO League program, Oak Grove is expanding their project based learning to include more maker-style...
by tmw2010 | Mar 19, 2015 | 3d printing, DIY, Education, Gulf Coast MakerCon, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Makerspace
We have several local makerspaces participating in Gulf Coast MakerCon this year, one of which is Tampa’s community gem, THE HIVE , a 10,000 sq. ft. public community innovation center and makerspace located on the 3rd floor of the west building in the John F....
by tmw2010 | Feb 9, 2015 | 3d printing, DIY, Education, Gaming, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Science, Young Makers
The year we held Tampa Bay’s first ever maker festival, Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire, in 2012, the concept of “makerspaces” in the Tampa Bay area was just a fledgling idea. The Faulhaber FabLab , then at the GWIZ Science Museum in Sarasota, was the...
