by tmw2010 | Apr 6, 2016 | Education, Electronics, Entrepreneurship, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Mechanics, Robotics, Science, Sponsors, STEM, Sustainability
Stretching across 23 counties, the Florida High Tech Corridor is “a technology rich region known as much for its legacy in aerospace as it is for its growing prominence in other high tech clusters of innovation such as Modeling and Simulation, Optics and...
by Terri Willingham | Apr 5, 2016 | Art, DIY, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers Festival, steampunk, Upcycling
Ken and Diana Swallow are a husband and wife creative team who combine their artistic talents in Upcycled Studio. We first met them in 2013, when they came out to our then Mini Maker Faire, in Pasco. We’ve grown a lot since then, and so has their collection of...
by tmw2010 | Apr 5, 2016 | Education, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Makerspace, STEM
Some of our Makers make things: art, gadgets, crafts, mechanical devices, crafts, inventions – and others Make opportunities and resources available, like this year’s exhibitor, Makerspaces.com. Chances are, if you’re online and active in the Maker...
by tmw2010 | Apr 2, 2016 | Drones, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers Festival
One of our new exhibitors this year is Tampa Drones . Joshua Newby, who heads up the group, told us a little more about it, and what they’re bringing to Gulf Coast MakerCon 2016. _______________________ Tampa Drones is a Meetup group in the Tampa Bay area that...
by tmw2010 | Mar 31, 2016 | 3d printing, DIY, Education, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Makerspace, STEM, Young Makers
We’re happy to have the Young Makers of Benito Library and Makerspace – BLAM! – joining us again at Gulf Coast MakerCon April 9. Now in their 2nd year, the Benito Library Makerspace program is big and active, averaging 40-60 students at meetings...
by tmw2010 | Mar 31, 2016 | DIY, Education, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Mechanics, Robotics, STEM
One of our new Maker groups this year is ASME@USF . A student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) based at the University of South Florida, ASME@USF is a nonprofit organization for engineers, typically mechanical engineering students, to...
