by Terri Willingham | Mar 27, 2016 | Art, Gulf Coast MakerCon, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Handcraft, MakerCon, Makers Festival
Returning to Gulf Coast MakerCon this year, is Tobi Weisbond, of Unique Rabbit. Tobi is a local artist living in New Port Richey with her husband. Her love affair with the visual arts began 60+ years ago in the basement studio of her Aunt. Over her lifetime she has...
by tmw2010 | Mar 26, 2016 | accessories, Art, clothing, Contests, Cosplay, Costuming, fashion, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, Handcraft, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Textiles
In celebration of our 5th Maker Festival Birthday, we bring you the first ever Gulf Coast MakerCon Costume Plank Walk! Why a “Plank Walk”? Because we’re Makers and we Made it Up. Also, our mascot Skully is a Maker Pirate and Plank Walk just sounds...
by tmw2010 | Mar 26, 2016 | 3d printing, DIY, Entrepreneurship, Gulf Coast Makers Festival, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Makerspace
Our friends at FreeFab 3D having been participating in Gulf Coast MakerCon since the beginning and we’re very happy to welcome them back for our 5th annual MakerCon event this year! FreeFab 3D is a notable not just for being the local “Made in St....
by tmw2010 | Mar 26, 2016 | Art, MakerCon, Makers Festival, Makerspace, Young Makers
Palm Harbor Library is home to the Hazel Incantalupe Makerspace, an art space just for children. Youth Services Director, Kiki Durney, told us a bit more about the Makerspace and what the great Young Makers of Palm Harbor Library are bringing to Gulf Coast MakerCon...
by tmw2010 | Mar 23, 2016 | Gulf Coast Makers Festival, inventors, Makers Festival
Vittorio Senerchia , of Napolitanos Pizza, reached out to us in the early planning stages of Gulf Coast MakerCon 2016, originally interested in bringing out his homemade mobile oven to sell pizzas at Gulf Coast MakerCon. Due to Fairgrounds restrictions, he’s not...
by tmw2010 | Mar 22, 2016 | Education, Festivals, Gaming, MakerCon, Makers, Makers Festival, Young Makers
While most of our exhibitors are Makers of their own fun, a few are distributors of supplies and affinity products, like Beth Main, of Simply Fun, an independent game making company that builds skills development in youth through board games. We asked Beth to tell us...
