NEWS
Meet the Maker: Undead Arts FX
Undead Arts FX brings the dead to life at Gulf Coast Maker & Comic Con this year, with a Zombie Research Outpost! Ellie Willingham, the artist and prop maker behind Undead Arts FX, has been part of Gulf Coast Makers since the very beginning and it's been fun...
Meet the Makers: Palm Harbor Hazel L. Incantalupo MakerSpace
We love working with the Hazel L. Incantalupo Children's Makerspace at Palm Harbor Library and are so happy they're going to exhibit at Gulf Coast Maker & Comic Con 2018! Marissa Steuer, Youth Services Librarian at Palm Harbor Library, tells us more about this...
Meet the Maker: FreeDimension
FreeDimension LLC is a 3D printing and design service company that will be showcasing some of their cool work at Gulf Coast Maker & Comic Con on March 24. Fri Reider, the mind behind FreeDimension shares a bit more about the company with us. GCMCC: What do you...
Meet the Makers of Gulf Coast Maker & Comic Con 2018: Eureka! Factory
The Eureka! Factory, headed up by Terri & Steve Willingham, who work with an amazing collection of community associates, is a consultant and experiential learning event production team. The Eureka! Factory specializes in public makerspace development,...
Meet the Makers of Gulf Coast Maker & Comic Con 2018: iLab
For the last five years, St. Petersburg College-Seminole campus has hosted Pinellas Comic & Maker Con, led by SPC's Innovation Lab, or iLab. During that same period, Eureka! Factory has organized Gulf Coast Maker Con and both groups frequented, promoted and...
Save the Date: Gulf Coast MakerCon & Pinellas ComicCon Join Forces for March 24, 2018 Event
First, thanks to everyone for their warmth and understanding about our need to cancel our April 8th event this year. Your patience as we've worked to reschedule Gulf Coast MakerCon has been deeply appreciated. In looking at our different options, and what would be...
Make it Sky High
Check out this cool launch footage of the "Don't Ask" 3D Printed Rocket flying an I303 Cesaroni motor. Filmed with a GoPro Hero 3, video is synchronized with data gathered from an on-board Nexus 4 Android phone. "The phone gathered considerably more video than what is...
Gulf Coast MakerCon 2017 Postponed Due to Family Emergency
We're so sorry to have to write this post, but as we've already advised the Fairgrounds, sponsors, Makers and ticket holders, we have to cancel plans for MakerCon on April 8th due to an elder care situation in our family. Our 90 year old mother's increasing health...
Meet the Maker: Wayne Rasanen, Inventor of DecaTxt
My name is Wayne and I discovered a new way to help humanize technology. It starts by applying all standard keyboard keystrokes directly onto ten fingertips and using that design in a wide variety of creative ways. The alphabet is a single press for the first...
Guest Blog: Makers and US Manufacturing – We need you!
Make America Make again. -P. Edwards Greg Serio runs The People of Manufacturing, a full service Manufacturing Consulting firm dedicated to the success and growth of American Manufacturing. Greg's personal mission is to prove the value and role of the American...
Meet the Maker: Jon Rubin, of Hillsborough County ARES/RACES
Hello everybody. My name is Jon Rubin and I’m the Emergency Coordinator for Hillsborough County’s ARES/RACES program. I’ve been a guest blogger a few times over the last several years, and I’m honored to have been asked to do it again. For those of you that...
