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A Weekend of Pumpkins, Scavenger Hunts and Halloween Fun (Radio Round Up)

October 21, 2011 Lindsay

Mini Maker Faire Sunday, October 23, 2011 Noon-6pm @ The Pittsburgh Children s Museum national festival of all thing geek comes to the Children’s museum check out the printer that prints in Easy Cheese Demonstrations and hands on activities in technology and crafts Last 2 Weekends for Kayaking! Kayak Pittsburgh is open weekends in October! Located under the Roberto Clemente bridge Venture Outdoors has some group paddle events taking place this weekend as well – check out scheduled events here. BUT, wait there are even more great things happening this weekend (and we didn’t have a chance to talk about… Read the rest

Filed Under: Radio Round Up Tagged With: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, glass pumpkins, gtech, Maker Faire, National Aviary, preservation fair, scavenger hunt, Urban Hike, WDVE

Check out a Cheese Printer at the Mini Maker Faire

October 19, 2011 Lindsay

I have been waiting for MakerFaire to come to Pittsburgh for years!!!  I have been a follower of Make and Craft – both are magazines/blogs published by O’Reilly Media.  The Make magazine folks organized the first Maker Faire in CA back in 2006.  It was a live festival of all things creative, handmade, DIY and hacked.  Since 2006 – Maker Faires have been held all over the world. Maker Faires have included demonstrations of all kinds of neat things.  I had the opportunity to see Bre Pettis, who is a maker/hacker extrodinairre, give a talk on the 3d printer back… Read the rest

Filed Under: Crafts, Events, Technology Tagged With: 3D printing, Bre Pettis, children's museum, Do it yourself, Make (magazine), Maker Faire, O'Reilly Media, Pittsburgh Children's Museum

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