February 6, 2012

Make:SF July Recap

This month we had a great turn out to see Because We Can speak and to make EL wire at Tech Liminal on July 6th and at The reMake Lounge on July 13th.

As always our members showed off their cool projects. At The Remake Lounge Steve showed his progress with his EEG controlled robot. He has now integrated a new headset from NeuroSky with the Mindstorm. His next step is getting to the raw EEG signals so he can do his own signal processing. Be sure to check out his website for all the details

Because We Can spoke about “Turning Pro: Becoming a Professional Maker” The ideas that stood out for me were “Good Ideas are Useless, Good Execution is Priceless” and “Fail Often, Fail Better”. They also were realistic about running a business saying that you will only spend 20% of your time working on the things you love to do and that you should not start your own business if you are in it for the money.

Then it was onto EL Wire with the kits coming from Cool Neon.

After choosing colors and some delicate soldering….

It lights up!

After that you can make anything light up including your hat!

We had a great time and we can wait to see you all in August!

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