World Maker Fair NYC 2015 was the first maker fair I even went to in my life. It was amazing experience, which blow my mind and open my eyes. Before I went, I thought it would be like a techy fair, where people made high tech stuffs. However, when I got in, I saw all the beautiful handcraft thing people, brilliant design ideas of jewelry, painting, clothing, gardening and other amazing stuffs

 

One of my favorites was the ceramic jewelry made by Mier Lou. She is a artist and designer, currently running her own website and business. Beside ceramic jewelry design, she also does graphic design. I lost my pictures for her pieces somehow, so the picture below is from her website, the same things she showed on Maker Fair.

This is her business card and contact information.

My second favorite was OpenBCI

The guy in the picture named Cornor, he showed us how the machine he wear tract the muscles activities in the head to control the robot arm. They using this piece made with 3D printing and arduino tracts the electrical signal of human brain. Understand how they function and how we can use them can build real human brain computer.

The third one was from 3D Printed Habitat Challenge by team LAVAHIVE.

This piece interested me because it made me realize that we can do so many things with 3D printing. Those 3D printing gives a clear view of what can we expect from the real Habitat.

 

Three lessons I learned from maker fair

• All the new thinking and design can be consider innovation, and makers are not defined as technology e
• 3D printing has really became a big thing. There are so many stuffs we can do with it, like the habitat challenges and OpenBCI human brain computers.
• Everyone has the potential to become a maker. The lady I met who design the garden without soil was just a garden lover when she started.

 

This real world assignment helped me to see the real things and changes in our life with 3D printing. Going out to see thing and back to class to get out hands dirty with 3D designing motivate me. Reading chapters are boring, but when I see the 3D printing masterpiece in maker fair, what I were reading from the textbook were connected and linked. It gave me a deep understanding the concept of 3D printing and design thinking.

 

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