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Thoughts From the Nashville Mini Maker Faire

- Keaton Campbell -

Water and electronics don’t work well together, but the Nashville Mini Maker Faire is a rain-or-shine event, and it took place a few Saturdays ago. Despite rain falling periodically since the beginning of the event, almost all the booths were unperturbed. It does help when one of your exhibitions is a submarine.

But even that handmade, custom-built submarine from two makers in Kentucky was only one of many incredible exhibits. From the $15,000 second place Battlebots team, Bombshell, to the drone racing, to the 3D printed prosthetics, the Nashville Mini Maker Faire has pulled both a large crowd and innovative makers.

What is pulling them? The attendees didn’t solely consist of middle-aged techies already embedded in the community. There was a massive amount of people completely new to the Maker community.

Firstly, there were celebrities like Bombshell, who, along with BB-8 and R2-D2 bots, provide an entry point to being a Maker.

Secondly, there were tons of booths centered on teaching essential Maker skills, like soldering and construction, as well design and  prototyping.

It was a cornucopia of showing not only the products of amazing Makers, but the process of creating the complex projects. Check out this video for more coverage:

 

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Keaton Campbell

Keaton is a Texas-born tech junkie and writer in Nashville. Interested in anything that blinks or has words, he’s been hacking hardware since he was 8, and writing since he was 10. At 15 now, he’s still finding a way to balance his writing and building in between high school courses.

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