With our recent experiences with the costuming and cosplay communities, we've learned a lot about new materials that cosplayers use for making masks, props and armour. That added a few new words to our vocabulary and awesome new items to our inventory. First, Fosshape. It is a felt-like polyester fabric that can be stretched and […]
Calgary Mini Maker Faire
Solar botics
September 9, 2014
... is over and it has been great. The weather cooperated, TelusSpark Science Centre grounds cooperated, squirrels cooperated, people checking out our booth were awesome, every single one of them. Check out some photos of the event on our Flickr stream.
And our Marble Machine got featured in this great video by Paul Spenard:
Not sure what squirrels make of the snow that has been distributed a day later, but that's beyond the point.
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