This weekend there will be hundreds of Makers heading to San Mateo in the sunny state of California for Maker Faire Bay Area and we are excited to be amongst them! This show is always full of exciting and innovative products as well fellow hobbyists to share knowledge with. We have enjoyed going to the Bay Area Maker Faire over the past few years and can’t wait to see what this year’s show has in store.
If you are attending, we have a couple of great speaking sessions you can attend at the Make: Electronics stage throughout the show:
Saturday you can find Jason Kridner, co-founder of BeagleBoard.org, discussing Linux and web servers for teaching electronics. Join him at 1:00 p.m. to learn how to create interactive electronics labs and tutorials over web pages using HTML and JavaScript.
Jason will be taking the stage again at 2:30 p.m. to discuss why BeagleBone is open hardware. During this session he will discuss what open hardware is, who is making BeagleBone derivatives and much more.
Trey German, LaunchPad applications manager and Maker–extraordinaire for TI will take the stage on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. to discuss the building secrets for a Power Racing series car. We’ll be racing our car on Saturday and Sunday at the race track, so be sure to stop by and cheer us on! To learn more about the car, check out this blog post.
On Sunday, Jason and Trey will both take the stage again. At 3:00 p.m. Trey will host a session on turning common appliances into DIY connected devices. During this session he will walk through the basics of adding connectivity to appliances and learn how to write embedded firmware for a Texas Instruments LaunchPad using Energia. These are tactics he used to create his DIY barbecue smoker and Wi-Fi connected sous vide controller.
Later, at 4:00 p.m., Jason will host a session on building DIY 3D printers . Are you still using a computer, or walking over an SD card, to feed GCode build instructions to your 3D printer? Local 3D previews? Remote network status? Jason will show you a simpler way to building your own 3D printer.
There is so much to see this year and we can’t wait. Will you be attending? Let us know what you think will be the “can’t miss” attractions in the comments.