{"id":15733,"date":"2016-10-22T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15733"},"modified":"2016-10-22T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T20:38:00","slug":"derby-mini-maker-faire-2016-thoughts-and-a-highlights-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15733","title":{"rendered":"Derby Mini Maker Faire 2016 – thoughts and a highlights video"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Derby<\/p>\n

Today, I attended my first Maker Faire at the Silk Mill in Derby<\/a>. Took a couple of hours to get there, and I have to say it was worth every minute of travel.\u00a0Raspberry Pi highlights included Steve Upton and his Wall of Enlightenment (huge strings of blinkies), Brian Corteil’s Micro Pi Noon and Derek Woodroffe’s Tesla Coils driven from a Raspberry Pi Zero. There was loads of stuff on show – bizarrely\u00a0lots<\/em> of micro:bit stuff – including plastics, wood, metal, textiles. Anything you can name under the broad heading of “things we make” was featured. There were around 100\u00a0maker stands and the setting was wonderful. Highly recommended for next year! I took some video footage of the day and cut it together into a 20-minute highlights reel which you can see below:<\/p>\n