CW&T started as and remains the two-person design practice of Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy.

With backgrounds in Architecture, Film and Computer Science, the duo met at NYU ITP where they began their scale and medium agnostic approach to design.

Wang and Levy lecture extensively on design and technology as a creative medium. They teach courses on time, electronics, hardware, programming, inflatables and morphology at Pratt Institute, New York University and the School for Poetic Computation. Their pedagogy extends into the home/studio where they host office hours to lend a hand, or offer insight to anyone interested in figuring out how to make something themselves.

“Our practice centers around an iterative process of sketching, prototyping, testing, writing code, machining parts, and building each edition ourselves to assess our intuitions around improving our everyday experiences.”

Projects range from devices that alter our perception of time, an electronics curriculum for artists, an astrological compass for space travelers, to objects engineered to last multiple generations.

“Sharing our process with our community is essential to our practice. We cultivate an ethos of openness through teaching, open source software + hardware, and by providing support for others to create self-sufficient design practices.”

Che-Wei and Taylor will be presenting “Making as a Way of Life” at Maker Faire Miami 2023. Catch their talk on Saturday at 1pm in the MAKER TALKS room.

Che-Wei Wang [pron. sey-wey] is an artist, designer & architect with expertise in computational and generative design, fabrication technologies, electronics, CNC machining, and metal manufacturing. The results range from architecture & sculpture to interactive installations & mobile apps. He is the winner of the 2003 SOM fellowship and the Young Alumni Achievement Award from Pratt Institute. Che-Wei has taught courses on design, time, creative computing, and inflatables, at various institutions. He is an alumnus of MIT Media Lab, ITP at NYU, and Pratt Institute.

Taylor Levy [pron. tey-ler] is an artist & designer with a penchant for taking things apart, understanding how they work, and then putting them back together in a way that exposes their inner workings.The results take on a variety of forms from low-tech electronic sculpture to high-tech software & other executions. She has work on view at The Leonardo Museum of Science and Technology and was a resident at Fabrica Interactive in Treviso, Italy. She is an alumna of MIT Media Lab, ITP at NYU, and Vassar College.

CW&T is the recipient of the 2022 National Design Award for Product Design from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

CW&T live and work in their Brooklyn-based studio and prototyping shop along with their two young children, Pau and Tree.

Check out their Website and Follow them on social at: @charliewhiskeytango

Registration Information:

Registration Opens: 3/1/2023
Registration Closes: 4/10/2023
Register Here

Contact Information:

Organizer: Andy Holzemer

Competition Description:

Robot Renegades at Miami Maker Faire (University of Miami, Watsco Center)

Maker Faire Miami is back in full force, we get to fight robots in the same arena UM plays basketball!!

This event is a team effort from Palm Beach Bots & Team Witch Doctor.

Miami Maker Faire is the debut of a two class ant system creating a smoother experience for builders. Instead of one giant bracket with an excess of rounds Ants are split into Ant Rookie & Ant Pro. Both classes are capped at 16. Rookie is not just for your first event, it’s for anyone learning and growing in the sport. Even grizzled veterans testing new meta breaking designs are welcome with event organizer approval. Pro is for the seasoned and most destructive custom bots.

Event Info:

Classes: Plastic Ant, Ant Rookie, Ant Pro, Beetle
Schedule: Doors open 8AM for builders, fights start at 11AM Saturday, 10AM Sunday. Both days wrap at 5PM.
A pre-paid registration of $20 per bot is required. This goes towards the prize money. Once your bot is approved BuildersDB will present a link to pay (The Stripe issue has been resolved).
Prize Purse: Cash prize as a split on registration fees divided between first/second/third place.
Pits: We have a decent amount of room but not unlimited. Pit space will be divided at our discretion to make room for everyone.
Power is available, bring extension cords, power strips, lipo bags etc
Pre-Event email will have any more specific instructions.
Admission is free for builders/crew, capped at 4 per team.
Palm Beach Bots is sponsoring and will be on site with parts and kits to get you thru the fights.

Schedule:

Saturday April 15th
- Load In 8-9:30AM
- Safety/Weigh In: As soon as you’re setup until the driver’s meeting.
- Driver’s Meeting: 10:30AM
- Fights start at 11AM and run thru 5PM.
Sunday April 16th
- Arrive by 9AM
- Fights start at 10AM and run thru 5PM.

Rules:

SPARC ruleset with the following points of emphasis:
- No Fire Weapons Allowed
- A release will be signed by all competitors
- Plastic Ant Specs: Traditional SPARC Rules. No nylons, tpu or metal etc.
- Pit: We have a pseudo pit, more of an OOTA zone in the corner, there’s a reasonable chance to escape. If you go in the pit you have a 10 count to get out before KO is called. Completely destroying the pit to get out is allowed and encouraged :).
Exposed batteries are automatic forfeits
Motion: Battlebots rules, if you’re moving it’s motion so either tap out or your opponent will be obligated to annihilate you.
Unsticks: Only if the two bots are stuck together. If you get stuck on something or your opponent sticks you somewhere it’s up to you to break free.
One postponement
No entanglements
Tapouts are allowed
Match length: TBD day of event, will be 2-3 minutes depending fight volume
Double Elimination with a single final.
Most Important Rule – **HAVE FUN**

VOLUNTEERS WELCOME: We’re happy to have any available volunteers help with the event. If you have family/friends coming that aren’t fond of sitting in the pits all day playing games on their phone we can always use help. Pit Runners, Judges, Safety, and possibly announcers. Please reach out directly to andrea@teamwitchdoctor.com if interested.

Mark Your Calendars: April 12-17, 2021

Over the past 8 years, Maker Faire Miami has grown into an international event bringing together experts from all around the world to speak about their work. Our last faire, which was the first ever virtual event, also had attendees join in from all over the world. So for Miami Make Week, we want to focus on celebrating and connecting our LOCAL community. This week-long celebration will have lots of opportunities for learning, sharing, and collaborating with local makers, organizations, and educators.

Hands-On Workshops

Attendees will be able to choose from a range of virtual and small-group socially distanced in-person workshops hosted by local maker organizations throughout South Florida.

STEAM Sessions

Teachers can sign up to have a virtual STEAM session field trip with local MakerEd orgs to bring making experiences in their classroom.

Virtual Tours

Take a peek inside the workshops of local makers and organizations and read about what they do!

Get Involved!

If you would like to offer a workshop, showcase your space, register a classroom for a STEAM session, or volunteer to help coordinate the events, email mario [at] mariothemaker.com

Can walking down the aisle of an Ace Hardware inspire art? If you are a Maker, you bet it can.

Mohit Bhoite, an engineer, was doing just that when he came across brass rods. He had been following the work of others who were making circuit sculptures and he decided to dabble. Since then he has created more than a dozen sculptures, even a robot that paints with light.

The impressive senior hardware engineer with Particle will be flying in to speak at Maker Faire Miami about techniques, tools and tips for making these circuit sculptures, how a community of these sculpture makers has been growing and how it can be a form of artistic expression for any maker.

Mohit’s favorite sculpture is his Xenyan, a play on Nyan, the cat that shoots rainbows from his butt.

“I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to make that as a robot? So I made this sculpture with a tail light. But if you take the long exposure picture, he can literally paint with light. You can paint characters or graphics in the air. It can shoot rainbows out of its tail. That was a perfect project for me because I could use my background in robotics, my brass sculpture techniques and then I could draw with light. That was the most fun.”

This one was an Insta-fav.

He’s been making these sculptures actively over the last year or so. You can see some of them on his blog and his Instagram.

Mohit is a big proponent of Maker Faires. “It’s almost like going to church but for makers. You feel part of a community with people around you all making things. There wasn’t anything like it before and now it has a massive following.”

He says it is important for kids to see things being made that are not part of a factory or industry. “These are people just making things out of passion. Not everything has to have an occupation. You can be a maker just for the sake of being one.”

Mohit grew up in India and worked for a startup that made robotic kits. He moved to the U.S. in 2009 to get his masters in robotics at UPenn. A highlight of his career has been working at San Francisco-based Particle, which created the only all-in-one IoT platform, for more than 5 ½ years.

“I was the fifth employee and we have grown to 100-plus. It’s an amazing group of people; most of the engineers are remote. We have an office in Shenzhen, China. It’s the mecca of electronics with skyscrapers full of companies selling parts.”

Sculptures give him an artistic outlet, but it was difficult at first and took some unlearning. “As engineers, you are taught to make things efficient, cost effective – just the right way. Creating art is the polar opposite. You are not doing things because it is the right way; you are doing it for the artistic expression.”

When he is not building sculptures, Mohit is building skills in photography, carpentry, machining metal, 3D printing and 3D design. “I feel like in today’s world it is so easy to access tools and knowledge and explore any field of your liking.”

His advice: Get out there. “Now is the best time to be a maker. You don’t need to be solving a problem. Just take up a project, start building it, fail, learn from it, ask questions, join a local maker space if you can – and just keep building. It is the best way to learn.”

Mohit will also be available all weekend at the Particle booth with an amazing technical team from Particle to answer any of your IoT questions

For inspiration, visit the Miami Maker Faire April 6-7. Buy your tickets here.

By @ndahlberg

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Saturday, April 8

1:00 – 1:45 pm Building the FAB City | Tomas Diez, Founder of FabLab Barcelona and FAB City Global Initiative

2:00 – 2:45 pm The Making of The Underline | Meg Daly, Founder of Friends of The Underline

3:00 – 3:45 pm Engaging Girls in Making | Laine Powell, Founder of Tech Sassy Girlz

4:00 – 4:45 pm Ignite the Future: Rethinking Public Education | FIU Ignite the Future team

Sunday, April 9

12:00 – 12:45 pm Technical and Creative Process through Craftsmanship | Damian Primo de Rivera, Independent Artist, Illustrator & Designer

1:00 – 1:45 pm Making Tree-to-Bar Chocolate | Santiago Agustin Peralta Polo, Founder of Pacari Chocolate

2:00 – 2:45 pm Your Driverless Car is Here | Sertac Karaman, MIT and Optimus Ride

3:00 – 3:45 pm Masterclass with DJ Kid Koala | DJ and Music Producer Kid Koala

Tomas Diez, Founder at Fab Lab Barcelona
Tomas Diez is an urbanist specialized in digital fabrication and its implications in the future of cities and society. He is one of the founders of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) and leads the Fab City Research Laboratory and the FAB City Global Initiative. Tomas is also the European project manager for the Fab Foundation. In 2013, he was appointed by the Guardian and Nesta as one of the top 10 digital social innovators, and in 2014 was named entrepreneur of the year by the Catalan ICT Association.

Meg Daly, Founder of The Underline
Meg Daly was a sales and marketing entrepreneur who launched Friends of the Underline, a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to create The Underline, a 10-mile linear park, urban trail and living art destination built on underutilized land. The Underline exemplifies what a determined, highly creative and resourceful resident can do to transform a community.

Laine Powell, M.Ed., MS, Founder & Executive Director of Collegiate Pathways, Inc.
Laine Powell, M.Ed., MSM is the Founder and Executive Director of Collegiate Pathways, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to changing the lives of underrepresented girls in middle and high school to engage in STEM-related topics and inspire their career interests. Its signature program, affectionately known as Tech Sassy Girlz, develops the next generation of STEM-savvy, college-bound girls through college preparation, career readiness and mentoring. Powell created the organization to address the critical shortage of women and minorities being represented in high-tech STEM careers.

Ignite the Future
Ignite the Future is an FIU-based student group with the goal to rethink public education. Members of your team Include students from FIU Honors, FIU Teach, and FIU ECS.

Damián Primo de Rivera, Graphic Designer & Illustrator
Damián Primo de Rivera is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Madrid, Spain. With a background in art and computer design, he has extensive experience as graphic designer, having worked for several companies, many of them linked to the sports industry. Damián now runs his own studio, Brand 2. In 2013, he started modeling a collection of figures for the Spanish Soccer Federation. Since then Damián has developed several collections of unique, highly-recognizable figures.

Santiago Peralta, Founder of Pacari Chocolate
Santiago Peralta is the founder of Pacari Chocolate, an Ecuadorian chocolate company that has revolutionized the industry by creating a transparent model of tree-to-bar manufacturing based on innovation, social responsibility and direct trade with certified organic farms. Paying higher prices for quality certified organic cacao, Santiago’s efforts benefit more than 3,500 farming families. Pacari chocolates are sold in more than 38 countries and have been recognized by the Fine Chocolate Industry Association.

Sertac Karaman, Associate Professor at MIT
Sertac Karaman is the Class of ’48 Career Development Chair Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and director of the Foundations of Autonomous Systems Technology Group at MIT. His research interests lie in the broad area of embedded systems and mobile robotics. Sertac has worked on driverless cars, unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed aerial surveillance systems, air traffic control algorithms, certification and verification of control systems software, among others.

DJ Kid Koala
Kid Koala is a world-renowned scratch DJ, music producer, and award winning graphic novelist. He has released four solo albums on Ninja Tune the most recent being 12 bit Blues. He has also released two graphic novels: Nufonia Must Fall and Space Cadet. He has also been involved in collaborations such as Gorillaz, Deltron 3030, and The Slew. Kid Koala has toured with the likes of Radiohead, the Beastie Boys, Arcade Fire, Money Mark, A Tribe Called Quest, Mike Patton, DJ Shadow, and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

As we gather our bearings from last weekend’s successful event, the production team reflects in humbled awe at the quality and enthusiasm of our exhibiting makers. Our faire grew to 120 exhibitors and welcomed approximately 5,000 guests this year as we expanded our program to a two-day event, featured a panel of speakers who practice DIY innovation in different settings, added a concert for internationally-renowned music makers, and brought a taste of local creativity like no other event in Miami has ever done before.

Our Maker community grew larger last weekend as we were fortunate to host our friends from the Havana-based Fabrica de Arte Cubano mixed-use creative space. Eleven cuban makers created a pop-up workshop which showed faire guests the processes they have refined over a lifetime of scarcity due to the US trade embargo and Cuba’s own economic policies. Their exhibit embodied a culture truly based on important principles behind the maker movement; and their will to recreate, repurpose and reinvent the resources they have to create the things they need.

Led by the call of Moonlighter Fablab, our local Miami makers also activated the Miami Makers Pavilion. The center of the pavilion featured an interactive PVC structure that served as a unique entrance to the event which invited guests to rearrange and redesign the space to their aesthetic preferences. Watching the space change over the course of the weekend as activities occurred around it was a fascinating observation of how the public impacted the area. Interpretive dancing, impromptu brass band covers of popular pop songs, screams of delight from kids as they run from booth to booth sharing their creations, and moments of relaxation and quietly embracing the chaos; over 11,000 feet of PVC structure were assembled simultaneously provided sanctuary from and focus to the creativity of the faire. The centerpiece as well as many of the surrounding exhibitor’s crafts and wares were produced at Moonlighter, in collaboration with Home Eleven.

The Frost Science Pavillon showed a wonderful exhibit featuring aquaponic farming, discovery of basic animation technique by creating flipbooks, and understanding how important art and science are in our community. Partnering with the Frost Science Museum on this exhibit were DesignLab, REM Learning Center, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Stuffmaker, CAPPSCI Barge Project, and the ArtSail project from Art Center South Florida.

Rex the Nine-Foot Robot

Passionate gratitude goes out to our numerous volunteers who were the hands and the ears of the team. Of particular note is our support from over 60 Florida International University Engineering and Computing students who cumulatively contributed over 500 hours of their time. Also, the Women in Computing and Society of Women Engineers was integral to teaching 300 attendees how to solder their very own Makey robot badge. Thank you so very much!

Showcasing the passion that many of these makers bring to our community is a profoundly rewarding experience for those who don’t often have the opportunity to flex their creative muscles, particularly for our youth. The Miami Mini Maker Faire exposes our guests to homegrown ingenuity, resourcefulness, and passion through our exhibits and demonstrations. Your participation and experiences help us tell a story of craftsmanship that is infectious and growing in our community and we’re honored to be the curators.

And beyond the support of our volunteers, exhibitors, and creators; we would be nowhere without the support of our sponsors.

I’ll leave you with the thoughts of others who experienced the event themselves and hope that we’ll see you next year. Can’t wait until then!

Sincerely,
Mike Greenberg, on behalf of
The Miami Mini Maker Faire Team

Ric Herrero, MIA Made
Danny Lafuente, The LAB Miami
Steve Luis, FIU Computing and Information Sciences
Mike Greenberg, Hacklab North Boynton
James Herring, Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science
Daisy Nodal, Moonlighter Makerspace
Tom Pupo, Moonlighter Makerspace
Nola Garcia, StarBot
Ana Olman, MIA Made
Melissa Nobles, MIA Made

Mike Greenberg is a co-founder of Hacklab North Boynton, Palm Beach county’s makerspace, and has been co-producing the Miami Mini Maker Faire since it started in 2013.

Our good friend, Ian Cole from Orlando Maker Faire, was also visiting our faire and shared this wonderful collection of sights from the first day.

Photo by Alexandra Martinez

Cuba, as a result of the U.S. embargo, has diminished resources, but that situation has only empowered these makers’ creativity. Celia Ledón Acosta, a wardrobe designer for Cuba’s Public Theatre, created a sculpted dress made of soda can tabs and made a draped blouse from wide leaf plants.

Alexandra Martinez, Miami New Times
Read more here: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/cuban-artists-shine-at-the-miami-mini-maker-faire-hosted-by-youngarts-8267062

Having visited Cuba many times, I know that few people in the world exhibit the advanced level of ingenuity of the Cuban people. It goes beyond cars to how they’ve had to repurpose everything from furniture to electrical equipment.

Ric Herrero, Producer of the Miami Mini Maker Faire
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jordan-levin/article61347837.html

If it seems like making and makers-related projects have been taking off in South Florida, it is through the concerted efforts of a few visionary individuals.

Abel Folgar, Tuffgnarl
Read more here: http://www.tuffgnarl.com/11825-2/

After a fashion show by DesignLab Miami students, instructor Jazmyn Leininger with Rowan Windham Burke, Zoe Goldemberg, Maria Mercenari, Isa Burguera and Naomi Gomez. Credit: Steve Viti

Saturday afternoon about 40 students, ages 6 to 15, of DesignLab Miami turned a stage into a fashion runway. But the fashions they were wearing were their own creations, from concept to the final stitches.

Nancy Dahlberg, Sun-Sentinel
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article61534607.html

Beautiful to see young makers interacting MATRIX @AdMobilize @Raspberry_Pi @TechCrunch @makerfaire @makerfairemiami pic.twitter.com/9fgrvV88pI

— Rodolfo Saccoman (@RodolfoSaccoman) February 20, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 17^th, 2016

Miami, FL – A group of 11 independent Cuban makers and entrepreneurs are in Miami to introduce their businesses and creations at the third Miami Mini Maker Faire this weekend.

All 11 entrepreneurs are members of the arts collective that operates the Fabrica de Arte Cubano, an acclaimed mixed-use creative space in Havana, Cuba, and represent a diverse range of craftsmanship, from industrial design and architecture to graphic design, fashion design and bronze sculpting. As first-time exhibitors at Miami Mini Maker Faire, these visiting innovators will join a hundred other regional makers and entrepreneurs to showcase their creations and share their skill-sets with attendees. Fabrica de Arte Cubano co-founder X Alfonso -a classically trained musician and one of the pioneers of Cuba’s hip-hop and afro-rock scenes- will also play an evening concert at the Faire.

Founded in 2013 by local non-profit MIAMade in association with Maker Media and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Miami Mini Maker Faire is an all-ages gathering of tech enthusiasts, artisans, tinkerers, entrepreneurs and educators who get together to show what they make and share what they have learned with local audiences. It’s a festival of do-it-yourself invention, creativity and resourcefulness in celebration of the Maker Movement.

Along with exhibiting their products, the Cuban entrepreneurs are also building two installations for Miami Mini Maker Faire at Miami Industrial Arts and Moonlighter, two local membership-based makerspaces that offer a range of industrial and prototyping tools – from ceramic kilns and CNC routers to 3D printers – for local entrepreneurs and aspiring artisans to bring their ideas to life.

Miami Mini Maker Faire takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, February 20th and Sunday, February 21st at the National YoungArts Foundation campus. Tickets are on sale now at makerfairemiami.com. The Music Makers Showcase featuring X Alfonso and Afrobeta takes place from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on February 20th. Tickets to the Music Makers Showcase are free and can be downloaded at makerfairemiami.com.

And it forecasts pure RADNESS all weekend long.

We highlight another handful of the more than a hundred makers scheduled to exhibit at this weekend’s Miami Mini Maker Faire:

Microsoft

Miami Mini Maker Faire sponsor Microsoft will host a booth where attendees can build cool Raspberry Pi projects, experience Cloud resources for IoT and even see an initial prototype for water flow analytics.

Pilot VR

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Pilot VR is a low cost integrated Virtual Reality system with the goal to make Virtual Reality a human experience. The system is composed of the Pilot HMD, the Pilot hand controller, and webcam based motion capture technology.

Blue Pill, Red Pill

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Inspired by discarded materials, optical lenses & LED’s, Katerina creates surreal situations transporting you into a parallel world. The viewer is invited to find interconnectedness and wake up from the permanent robotic state of the fast paced world.

Discovering bioluminescent plankton during a night dive in Colombia & fascinated with light,Katerina Friderici designed street lamps, kinetic flashlights and LED bulbs. After degrees in Industrial Design and Communication, she is now interested in studying Biomimicry.

The Mobile Robot Revolution

This presentation will cover some of the background and current commercial and industrial mobile robot systems which are revolutionizing our industries. Some of the tools roboticist used for developing robotic systems will be introduced via a hands on simulation.

Camilo F. Buscaron grew up in Miami. He attended the University of Florida where he built robots at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory. He then worked on a novel electro-mechanical surgical device. Since then he has relocated to Silicon Valley, California and works at a robotics start-up.

01 & MIAMade Presents Wynwood Maker Camp 2016

Wynwood Maker Camp, back again for a third consecutive summer, this summer 2016 at 01! Our camp is designed for kids to explore their interests while building projects centered around exploring electronics, virtual reality, 3D printing, and more.

01 is a prototyping lab for new forms of education, advocating personalized learning through game play. The appropriate new home of the Wynwood Maker Camp for the summer of 2016, five two-week sessions exploring sustainability and wearable technology.

3D Print Yourself

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A picture can capture a moment and freeze it in time. Zero Point 3D can immortalize you with a custom 3d printed statue that is a miniature you. Kids growing up too fast, have them scanned and preserve them on your desk. Take more than a picture, take a 3D picture.

Justin Lydle is the owner of Zero Point 3D, with a background in fabrication and a maker from childhood, it all started with Legos. All the equipment for his 3d scanning company was designed, engineered, and built by himself using everything from 3d printing to welding.

Little River Cooperative

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Little River Cooperative is a diversified plant business which includes an urban farm, nursery, CSA, farmers market booth and seasonal plant sales and workshops.

Muriel Olivares and Tiffany Noe run Little River Cooperative together. They manage their farm and nursery using organic guidelines and aim to teach through plant sales, workshops and garden maintenance services.

We’ll be highlighting several of our awesome exhibitors in the week leading up to the Faire. Here are the first five:

MATRIX by AdMobilize

MATRIX

MATRIX, is a platform where people around the world can develop and download IoT (“Internet of Things”) applications. Developers can build IoT apps in minutes. Miami-based start up, Ad Mobilize successfully funded MATRIX on Kickstarter in December.

Recycled Robots

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Recycled Robots by Roldan Robot Sculptures are made completely from 100% antiques. A graphic designer by day, maker and Miami local Jorge Roldan takes pride in the ultra cool, always unique robot inventions he designs that somehow also defy gravity.

His personal “making” rule of thumb? Spending no more than $10.00 for any parts and often sourcing donated or found junk. Pieces that have washed up on the beach are always a favorite too!

For more info on Recycled Robots by Roldan Robot Sculptures, visit his site here.

Maker|Bright

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Established in 2012, Maker|Bright supports the global maker community with Raspberry Pi and related development boards and accessories. Located in Boynton Beach, Maker|Bright is a startup committed to fulfilling your tinkering needs by providing Raspberry Pi and other development board products.

In fact, Maker|Bright also builds custom kits for organizations looking for educational tools to develop maker skills.

For more info on Maker|Bright, visit their site here.

IS Projects

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IS Projects is a collaborative printmaking and book arts studio located in sunny Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Its studio houses letterpress, fine art printmaking and book arts equipment. This Broward-based makerspace offers workshops, hourly studio rental, memberships, book binding services, edition printing and commercial printing.

IS Projects also houses Nocturnal Press, a boutique letterpress print-shop and bindery. The name was declared by a mentor, as a joke that stuck, after several all night book sewing marathons and letterpress sessions. Now, housed within IS Projects, Nocturnal Press boasts a collection of over 150 different wood and leadtypefaces as well as several hundred pounds of borders and ornaments.

For more info on IS Projects, visit their site here.

Frost Science Pavilion

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science will present a very special space with multiple community partners located within the Frost Science Pavilion.

The Frost Science team will host the activity “Persistence of Vision,” where guests will be able to draw their own 12 panel animation strip, insert them into the drum of a zoetrope and watch their creations come to life. Partner Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will have its Teaching Artists on hand to guide attendees in making their very own animation flip books.

Other partners inside the Frost Science Pavilion include:

CappSci will showcase the Miami Science Barge floating marine laboratory, and discuss solar energy, sustainable agriculture, and marine conservation.
The young makers at DesignLab Miami will host a cartoon-inspired fashionshow, which celebrates creativity and recycling.
ARTSail, an artist residency program aboard a vessel where works inspired by Miami’s relationship to water are created, will host interactive presentations in hydroponics, aquaponic and coral restoration systems.
REM Learning will showcase their Play Make Share program and have hands-on activities for children on design thinking, systems thinking, computational thinking, playing and making.
And Stuffmaker will showcase how 3D printing can be used to create figures for stop-motion animation films.

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