Forward! To Mini
Maker Faire!
What? I can’t
see or hear you.
As member of Sector 67, I volunteered at the Madison Mini Maker Faire. It
was a lot fun to help the group set up their stuff, and help several
dozen people make simple fidget spinners. I even managed to park for
free, relatively close to Monona Center.
To get free parking, find a spot near the event area really early.
If you have never
been to a (Mini) Maker Faire, it is a nerdy gathering of
do-it-yourself technologists. It is the electronic or mechanical (or
both) extension of crafting, taking to elaborate and sometimes
expensive extremes. If you volunteer as part of an organization, you
usually get in for free. However, even in relatively small cities
like Madison, parking at the event is almost never for free.
After about three
hours of standing outside, helping families make their spinners, I
ate lunch at Merchant Madison on Pinckney Street. For $10, you get a
Mexican Pozole. It tasted good, especially after adding jalapenos,
onions, cabbage, and tortilla strips.
It’s
recommended.
Overall,
a great day. While my Fedora was effective in shading most of my head
from the sun, it was not so effective on my neck. The solution is a
hat that has a flap on the back to shade the neck. Also, work gloves.
Not only would this have made more comfortable the handling of the
hot metal of the fresh, in-progress spinners, it would have shaded my
hands from the sun.
Meanwhile, inside Monona Center, members of Sector 67 sold stuff.
Despite
the hot sun, and the hot metal, we still had fun.
Our fearless
leader, riding his Penny Farthing bicycle.
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