I recently attended the Silver Spring Maker Faire. I attended it last year when it was known as the Silver Spring Mini-Maker Faire but, due to the fact that this event is bigger than it was last year, it is now known as a regular Maker Faire.
I arrived early because I had a meeting scheduled with other people starting at 2 p.m. so I couldn’t stay for the whole day. It was just as well because this event was just as crowded as last year so I basically made do with just taking pictures with my smartphone camera.
I arrived when it first started, just in time for the Hoover Uprights band in the next photo to play its set. One of my friends from my Unitarian Universalist congregation was in that band.
Here are the rest of the photos from that event. There were tons of kids doing the hands-on exhibits, which was why it was hard to get close to many of the booths.
There was this big area called the Cardboard Playground where people were invited to make things from cardboard while a giant cardboard robot oversaw everything.
Makerspace 125 (formerly known as Club 125) had a booth at this event, which was well received.
A high point of this event was the display of the new Tesla electric cars.
I even shot a short video of some of the more interesting parts of the Maker Faire, including a frisbee-tossing robot, a demonstration of a tiny flying drone, a toy car, and a toy car race on an electronic track.
Like I wrote earlier, I couldn’t stay the whole day due to a meeting that I promised I would attend. On my way to my car I took this overhead photo of the entire event while I was on the pedestrian bridge between the City Place Mall and the parking garage where my car was located. Even from up high you can see how crowded the area was.
Ironically, despite my effort to make the meeting on time, I was still late because I encountered an unexpected traffic backup due to geese!
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