We are! Maker applications and ticket sales go live January 2, 2013! Click here to see what we’re looking for in Maker applications, for a head start on your application. We’re deeply grateful to our event partners, The Concourse, Pasco County Libraries and Learning is for Everyone, and to our fantastic event planning team who will be working behind the scenes to do everything possible to help Make Your Day, at Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire 2013
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69 year old Cate Vincent made her way up to Charlotte to the DNC convention this week to showcase her DIY job creation spirit, with her iPad handle invention, reports WINK News.
Vincent told WINK her invention not only got the attention of Apple, but has created jobs.
“I live on the Space Coast in Florida where there are no jobs now, and we’ve already put 30 people to work,” Vincent said.
Let’s hear it for a DIY inspired economy!
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Tagged Cate Vincent, Florida Inventors, inventors, ipad handle
Watch the LI4E Makerspace team live, starting tonight, July 19, at 9pm, as they embark on the 72 hour Red Bull Creation Build-a-Thon!
Planning out the Red Bull Creation entry
They did it! Learning is for Everyone’s LI4E Makerspace Project team will be representing Tampa Bay, Florida and Learning is for Everyone as a finalist in the 2012 Red Bull Creation Contest. Provided only with an arduino open source microcontroller – called a Bullduino, in Red Bull’s honor – teams from around the country put together a device of their choosing to try to impress judges with their creativity and engineering skills.
That was easy!
The LI4E Makerspace team created a Rube Goldberg-esque Red Bull Wake-Up Call alarm clock, and entered a video of their contraption into the competition on July 3. The clock, in their words, is “an over-engineered beauty .. ” Apparently Red Bull agreed!
The Red Bull launcher
Red Bull Creation judges selected the LI4E Makerspace team and 11 other teams from around the country as finalists, who will now compete in a 72 themed build that kicks off July 19. After a public voting period, top scoring teams get to take their creations the World Maker Faire 2012 in New York, in September. Besides getting to showcase their creations, Red Bull Creation finalists will be vying for a top prize of $10,000.
LI4E Makerspace and Team Duct Tape members, with mentor Paul Markun, of Tampa Technik.
The LI4E Makerspace Project is an effort by Learning is for Everyone (LI4E) to bring community makerspaces to Tampa Bay. The LI4E Makerspace team is an intergenerational, multi-talented crew of youth and adults, who are students, writers, artists, programmers, engineers, craftspeople and all-purpose tinkerers – a cross section of the community that would value and use a makerspace. Many of the team members are also members of LI4E’s award winning FIRST Tech Challenge team, Team Duct Tape, recently returned from competing in the FIRST World Championship in St. Louis, MO.
LI4E’s motto is “No Limits!” and the Red Bull Creation team exemplifies that no-holds-barred creativity in all they do. More information about the LI4E Makerspace team can be found here .
Congratulations, LI4E Makerspace Team! We’ll be following closely next week,and fully expect to see one or both of their creations at Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire 2012!
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Enjoy this fun look at Learning is for Everyone’s Makerspace Project Red Bull Creation 2012 entry! Team members hailed from LI4E’s FTC Team Duct Tape , and put their collective creativity to the test to develop the massive Rube Goldberg-like device in just three days!
Here’s the team’s description of their creation:
This over-engineered beauty is the Red Bull Wake-Up-Call alarm clock. Since 
anything worth doing is worth over-doing, this Bullduino-driven morning persuader is configured out a variety of repurposed items, including:
The LI4E Makerspace Project is an effort by Learning is for Everyone, the lead sponsor of Tampa Bay’s first ever Mini Maker Faire, to bring makerspaces to Tampa Bay . Not waiting for makerspace to start making things, team members are hard at work and play in 2012 Red Bull Creation Contest , armed with a “Bullduino” and loads of creativity, hoping to make it into the top 12 makers or maker teams, who get to compete in a 72-hour build starting July 19.
After a public voting period, top scoring teams get to take their creations the
Getting a few supplies for the Red Bull Creation project.
World Maker Faire 2012, in September. Besides getting to showcase their maker awesomeness, and hang with other great techies and artists, Red Bull Creation contestants will be vying for the top prize of $10,000 - pretty decent seed money for a Makerspace!
Working with a few things the LI4E Makerspace Project team found in the garage.
You can follow along the LI4E Makerspace Project team’s adventure on their Facebook page . And check back here soon to see a video of their creation!
GO TEAM!
Young Makers are born with imagination and a sense of fun and creativity. But they also need the encouragement and support of family and community, to not only celebrate what they make, but to keep their Maker Spirit alive and thriving!
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From Jamie and Adam Tested – Mythbusters‘ Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage’s home on the web – comes the latest in the As Yet Untitled Adam Savage Project #2: Getting Started Making. (If you’ve got a suggestion for a show name, visit the “Name the Next Tested Video” page.)
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On June 25, 2012 a Maker Space – a community space to “create, tinker, play anad collaborate” – will begin to operate in the Westport Library in CT, joining the growing number of libraries reimagining themselves as makerspaces. From June 25th to August 23rd Joseph Schott will be our first Maker-in-Residence. Patrons can participate in assisting with the creation of two model airplanes that will ultimately be suspended in the Great Hall of the Library. How about it Tampa Bay? Interested in collaborating on similar spaces here? Check out the LI4E Makerspace Project.
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Check out the great little video our student videographer, Ryder, made at this year’s Tampa Bay Mini Maker Faire!
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