The
day before yesterday I found out that there was a Maker Faire going on
in Singapore this weekend! I immediately scrapped all my other plans for
the weekend to get there. It was definitely worth it. I owe a lot to
the maker movement. It's what got me interested in engineering and I
think it's a big part of the reason I am the person I am today!
The
highlight of the Maker Faire was definitely the whole hall dedicated to
Intel Edison projects! There were so many cool things in that hall! I
have to admit that I only had a vague idea of what the Intel Edison did
before saw all those demos. It's a pretty capable SoC. My favorite demo
were these dancing hexapods. They were really cool to watch. The second
best demo was the robot with omni directional wheels.
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| The Dancing Hexapods |
There was also quite an impressive display of 3D printing at the Faire.
There were so many exhibits related to them! Apart from the conventional
designs using steppers to move the extruder in the X-Y plane I also saw
a 3D printer based on a delta robot.
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| Saw this 3D printer that could print huge parts |
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| The delta robot 3D printer |
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