MakerFaire 2017

The Groups

Vendors

Companies

Ideas:

• The Purple Purl
• The Wool Mill
• Mad Science
• The Simple Craft Company
• Hobby Shops
  • Wheels and Wings ( danforht )
  • Hornet Hobbies ( O'Connor )
  • Dragon Hobby ( Gerrard )
• Sayal
• Creatron
• Master Mind Toys
• Home Depot
• The Pantry http://www.thepantryfinecheese.com/ - Jeremy Lago - If you ask this guy nicely He'll teach a class on making cheese.

Indie

Independent Individuals

Some people I know ( David Thornton )

• Seth Hardy ( Hacking / Pyrotechniques https://www.linkedin.com/in/sethmhardy )
• Alex Leitch ( Founder of DMG https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/talkxtalk-presents-alex-leitch )
• That resin guy from beavers
• Archive guy at beavers

Schools Makers

Teachers and Students

• Malvern CI
  • https://twitter.com/malvernci_TDSB - clues on clubs
  • http://schools.tdsb.on.ca/malvern/clubs/
    • Robotics Club
    • Knitting Club
    • Fashion Show ( Making clothes demo maybe ? )

Community Outreach

for example NGO.

• community gardeners.
  • ??
• Science Centre
• Harbourfront craft people ( potter , glass making , etc )
• Toronto Potters ( Facebook group : do they have a "real" group? )
• Dames Making Games https://dmg.to/
• Scouts Canada could probably do a knots tables easy, but what about whipping and lashing ( Google those separately please )?
• GTALUG - Greater Toronto Linux User's Group - do a talk, have a table, build your own computer thing.
• SecTor - A Toronto Based Securoity conference, mightbe interested in doing a table on something security related, like lock picking,
• Riverdale Hub - Seed Swap or something else - http://riverdale-hub.wixsite.com/riverdale-hub
• Black Creek Community Farm

Sponsors

• do a table
• donate a raffle prize
• Aws / azure / google community outreach
• UofT ? http://entrepreneurs.utoronto.ca/toronto-unlocks-inner-maker-spirit-maker-festival/
• Site 3 coLaboratory http://www.site3.ca/
• Lee Valley
• AdaFruit https://www.adafruit.com/educators
• Intel - Think "Edison" microcontroller.
• Artscape Wychwood Barns
• 4 Cats art studio. http://www.4cats.com/

Marketing

• https://snapd.com/
• The Tweets
• The Facebooks

• have a schedule of reminders, and updates as plans get into focus.

Activity Tables

Ideas

• Paper Craft
• Paper making
• Soap Making
• Make ice cream
• Beam robots ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_robotics )
• Toy hacking
  • Apart
  • Together
  • Experimenting
    • Ocilliscope
    • Multi meter
• Baking
• Robot Battle
  • Sumo
  • Maze Runners
• Coding tables
  • talking computers ( Google home , Alexa , other )
  • coding robots
  • IOT / Sensor nets
• Neighbor ISP HOW TO AND HANDS ON
  • re-purposing old network equipment
  • MESH Networking
• Lock picking table

Accessibility / Inclusivity aspects

• Blind
• Hearing
• Level access
• volunteer signers.
• narration.

• activities to simulate different abilities
  • wheel chair obstacle course
  • blindfold course

Celebrity Appearances

• Mark Margaret Mahon
• Steve Dotto http://www.dottotech.com/ (I might be showing my age here)

Ideas Grab Bag

• Social Media planning tools : schudled releases, managing data, coordination be tween mediums.
• A quiet room
• A break out room for activities that need a bit of quiet.
• Petcha kucha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha

Themes and Topics

• Technology for older people
• Technology for inclusivity and accessability - aws alexa . google home