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We recently attended the Halifax Mini Maker Faire 2015, and took freelance journalist Gareth Halfacree along for the ride. This series of Focus On features is designed to offer a sampling of who you can expect to see at a Maker Faire event, why they're there and what it is that drives them.Taking over the majority of the pretend Post Office located in Eureka's main hall, Janine Kirby of Sheffield Hardware Hackers & Makers has certainly brought plenty to talk about at the Halifax Mini Maker Faire. "We're a hackspace based in Sheffield at the Portland Works," Janine explains of...

We recently attended the Halifax Mini Maker Faire 2015, and took freelance journalist Gareth Halfacree along for the ride. This series of Focus On features is designed to offer a sampling of who you can expect to see at a Maker Faire event, why they're there and what it is that drives them.With the UK government on a drive to improve the state of technology education in the country, there's a bigger than ever market for low-cost educational robotics. Wesley Bower decided that current low-cost products weren't low-cost enough, and came up with an interesting solution. "I'm showing my robots...

We recently attended the Halifax Mini Maker Faire 2015, and took freelance journalist Gareth Halfacree along for the ride. This series of Focus On features is designed to offer a sampling of who you can expect to see at a Maker Faire event, why they're there and what it is that drives them.While Leeds Hackspace has a joint stand in Eureka's dark theatre, member Angus Taggart has taken a position in the pretend Post Office to make better use of the light. Light is important for Angus' project, because it's a novel form of photography. "I've brought what I have...

We recently attended the Halifax Mini Maker Faire 2015, and took freelance journalist Gareth Halfacree along for the ride. This series of Focus On features is designed to offer a sampling of who you can expect to see at a Maker Faire event, why they're there and what it is that drives them.The dark theatre of Eureka is a great place for Leeds Hackspace to have their table, as it helps to show off the centrepiece: a gigantic LED cube, soldered by hand over a period of some months. "This is our big glowy cube - or, rather, our medium...

We recently attended the Halifax Mini Maker Faire 2015, and took freelance journalist Gareth Halfacree along for the ride. This series of Focus On features is designed to offer a sampling of who you can expect to see at a Maker Faire event, why they're there and what it is that drives them.Sheffield-based Giles Grover's stand in Eureka's main hall is one of the first you see as you pass through the reception area to get into the museum proper, and it's attracting its share of attention thanks to the colourful machines atop the table. "They're laser-cut, wooden construction kits,"...