The Lineup at the Maker Faire

I'm playing a game, and it's taking me places. I'm going to the Bay Area Maker Faire, and it's looking very, very good.

In 2012, even before the Community Lemonade Game was born, I was finding myself as a maker, and not confident enough to identify myself as a maker. Now I know that everyone is a maker, because everyone makes something, and if you make something - anything - you're a maker!

With that in mind, I think it might be amusing to those who know me that I ever doubted my maker self. Still I was going to the Maker Faire for the first time, and I shared it with you.

Since then, I've spent my time making makerspaces and serving makers, and even created Makersville to serve those who make.

I'm headed to the Maker Faire again, and checking out the lineup... and it's looking very good.

Honestly, when I've been to the faire in the past, I usually wander around the booths without a plan, and there's plenty to interest me. I don't really seek out speakers. I even missed participating in an interview with Massimo Banzai (co-creator of the Arduino) once. Much to my chagrin it was scheduled at the last minute for those who write, and my airplane ticket had me arriving the next day. It's just as well I couldn't go. I wasn't sure what I might say to such an icon. I suppose a blogger like me would just hover in the wings and listen. It happened also with Dale Dougherty, who started a movement. The Maker Movement. Bloggers have no formal training in interviewing.

Anywhoo. I think I'll plan on adding some of the speakers to my list of things to do, because there's a nice lineup planned! Who's your favorite? Here are some I'm putting on my short list. I know, the faire is very - busy - and I hope I make it to see at least one of them!

My Short List

• Massimo Banzai - co-creator of the Arduino
• Adam Savage - Tested.com, Mythbusters
• Simone Giertz - Queen of Useless Machines (surely you've seen her very funny videos)
• and. my personal favorite on the list, Theo Jansen - Artist, maker of the Strandbeest, an awesome wind-powered mechanical creation, a headless, many-legged creation, that he has made in many media, including - LEGO(r)! Funnily enough, I was sharing today the Strandbeest with some of the mini-makers around me.
  

Who on the list of presenters is on your shortlist?

Photo: Trish Tsoiasue and Dale Dougherty at the Beall Center, Irvine

Trish Tsoi-A-Sue is a creative facilitator in the Long Beach area. Certified in LEGO® Serious Play, she is the President of ETES Inc, and creator of Makersville, a community of makers. Trish is the Ambassador for the Long Beach LEGO® User Group, a group of AFOLs and Teen Fans of LEGO® (TFOLs). Join our facebook group! Some of her random experiences are recorded on her You Tube channel, Squigglemom! Please subscribe! She often writes about LEGO® , her birth country of Trinidad and about Makers and Making things. In a few weeks, she's headed to the Bay Area Maker Faire!