hi guys it's going to learn with iFixit
and today we're at Mini Maker Faire in
San Luis Obispo California maker faire
is about learning doing and of course
making there's a mature tinker's and you
know I fix it's here I can't wait to
learn something new today let's get
making
I'm here with dr. leer with mini maker
faire in San Luis Obispo tell us a
little bit about Mini Maker Faire and
what you do for it so um I've been
involved in organizing this year's Maker
Faire and they're a group of us who've
been working since about November and to
start the planning for everything that
we have today and so it is amazing to be
here and see it actually happening I'm
here with Brian Brian who are you here
with i'm here with innovation sandbox
and tell us what you guys do well we are
a club for focus for entrepreneurship
and innovation with cal poly right
what's through cal poly corrects great
and what did you guys bring today to
Mini Maker Faire well we brought a few
things we brought first off is a 3d
printer maker bot we also brought a
banana piano so a banana piano most
likely you've never played probably
played up banana piano no I've never
played a banana I mean is your lucky day
we have a little circuit board here
which is attached for a few ports and it
runs a program that was basically
installed on the computer itself so all
you simply does is connect to complete
the circuit and it triggers a reaction
which which plays a certain key
i'm here with Tracy and Tracy who are
you with i'm here with cal poly i triple
e club where the cal poly club for a
computer and electrical engineering and
we're just basically teaching people how
to solder over here we're making solder
art just like this we have a whole bunch
of obsolete components and so we figured
teach people how to solder and make art
out of it i'm here with Jeff and Jeff is
a maker Jeff what do you make I make
cookie tin ukuleles that's so much fun
and colorful so tell me the first time
you made one of these well a friend of
ours sent us an actual ukulele from
Hawaii for us a wedding gift and then I
had to make a cigar-box uke and then I
saw a photograph of somebody who'd made
a youth out of a cookie tin and I had to
try it myself so you gonna play
something for us okay you're putting me
on the spot alright so this is this is a
very hillbilly song I'm ready go for it
most folks will never read a skunk but
then again some folks will likely
that was amazing hey guys we're here
with Tyler and Evan and they are with
Cal Poly physics department that's very
fun and what have you made today we have
a couple shuffler concentrators today
and that's what's behind me right now
what are we gonna do with it today we're
gonna cook some food on it what do I get
to cook uh you can cook a hot dog or an
egg up to you I think I'm gonna cook an
egg all right can you see this this is
pretty hot this might actually make me
want to cook okay I haven't tell us how
it works okay well really it's a
single-axis solar concentrators so we
take it outside and aim it north and
then you just set it to the east so it
is aimed kind of at the Sun and it
charges up a little so and then it gets
enough power for the motor to run and it
just tracks from east to west throughout
the day so how quickly does it heat up
um pretty much instantly actually yeah
order up one of the things I'm really
excited about this year when we think
about making um and technology and
making in the sort of maker movement
sometimes people just think about robots
or they think about soldering and those
are key parts of the maker revolution in
the United States but it's also about
integrating you know the new
technologies like 3d printing with
traditional crafting and other art
practices and really conduct combining
the sort of science technology arts
mathematics approach and so I'm really
excited that we have more and
more diverse people here at this year's
maker faire and I can't wait to see who
will get next year
and that's 2014's Mini Maker Faire in
San Luis Obispo California thanks for
joining us keep tinkering and keep
making and remember it's not about the
finished product it's about getting your
hands dirty and doing it