I'm a geek. I admit it. I have lost hours. ok, fine, years of my life to video games... and I'm sure I'll lose just as much in the next few years too. When I met Robby, The Undead Dev, at this years MakerFest, I was first in line to try out his game, UFO Rodeo. [...]
Every kid loves Legos, right? My brother was the Lego junky in my house growing up. Cases and cases. He'd build anything whenever he wanted. We built our share of forts, swords and whatever we could think of. My kids are both into Legos. B, my youngest, builds creative and ummm unique creations. H, my [...]
I walked around the 2018 RVA MakerFest with my camera, taking tons and tons of pictures. One of the booths I visited was for SCRAP RVA. I walked away with a cool little pom-pom made out of strips of retired t-shirts. It was a huge conversation starter for me throughout the event. When [...]
I had the early view of the list of Makers this year before the actual event. It's one of the perks of being on the board of directors! The other perk is that I get to walk around and meet all the smart and creative folks on the day of. One thing that made me [...]
One of the huge trends in energy is solar. Solar is a renewable energy (the sun isn't going away in our lifetime) that can be harnessed to provide electricity to everything we do today. I had the pleasure of meeting Bertram Green from SolarMill during this year's MakerFest. Mr. Green showed me the renovated and [...]
This year's RVA MakerFest was amazing! We saw close to 9,000 attendees, makers and volunteers on the grounds of the Science Museum of Virginia. The weather was amazing, the demos were exciting and the food was delicious. If you didn't make it, well, make it next year. You absolutely missed out! When I joined the [...]
Come to the RVA MakerFest in style! The big day is coming and we want YOU there! The last thing we want is for you to have a tough time parking and miss out on all the fun. The City of Richmond has recently pushed a HUGE initiative to improve mass transit with the Pulse [...]
I had the pleasure of meeting and getting to know Claire Hollingsworth of Claire's Lab. Claire is a middle school student with a passion for STEAM, Girl Power and the Culinary Arts. She was the first champion from Chopped Jr (Food Network) and was also featured on the Chopped Jr Champion episode as well as [...]
In this feature story, I wanted to introduce you to the FIRST® Robotics Competition Team 1086 Blue Cheese from Deep Run High School, Glen Allen, Virginia. FIRST Team 1086 was born when Deep Run High School first opened its doors in 2002. The mission of FIRST® is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders and [...]
Maker Mary Murphy from Wandering Cow Farm was featured on WTVR today! Greg McQuade, host of Virginia This Morning learned how to felt soap! Mary showed off her skills using natural ingredients and talked about the booth she'll have at this years RVA Makerfest! Watch her segment! https://www.youtube.com/embed/OSVeNsdc5Vw https://wtvr.com/2018/09/12/made-in-rva-wandering-cow-farm-felted-soap/ https://www.wanderingcowfarm.com Come and visit Mary @ [...]
