Last day of the #BNMakerFaire Nationwide, we've had so much fun doing the Show and Tell. As part of the Central Texas Makers, we brought with us many of our homemade projects to this event and we're having so much fun.
Here's a picture or two:
This child is having so much fun play game on a Raspberry Pi tiny computer. Can you believe it, it has over 300 games of several different game console. Remember the Atari series, Game boy, Nintendo and much more.
Another example of how Raspberry Pi tiny computer is being used is the next photo:
We have a Raspberry Pi running the PiAware software. This uses a SDR (software defined radio) to pick up aircraft transponder information. With the PiAware software, you can see commercial aircraft in the area, with their real-time location and destination. The data get fed to the FlightAware website, which is then used to map flights across the world. One of the benefits of feeding data to FlightAware is that you receive an Enterprise license (which normally costs $90 a month) -- which you can use to get detailed flight data -- real time -- from around the world. If you are interested in aircraft, it's a very inexpensive way to get into flight tracking.
Another fun thing we did is the Electric Cigar Box Guitar... people loved playing with it:
Guest visiting the #BNMakerFaire today enjoyed playing the handmade electric cigar box guitar and many other cool and interesting #maker #project display by #CentralTexasMakers member Ron and Evelyn Nelson
Posted by Central Texas Makers on Saturday, November 7, 2015
It's our last day but it's gonna be awesome. Look forward to seeing y'ah. Happy Making Day.
