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| Knox Makers wants everyone to have a place where they can use new technology and the familiar tools we've always loved to experience the joy of actually making something real. | | Knox Makers wants everyone to have a place where they can use new technology and the familiar tools we've always loved to experience the joy of actually making something real. |
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| If you have information you think should be on here, please reach out to board@knoxmakers.org. | | If you have information you think should be on here, please reach out to board@knoxmakers.org. |
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| ==Conventions, competitions, outreach programs, events and festivals==
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| Here you will find information about conventions, competitions, and festivals where we have participated in some way. For many of these entries, we have had presentation booths or another active, informative, and often interactive presentation. For some of these entries, we were present as volunteers or merely attended as a group.
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| ===General Community Events===
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| ====FIRST Smoky Mountains Regional====
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| '''2012 FIRST Smoky Mountains Regional'''
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| '''2013 FIRST Smoky Mountains Regional'''
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| ====Dogwood Arts Festival====
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| '''2014 Dogwood Arts Festival''' | | '''2014 Dogwood Arts Festival''' |
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| ====Codestock====
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| '''Codestock 2013'''
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| '''Codestock 2014'''
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| ====Children's Festival of Reading====
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| '''2014 Children's Festival of Reading''' | | '''2014 Children's Festival of Reading''' |
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| ====Blount County Public Library Robot Extravaganza====
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| '''2014 Robot Extravaganza''' | | '''2014 Robot Extravaganza''' |
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| ====Blount County BBQ Bash====
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| '''2014 Blount County BBQ Bash''' | | '''2014 Blount County BBQ Bash''' |
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| ====The MUSE Robotics Revolution====
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| '''2014 Robotics Revolution'''
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| ====The MUSE/ETDC Mad Scientist Day!====
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| '''2014 Mad Scientist Day!''' | | '''2014 Mad Scientist Day!''' |
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| ====PechaKucha 20X20 Knoxville====
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| '''Volume 7: April '13'''
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| '''Volume 9: October '13'''
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| '''Volume 10: February '14'''
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| '''Volume 11: May '14'''
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| ====Marble City Comiccon====
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| '''2014 Marble City Comiccon'''
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| ====Steampunk Carnivale====
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| '''2013 1st Annual Steampunk Carnivale''' | | '''2013 1st Annual Steampunk Carnivale''' |
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| ====Earn-A-Computer (EAC)==== | | ====Earn-A-Computer (EAC)==== |
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| ====Siemens Teachers As Researchers (STARs)====
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| '''2014 STARs''' | | '''2014 STARs''' |
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| ===Extended Learning Events and Projects===
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| ====MIT MediaLab's Learning Creative Learning (LCL)====
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| ====Drupal Camp Chattanooga====
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| ====Sonny's 3D Printer Build-Off====
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| ===MakerFaires===
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| ====Atlanta Mini-Maker Faire====
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| '''2012 Atlanta Mini-Maker Faire''' | | '''2012 Atlanta Mini-Maker Faire''' |
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| ====Kingsport Mini-Maker Faire====
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| '''2013 Kingsport Mini-Maker Faire''' | | '''2013 Kingsport Mini-Maker Faire''' |
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| Toward the end, a couple of kids (about 8 and 14) from the FIRST robotics table next door came over with a laptop, having excitedly just designed a little 3D man (their ode to Minecraft's Steve) that they hoped we'd print for them. I wasn't "taking requests," but their earnest young faces were irresistible. I managed to slice it with support and get it printed just in time, and their reaction was totally worth it. It was a nice way to end the day. | | Toward the end, a couple of kids (about 8 and 14) from the FIRST robotics table next door came over with a laptop, having excitedly just designed a little 3D man (their ode to Minecraft's Steve) that they hoped we'd print for them. I wasn't "taking requests," but their earnest young faces were irresistible. I managed to slice it with support and get it printed just in time, and their reaction was totally worth it. It was a nice way to end the day. |
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| '''2014 Louisville Mini-Maker Faire''' | | '''2014 Louisville Mini-Maker Faire''' |
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| ====Nashville Mini-Maker Faire====
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| '''2013 Nashville Mini-Maker Faire''' | | '''2013 Nashville Mini-Maker Faire''' |
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| '''2014 Nasvhille Mini-Maker Faire''' | | '''2014 Nasvhille Mini-Maker Faire''' |
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| ====National Day of Making====
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| '''2014 1st Annual National Day of Making''' | | '''2014 1st Annual National Day of Making''' |
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| '''2011 SkyDogCon'''
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| '''DefCon 22'''
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| ==Special Community Build Projects==
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| ===The MUSE Donation Machine===
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| ===Pablo the Drawing Robot===
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| ===Bumblebee the 3D Printer===
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| ==Special Tours==
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| '''Volkswagen Chattanooga'''
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| ==Partners, collaborators, and project facilitators==
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| We have kept our doors and minds open to partnerships that help to enhance local and global communities both digitally and in the real, physical world. Included in this section is a list of entities where we have formed partnerships with organizations or people from organizations. Also included are special projects we have engaged in using a collaborative approach. Details are included for each organization related to official partnerships, casual partnered efforts, and/or special projects we have participated in. Not all organizations in this section are official partners.
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| Additionally, we have worked hard to try to include everyone we have worked with in this list. This is not only for our benefit, we really like to give thanks where thanks is due. If you or someone you know has helped Knox Makers along, pass along a message to board@knoxmakers.org with a request to add their organization to this list.
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| Many organizations and events listed here are nonprofit organizations, and this is not a list of sponsors or paid advertising.
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| ===FIRST Robotics===
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| ===The Muse===
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| ===Blount County Public Library===
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| ===Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL)===
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| ===ORNL Manufacturing and Demonstration Facility===
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| ===MIT MediaLab===
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| ===MIT Lifelong Kindergarten Group===
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| ===Paulk and Co.===
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| ===Local Motors===
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| ===Knox County School Board===
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| ===Oak Ridge Associated Universities===
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| ===Siemens STEM Academy===
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| ===Discovery Education===
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| ===League of Extraordinary Musical Robots (L.E.M.U.R.)===
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| ===Stained Glass Association of America===
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| ===Stanford University===
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| ===Portland University===
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| ===University of Houston===
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| ===University of Tennessee===
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| ===Radio Systems Corporation===
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| ===Instructables===
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| A group of Knox Makers has participated in an Instructables contest designed for Makerspaces.
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| For the Makerspace/Hackerspace contest, Instructables and Sugru partnered to offer free shipments of Sugru to creative learning spaces willing to dedicate to five Sugru Instructables projects. Knox Makers accepted the challenge, and we received positive feedback from the Instructables community on our projects:
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| [http://www.instructables.com/id/Sugru-Bottle-Drainage-Coupler/ Sugru Bottle Drainage Coupler]
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| [http://www.instructables.com/id/Sugru-Air-Gap-Makey-Makey-Buttons/ Sugru Air-Gap MaKey MaKey Buttons]
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| [http://www.instructables.com/id/Sugru-Key-Cover/ Sugru Key Cover]
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| [http://www.instructables.com/id/Patriotic-Hammer-Grip/ Patriotic Hammer Grip]
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| [http://www.instructables.com/id/Last-minute-emergency-lab-party-costume/ Last Minute Emergency Lab Party Costume]
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| In addition, many of our members maintain their own Instructables pages where informative and educational DIY instructions are offered to the global public for free using a variety of Creative Commons, Open Source, and GNU licenses.
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| Joylabz partnered with a Knox Makers effort in 2014 as part of the 2014 Siemens Teachers As Researchers (STARs) program. The STARs program is a partnership between Siemens STEM Academy, Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL), Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), and Discovery Education. The program hosts outstanding educators from around the country for two weeks in Oak Ridge as part of a fully-paid fellowship scholarship. Educators are pitted with scientist and researcher partners at ORNL for special collaborative research projects, offered field trips and special events, and granted generous living expenses and micro-grants for their classrooms back home. In 2014, Knox Makers members treated the STARs to an educator development workshop on the Maker Movement and Joylabz helped by generously supplying each of the 40 educators with a free MaKey MaKey.
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| Additionally, Knox Makers members have helped to offer bugtesting for Joylabz' MaKey MaKey as well as help to provide support for their online community.
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| More info about [http://joylabz.com/ Joylabz] and [http://www.makeymakey.com MaKey MaKey] at their respective websites.
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| ===TechCo===
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| TechCo has played an important role in support of Knox Makers. At an earlier stage, TechCo offered meeting room assistance before Knox Makers arrived at a more permanent location.
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| Knox Makers has worked with the Tellico Village Computer Users Club and TechCo to test the trial program Earn-A-Computer (EAC) Project. This was a program developed to benefit underprivileged children in parts of East Tennessee. By attending free weekend classes, children could learn about computers and computer programs. Upon completion of the free course, each child received a free computer.
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| See above TechCo entry for the Earn-A-Computer (EAC) Project.
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| ===DefCon Knoxville (dc865.org)===
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| Akerworks is a professional locally-owned fabrication and manufacturing company and is a great example of how a maker spirit can add value to the local economy. Akerworks is owned by one of our own longstanding members.
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| [http://www.akerworks.com/ Akerworks website]
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| ==Knox Makers hack the media==
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| Here you will find links to external media coverage of Knox Makers' collectively innovative and delightfully demented glory.
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| You can also view our [https://knoxmakers.org/node blog] featuring content from Knox Makers, its members, and guests.
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| This section is aimed at arming an interested newcomer, journalist, sponsor, partner, ally, or Vaudevillian foe with information related to Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, and topics directly related to our mission.
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| *[https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/116444404791437273860/events/cel4vcgcu0lkngepe7qir5b02ss Google+]
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| *More listed at our [http://knoxmakers.com/wiki/Social_Media Social Media wiki] page
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| Almost all of our classes and workshops are free and open to the general public. The only exceptions include rare workshops that require nominal materials fees, special fundraising events, and special workshops hosted by professional guests.
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Knox Makers wants everyone to have a place where they can use new technology and the familiar tools we've always loved to experience the joy of actually making something real.
As new hardware and software tools for crafting, coding, digital design, and fabrication are emerging, we are working together to place those tools into the hands of our community. We are building the infrastructure necessary for more people in Knoxville to connect to a future in which they can personally change, modify, or create things that were nearly impossible to do on their own just a few years ago.
Knox Makers brings the excitement and energy of the hands-on global maker culture and makerspace communities to the Knoxville area, to provide a lifelong learning environment alongside a locally run workspace soaring with possibilities.
This page is dedicated to information and resources about our community outreach projects and partnerships.
If you have information you think should be on here, please reach out to board@knoxmakers.org.
2014 Dogwood Arts Festival
2014 Children's Festival of Reading
2014 Robot Extravaganza
2014 Blount County BBQ Bash
2014 Mad Scientist Day!
2013 1st Annual Steampunk Carnivale
2014 2nd Annual Steampunk Carnivale
Earn-A-Computer (EAC)
2014 STARs
2012 Atlanta Mini-Maker Faire
2013 Atlanta Mini-Maker Faire
2014 Atlanta Mini-Maker Faire
2013 Kingsport Mini-Maker Faire
2014 Kingsport Mini-Maker Faire
July 13, 2014, Kingsport, TN. Knox Makers arrived at the auditorium on Sunday with Pablo and three 3D printers, the first thing we saw was someone else's large polargraph (drawing on a whiteboard) and about half a dozen Makerbot 3D printers. We felt our thunder had been stolen, but we set up anyway.
We're glad we did. Our booth was in a high foot traffic area and remained busy all day. We met a couple of kindred spirits that we expect to see at a Tuesday workshop soon. We also got to talk to a lot of folks who had heard of 3D printing, but weren't really sure what it was and/or had never seen it in person.
We enjoyed explaining to folks that the other 3D printers on display were "store bought," while ours were lovingly handcrafted by local nerds. This attracted a lot of interest, as did Pablo's drawings that accumulated and got taped up as the day progressed. Many folks asked what business we were in, and seemed pleasantly surprised to discover that we were representing a non-profit hobby group and not trying to hawk anything. Issac gave out many KM-branded keychain trinkets, and Doug learned about the heartache of 3D printing with nylon live and in public.
Partway through the day, Bumblebee's extruder tension arm broke. Happily, Issac's (unnamed) printer was able to manufacture a replacement part on the spot, which Sam promptly installed. The tale of the one machine "repairing" the other captivated a number of folks, and the jaunty red tension arm stood out and served as a conversation piece for the rest of the day.
Toward the end, a couple of kids (about 8 and 14) from the FIRST robotics table next door came over with a laptop, having excitedly just designed a little 3D man (their ode to Minecraft's Steve) that they hoped we'd print for them. I wasn't "taking requests," but their earnest young faces were irresistible. I managed to slice it with support and get it printed just in time, and their reaction was totally worth it. It was a nice way to end the day.
2014 Louisville Mini-Maker Faire
2013 Nashville Mini-Maker Faire
2014 Nasvhille Mini-Maker Faire
2014 1st Annual National Day of Making