Lisa Brahms visiting Omaha

[Tyler Swain]

Lisa Brahms, the director of learning and research, at the Makeshop, a children’s Makerspace, located in the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, will be visiting Omaha November 26^th and 27^th.  I’m not sure what the schedule is like at the space, as I have yet to find time to get back down there, but would there be any interest in having her come and speak, or give a presentation?

She was recently a keynote speaker at the Worlds MakerFaire in NYC.  Here is a recent interview with her from Make magazine.

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/30/in-the-makeshop-informal-learning-and-making-at-the-childrens-museum-of-pittsburgh/

 

If there is some interest I will pull some strings and try to get her out.

 

From: omaha-ma...@googlegroups.com [mailto:omaha-ma...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Knaack
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Subject: [OMG] Whiteboard dimensions?

 

Does anyone know the dimensions of the large whiteboard at the space?

 

Also, I'm looking for ideas for mounting an X-Y table around it. 

 

I'm thinking aluminum extrusion, maybe Maker Slide or something equivalent. Two long rails mounted above and below on stand-offs about 5cm from the wall would form the Y axis. On those would run a T- or I-shaped X axis rail. The tool head would have an array of Expo Click whiteboard markers.

 

The machine would take gcode served from a computer. The computer would accept vector files, SVG, maybe DXF. These would be sent to the computer via a web service, which would be accessed via any of a variety of interfaces (for example, visitors to the web page could use an on-page virtual whiteboard drawing tool which would then send the file to the real whiteboard, to allow remote interaction).

 

[Eric J. Kaplan]

Nov 27 would be our regular meeting time. That would be AWESOME if there was a way for her to speak and tour the space!

Let me know if I can help with the string pulling. 

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[Stephanie Jensen]

Seconded.

[Rob Townley]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Tyler Swain <tsw...@ocm.org> wrote:

Lisa Brahms, the director of learning and research, at the Makeshop, a children’s Makerspace, located in the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum, will be visiting Omaha November 26^th and 27^th.  I’m not sure what the schedule is like at the space, as I have yet to find time to get back down there, but would there be any interest in having her come and speak, or give a presentation?

She was recently a keynote speaker at the Worlds MakerFaire in NYC.  Here is a recent interview with her from Make magazine.

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/08/30/in-the-makeshop-informal-learning-and-making-at-the-childrens-museum-of-pittsburgh/

 

If there is some interest I will pull some strings and try to get her out.

 

Is she speaking somewhere else in Omaha meant for actual little kids?  googling Lisa Brahms Omaha did not really find anything but this conversation.

[Tyler Swain]

She’s a colleague of mine and is coming into town for a meeting with me before we begin building our Makerspace at the Children’s Museum.

[Rob Townley]

MakerSpace at ocm  ... i will now permit my wife renew our membership. 

[David Gotrik]

I think it'd be great to hear what she has to say when she's in town

[Eric Kaplan]

If the Tuesday-evening meeting does not fit within her schedule, perhaps we could have a special presentation at the space on the 26th instead?  I reckon there are enough of us that are interested in meeting her and hearing what she has to say that we could provide a decent audience for her.

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[Stephanie Jensen]

Agreed -  I would come on any day to hear her speak.

[Tyler Swain]

It sounds like Lisa may be available to do a presentation on the 26^th in the evening.  I should know for sure within the next few days, and will let you know as soon as I am certain of anything.