What image pops into your head when someone uses the word “maker”?
The images that tend to appear in the mind—not to mention Google’s image search—involve wires and circuit boards. As important as those skills and the people who enjoy them are, they only represent one type of maker. Many skills can fall under the maker umbrella, whether it’s programming robots to make pancakes or turning a bicycle wheel into a musical instrument. Artists, scientists, crafters, and engineers can all be considered makers. If you can take a set of materials and transform them into something cool, you are welcome in the maker community!
Read MoreThe Denton Mini Maker Faire is a family friendly, educational event happening this Saturday at the Denton Civic Center. DMMF allows attendees to see some of behind the scenes processes that makers of all sorts of things (electronics, jewelry, art, drones, etc...) go through in order to create. The event is basically a celebration of all things inventive and resourceful. You could probably throw in the term "nerdy" in there and you wouldn't be wrong, but that isn't a bad thing at all. Read on to find what out the Denton Mini Maker Faire is and why it should be on your "to do list" for this weekend.
Read MoreSCRAP Denton is full of reuse pushers. After you've hung out in their new digs on Bell for a while, made a few crafty friends, and taken a couple of classes you kinda get hooked on creative reuse. It can be addictive. With their new location, SCRAP is bigger and better than ever before, and with their upcoming fundraisers, summer camps and more, things only look to be getting better. We recently spoke with lead SCRAPer (our term, not hers), Heather Gregory, to get the low-down on all of the upcoming events happening at SCRAP. Oh, and she gives us insight on who is the craftiest person in Denton, teases an upcoming Mini Maker Faire to be held in Denton this fall, and a whole bunch more because she's busy like that. Read all about it in the interview below.
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