Brighton Mini-Maker Faire 2014

Today I went for a day out to Brighton to the Mini-Maker Faire. There was the usual collection of stands there, with rather a lot of 3D printers in evidence. There's a move to put 3D printers in every school!

There was also robots and sculpture and sculpture of robots:

There were also some very stange tricks with LED's. This is a set of spinning LEDs making a globe:

I went for a walk on the seafront afterwards and saw some rather good grafitti:

Saturday - Brighton Mini-Maker Faire

Today I went to Brighton for the annual Mini-Maker Faire. I went by rail, via Victoria Station in London, which took a little longer but meant that I didn't have to drive. Despite being ticketed, it was even better attended that last year, from what I remember, although it was only £5 on the door, or £10 if you wanted a nice badge:

It has been laser-cut, and a laser cutter was being demonstrated by a fabrication company:

There was even a knitting android and I was accosted by a pushy Dalek:

I went for a walk down on the promenade before I headed home and the surf was up:

Brighton Mini-Maker Faire 2012

I went down to Brighton for the second time this year to look at the Mini-maker Faire, especially the 3D printing!!

Give me an E, Bob! (and a P)

The National Museum of Computing also had a display:

Nostalgia! There was also some art stuff:

As well as the ususal soldering and crafting workshops. A jolly nice day out!

Rezzed 2012

On Friday, for a trip out, I went to Rezzed, a computer games show in Brighton.

Despite being billed as an "Indie" games show, the vast majority of the PC's were for big name publishers, SEGA for example. Amongst the new games being shown were Borderlands 2, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and lots of other FPS's too boring to mention (I'm a 3rd person RPG man, myself). I played a strategy game called Prison Architect where my first task was to build Death Row (seriously, this is a game). I also had a go at a game called Krater, a proper RPG I have now bought, but seem unable to run on my PC properly.

I attended a demo of Total War: Rome 2, developed by local game subsidiary of SEGA, The Creative Assembly. It's pretty astounding stuff, technically, but I think they are in something of a rut creatively (what are the odds that the next game will be Medieval Total War 3?).

It lashed it down most of the day, so I was glad to be inside, but I got a free T-Shirt, loads of flyers. Brighton seems to be something of a centre for game development, not so much a silicon roundabout as a silicon seafront. But you know what Britain is like: we don't really do industry, we just pretend to and try to rip people off.