Mousie and Hedgie
Maker Faire Bay Area 2018
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Margaret and Sam
Margaret Long and Sam Gawthrop have been showing at Maker Faire individually and together since 2008, with groups such as the Flaming Lotus Girls, Flux, and Le Attrata. They enjoy creating opportunities for engagement with art, big and small.
Mousie is a playful and mischievous little mouse. Hedgie is a young and somewhat shy little hedgehog. They zoom around, interacting with all of the things at maker faire, from robots and sculptures, to kids and adults.
What inspired you to make this project?:
During Maker Faire 2015, after finishing setup on the thursday earlier, we wanted to go watch the new Avengers movie, but tickets sold out. Instead, we took an RC car, some foam, a roll of gaffer's tape, and some spray paint and made a creature to entertain ourselves and the crowd. We thought a mouse would be funny because the Mousetrap was absent that year. Mousie was a great hit, and has been back since, as a tag-along to our various exhibits (Robots, Flaming Lotus Girls, Le Attrata, and others). Hedgie will be joining Mousie this year- and this is the first year Mousie will be officially registered as an exhibit.
