Making with a Disney Imagineer and Muppeteer
Maker Faire Bay Area 2023
October 13th-22nd
Hear a fun, information-rich exchange between Disney Imagineer and Muppeteer Terri Hardin - https://terrihardin.com/ - and Silicon Valley Maker Frank Cohen. Learn the process they followed and how they pivoted from the original concept by pulling-in their interests in Steampunk style, Disney-style story telling, and wearable art jewelry. The talk will end with a discussion of using 3D printing, Arduino, IoT, and other technologies to make the design-to-fabrication process inexpensive and accessible. They will cite the big lessons to move from prototyping into fabrication in China to help you on your own project. Many times Frank imagined making a mobile application connected to the Internet. For example, a wrist watch that shows videos of my children growing-up. He loves the Arduino community and yet when he goes to put something like this together he finds many tutorials on the parts (like a display, Bluetooth, SD card, sound, and compass) there's very little I found that shows them integrated together. He am making my watch project and posting the code, datasheets, and design in the Reflections repository. https://github.com/frankcohen/ReflectionsOS.
Frank Cohen
I'm a Silicon Valley veteran. New technology excites me. I love rolling my sleeves up and sprinting to a solution - especially in competitive situations. I am expert in machine learning with data structures, deep data architectures with many data clusters, and instant visualization and dashboards using Web and mobile app technology. These aren’t easy technologies, so I contribute to and start open-source and Maker projects for positive social impact. I help my teammates and everyone in the world make their own inventions and further their careers. People know me for emotional intelligence, passion, and humor. And I've been a speaker at the most recent 3 Maker Faires when they ran in San Mateo. I've also been a speaker at Maker Faire Shenzhen twice.
