Coney Island Maker Faire and Elijah Horland present: The Worst Game Controllers, Ever.

Elijah Horland

Hi. I’m Elijah. I’m a Maker and I make fun, loud, obnoxious videos. Why am I in this show, with some of the most inspirational “kids” on the planet? I’m as baffled as you most of the time. Really.I’m not a “great grades” kid, my outreach has been limited mostly to corn in unusual places, and my inventions aren’t world changing. I’m better known for accidents than activism. So, why me, here? It’s not a long story, I’ll try to explain. A few years ago, when I was 9, I was like most every kid in every public school in every neighborhood in New York, getting lost in a crowd of over a million kids. One year I came home from a summer program, and started to think of a big electronics & science project. It involved a high altitude balloon, some computers and a camera. I’d already built a couple of small computers and felt confident I could learn the skills. From soldering to programming, one skill at a time I tried my best to