Barnes and Noble mini Maker Faires!

Great news! MakerMedia (the folks behind Maker Faires and the Maker movement, which ShopBot Tools has supported from the beginning) has teamed up with the 600+ Barnes & Noble stores around the country to host mini Maker Faires November 6-8. It's a chance to show cool things you've created and talk to people for a couple of hours about what you do with the amazing tools that you work with.

The stores will supply a table, chairs, and people to talk to. Since everything will be inside it's not the kind of event to bring a tool and start cutting away, but if you have a Handibot and want to bring it along with your projects, how neat would it be to have it as part of your display? Just to be clear, we're NOT trying to turn you into Handibot salespeople! This is all about showing and sharing your work with people who may never have imagined the cool things you can do with digital fabrication.

The only bad news is that time is short. They stop taking applications this Friday, Oct 2nd! So if you're interested in strutting your stuff you'll need to get going. We really want this to be a success and think it will be lots of fun, so to encourage everyone to get involved we're offering a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card to any ShopBotter or Handibotter that is accepted and participates (just show us some proof that you were accepted to be a participant).

You can find out more at

[www.barnesandnoble.com]

Sign up by THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 at:

[www.barnesandnoble.com]

This was oh so short of notice, but I whipped together a proposal and we will see if they like it.

Sorry for the short notice. We were so wrapped up in prep for the NY Maker Faire that this one slipped through the cracks. Glad to hear that you could apply...good luck!

Bill

Hey Mark...did you ever hear anything back from Barnes and Noble?

Not a word, I am assuming that it is a no go.
I'll post if anything changes.