Submission for the 2018 Maker Faire New York.
This was my first year participating in the Maker Faire with my own booth! We were located next to our partners at Ionyc, who displayed a variety of neat projects and prints from the makerspace.
Originally my students and I had planned to create a movable garden with weather sensors that could be transported to the faire. Due to a lack of funds, ended up coming up with a pretty innovative solution, by bringing the weather to the faire ourselves!
The box itself is comprised of a tiny wave "tank", a rain machine, wind machine, and lightning simulation. There is a pump that leads to the top of the tank to allow for rainfall. The wind vane is blown by a re-purposed 12v fan we pulled from an old computer in my STEM lab.
The lightning is comprised of neopixels utilizing the FastLED library (incredible gift to the community, I have used this library so many times! Thank you so much to Mark Kriegsman and the late Daniel Garcia).
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