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Maker Faire Bay Area!

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We are about as excited as we’ve ever been in our lives this week. Why? We’re going to Bay Area Maker Faire! It’s on this weekend and, well, this has always been a dream for us. We’re pinching ourselves…

If you’re in the San Francisco area, come and see us! We’ll be in the MakerSHED, and we’ll have a demo / hacking workshop area with lots of sugru for you to try out there and then. Dig out those things waiting to be hacked and repaired and bring them along – we’ll give you enough sugru to do your project there and then. We may even have a few prizes for best hacks ;-)

And, well, how could we refuse an amazing opportunity to work with the supreme hackers at our favourite magazine in the world…. we’ve worked round the clock recently to make a limited number of packs for MAKE (on top of the sugru stock we’re building for sugru.com) that you’ll be able to buy from MakerSHED at the Faire.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED Come help us out at the sugru stall
The crowds will be huge, so we’re looking people to join us in our hacking area to show the masses how sugru works. If you’d like to help people hack and make with sugru over the weekend, and meet other sugru fans, we have a few free MF passes for volunteers – email me at jane@sugru.com if you’d like to help — even for just a few hours! We’d love to meet you :)

(Finally, as you can see from our timeline, we’re getting DARN CLOSE now. That means more exciting announcements soon.)

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Other People's Comments

get down to texas;-) please ?

xhozt on May 19, 2010 at 3:19 am

It was great seeing you in real life and hearing your “glue company [no-]love story!” Carry on, Jane / all!

Michael M. Butler on May 23, 2010 at 4:48 am

TWO Editors Choice Awards!

Jay on May 24, 2010 at 6:06 am

I bought a pack at your Maker Faire display today; I’m sure I’ll find some uses for a moldable material with its cured properties…. it looks like it fills a gap between the traditional resins (hard and brittle) and the more common silicone products (much softer). -dw

dave w on May 24, 2010 at 7:12 am

I had a blast at the Sugru stall at Makers’ Faire on Sunday!  Thanks for the fun and the Sugru!

Lin on May 26, 2010 at 9:06 am

Hi Jane,

Nice meeting you at Maker Faire!  As discussed, I tried out the glow powder.  See for yourself: 

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_UdQdiSb7gT4/TAB2L2akA8I/AAAAAAAAKlE/3EivCYkkexo/s400/IMG_7590.JPG

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_UdQdiSb7gT4/TAB2Y5OtBqI/AAAAAAAAKlI/JwLFD_gHfF0/s400/IMG_7591.JPG

I added a relatively large volume of orange glow phosphorescent powder to a pack of orange sugru.  After it hardened, there was some loss in elasticity as compared with “unpowdered” sugru. 

The glow picture is overexposed and the actual glow is more muted but noticeable.

Alvin Barber on May 29, 2010 at 2:11 am