PITTSBURGH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM -- I overheard a six-year-old boy say to his mom at Pittsburgh's Mini Maker Faire: "Stop texting on your phone for a few minutes!" He had things to see and do. Electronic gadgets to manipulate, plastic piggies to manufacture and many other fun hands-on things to learn about.
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| What famous paintings do you see upside down in the glass ball? |
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| This guy is making plastic pigs not selling hair products. |
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| Not sure what's going on here! |
The Saturday Light Brigade radio team was there:
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| I hear she was a tough interview. |
The "cloud maker" made clouds:
Geeksdanz was there, too, making dances.
The loudest musical instrument in the U.S. sits near the Children's Museum, and it makes music so loud that you can't think. It's the Great American Horn Machine, and I heard it loud and clear from a quarter mile away playing Oh When the Saints Go Marching In. They handed out earplugs for everyone close by. Check out a performance earlier this summer in Detroit: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/07/19/maker-faire-detroit-great-american-horn-machine-interview/:
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