Here’s a Squirrel sighting in Uruguay.
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New York World Maker Faire 2011
I’m going down to New York to attend the Open Source Hardware Conference, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Moma, World Maker Faire and a few other things.
At the World Maker Faire, I have a non-commercial booth so I can demonstrate the Squirrel. I will bring some of the raw materials a few small tools and show how the kits are made. I’ll bring a pile of kits so people can see those too. I’ll also show some of the techniques of making the Squirrel kits and flying.
I’ll probably make about 10 of them over the weekend and I hope there is some blue sky to fly them into. If all goes well they get lost in trees and stuff. 🙂
Perhaps I can inspire someone to make a Squirrel or make a new design.
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Bringing model planes to everyone
I met up with my friend Nicole and her friends. We bounced around the pub with some Squirrel planes.
Interestingly it was the ladies and not the gentlemen who went for making planes.
Nicole and I are bringing the Squirrel into a walk-in center for homeless people in Sandy Hill area of Ottawa. Lots of other ideas on the drawing board.
The Foam Squirrels go together pretty fast. I put three of them together while juggling beer without too much trouble. I think if I could come up with some interlocking parts for the foam, that would make for something very accessible by many.
Foam Squirrel Experiments
I did more foam experiments. Here I made a few of them at the pub. This young lady decided to decorate the planes with the markers I had floating around.
I had the markers with me with that in mind. I was starting to volunteer at a walk-in center for homeless people and I thought making planes and decorating them would be fun. These experiments proved not only that it is fun but the foam planes are very robust.
