This weekend in Rapid City, a one-block stretch of Seventh Street was closed to traffic and open to the CHAOS Maker Fair. Simply stated, the event featured things people make, whether high-tech, like holograms and musical bananas, or low-tech, like wooden block bridges. Vendors offered food and goods for sale, musicians took to a small stage under a huge tent, and tables displayed technology in a fun way.
Maker Fair Highlights Creative Pursuits
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Decker Baum of Sturgis seems delighted to be covered in Oobleck despite its dangerous properties outlined in the 1949 Dr. Seuss story, "Bartholomew and the Oobleck."
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Decker Baum presses his elbow against the Oobleck, which feels solid under pressure but liquid when it's picked up.
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This hologram is created when four images are projected into a plastic prism.
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These bananas act as piano keys if the "player" is holding the metal thingy on the end of the gray wire... Stop me if I get too technical.
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Emma Rivers and Stephen Tafoya worked together to put the Maker Fair together. Rivers works with the Rapid City Arts Council, and Tafoya is with the Rapid City Public Library.
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