Category Archives: Robotics

Gulf Coast MakerCon 2016 in Review

Posted on April 13, 2016 by

Gulf Coast MakerCon 2016, wrapped up Saturday, April 9, as our biggest and most successful event yet. The whole idea of the event is to create an opportunity to network and share skills, crafts, ideas, and innovations born and raised in our Florida Gulf … Continue reading →

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Gulf Coast MakerCon 2016 Program Now Online!

Posted on April 7, 2016 by

Our 2016 Gulf Coast MakerCon event program is now available for your browsing – and downloading – pleasure! See the event layout, and check out our great list of exhibitors by booth number in the program or in this separate … Continue reading →

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Gulf Coast MakerCon Welcomes Florida High Tech Corridor as 2016 Sponsor!

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

Stretching across 23 counties, the Florida High Tech Corridor is “a technology rich region known as much for its legacy in aerospace as it is for its growing prominence in other high tech clusters of innovation such as Modeling and … Continue reading →

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Meet the Maker: Rocket Burns

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

Here at Gulf Coast MakerCon, we get excited about all of our makers… but we really get fired up about our amazing youth makers!! It is our pleasure to introduce you to a wonderful, intelligent and inspiring young man, Rocket … Continue reading →

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Meet the Idea Makers: Hackerboxes

Posted on April 5, 2016 by

Ever felt like tinkering but needed some inspiration? Always wanted to learn a bit more about electronics and computer science, but didn’t know where to start?  Sarasota Maker and Entrepreneur, Joseph Long has just the thing for you: Hackerboxes! HackerBoxes … Continue reading →

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Meet the Makers: ASME@USF

Posted on March 31, 2016 by

One of our new Maker groups this year is ASME@USF . A student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) based at the University of South Florida, ASME@USF is a nonprofit organization for engineers, typically mechanical engineering students, to … Continue reading →

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