Photos

  • Child sitting at a soldering station with adult looking on
    MakerFaire Charlotte
  • Child sits watching 3D printer in the Library
    Google and Make’s summer Maker Camp Imaginon with Makerspace Charlotte
  • Child holding circuit breadboard with very few wires and an earpiece
    Your first radio could be much simpler than you think
  • Boy stands next to science fair display - made of PVC pipe
    Brian’s Science Fair display – not your typical tri-fold
  • Adult holding one multi meter probe on his tongue and another on a 500 in 1 electronics project kit
    Don’t try this at home… I’m a professional
  • Roadie case with PVC, wires, lights, and a small screen with a raspberry drawing displayed. The tubes go out the top with paper rockets on top
    Raspberry sky
  • Man and woman holding word signs that read @SBCDemoDay, and #SBCWindsOfChange
    Startup Bootcamp FinTech and CyberSecurity Demo Day in Amsterdam
  • Adult helps child wearing over-sized leather wending jacket hammer red hot nail on small anvil
    Forging swords at SEEDS
  • Elementary school kids wearing rugby tournament medals
    After a great day of rugby, all the kids got medals
  • Kids playing rugby in the park
    East Cobb Rugby has a clinic
  • kids making heron fountains out of 2 liter bottles
    Exploring infinite water at Imaginon with Heron Fountains
  • multi colored lights in a dark room as if plotted on a graph...but as a long exposure photo
    Gate tracking with pulsed lights, accelerators, and long exposure photography
  • small robot shooting fire
    How to win a battle bots competition when the bots are laser cut out of wood? Just add fire.
  • Rugby weather
  • Kids rugby team converges on single oppoent
    Isabel moves in for the tackle with her team in support
  • Rugby tackle
    Brian makes a tackle a the the Life University summer rugby camp.
  • High School Rugby camp Friends at Life University
  • Rugby in the rain
    Is it really rugby if it’s not raining?
  • Boy and girl crouch low to ground to listen to very primitive radio
    Upon hearing sound from the first radio he ever made, Joshua shares it with his sister
  • Laser cut wooden soldering station with fume extractor fan, fume containment dome, lights, and captured (held for you) soldering iron
    Ben’s improved soldering station that doesn’t involve kids (or adults!) grabbing the wrong part of the soldering iron.
  • Father and son sit together practicing soldering at an electronics workbench
    Father and son solder together
  • Kids playing rugby - white player running with ball with green player in pursuit
    Brian running for a try at the Vegas Sevens
  • Coed middle school rugby team
    Brian on the girls team?! Coed teenage tackle? As a parent aren’t I supposed to prevent such things?
  • Do what I say kid, or I’ll karate chop your drone
  • SAMSUNG
  • Two kids holding a rod and a showing small fish on the line
    That’s not the bait… that’s the fish we caught!
  • Large Jenga set made from 2x4s
    Our Giant Jenga set at the 2nd Annual Mini MakerFaire in Atlanta
  • SAMSUNG
  • Group watch a man play jenga with tongs and dry ice over an empty aquarium
    The dry ices actually screams if you hold it too tight with the tongs
  • One elementary school rugby player against and entire team.
    Joshua is on his own and up against fierce opposition
  • Young girl soldering in a workshop
    No wrong way to hold a soldering iron (unless it smells like chicken)
  • Kids soldering. One child has a traditional soldering iron, the other is at a station where the soldering iron is held in place and the components and solder are moved under the held iron.
    Two different ways to solder
  • 5 or more compressed air rockets launchers on a table
    We’ve made a few compressed air rocket launchers through the years
  • Rugby in the park
    Nothing like a little rugby at East Cobb Park
  • Touch Rugby at Georgia Teach
    Touch Rugby at Georgia Teach
  • kids gather around and playing with obleck in a speaker
  • cast aluminum skull
  • Man looking underneath a 40 watt CO2 laser cutter
  • 25 glow sticks loaded haphazardly in a 2 in tube
  • Perspective of man holding the real Eiffel tower between his forefingers
    Its so much smaller than I thought
  • dragon shapped robot spewing two foot flames
    It’s alive!
  • Man holding very tiny sword in front of sign that reads - Stop no weapons of any size allowed.
    Really… Any size?
  • Cylindrical radio with ferrite core in front of oscilloscope
    Of course rockets on radios would be round
  • people sitting on stage and an NS8 event
  • Lightbulb without protective glass glowing very brightly submerged in liquid nitrogen
    Super cooled tungsten glows even brighter
  • Small foil taped robot in the form of a dragon
    Not just a dragon bot, a fire breathing dragon bot
  • Obleck bounding on a speaker
    Non-Newtowning fluids are better with food coloring
  • 1lbs wedge style battle bot with offset wheels
    Sir Lance-a-little survived contact with the enemy!
  • acrylic disc with laser cut hackerspace charlotte symbol illuminated with ultraviolet LEDs gving green glow
    Time Fountain
  • Girl on riding hover board sitting lawn chair holding leaf blow down with speed motion blur
    Isabel is off to the races
  • Felt circuit schematic symbols on in the form of a radio circuit connected to oscilloscope showing generated 1Mhz waveform
    A much simplified radio… with proof of life!
  • Felt circuit schematic symbols on whiteboard in the form of a radio circuit
    Early feltronics circuit with a mix of hand-cut and laser cut parts.
  • Wires wrapped around 2032 watch battery and off balance motor in the rough shape of a bug
    Bug Bots
  • Isabel holding rocket launched glider
    Isabel’s first rocket launched glider
  • Class at Discovery Place