Reef Race is a fun, challenging game for all ages showcased at the
Maker Faire Bay Area in 2019. Created by an all-female maker team,
this engaging and colorful experience won the Editor's Choice award.
We hosted a Harry Potter-themed Halloween party for our friends.
In addition to bringing Butterbeer and Quidditch pong to life, we
welcomed our guests with an entrance hallway full of floating
candles hovering up and down.
We wanted to bring perpetual motion to an otherwise motionless space.
The result was a
working roller coaster with a motor-driven lift hill and real cans
rolling the track.
Our goal this year was to engage the audience, so we built a giant
Simon game that worked. With a bit of programming and 196 LEDs, players got to put
their memory to the test on an 8-foot tall display.
Building a structure to be driven through a parade gave us an
interesting opportunity to play some visual tricks. This optical
illusion gave the appearance of a blue sky behind rolling hills as it
was driven nearer, and a colorful sunset behind the valley as it
passed by and drove away.
Our love for Disney parks inspired the first structure we built for a
Canstruction event. Built to scale, Cinderella's castle had us
disguising non-food materials that provided stability to our tin can
structure.