It’s been a busy month for us here at pi-top, we’ve attended several events and met a great range of inspiring people. This month saw the pi-top team heading to Germany for a second time this year, this time attending another Makerfaire in the bustling city of Berlin as Gold Sponsors.
The event highlights the innovations and creative projects from the maker community, and this month’s event in Berlin was no different, with a colourful mixture of amazing projects, talented makers and inspiring inventions - from robots breathing fire, to a full size R2D2!
Whilst we were rarely able to leave our booth as we were often busy talking to attendees that stopped to meet us, or companion companies who were also exhibiting at the event - it was great to see familiar faces again after the previous Makerfaire in Hannover earlier this year. When we did get a chance to take a look around other booths at the event, we checked out Pimoroni, our fellow maker and educator friends from the UK, who had a real treasure trove of fun goodies at their booth, making it into a ‘candy store’ for makers, which we thought was pretty cool. One highlight of the event was being awarded the ‘Maker of Merit’ ribbon! Which praises creativity, ingenuity and innovation for our Makerfaire project.
We also caught up with James Mitchell, the organiser of the Raspberry Jam Berlin, who was also at the faire - this time with a spinning tardis and Twitter photobooth. Earlier this month, one of our friends, Nic Hughes held the very first Raspberry Jam meetup in East London, which is for fellow Raspberry Pi enthusiasts to come along and talk with other like minded hobbyists and developers. We enjoyed attending the event and ran a CEEDuniverse workshop in Digilab’s big workshop room.
To close this month, we’ll be heading to Mozfest in London on October 28th-30th, where we’ll be holding a range of workshops for the attendees. You can keep up to date with all of our news and events our Facebook and Twitter channels.
Here’s a few photos of the team from the Makerfaire in Berlin:
