Makeshop™

A creative space to play with ideas, explore materials, and tinker with tools.

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh

3D Modeling

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If you’re a frequent visitor to our space or this blog, you may know that we have a MakerBot Replicator. We pulled it out recently for Youth Maker Night, an event for older children and young teens. We figured it would be a fun thing to check out while people were snacking in between working on projects. Unfortunately, some of the printer settings were accidentally reset before the event…

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Monsters in MAKESHOP

Adam King is a really cool maker with a really cool hobby.  He experiments with special effects and creates amazing monster masks and puppets.  It was so much fun to see MAKESHOP full of creepy monsters a couple of Saturdays ago.  We weren’t sure if kids would get scared about it, but Adam is so inviting that almost everyone was…

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