Tuesday, September 9, 2014 - 10:48

CAMDEN—The second annual Mini Maker Faire, held in the Camden Amphitheatre on Sept. 6. Hundreds of people of all ages attended to see more than 20 exhibitors strut their stuff. Read the captions to get behind the scenes of the event.

Photos by Kay Stephens

The solar Merry Go Round. Kids had to be paired with kids; adults with adults so not to cause a weight imbalance.

Inventor Arthur Haines propels the Merry Go Round with a remote control and chooses music to go with each ride from his iPad.

Regional School Union 13 Lego Robotics Team and The Rockland RoboGeeks showcased some of their LEGO® robotic creations.

Jason Philbrook led a Cynotype hands-on workshop.

Here, a student applies heat from a hairdryer to finish his Cynotype.

Educators from CMCA ArtLab allowed kids to choose from a wide buffet of LEGOs®, trinkets and an electric drill to make sculptural key chains and pendants.

First they could pick out the pieces....

Then turn them into pendants or keychains.

Eva Szillery, a Ph.D in mathematics demonstrates how to make modular origami.

Meghan Boyle led her Funky Fermentation demonstration on how to make sauerkraut, using cabbage, sea salt and a basic jar with a lid.

Nancy Tyndall, a puppeteer from Montville, created The Wee Museum of Maine, in which she demonstrates how these hands-on riddle books work.

Jared Paradee, (a.k.a. Robot Overlord) teaches a cardboard robot making clinic.

Some of the robots made last year, now for sale.

Artist Claire Wyman demonstrates in her oven bake clay clinic how to make tiny clay projects.

Some of the tiny foods created with oven bake clay.

Author Dena Davis was working on a Little Free Library, a small, mailbox-like structure that houses free books.

Making bubbles!

Bubbles as big as kids.

CoffeeMan, solar powered coffee trailer owned and run by Doug Hufnagel.

Making free standing stone arches.

Meghan Vigeant co-leads the The Farnworth Art Museum’s Ilustrated Six Word Memoir clinic.

Kids play dress up for the Darling’s self-timed Photo Booth.

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