Titanium Robotics attended one of Los Angeles’ most well-known and anticipated events that happens to be newer compared to others located within the large area that Los Angeles encompasses: the DTLA Mini Maker Faire. The event took place on Saturday, December 7, and consisted of any creators inclined to take their work and share it with the community in a large, public, heavily populated setting. The faire allows “makers” from far and wide with any level of experience, regardless of vogue, to showcase their work to the community, share ideas with one another, and to bring promotional mediums with which they may promote any works they created. It allowed for a safe environment in which both ideas, goals, and publicity can be shared amongst “makers.”
To this event, Titanium Robotics brought its t-shirt cannon, [Ti]rone. Upon arrival, the team set up a booth at its designated spot where attendees could visit at any time as they make their way around all of the booths over the course of the event. The robotics team met with several other robotics teams, as well, including several FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) and other FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) teams, who showcased robots of their own; each booth was unique and offered a new outlook to the experiences and joys of robotics. Every half hour, Titanium Robotics launched t-shirts into the crowd, and in the interim allowed young people who visited the booth to learn to drive the robot and form a basic understanding of how it functions.
Along with finding new people interested in STEM, the team also encountered an old Titanium Robotics team member, who was on the team from 2008 until 2011, and served as an electrical captain back when the team was known as Firebird Robotics. Other “makers” at the faire gave team members t-shirts advertising their products, works, organization, or business so that the team can partake in aiding them in publicizing their projects.
The day went by and concluded smoothly, after the team made a myriad of new connections and allowed for all to witness the hard work that Titanium Robotics puts into every one of its projects.
