How Maker Faire Shaped My Future
From hobbies to Harvey Mudd via a salvaged aircraft.
Written by Sam DeRose
Tony DeRose
EVERY SATURDAY MORNING FOR EIGHT MONTHS, I rolled out of bed into our garage to join the rest of the team. We were working on our most ambitious project to date: The Viper, a flight simulator that we designed, built, and fundraised ourselves. On weekdays we were high-school students, but on the weekends we built a spinning, two-axis motion gantry out of a salvaged airplane fuselage, created custom software around an open-source flight simulator game, and managed a website with hundreds of photos and dozens of update videos, attracting ...
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