Bricks by the Bay - Second Day

This was the first public day. 

Some adjustments were needed in the demos as can be seen here.

There was a lot of traffic at the booth, which restricted my ability to search though the brick piles for needed bricks.  Multiple times there 7-9 year olds asking very hard questions on operation of the Brick Controller and how I constructed the demos.

Explaining to a very bright 7 year old how the Brick Controller worked

Busy Day

Did not get much time to eat so these were very helpful.

Finally here are some short videos from some of the train oriented MOCs

Bricks by the Bay - First Day

Bricks by the Bay - First Day

This was the second day of setup and the beginning of the convention as can be seen in the next three pictures showing the schedule.

But what do you really do at a Lego convention, besides by product from me.  You look at what everyone else has built and you look though brick piles for those pieces you need. At $10/pound, it is much cheaper than any of the one line sources.

Sold more controllers and USB power sources to vendors who wanted to have automated displays either at their booths or back at their brick and mortar stores.  Finished connecting all of the demos and remembered to bring the tablet for the interactive demo.

Talked to quite a few attendees on how MyMakerTools Brick Controller might help them motorize their projects as well as just power them.  Tomorrow the public shows up, so we will see what happens.


Here are some pictures from the first day.

Last minute fixes

I was very interested in this.  I want to build a large cliffscape for the space station and this will be useful as a guide.

Interesting bar scenee

Small Star Wars fighters

Japanese Swords

Tropical Paradise

City Skylines

B-36

B-29

Rupaul's Drag Race Winners

Brickheadz

Bionnicle Dragon

Door Scene from Monsters Inc

Part of the train layout

Bricks by the Bay - Setup

Well we rolled in at 5PM and setup for this year's Bricks by the Bay, Jul 12-14 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.  

The MOC area setup was well under way when we got there

Only missed a few things in the packout.  Fortunately we live close by, so it was no big deal.

Attendees were already setting up their MOCs

The view from our location

Since we did not have a MOC for display this year, I took three of the pieces from last year and used them.

Setting up connections for the MOC Demo display

Final Setup for MOC Demo

Setting up the interactive display, forgot to bring the tablet though

Even though it was only vendors and attendees with displays, sold one Brick Power 2 unit to a vendor with a motorized display.  He forgot to bring extra AA batteries and his battery pack was already low.  When he saw how the interactive display was powered, he bought one on the spot.

Tomorrow will be for attendees only, then Saturday and Sunday will be open to the Public.