mattbell

I spent almost all of Maker Faire behind a booth this year, but it was fun to interact with the various attendees.

 

In addition to the lasercut wood spirals, I brought a few laser-cut paper Hilbert curves for people to play with. 



Every now and then I would invite people to pull one of the Hilbert curves apart.  Because the Hilbert curve is an intricate, long, space-filling curve, a small Hilbert curve can be stretched to quite a length. 

This ~9 year old kid gave a savant-style mathematical definition of a Hilbert curve, so I let him pull the first one apart:



At the end of the day, we pulled apart the remaining ones, including the two big ones:

 


This is unrelated, but was also from maker faire -- a veritable ocean of paella: