Making for Fun & Knowledge: A Look at the Scan-o-Tron!
“Creating means living.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape We've always loved making things, from the workbenches and furniture we made for our first home three decades ago (including the desk I still write from today!), to literature and art, to building projects like...
Hillsborough Women in Tech – Seminole Heights Library March 30, 1pm
The headlines regularly call America out on the issue: Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation Why it's Crucial to Get More Women into Science "Girl Day" Addresses Lack of Women in STEM Fields The White House has a page dedicated to Women in STEM and there are now...
Eureka! Factory is a Proud Supporter of Homebrew Hillsborough!
The Eureka! Factory is excited to be part of Hillsborough County's new monthly networking series, Homebrew Hillsborough, kicking off on Friday, January 30 at 8:30 a.m. at Buddy Brew on Kennedy Avenue, home of the original Tech Talks started by former county...
Season’s Greetings from Eureka! Factory
St. Pete MakerFest: Growing our Community of Makers
The Eureka Factory will be at the 1st annual St. Pete MakerFest Saturday, December 20th, joining our growing community of makers in a celebration of all things creative and self-made. We love supporting our creative community, especially at the grassroots level, where...
Making a Better Holiday: Buy Less, Live More
"...the more I buy the more I'm bought. And the more I'm bought the less I cost." - Joe Pug – Hymn #101 The holidays are upon us with a vengeance here in the U.S., commercialism steamrolling across our media saturated landscape with all the subtlety of, well, a...
The Hive and the Future of Libraries: An Editorial Response
Back in October, the Tampa Bay Times ran a story on the results of a consultant's summary report of an evaluation of the John F. Germany Library in downtown Tampa. The John F. Germany Library is the main branch of the Tampa Hillsborough County Library System, and home...
Collaboration Celebration
The Eureka Factory is a collaborative of creative individuals and business partners who believe in the power of community driven innovation to help people move from passive consumption to empowered and active creation of their future and ours. - Our Welcome Page In...
Deconstructing the Future at The Hive makerspace, Nov. 15th
On Saturday, November 15th, the Eureka Factory joins in the at The Hive Centennial Celebration Open House at John F. Germany Library, at 900 Ashley Drive in Tampa. Designed by Steve and Terri Willingham, of the Eureka Factory, and located on the 3rd floor of the John...
Eureka! It's time for The Deconstruction 2014
So back in early 2013, when we were tootling around on behalf of Learning is for Everyone (LI4E), we participated in the first ever Deconstruction event. We were fresh off our first go-round on Red Bull Creation 2012, where we made it into the semifinals. We...
Full STEAM Ahead at the Eureka! Factory
The Eureka! Factory has been chugging full STEAM ahead since Maker Faire Orlando, with more great projects and programs coming off the creative conveyor over the next few days. This past weekend, our 2nd annual ROBOTICON FIRST Showcase , sponsored by Bright House...
ROBOTICON Tampa Bay – October 11 & 12
We're so excited to be producing the ROBOTICON Tampa Bay FIRST Showcase again this year. The event, coming up this weekend, October 11 & 12, is free and open to the public and provides a great opportunity to see this great "Sport for the Mind" in action. Our first...
The Eureka! Factory, a trademark of Willingham Associates LLC, is a collaborative of creative individuals and business partners who believe in the power of community driven innovation to help people move from passive consumption to empowered and active creation of their future and ours.
