A math-free hands-on workshop where participants will learn about, and construct, a variety of common electronic and electrical cosplay components, including LEDs, EL wire and sheets, and motors.
Description:
It is assumed participants will have no prior experience in working with electrical or electronic components. Participants will practice basic soldering skills and leave with basic knowledge of wiring a circuit and connecting simple items such as lights, switches, and electric motors. Participants will leave with practice pieces they construct during the workshop.
Cosplay Fabrication: Hands-on Working with EVA Foam
Summary:
Participants will learn & practice techniques for working with EVA foam. Each participant will leave with an armored helmet they will manufacture during the workshop.
Description:
During the class, each participant will construct a spangenhelm constructed of EVA foam. Instruction on the best tools, materials, and techniques will be taught and practiced. Advanced techniques such as angled cuts and the use of contact cement will be covered. This will be very hands-on and participants will finish the session with enough experience to confidently craft items out of EVA foam.
Cosplay Fabrication: Hands-on Working with EVA Foam
Summary:
Participants will learn & practice techniques for working with EVA foam. Each participant will leave with an armored helmet they will manufacture during the workshop.
Description:
During the class, each participant will construct a spangenhelm constructed of EVA foam. Instruction on the best tools, materials, and techniques will be taught and practiced. Advanced techniques such as angled cuts and the use of contact cement will be covered. This will be very hands-on and participants will finish the session with enough experience to confidently craft items out of EVA foam.
Cosplay Fabrication: Hands-on Working with EVA Foam
Summary:
Participants will learn & practice techniques for working with EVA foam. Each participant will leave with an armored helmet they will manufacture during the workshop.
Description:
uring the class, each participant will construct a spangenhelm constructed of EVA foam. Instruction on the best tools, materials, and techniques will be taught and practiced. Advanced techniques such as angled cuts and the use of contact cement will be covered. This will be very hands-on and participants will finish the session with enough experience to confidently craft items out of EVA foam.
Want to sell your art or crafts, be hired as a GM, or turn some other hobby into a side (or full time) hustle? Come learn how to evaluate viability, and avoid common legal and financial pitfalls.
Description:
Many people turn their hobbies into successful businesses. But plenty others make errors early on that cost them time, money, and even their love of the hobby. Still others never try at all, fearing exactly such a negative outcome. Do I need a business license? When do I have to pay income tax, or sales tax? What do I need to charge to make a profit? Whatever your hobby, this workshop provides answers to many of these questions, and a clear blueprint on how to find answers for the rest for your specific hobby and location. Facilitator Tobi Mattingly is an Enrolled Agent (licensed tax pro) and provider of small business services, working with hobby-entrepreneurs of all stripes for more than a decade. She's also a creator herself, having worked over the past 25 years as an actor, director, musician, and game designer, and successfully Kickstarting Divination RPG in 2024.
During this class we will assemble and decorate wooden dice towers from kits designed by Emmie Mayne of Lightning and Lace.
Description:
There will be a variety of materials used including wood glue, so make sure you are wearing clothes that are alright to be made messy. Wood glue won't come out of clothes! Dice towers will feature a magnet closure and fold out into a rolling tray.
During this class we will assemble and decorate wooden dice towers from kits designed by Emmie Mayne of Lightning and Lace.
Description:
There will be a variety of materials used including wood glue, so make sure you are wearing clothes that are alright to be made messy. Wood glue won't come out of clothes! Dice towers will feature a magnet closure and fold out into a rolling tray.
During this class we will assemble and decorate wooden dice towers from kits designed by Emmie Mayne of Lightning and Lace.
Description:
There will be a variety of materials used including wood glue, so make sure you are wearing clothes that are alright to be made messy. Wood glue won't come out of clothes! Dice towers will feature a magnet closure and fold out into a rolling tray.
During this class we will assemble and decorate wooden dice towers from kits designed by Emmie Mayne of Lightning and Lace.
Description:
There will be a variety of materials used including wood glue, so make sure you are wearing clothes that are alright to be made messy. Wood glue won't come out of clothes! Dice towers will feature a magnet closure and fold out into a rolling tray.
A helpful, and fun inventive way to keep track of your trades, and travels here at Gen Con, and everywhere else around the world.
Description:
Despite having social anxiety, I have been Trinket Trading and journaling my trades for 4 years and developing this system for 5. I will provide you with all the materials needed. I will be going over how to do your cover page, rules you can adopt for your trinket book as well as trading. We will tap into our inner crow brains and make string keychains / bracelets with the option of shiny objects for trading with other Con goers, and cosplayers. Whether you are an extreme extrovert or introvert, my system will help you have positive and fun interactions to remember for a lifetime while making people laugh, smile, or just overall enjoy their convention experience.