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I’ll be at BlueBazaar this Saturday in Pilsen with some nerdy plushies and geeky gifties

May 16, 2014 by Liz

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Pop-up retail events are super trendy these days, and I’ll be part of one in Pilsen (through Fractalspin) on Saturday just to maintain my credentials.

I kid! It’s actually a craft fair called Blue Bazaar, a fundraiser for a neat entrepreneurial technology-slinging non-profit called Blue 1647. It’s a year-old nonprofit technology innovation center focused on “education, workforce development, business acceleration, and economic development in technology”-related things. What that means is they have classes, office space rental, a incubation program and three (3!!!) 5th generation Makerbot 3D printers, free computer usage for members, classrooms, and office rentals to entrepreneurs and budding organizations to aid in making their visions reality (as if the 3D printer thing wasn’t enough). Also, Harper Reed–who might have helped with a presidential thing a while back–is on the board, which might have helped make me aware of them. Pretty cool, right?

So, the cause is great, and I didn’t have plans that day, and it just so happens I have a bunch of inventory that I’d rather not have to pack when I move to the new place. I’ll put “magic stickers” (some people call them Sale Tags) on some neat things I sell that will give some lucky folks a sizable discount when they walk away with cool things like Circuit Board Luggage Tags, Cable Ties, Microcontroller Cufflinks, Goofy Plush Hearts,Giant Testicles, Magnetic DNA Plushies, and more.

If you’ll be on the South side on Saturday and you’ve had your eye on something, now’s the time to negotiate. Ask away!

Here are some of the other artist / vendors who are exhibiting:


Lucky Skye


No Rush Imagery


Tortoise Belly


Knock Down Barns wooden game

Come out and say hello, and check out neat stuff on a Saturday!

Event Details:
What: Entrepreneur and Innovation Fair
Where: Blue 1647 at 1647 S. Blue Island Ave. Chicago, IL
When: May 17 10AM – 6PM
Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Filed Under: Chicago, Chicago shops, Events, Fashion & Jewelry, Geek, Gifts, Liz McLean Knight Tagged With: art fair, business, craft fair, ecommerce, entrepreneurialism, events, father's day gifts, fractalspin, Free, geek gifts, incubator, office space, pilsen, pop up retail, pop up shops, programming, startups, Technology

Punchcards: Blank greeting cards made from vintage computer punch cards

December 10, 2010 by Liz

Greeting cards are in full circulation during the holiday season, and I had been thinking a while about something that would be geeky and retro, so I went searching for old-school punch cards.

A punched card (also known by various synonyms) is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Now almost an obsolete recording medium, punched cards were widely used throughout the 19th century for controlling textile looms and in the late 19th and early 20th century for operating fairground organs and related instruments. They were used through the 20th century in unit record machines for input, processing, and data storage. Early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. –wikipedia

You can grab a set of them at Fractalspin: Punchcards.
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Filed Under: Design, Fractalspin, Geek, Gifts, Liz McLean Knight, Stuff I've Made Tagged With: computing, fractalspin, Geek, geek greeting cards, punch cards, retro

New site design and new products at Fractalspin

October 26, 2010 by Liz

Two months ago I started moving Fractalspin over to a hosted ecommerce platform and since then have been migrating over products and creating the new site design.

I’ve also added a bunch of new products, and even more stuff is on the way. Let mw know what you think!
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Filed Under: Cool stuff, Design, Geek, Music, Neat stuff on the internet, Stuff I've Made Tagged With: fractalspin, geek chic, sharewithfractalspin

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