Nearly 1,200 people attended Saturday’s Maker Faire Lake County at the College of Lake County in Grayslake.
Among the features of the event were an outdoor trebuchet catapult mechanism and rocket launcher.
An indoor gym accommodated 55 exhibitors. Attendees could experience a musical Tesla coils attraction, the Lake County Robotics Competition, a drone obstacle course, three-dimensional printers, leather working, hands-on maker opportunities and a string-art community project.
“It’s family-friendly, so we encourage and…