Maker Fair, San Mateo, CA
--Hey gang I spent most of Saturday at the Maker Fair, which is
being held at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in California. If any of you are withing striking distance of this event you have *got* to go; it was awesome! I was expecting a bunch of geeks huddled around card tables covered with laptop computers and tiny robots, but instead there were huge crowds, bigger than one sees at a "normal" county fair and the exhibits took up every bit of inside and outside space of the entire complex: 7 buildings filled with neat stuff! There was just too much for me to digest into a few paragraphs here;, but a few hilights were the all-Meccano Difference Engine, Stereolith renderings of complex geometric forms using sintered stainless-bronze alloy, CNC router doing 3-d stuff from photo input; the "electric giraffe", etc. There are spaces set aside to solder up kits of various forms, for kids and grownups alike to try their hands, etc. --I'll post photos and put up a page in a few days. For more info here's the link to the event's homepage: http://makezine.com/faire/ -- "Steamboat Ed" Haas : I'll have the roast duck Hacking the Trailing Edge! : with the mango salsa... www.nmpproducts.com ---Decks a-wash in a sea of words--- |
Maker Fair, San Mateo, CA
I thought is was very cool as well. I've had a subscription to the
Magazine since it started. The Magazine is bit too cute (looks kinda like WIRED), and short on details, but it is still a lot of fun to read to see what other lunatics are doing. My son also had a great time, so it was nice to get him "infected" with the making bug. I spent a lot of time at the Fair talking to the guys converting a Prius so that you can plug it in. That seems like so much of an improvement that Toyota HAS to start doing it. |
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