Maker Faire

On Sunday I headed to the Maker Faire with Saeed. Thanks to Andy for the free tickets!

Probably the coolest thing there for anyone who played Mouse Trap as a kid was the life size, fully functional version (unfortunately these are iphone pictures so they don't do a good job capturing everything):







Also very cool was seeing the mentos and diet coke guys do their 100 bottle show which was fairly similar to the YouTube video (I know it's so 2002, but how often do you get to see it in person?):



What I think makes this giant hydraulic arm super cool is that someone puts their hand in a glove like thing and the big hand mimics what their hand is doing:



There was some more serious and focused stuff like people who will turn a Prius into a plug in hybrid. And there were some people selling tools and services to DIY types. And some smaller projects, many of which had a bit more focus. And then of course there's stuff like a spinning ball of fire:



And this thing (extra creepy if you saw Terminator the day before), can't see it in the picture, but the video is the people looking at it and is all ascii characters:



And of course some people doing their Steampunk thing.

Overall very cool. I'll definitely try to go again in the future.