This weekend we're visiting the
Maker Faire at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, the end-all be-all event for DIY hacks,
homebrew gadgets, and other oddities and phenomena. Just think: a collection of creations including everything from
knits to vegetable oil powered cars. You know you want to click on to check out the stuff we saw.
We spotted this ride cruising around the Faire.
Moving the broom actually steers the bike.
ZAP! brought out lots of their three wheeled EVs, scooters, and portable energy
(rechargeable battery packs) to keep your electronic toys powered.
Douglas Repetto showed off his giant wall painting
machine. For style, it's painting on a clear plastic sheet. Think: mechanical pong that paints lines while bounces back
and fourth.
Crabfu
steamworks built some sweet R/C steam powered robots. This one is uses propane / butane to heat the
boiler.
Squid
Labs brought lots of their toys. This POV (Persistence of Vision) bike wheel uses four PCB sticks with, well a lot
of LEDs.
Squid's 'IKEA' chair. What took 'em so
long?
Hobby
Engineering brought along some fun toys. That's a SMD chip being soldered down with a regular soldering iron. The
long pads come pre-tinned; just place the chip, add some flux and slide the iron along the pad towards the chip.
Trevor
Blackwell let us and lots of other guys test drive his
balancing
scooter, a DIY Segway. He also brought along his unicycle version.
Onomy Labs brought along this cool projector table. The user interface is
very intuitive. Tilting the table pans the image, giving it a twist zooms in and out.
Who doesn't want their own rocket pack?
Seriously.
Andrew Filo is building his own; we're relatively sure the
final version won't use PVC.
Talk to the hand... with the
RFID chip embedded in it. This electronic door lock can be opened using a key, RFID chip, code or a combination of the
three.
Amal Graafstra wrote a
RFID Toys
about his RFID adventures.
We mentioned it
before. Today we played with them, and
they're really nice. The
Monome is an eight by eight matrix of backlit
buttons. It was actually designed without a specific purpose. The front aluminum plate is actually a quarter inch
thick. Everything from the buttons to the USB interface was custom made just for the project.
Yup, it's an R/C
Segway... we think it'd be cooler dressed up like R2D2.
We're still not sure what this is, but we're
pretty sure you'll get pulled over if you drive it down the freeway.
Update: It's
Satan's Calliope [Thanks Phil]
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The item you cannot identify is Satan's Calliope by the Lucyfer, the Engineer from Hell. Video of its performance at
http://civilizedexplorer.phanfare.com/album/52689/52689/2492581
Satan's Calliope is not a new or recent invention either. It made its first appearence at Burning Man over 3 years ago (notice the "mutant vehicle" sticker on the front). It's neat looking, but the gas motor and the 4 car tires kinda detract from the concept to me. It's definately an art car though...
Those are hot!
all of that neat but the last one. Ohh, look at me. hell, satan and fire. ohh, cool, it doesn't actually do anything but be loud and have fire, but I mentioned Dantes Inferno! WHOO! FIRE! ITS UGLY!
I was there today... it was SWEET!!
Microsoft had an entire building and I got to play with the new gigabeat and with some UMPCs
Plus they gave out lots of free stuff (frisbee, thumbdrive, teeshirts, cds - and some microsoft guy gave me a LEGAL copy in box copy of VB.net Pro 2003
Also.. squid labs had a laser cutting printer (they engraved my name onto my cellphone for me for free)
you could just make something on the comptuer, hit print and it was laser engrave into whatever you wanted
Also, there was a class for 15 dollars where you got to take home a serial programmable microcontroller and an rfid reader for free (valued total 100 dollars)
It was a pretty sweet day
Yahoo also had an exhibit but it SUCKED!!! they didn't even have any free stuff... or anythign that hadn't come out yet... lame...
I also saw a neat bubble performance (just trust me on that one)
finally, there was a neat little robot that could stand on one foot, bend over and wave its arms, plus do sumersaults, cartwheels and headstands...
END :)
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If you hung out til it got dark you'd see em light it up:
FIRE!
doh, rather here:
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=133359602&size=l
Good stuff. But which Faire smells worse, Maker or Ren?
Looks like you had a good time there..
As soon as I saw the last pic I said is that Satan's Calliope?? You have to see it in person. LUCYfer is a fixture at many such events around Silicon Valley. Great person to work with. Brilliant engineer.
fogd00d asks: "But which Faire smells worse, Maker or Ren?"
I didn't really notice a palpable funk at the Maker Faire until mid-day Sunday, and then only in the smaller, more crowded buildings. Now, had the event been held in August or thereabouts, you could probably see the stink cloud from orbit!
I was there; 'twas really cool.
Did anyone catch a glimpse of the Mythbusters guys playing Segway polo besides me? I wish I had a camera one me then...
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