Maker Faire

Maker Faire is a two day festival that’s all about DIY (do-it-yourself), and yes it’s really spelled that way. I went with Dave and Adam (two guys from work) and their girlfriends (yeah, being the 5th wheel is pretty awesome).

Maker Faire

Anyway, it was pretty incredible…there were people driving around in cupcake cars, huge steel sculptures (pictured above), battle-bots, steampunk everything, a larger than life rendition of the Mousetrap game, lots of things on fire, a lego covered Jeep, torque driven spheres…and I probably missed the vast majority of what I saw there. Check out more photos via Flickr, either a set or slideshow.

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4 Comments

  1. Fitzy said:
    May 5th, 2008

    Here’s a video of the Mouse Trap recreation:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ20cFG0qUM

    I could have done without the theme song, though. Damn hippies.

  2. bpope said:
    May 5th, 2008

    Yeah, that was last year’s Mousetrap, which was mostly the same, but they added a falling safe at the end and some steps in between. Same damn hippies though.

  3. Allen said:
    May 5th, 2008

    Cool faire (french?). Although if you used picassa then you could have embedded the slide show…

  4. bpope said:
    May 6th, 2008

    Yes, French…”faire,” do-it-yourself theme…get it? I ignore your picasa comment.

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