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Event: Maker Faire 2009

May 30th, 2009 by Marc Smith · No Comments

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I attended the Maker Faire down the hill in San Mateo at the County Fair Grounds.

The event is the gathering of the many forms of craft, tinkering, building, mashup, hacking, and experimental communities.

Here are some photos from today’s event.

Maker Faire 2009 Jelly Fish at the Maker Faire 2009 Pin-wheel art car at the Maker Faire 2009 Maker Faire 2009 Maker Faire 2009 Robots at the Maker Faire 2009 Maker Faire 2009 The Visible Pinball Machine at the Maker Faire 2009 Wings sculpture at the Maker Faire 2009 Wheels of flame at the Maker Faire 2009 GoBe, a cool battery bucket and solar charger for power off the grid at the Maker Faire 2009 Video screen guitar at the Maker Faire 2009 Video of Telsa Coils in Action at the Maker Faire 2009 Video of Telsa Coils at the Maker Faire 2009 Telsa coil discharge at Maker Faire 2009 Light seeking solar robots at the Maker Faire 2009 Robots at the Maker Faire 2009 A clock work walking robot at the Maker Faire 2009 Soda Bottle Sculpture at the Maker Faire 2009 Soda Bottle Sculpture at the Maker Faire 2009 A cool bicycle spoke display with LEDs at the Maker Faire 2009 A cool bicycle spoke display with LEDs at the Maker Faire 2009 Video of bicycle wheel spoke display at the Maker Faire 2009 Maker Faire 2009 Lost in Space Robot ( Lost in Space Robot ( Robbie the Robot at Maker Faire 2009

My highlights: the full sized replicas of TV and movie robots from Lost in Space and Forbidden Planet; the littlebits snap together circuits, the LED bicycle wheel displays, the Telsa coils (of course), the flame throwers (of course), and the rolling metal ball robots.

It was a well attended event with many great displays.

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Tags: Community · Conference · Cultural Representations · Sociology · Technology

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