{"id":8318,"date":"2012-05-23T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=8318"},"modified":"2015-11-03T21:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:40:49","slug":"roundup-maker-faire-bay-area-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/roundup-maker-faire-bay-area-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundup: Maker Faire Bay Area 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moment after a Maker Faire is always a little depressing, to be honest. We all need to rest, decompress and recuperate, but a big portion of me wants it to keep going and going and going. Like forever. From the people to the projects to the moments, it’s all fascinating and I tried to make more of a point this year to not let them pass me by without some record (sounds silly, I know). My next post will be about my “favorite moment” but there really is no such thing at the faire<\/em> – it’s all so wonderful, see for yourself:<\/p>\n

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solar popcorn popper<\/p><\/div>\n

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octo-bot!<\/p><\/div>(watch it move, here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Make Play Day before<\/p><\/div>\n

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Make Play Day after<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gon KiRin at dusk<\/p><\/div>\n

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Chaos and KJ plexi stachers<\/p><\/div>\n

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Vardo, house on wheels (inspired by gypsy wagons and western frontier living)<\/p><\/div>(see more of the Vardo, here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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camera obscura with more-than-reality hi-definition<\/p><\/div>\n

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"Tapigami" is a giant room-sized installation of masking tape - wow!<\/p><\/div>\n

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this "HandyChair" was designed from reclaimed bike parts<\/p><\/div>\n

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Glad I got to see Ben Wilkinson-Raemer, if only briefly, at the Shapeways booth in Expo Hall<\/p><\/div>\n

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Maker Faire, the place you want to be when a once-in-a-lifetime type eclipse happens!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stinky you Pirate you!<\/p><\/div>\n

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an orchestra in the sky!<\/p><\/div>\n

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kids tinkering with these ShopBot-cut interlocking wooden pieces, Kidchitecture!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gregory's giant 13-foot-tall clock made from salvaged bike components and frames<\/p><\/div>(see Time to Change, here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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a pedal-powered canoe, inspired by the likes of Baltimore's Kinetic Sculpture Race<\/p><\/div>(see more Kinetic Sculpture Race boat-floats here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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kids learning the medieval art of beating the crap out of each other<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Crucible always rock my socks off with their instructional industrial arts booth<\/p><\/div>(see more of The Crucible here<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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and robots - lots and LOTS of robots!<\/p><\/div>\n

and like that, poof, it’s gone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lots lots lots more photos on my Flickr.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The moment after a Maker Faire is always a little depressing, to be honest. We all need to rest, decompress and recuperate, but a big portion of me wants it to keep going and going and going. Like forever. From the people to the projects to the moments, it’s all fascinating and I tried to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[1229,651],"series":[],"class_list":["post-8318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-geekathon","tag-geekathon","tag-maker-faire"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/7243407284_7e4d7427dc_b.jpg?fit=683%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-2aa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8318"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15367,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8318\/revisions\/15367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8318"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=8318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}