Maker Faire in bullet points:
Cute and practical: floating speakers, hidden in Mylar balloons.
Artsy and practical: Stop-Motion Armatures, poseable figures that can be photographed serially to create animation.
Artsy and geeky: thereping.
Geeky and cuddly: robotic dinosaur pets, named Pleo, that have a range of sentient-looking behaviors.
Geeky with a hard science edge: Stirling engines.
Quirky technology that has its uses: wood iPods.
Quirky technology that's not useful for anything except to build your character through extreme frustration: bicycle with a hinge in the middle. "You really have to steer it two ways!" said a perplexed guy after making a few wobbly laps on this bicycle. Many people fell trying to ride it.
This peculiar item is in a category that's worth a separate article: quirky / art cars. And it will have a separate post! But first, some snarkiness. Coming up tomorrow.
And here are even more pictures from the Maker Faire 2007
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