Weekend Geekery

mousepod · 05-20-2007, 06:23 PM

Yesterday, Heather and I went to the Maker Faire in San Mateo. It was a huge collection of hackers, DIYers, freaks and geeks. I expected to breeze through the show in less than an hour, but we wound up spending the full eight hours (we didn't return today, however).

Some pictures:

You can see my whole Flickr set here.

I'll upload some videos later tonight...

Cadaverous Pallor · 05-20-2007, 06:29 PM

I adore this event and would totally go if I lived up there. Awesomeness.

wendybeth · 05-20-2007, 06:46 PM

How fun! Are those the Mentos gents?

CoasterMatt · 05-20-2007, 06:50 PM

I love the crocheted Atari 2600, complete with a game of Pitfall on screen

mousepod · 05-20-2007, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wendybeth

How fun! Are those the Mentos gents?

Why, yes.

mousepod · 05-20-2007, 07:48 PM

and here's a sample of the musical entertainment.

Morrigoon · 05-20-2007, 07:49 PM

How randomly cool

€uroMeinke · 05-20-2007, 07:58 PM

looks like a blast - so did anyone try out that Jet Pack next to Robby the Robot? It's 2007 and I'm still waiting.

thecorndogwalker · 05-20-2007, 08:52 PM

whoa.. love that atari.... thanks MP....

Alex · 05-20-2007, 08:55 PM

You can buy a jetpack. There was a guy on NPR a couple weeks ago (can't remember if it was All Things Considered or the local interview show) who wrote a book about the great SciFi inventions promised when he was a kid that hadn't been invented yet.

When he started looking around it turned out most of them had been invented and just weren't economically viable for mass consumption or on a large scale. Smell-o-vision (turns out nobody wanted it), jetpacks (too inefficient), and teleportation (only works at the quantum level and considering how it works nobody would subject themselves to it anyway) were three of the things he talked about specifically.

Turns out there's a reason it was called science fiction and not economics fiction.

05-20-2007, 06:23 PM	#1
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	Weekend Geekery Yesterday, Heather and I went to the Maker Faire in San Mateo. It was a huge collection of hackers, DIYers, freaks and geeks. I expected to breeze through the show in less than an hour, but we wound up spending the full eight hours (we didn't return today, however). Some pictures: You can see my whole Flickr set here. I'll upload some videos later tonight... __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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05-20-2007, 06:29 PM	#2
Cadaverous Pallor ohhhh baby Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Parental Bliss Posts: 12,364	I adore this event and would totally go if I lived up there. Awesomeness. __________________ The second star to the right shines in the night for you
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CoasterMatt BRAAAAAAAINS! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: One Step Beyond... Posts: 8,802	I love the crocheted Atari 2600, complete with a game of Pitfall on screen __________________ Do you like my photography? Visit photosbymatt.tumblr.com to purchase prints!
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05-20-2007, 07:48 PM	#6
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	and here's a sample of the musical entertainment. __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	How randomly cool __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	looks like a blast - so did anyone try out that Jet Pack next to Robby the Robot? It's 2007 and I'm still waiting. __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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05-20-2007, 08:55 PM	#10
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	You can buy a jetpack. There was a guy on NPR a couple weeks ago (can't remember if it was All Things Considered or the local interview show) who wrote a book about the great SciFi inventions promised when he was a kid that hadn't been invented yet. When he started looking around it turned out most of them had been invented and just weren't economically viable for mass consumption or on a large scale. Smell-o-vision (turns out nobody wanted it), jetpacks (too inefficient), and teleportation (only works at the quantum level and considering how it works nobody would subject themselves to it anyway) were three of the things he talked about specifically. Turns out there's a reason it was called science fiction and not economics fiction.
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