SOCIAL: Maker Faire in San Mateo this weekend -- guaranteed fun! (noarchive)

[Paul Spinrad]

If you're looking for fun this weekend, come to the Maker Faire down in San 
Mateo!  Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm.

It promises to be a total blast, kinda like Burning Man, but more 
conveniently located, pleasant temperatures, and totally family-friendly. 
See nice description below from Tim O'Reilly.

http://makerfaire.com

I'll be there all day, both days, mostly around the "Maker's Lounge" area, 
which is where a lot of the music and A/V performances will be happening.

Paul

>>Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim at oreilly.com>

[snip]

>>Maker Faire is coming up April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. It
>>is part science fair, part craft fair, part county fair, with a dash
>>of burning man for good measure.  It's a spinoff of our Make:
>>magazine, which Steven Levy of Newsweek described as "Martha Stewart
>>for Geeks" -- a DIY technology projects magazine akin to the old
>>Popular Mechanics of the 50's, but updated for the digital era.
>>
>>We are absolutely blown away by the people and attractions we will
>>have at the Faire: a flying Pterosaur replica, a flock of whale
>>blimps, a giant painting machine, DIY RFID implants, model rocketry,
>>breadboarding, trailer-glass blowing, The Crucible's welding
>>workshops off the back of fire truck, pinhole photography, soldering,
>>spud gun building, bubble machines and a bubble guy that appeared on
>>Johnny Carson in the 70's, Bunnie Huang, Joe Grand, William Gurstelle
>>and his Backyard Ballistics, The Exploratorium, Zeum, The Lunar
>>Society (rocket builders), Graffiti Research Lab, Squid Labs
>>biodiesel, electric cars, a Linux supercomputer cluster running on
>>veggie oil, neon art, circuit bending, VJs, slide rules, pinball
>>restoration, the Phenomenauts, Satan's Calliope .... and much, much
>>more. Quite an eclectic collection. That's not to mention Diana Eng
>>of Bravo's Project Runway and the fifty craft booths in Bizarre
>>Bazaar and the Swap-o-Rama-Rama.
>>
>>CNN, NPR Science Friday's Ira Flatow, KPIX TV , Discover Magazine,
>>CBS News, The Discovery Channel, New York Times, Kevin Rose of Digg
>>and digg.com and CNET will be covering the event.   It's designed to
>>be a family event (admission is only $12), and we're hoping to
>>attract tens of thousands of people to celebrate the fun of science
>>and engineering and by sharing the amazing work being done in
>>backyards, garages, and homebrew labs.  http://www.makezine.com/faire
>>has more information.
>>
>>For those of you not in California, people will be blogging the heck
>>out of this thing, and there's a Make photo pool on Flickr as well,
>>so you should be able to get a taste of the action.
>>