SOCIAL: maker faire plans (noarchive)

[Peter Bradshaw]

I'm off on Saturday an am currently planning on taking the train. Have
you all bought tickets in advance? I was planning to get a ticket at
the door.

I'm not sure who y'all are though. but I'm the drunk looking one on the right:
http://www.partycar.com/pix/2003_03_07/Pages/17.html


On 4/21/06, Adrian.Cotter at sierraclub.org <Adrian.Cotter at sierraclub.org> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> So I am going to the Maker Faire on Sunday, probably midday-ish. I was
> thinking of going by train, but could be persuaded to take out a
> citycarshare or carpool with someone already with car.
>
> Liz is going down on Saturday in case you want to go that day.
>
> Adrian
>
>
> >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.
> >>
>
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