SOCIAL: maker faire plans (noarchive)

[Chell Mendiola]

Hiya Adrian,
Dave and I are going tomorrow as well.  Wanna carpool?
Dave is driving.  We were thinking of heading over either
for brunch or lunch and then heading over to the fair.
You are more'n welcome to join us!  We can pick you up
or meet you somewhere.

Also for anyone else going tomorrow, we can fit one more
person in the car, so just email or call me: 415-308-2184.

c h e l l




On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 Adrian.Cotter at sierraclub.org wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:38:30 -0700
> From: Adrian.Cotter at sierraclub.org
> To: social at deeptrouble.com
> Subject: SOCIAL: maker faire plans (noarchive)
>
>
> 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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