Maker Faire in San Mateo April 22-23

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>
Date: April 8, 2006 10:44:04 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Maker Faire in San Mateo April 22-23

Dave --  don't know if this is appropriate for IP because it's a  
California local event, but I know you run Dennis Allison's lecture  
announcements at Stanford, so I thought I'd pass this along.

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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