I’ve read about Maker Faire for years.
Most of the art, projects, crafts and surrounding mix of disparate nerd/geek/counter culture is inspiring.
This being my first year living in the Bay-ness, I decided to attend.
Aside from my inability to wake up early enough to see 10-2 (sat) or 10-3 (sun), it was perfect.
I spent 6 hours there on Saturday and convinced my housemate, Katie, to come for day two and we spent 3 hours at the expo center Sunday.
She and I both LOVED the whole thing.
We also found a cheap, cool, local, southern Indian vegetarian restaurant about 5 blocks from the Expo Center, Annapoorna.
The service was wonderful and the food was inexpensive.
We got two entrees and could have shared one as large as the portions were.
Photos and Video of Maker Faire below!
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Tesla Coils
Life-size mousetrap
Human/self-powered midway rides.
Moss kirin
And more Bikes
Steampunk!
Things that shoot fire.
The gigantic mechanical hand.
Kinetic Sculptures
Colored Kinetic Fluid as a dress