Maker Faire, 2008

May 3, 2008 – 8:45 pm

I’ve published some photos from my trip to the 2008 Maker Faire.
The set includes a Babbage Engine constructed from a Mechanno Set, my friend Peter’s iPhone controlled watering can, the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, a flying model of a Mercury Redstone rocket, and a large, menacing alien tripod.

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The Victorian Culture

May 3, 2008 – 8:32 pm

I found an airship avatar at Grendel’s Children.

It’s great for tooling around Steampunk sims like Babbage Square.
And as you see in the photo below, it’s small. Great for days you want to be a Steampunk version of a drone from Ian M. Banks’ Culture novels.

Hey, wait, I was on a GSV with that guy.

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Maker Faire, or the $99 Blog Post

May 21, 2007 – 12:49 am

Maker Faire was grand. I’d love to share pictures, but the compact flash card in my camera has become unreadable. So no photos of Badgerbag’s laser engraved walking stick, the steam powered car, the Neverwas Haul, the full-sized Mousetrap, or the techno-playing mechagiraffe.
Thanks to Toxx’s suggestion, I found Data Rescue II, which was able to [...]

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