I’m almost done packing for Maker Faire. So excited to see lots of friends, meet people, learn new skills, and see what amazing project people have been cooking up. I’ll be bringing a few projects to show at the Make: Projects Stage and Maker Shed, including the Arduino Nerf Sentry Gun. Hope to see you there!
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I met Sylvia at Maker Faire — she’s a big fan of Make: television. She was actually the first person at Maker Faire to test out the Rail-O-Graph train messaging system! Sylvia posted a very nice thank you on her blog:
Thank you so much for doing such a great job being a maker! And showing kids like me how to do make cool stuff. Also thank you for signing my book and letting me get a picture with you. I’m going to tell all my friends at school that I met you.. They’re going to be soo jealous!
love, Sylvia
Where: In the Make: magazine booth at Bay Area Maker Faire ‘09.
When: Friday before the Faire (which opened on Saturday)
Who: Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman of Evil Mad Scientist Labs, and Mark Frauenfelder of MAKE and BoingBoing.
What: a terrifying solder job on the back of their Peggy 2 kit (it looked like the leads were clipped by gnawing on them!)
Why: This board was built very quickly for the magazine photo shoot
Not trying to make fun of whoever put it together, I just loved this look on Windell’s face as he realized he was going to have to take the board home and do some major resoldering. He did, and it looked great!
Usman and I will be demonstrating the Rail-O-Graph in the mornings at the Make: magazine booth. We’ll do a talk at 2pm on Saturday and 12:45 on Sunday on the project. On Sunday at 2pm, Mark Frauenfelder and I will talk about coffee hacks. We’ll have some fun stuff on hand, including Mark’s modified espresso machine, the Florence Siphon brewer I built, a new, miniature version of my hydraulic espresso tamper, and more. Can’t wait to see you there!
