Makers of clothing and food were also present at the Maker Faire 2007. A beautiful shirt embroidered with flames, or maybe tree roots, in the…
You wouldn’t think of faire rides as something that could be homemade, yet Maker Faire 2007 presented a number of DYI devices of that sort.…
Fire performances — by people and machines — took a prominent part at the Maker Faire 2007. Adelyn Botto spins a flaming hula hoop. Here…
This post is mainly dedicated to art cars and bicycles, and other less easily categorizeable contraptions on wheels. Those were among the most inventive and…
Maker Faire was a two-day event that celebrated arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It took place in Austin, Texas in…
The geek factor at Flipside: not too high At that time I had been reading too much of Wired magazine, because it was probably there…
On Saturday morning I was really grumpy and exhausted. I could not sleep all night, both because of insomnia and because of constant noise —…
Pictures of Flipside at night, and me walking into torches The most unexpected thing that happened to me at Flipside was that I walked right…
I went to Flipside, a local Burning Man-style event in the Austin area, in 2007, the year it rained almost non-stop all summer, making water,…
My friends M and P used to make plaster masks based on real human faces. They would first make a cast of a person’s face…