My dad heard about this and thought it might be interesting to go to. I've seen the magazine, but didn't realize how huge a thing it has become. It's a weekend convention at the San Mateo fairgrounds dedicated to making stuff. They have another one on the east coast as well. I really didn't know what to expect, predicting some mix of hipsters and nerds, with a spicing of Burning Man. It is that, but a whole lot more and there were quite a lot of normal looking families there. On the computer side, the hot things seemed to be 3-D printing and little mini kit computers like the Raspberry Pi and Arduino. People are doing some really cool shit! Below, an essay in Clap photos.
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Anti-Zombie Weapon |
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This was one of the coolest things, an entire miniature city made out of tiny figures of masking tape. |
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Here's some examples of things made with 3-D printing. Much of it was plastic-based, but there was one using concrete. |
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A consumer wireless router hacked to become a web-accessible sensor (temp, movement, light, etc.) |
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Part of the video game museum exhibit. Lots of old guys like me going "ooh, I finished that!" |
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This is a printout of the original Adventure! game. It's amazing how small the whole thing is when as a child it seemed like an entire universe to me. |
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These are 5 beagleboards, teeny little computers, that together are powering a hi-def display. |
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The Raspberry Pi, all the nerdrage right now, a teeny computer with all you need for $35. |
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Hard to see, but this is a manual machine for scanning books semi-automatically without cutting the spines off and running them through a feeder. Quite clever, it had two digital cameras calibrated on the top and a mechanism to raise and lower the book. |
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The old computer museum. |
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Old freak with an Altair |
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That's part of Woz's signature on the upper left. |
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Talkin' 'bout the good ol' days! |
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