Pictures From an Exhibition: World Makerfaire 2012 NYC 33
New submitter SirTicksAlot writes "I attended World Makerfaire 2012 NYC this past weekend and wanted to share some of the highlights of the faire. Makerfaire is a gathering of smart and talented groups and individuals who share their love for making things. And there is nearly no limit as to what kind of ideas or projects on display. There is no age limit or restriction and kids of all ages are encouraged to interact with everything they can. If you ever go to shows and see 'DO NOT TOUCH,' you did not see that here. Touching, inspecting and learning is very much warranted. There were many stations where kids could learn to use tools, assemble things, and even learn to solder."
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Congratulations, /., on 15 years of being inconsiderate.
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Congratulations, /., on 15 years of being inconsiderate.
inconsiderate? the friggin guy invited the slashdotting. i hovered to the link to see if at least had the decency/brains to put it on somewhere like flickr.
but no, we'll never know if there were g-adverts there or not to make reason to host it on his own drupal site(drupal blows, at least make a static copy if you intend to serve to slashdot).
aaanyhow, to not provide just a totally inconsiderate post, there's some pics at flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=makerfaire&s=rec [flickr.com] (search "makerfaire" wit
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If not just to the target of the slashdotting, then to the entire /. readership.
Hey, look! An interesting story (for a change)! Oh, no - it's just a pile of smouldering router/cpu. No, we couldn't bother to set up a mirror first and then refer to it when the site went down.
I mean, come on. In 15 years they could not write a failover mechanism that monitors the target site and when it goes down adds a note to the story with a pointer at a mirror?
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You would think that if you were linking to your own site that you'd use a Coral Cache [coralcdn.org] (or similar) link and not use HTTPS unless truly necessary as a self-preservation measure?
Sumbitter's favorite exhibit (Score:2, Funny)
From the summary:
...If you ever go to shows and see 'DO NOT TOUCH,' you did not see that here. Touching, inspecting and learning is very much warranted. There were many stations where kids could learn to use tools...
I see that the submitter found the Catholic Priest exhibit.
-- Ethanol-fueled
Projects? (Score:5, Funny)
I assume no one there was making a server?
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What do you think the children were soldering?
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You mean like those things that have a world-wide market of maybe a dozen units? Those useless "computer" things that almost nobody will ever need?
Aaaaaaaand (Score:1)
It's gone.
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What do you mean it's gone? I just connected to it! You're telling me it's not there anymore?
There are so many things... (Score:2)
... that I'd like to know how they are done. For example, how does David's Sunflowers separate the seeds from the hulls, or do the same for pumpkin seeds. There's a ton of protein I throw away, because I don't know how to crack the shells en masse.
I think the idea of MakerFaire is great. So let me throw in my 2 cents.
To make a nice, high power electric brushless DC motor:
Get 10 of the 1 x 1 3/4 x 5/8" magnets from Lowes or RadioShack. They will just fit around a standard size food can. Now, using 1/2"
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Slashdot strikes again! Mwahahaha!
What? (Score:1, Insightful)
>Makerfaire is a gathering of smart and talented groups and individuals who share their love for making things.
Oh for fuck sake. We're not all smart and talented. Get over yourself; we are just ordinary people.
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have you considered that ordinary people can be smart and talented?
then they're no longer ordinary.
isn't it nicer that ordinary people can make things? like used to be the necessity for surviving? I mean, it's not high-tech-labrotory 0.00001% of population faire.
Volunteers Perspective (Score:1)
Touch everything (Score:2)
Is this not the show that has multimillion volt Tesla coils, madly whirring CNC machines and printers dispensing molten plastic? It would seem to me that either Don't Touch signs are merited in some places or the thing has fallen prey to the something like the nerfification of science kits of recent times.
I was there (Score:1)
at the event along with my wife and kids and 15 other people I invited to come along. All of them loved it. I found it less earth-shattering and more corporate than the year before. For example, the bio-hackers were absent, which was sad because they blew the possibilities wide open for me last year. Also, gone were the people who built furniture out of scraps or bicycles out of bamboo, carbon fiber, and resin. Many of the smaller but brilliant projects you can usually find inside in the Hall of Scienc
Drop the final e (Score:1)
Makerfaire just sounds wanky. Sorry.