Well the night time at Maker Faire 2008 not only brought fire but also Abney Park. If you’ve read my blog before your sure to know that I am a big Abney Park fan, and they are 50% to 70% of the reason I went to Maker Faire.

At this years Maker Faire there was a strong Steampunk contingent. With Jake vonSlatt of the Steampunk Workshop, Abney Park, Libby Bulloff of Exoskeletoncabaret, Magpie Killjoy of Steampunk Magazine and others making an appearance.

With any big meeting of tinkers there is going to be the guys who can’t stop themselves from making robots or other weird contraptions. And when there are robots there are fighting robots. I missed the robot combat but you will see in the pics below there are robots who will deal damage to humans.

When night began to fall on Maker Faire there was a definite change. The night was pretty cold but it was easy to get warm. All you had to do was get near on of the fire sculptures.

Because Maker Faire is all about things that people Make, be it practicable or just for fun, there was a large turn out of artist and their work. So today’s post covers some of the sculptures that were scattered here and there all over the fairgrounds.

Well the trip to Make Fair was a lot of fun. Took about three hour to get down to the hotel in Burlingame. After we checked in we headed over to the San Mateo Fair Grounds, and that’s were things went a bit south. The Hotel is a bit over seven miles from the Fair [...]

Well someone neutered the Dogs of War. Due to a major utility failure the Great Western War X had been canceled. So if it wasn’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all. This is the second year in a row that i had planed to go to the war and been unable [...]

Well it’s all set I and in early October I will be off to War. No not any of the wars that are taking place in the middle east but to the Great Western War. The Great Western War is an SCA event that has be held every October in Chino, California and this year [...]