All Geek All The Time
One of the things I’m going to be missing at Maker Faire is this Big Mess of Wires (BMOW), which is a totally hand built CPU. Steve Chamberlin designed and built a custom 8-bit CPU from dozens of simple logic chips primarily using basic 7400-series logic. No 6502, Z-80, etc. After that he added on [...]
Maker Faire 2009 is this weekend. The Maker Faire is a meetup of DIY, Crafters, Hackers (both hardware, and software), Artist, Pyromaniacs, and other smart and weird people. I went for one day last year, partly/mainly to see Abney Park, and had a great time. (You can see the pics here.) I would have loved [...]
Well as you may know I am a big fan of Make: magazine. But now Make: is making (no pun intended) the jump from the printed page and the internet to Television. Starting in January Make:Television will make its premier. On a PBS station near you. By the looks of the preview Make:TV will be [...]
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.
