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MAKER FAIRE IS TOO MUCH

By Gareth Branwyn

Editor’s Note: MAKE Technical Advisory Board member Gareth Branwyn and his son, Blake, ran the Mousey the Junkbot Workshop in the MAKE area at Maker Faire. The following excerpt from Gareth’s blog, streettech.com, captures his experience at the Bay Area Maker Faire in May 2007.

EVERYTHING AT MAKER FAIRE IS cranked to 11: the size of the event, the creativity of what’s being presented, the excitement of the fairgoers, the diversity of the people who show up. So, you end up on 11. I heard that this jacked amperage was experienced by both fairgoers and presenters alike. The common chant went something like: “This is so awesome. I love it! There’s too much! I’ll never get to see it all.”

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