Welcome to the Maker Faire
balloon at the entrance
Poeple lining up for the ATM, so did we
roommate Yang Shiqi
Security Check
Line up for the entrance
Ticket
glider simulator
R2D2?
R2D2
Robot maker and kids
Answering kids' questions?
steam car
steam tractor?
Control the car to climd a hill on “mars”
100 MPG Hybrid car?
100 MPG and unfinished turkey leg
Work on the circuits
Serenity inside
Work desk
How's 100 MPG implemented?
Here's how
Some stupid stuff
Spider
fallen robot
Drum Weapon?
Self-playing drum set
Drums play themselves
Stupid Roboboxers
Starwars models
Pen covered Mercedes
Someone has problem with pens?
Instead of Mercedes Sign
This women works for “Garbage Art”
Craftsmart
Purses
Draw your own foam print
Yahoo also got a place here
So does Google
Google is demoing SketchUp
Seems we got different level of people here...
Two very large electrodes trying to connect
Reaching out...
Electric arcs...
The Electric Arc is connected!
Connected!
Forking arc
zzzzzz
3D printer for 18,900$, it makes any prototypes from computer 3D model
They made a lot of stuff
Mechanics Mania giving talk
Retrospection of Mechanics magazines in 1960s
Capturing a aerial footage of public places
Spinning
Making your own stuff
Difficult?
Man with wings
Women with wings selling wings
Knitting drummer
Man knitting and playing drums at the same time
Mystic device
frankly speaking i don't know what it's talking about
What do you craft?
I am, I craft, Because...
More
Triangle bike
Rat trailer
Crowds watching robot fighting
Too many people, we'll come back later
Rockets
Rocket motors to use in your backyard
“See the burns on my hand!”
Sheet metal artwork
Pool heater, dull
Shiqi
Space helmet
In operation
kids running for electricity
kids touching “Elephant head”
Windmills
Maker Fair poster, we bought one
Balloon robot that can seek for light and phone signals.
Balloon robot
Bookstore
They even got Momotaro -_-b (Tao Tailang)
Makezine for geeks
Store
DVD for same
Crazy guys dancing
a costumed man
We rent workshops
Repairing an odd ball
Bending the pipe
Fires
Military Truck
Suppose to be a “mouse trap”
A castle?
Making a lot of smoke
burning horns?
classic game running on classic computer
Microsoft's history
Popfly, Microsoft's mash-up tool, more luxurious than Yahoo Pipes
Van with 3D map
Van with a 3D map on it
Trains
Get yourself showing up on the screen
Sydney?
U-Pull Cable sale
Got cable?
Spinning wheels at 1/40s
Spinning wheels at 1/8s
Human vs Electric this time!
Trophy for the Robogames
Kid looking at the trophy
Waiting lady
The commentator for the Robogames
Kids
This kid sat right in front of me and looked at my camera all the time
I got this cute shot of him
Same kid
Another cooler kid sitting to my right
Get the robot prepared
The maker of another robot
Check if it's running
Eager audience
Sparks!!!
Fighting robots
Fighting
Flip the enemy
The winner has emerged
Maker of the winning robot
Loser came in
Sorry buddy, let's come next year
Big guy came in
Robot 365
”Oh I cannot stand this commentator!“
More competitors to come: 3 fight together
Three wedges
Red robot flies
1 vs 1
Chaotic fighting in the corner
Got lifted up
Red one is angry
Time is up
Heavy-weight finalist
Six red tires, with a movable wedged head
Waiting for the final fight
Red guy vs Brutality (with fast spinning blades)
This is too brutal
Red guy lost one tire
Another fight
One more tire got cut badly
Posing
Lost two tires, but still fighting
No turning blade vs Missing Two Tires
Ending pose
Turning off the robot
Who will get the trophy?
Deciding moment
Loser to be shipped back
Winner
Exotic car
