{"id":1179,"date":"2009-05-31T00:55:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T07:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2009-05-31T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T07:55:53","slug":"maker-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/05\/maker-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attended my first <a href=\"http:\/\/makerfaire.com\/\">Maker Faire<\/a> today.\u00a0If you want to see some of the fun stuff I experienced, check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/MakerFaire2009\">photos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=C9382DA509653F90\">videos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p>Ever see two large Tesla coils in action? It&#8217;s pretty fun, and they&#8217;re my second favorite thing named after Nikola Tesla:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5kfwYOLa3OI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monkeylectric.com\/\">Monkey Lectric<\/a> was letting people draw on bike wheels using LEDs. I drew this:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/B6l3V9YJlwNhWS1ejuMXxw?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_IbWQAhZFJuA\/SiHaWWwJGeI\/AAAAAAAA6bw\/-rZSo2O_bhY\/s400\/IMG_3676.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/MakerFaire2009?feat=embedwebsite\">Maker Faire 2009<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>After my design was scanned, it appeared on a spinning bike wheel:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/wYtuYGISJFLYFdWvULjMhA?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_IbWQAhZFJuA\/SiHclfG1SYI\/AAAAAAAA6dM\/S2OcBuGM7_4\/s400\/IMG_3682.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/MakerFaire2009?feat=embedwebsite\">Maker Faire 2009<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eepybird.com\/\">EepyBird<\/a> was there too. They&#8217;re famous as the &#8220;Diet Coke and Mentos Guys.&#8221; They explained why they use that specific combination, since putting just about anything bumpy (like your finger) in a carbonated liquid will cause some amount of bubbles to appear in a process called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nucleation\">nucleation<\/a>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diet_Coke_and_Mentos_eruption#Explanation\">read more<\/a> about it, but the basic takeaways are that mint-flavored Mentos are blasted with over 40 layers of sugar, and therefore especially bumpy. Diet soda is used for the performers&#8217; sake, because it is sugarless and therefore <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">healthier<\/span> not sticky. Here&#8217;s a shot of them in action:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/okvq3SItzR1t1RWScYc_6w?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_IbWQAhZFJuA\/SiIY5Wp7rbI\/AAAAAAAA6sI\/pZ_BwxzIC68\/s400\/IMG_3730.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/MakerFaire2009?feat=embedwebsite\">Maker Faire 2009<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>And one of their more recent\u00a0experiments, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/04\/27\/post-it-inventor-wat.html\">has been seen by the inventor<\/a> of Post-it notes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1rZqw5bXb4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t buy any crafts to bring home, but there was one that I wanted to:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: auto;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/w12zj7olTHwpNF1O4FgIKg?feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_IbWQAhZFJuA\/SiH5V6BKpSI\/AAAAAAAA6mg\/KHZ3HiX2K8I\/s400\/IMG_1373.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/michaelwyszomierski\/MakerFaire2009?feat=embedwebsite\">Maker Faire 2009<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to bring more cash next time.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/tiffography.com\/\">Tiffany<\/a> and Mohit for giving me a ride back to my (non-electric) car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended my first Maker Faire today.\u00a0If you want to see some of the fun stuff I experienced, check out my photos and videos. Some of my favorites: Ever see two large Tesla coils in action? It&#8217;s pretty fun, and they&#8217;re my second favorite thing named after Nikola Tesla: Monkey Lectric was letting people draw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/05\/maker-faire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maker Faire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}