Monday, April 24, 2006

Nerd Fest

So, I went to the "Makers Faire" in San Mateo on Saturday. It was the biggest nerd fest ever. They should just call it that "Nerd Fest 2006". The goal was supposed to be a do-it-yourselfer gathering, but it was just two things, sewing and Radio-shack style computers. No in-between the one thing that was interesting to me was this pool heater that a guy and his daughter built out of their barbeque. that was clever and interesting, and there was another guy who had an automatic pool filler. That was cool to, but I think the pool filler guy was just selling it, and not showing you how to make it.

It may get better over the next few years as long as they weed out the ren-faire aspect and add some more actual do it yourself informative stuff.

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