Maker Faire Austin in Full Swing
Maker Faire Austin is in full swing. I'm not there, having just finished up the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, recuperating at home before heading out Monday for a MySQL board meeting in London, but I'm watching the goings-on via Flickr, at home via my chumby. Chumby is a streaming media device that replaces the old clock radio. You can configure it with all kinds of flash widgets -- great for ambient information. They also support a "virtual chumby" so I can share with you what I'm watching now. Right now, I've got it set to Scott Beale (laughingsquid)'s flickr photo stream from Maker Faire Austin:
Update: As Scott wasn't adding more photos as quickly as I thought, I added a photostream of any photos tagged makerfaireaustin on Flickr. (Of course, you can also see them there.) So far it looks like most of the photos are from the setup days.
Disclosure: O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures is an investor in Chumby. And of course, MakerFaire is one of our events!
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Hi Tim,
Just a quick note to say how fantastic Maker Faire Austin was, especially for the mobs of 6- to 12-year-olds that I saw bouncing across the Travis County Fairgrounds Arena. I think the only way those children could have looked more inspired is if I scribbled "Wow!" across their faces in bright red paint and gave each of them a 120-watt light bulb that continuously glowed over their heads.
And yes, I was there to corrupt the next generation of America with addictive 1980s video games. In fact, 90% of the people that rushed to my booth were kids! Some children even played Gauntlet on my portable flattop arcade for well over two hours. (I figured kids would laugh at it in the wake of PSPs and XBox 360s and it would only appeal to the over-thirty crowd! How wrong I was! What a lesson for modern game designers...) It's always been my dream to create a flattop MAME cabinet, and the results are ironic: I haven't had to apologize to this many parents since I accidentally swore in the middle of my eighth-grade school play.
So from one of the many makers, congratulations to the entire Make/Craft team on such a smash success! I'm already looking forward to May of next year! (And next time, you need to come personally...)
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Michael H [10.22.07 06:28 AM]
Reminds me of the 3com Audrey. Maybe it's Audrey's daughter.