Meredith is Live Blogging Maker Faire: Austin!

Jake von Slatt — Fri, 10/17/2008 - 18:44

Lucky lucky Meredith Scheff is at Maker Faire Austin right now and she's twittering everything she sees! You can follow her here or add satiredun on Twitter.

A final, fantastic show by arc attack concludes maker faire: Austin 2008. about an hour ago

I Cant tell you how happy it makes me that marching bands are the new geek music of choice. about 3 hours ago

The diet coke and mentos guys are going on. I've never actually seen them. about 4 hours ago

Aiden creating in swap-I-ramaRana- I'm getting sucked into the scrap pile myself. Creation ensues. about 6 hours ago

And a congrafylations to @docpop, @ekimtiki and @thisisstar for completing the 24 hour comics day challenge! about 6 hours ago

Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of fahioning technology, shows me some smart fabrics and flexible cicuitry http://snipurl.com/4i7ih about 6 hours ago

Ken murphy teaching the younger makers how to build blinky bugs on the maker shed http://snipurl.com/4i6ye about 6 hours ago

It's a (make your own) hula hoop extravaganza! about 6 hours ago

Weavers and spiiners teach me basic weaving http://snipurl.com/4i6gb about 6 hours ago

Bilal is giving demos at instructables of his cheap homemade 2 scanner laser cutter, very enthusiastically. http://snipurl.com/4i61r about 7 hours ago

Cash course in circuit building to cut my flexible circuit board about 7 hours ago

The shopbot folk as doingdemos of all their CNC machines, cutting wood, plastic, vinyl, and flexible pcb's. Sweet! http://snipurl.com/4i4r5 about 8 hours ago

Etching the iPod touch using the epilog 'zing' laser. http://snipurl.com/4i462 about 8 hours ago

Bilal ghalib is preparing to be scanned in the ink scanner http://snipurl.com/4i2la about 9 hours ago

Egood morning maker faire! about 10 hours ago

Ending the maker faire day sitting around john saruigate's zen fire garden. about 22 hours ago

Therm is starting up their show. http://snipurl.com/4hlbw 1 day ago

Looks like the mouse trap us about to smoosh a washing machine. Yay. 1 day ago

@dczanik favorite thing? Out of all this awesome? Not an easy task to figure. 1 day ago

Arc attack has made me swoon over tesla coils in a whole new way. 1 day ago

How many mallows could a robot roast if a robot could roast mallows? About to find out at the robogsmes arena. 1 day ago

After battlebots, the machines escape the scythe but not the repair. http://snipurl.com/4hin0 1 day ago

Using the axe grinder can be hard when you can't reachthe peddles http://snipurl.com/4hids 1 day ago

The gore cannon takes another victim http://snipurl.com/4hdfl 1 day ago

Ogi lumen's nixie tube kits http://snipurl.com/4hd5t 1 day ago

Air instrument jam out http://snipurl.com/4hd3u 1 day ago

Woodblock printing station rolling put the art http://snipurl.com/4hcru 1 day ago

Antique sock knitting machines,in essence, creating a series of tubes. http://snipurl.com/4hc6u 1 day ago

Imy completed felted fellow eeminds me of someone http://snipurl.com/4hc01 1 day ago

Mary jane's attic ladies teaching me felting. Dainty! With needles. http://snipurl.com/4hb7w 1 day ago

The tesla coil musical theatre has just taken yhage, and won the geek award by playing the star wars theme.. With tesla coils. 1 day ago

Aaron ristaus's sculpture is beautiful majonery art porn, and makes me stomp my feet in geeky steampunk glee. http://snipurl.com/4ha19 1 day ago

I was 3-d scanned in a pool of inky liquid- a sort of baptismal waterboarding, but fun, and for science! http://snipurl.com/4h9wk 1 day ago

The Hungry Scientists are making liquid nitrogen ice cream- this is the cool table. http://snipurl.com/4h8q1 1 day ago

The blacksmithing is in full swing- makes me want to toss aside my camera, pick up a hammer, and pound some steel http://snipurl.com/4h8er 1 day ago

Build your own cnc (.com) showing off their machines. http://snipurl.com/4h7wv 1 day ago

Spark Fun is doing continual soldering workshops all day; with the lilly pad arduino and 'flame' responsive kit. http://snipurl.com/4h7u5 1 day ago

@dczanik it is totally awesome! 2 days ago

Boiler bar birthday bash! http://snipurl.com/4gr05 2 days ago

The Maker faire team (or part of it) http://snipurl.com/4gnf9 2 days ago

Cranky and plucky by dominique Vyborny http://snipurl.com/4gnd0 2 days ago

The life sized mousetrap by Cyclecide @makerfaire setup. http://snipurl.com/4gm34 2 days ago

Shop Bot @makerfaire setup, cutting Halloween themed foam samples http://snipurl.com/4glgm 2 days ago

@makerfaire I'm in your venues, blogging ur events 2 days ago

Er, but hopefully without the spelling errors. 2 days ago

Oh, and BTW: I will be starting livebloggibg of maker faire tonight! 2 days ago

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