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It's a party!
Sun Spots at the Maker Faire,
San Mateo County Fair Grounds,
April 22 & 23, 2006
April 13, 2006- Join the creators of MAKE magazine, the MythBusters, and thousands of tech DIY enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, science clubs, students, and authors at MAKE's first ever Maker Faire!
We wouldn't want to miss a party, so we will be there showing off Sun SPOTs in the Sun Microsystems Laboratories booth in the Pavilion, and checking out all the other cool exhibits.
If you are in the SF Bay area, you should attend this event and drop by our booth to say hello and to see the newest, smallest, coolest computer under the Sun. This tiny, experimental Java-based platform gives Makers a way to quickly build applications to run on wireless sensors — build toys you can use. The battery powered device includes a 32 bit CPU, accelerometer, temperature and light sensors, general purpose I/O, servo and stepper motor control, LEDs, a wireless radio, a USB interface, and a small Java virtual machine which allows wireless applications to run directly on the CPU without any underlying OS. The Sun SPOT experimental platform will be available to purchase in late Spring, 2006.
So come see a Sun SPOT in person and find out what we've been doing with them in our copious (not!) spare time. It should be a lot of fun!
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Dear Maker,
Maker Faire is almost upon us -- April 22-23 at the San Mateo
Fairgrounds in the San Francisco Bay Area. We're just 9 days away
from what is shaping up to be the most original and entertaining event
of the year -- part science fair, part craft fair, part county fair,
with a dash of Burning Man for good measure.
For those of you planning to join us, we wanted to give MAKE
readers and makezine.com regulars first crack at registering for
workshops. We just added a page listing those program events
that require registration.
We are absolutely blown away by the people and attractions we'll
have at the Faire: a flying Pterosaur replica, a flock of whale
blimps, a giant painting machine, DIY RFID implants, model rocketry,
breadboarding, trailer-glass blowing, The Crucible's welding
workshops off the back of a fire truck, pinhole photography,
soldering, spud gun building, bubble machines and a bubble guy that
appeared on Johnny Carson in the 1970s, Bunnie Huang, Joe Grand,
William Gurstelle and his Backyard Ballistics, The Exploratorium,
Zeum, The Lunar Society (rocket builders), Graffiti Research Lab,
Squid Labs, biodiesel, electric cars, a Linux supercomputer
cluster running on veggie oil, neon art, circuit bending, VJs, slide
rules, pinball restoration, the Phenomenauts, Satan's Calliope...and
much, much more. Quite an eclectic collection. That's not to
mention Diana Eng of Bravo's "Project Runway" or the 50 craft
booths in Bazaar Bizarre or the Swap-O-Rama-Rama clothing swap.
CNN, NPR Science Friday's Ira Flatow, KPIX TV, Discover Magazine,
CBS News, The Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Kevin Rose of Digg
and digg.com Films, and CNET will be covering the event. But there's
no reason to read it in a blog or see it on TV, when you can be there
in person.
If you haven't purchased your ticket yet... visit
http://makerfaire.com today!
Cheers,
The Maker Faire Team
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