Mini Maker Faire, Day 2

[sabotabby]

Today was another exciting day at Mini Maker Faire. On the downside, I was really tired and the Christie bus was not as cooperative as it was yesterday in terms of getting me there at a reasonable hour and it was even more crowded than yesterday. On the plus side, a lot more of my friends were in attendance. I only caught one talk, which was about video remixing—something I'm interested in, but unfortunately the project in question was a bit weaksauce.

One of the groups that wasn't there yesterday makes life-size, functional Star Wars droids, because why not?






As far as I can tell, this was just a sculpture, but it was pretty cool.


A mechanical hand. Again, if you can, why wouldn't you?


A lockpicking workshop for kids seems a bit Oliver Twist to me, but hey, I don't judge.

This was my favourite: liquid nitrogen ice cream. It's badass and tasty:





If you're wondering, it tastes just like regular ice cream, but it has smoke rising from it.

Not pictured: laser tag, various arcades, and all of the 3D printed stuff.

I am completely exhausted but it was so worthwhile.

Comments

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

Nitrogen ice cream is amazing! There's a shop that sells it in London, and my story of going there (along with a photo of a very attractive ice-cream-scientist guy) is here.

Edit, lol, no it isn't. HTML fixed.

[sabotabby]

But the photos are broken. :( I wanna see hot ice cream scientists!

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

WTF! Livejournal set all those photos Private for some reason. I tried resetting it to Friends, try now? Because I ALSO want you to see hot ice cream scientists.

[sabotabby]

OMG, he is hot.

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

So I guess only friends can see it; I'm still locked out.

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

It was great to see you! Sorry we couldn't find you again.

[sabotabby]

It was hugely crowded; I'm amazed we found each other once!

[ironed_orchid]

There is a liquid nitrogen ice cream place at my local markets and I only discovered it last month. They only do 3 flavours at a time, but change flavours every weekend (The market is Fri-Sun). The name of the company is N₂ice, which amuses me as intended.

[sabotabby]

That's a pretty great name (better than Ice Volcano).

These guys were doing four flavours plus frozen marshmallows. I had Oreo. It was delicious.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Those are the droids I'm looking for!

Can I just use this space to mention you are doing life very well!

[sabotabby]

I think I am. Though we'll see after this week; I have made some very poor lifestyle/time management choices that rely on human cloning.

[elsewhereangel.livejournal.com]

If only there had been lockpicking instruction when I was a kid! Hills! Snow!

[sabotabby]

Both ways!

I know, right? I was sorry I didn't have time to sit in on that one, but it overloaded my loud/complicated/busy tolerance.