[Tyler]

Maker Faire in San Mateo or A-Kon in Dallas?
     


Robot builders and other makers from all over will be converging on San
Mateo this weekend for "the world's largets DIY festival" - the 4th
annual Maker Faire Bay Area. Expect
to see lots of cool things including the Robotic Solar Electric
Chariot, Bruce Shapiro's Eggbot, "robotic" warships (ok,
they're not really robots, they're RC but still very cool), Lindsay
Lawlor's very cool Electric
Giraffe (pictured above, CC photo courtesy of Scott Beale / Laughing Squid), Robomagelan Autonomous
robots, Camp Peavy's homebrew robots, Dave
Hrynkiw and Solarbotics,
the Chess playing robot,
Dino Segovis and his Arduio-based hacked Rumble
Robots, and, well you get the idea; that's just a fraction of the
cool robot stuff to see, so go see it!Unfortunately, I'm not going to
make it out to San Mateo this year. If anyone else is stuck in the
Dallas area this weekend, there's a consolation prize - A-Kon, the oldest continually running anime
convention in North America. If watching Asian robot cartoons isn't your
thing, don't worry because A-Kon also draws a huge contingent of
cosplayers who attend, many in robot costumes (see the 2008
A-Kon photo gallery). There's also a sizeable
steampunk contingent, and the Dallas
Personal Robotics Group will be
doing a robot demonstration on Saturday at 11am.
   

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