Maker Faire Visit and Photos

When the process of learning programming languages and advanced mathematics begins to drag my sense of direction into a tailspin it helps to look at those already in the fields. From websites, open source projects, and applications being developed provide an amazing sense of inspiration and relief. Most of the time these are limited to what is posted on the web.

The Maker Faire this past weekend was an opportunity to see first hand what engineers, developers, artists, performers, start-ups, and the DIY community has been working on for the past year. For anyone who has picked up a soldering iron, welding gun, duct tape, or a glue gun it was also an opportunity to revel, play, and show off the projects that have been sitting in spare rooms, studios, garages, and backyards everywhere. Maker Faire was also a chance for uninitiated to try there hand at the same.

Simply put it was a fantastic inspiration to be able to see and chat with folks who are doing their best to improve society, make life easier, or at the very least make it more fun. The pictures I was able to take do not really convey even a fraction of what I saw.

Check out the full photo stream here.