Maker's Faire, San mateo 2010

A business trip to Google IO also gave me the chance to go to the Maker Faire.

I particularly liked this:

and this:

and these - there was a whole group of R2D2 makers:

Also, there were lots of kids there learning how to solder. Its great to see that, despite so many fine gadgets being available off-the-shelf, people still want to make their own. Fantastic!