Maker Faire

Bats, bats and more bats...

Spider Ironwork

Burlesque Dancer on Glass Cups
Part of the Biker Zoo
Peddaling to make the guitars play
These fish and lobsters conduct, dance and sing!

Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It's for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things. It involveds: Arts • Crafts • Engineering • Food • Green • Music • Science • Technology. They also have booths, stages and workshops set-up to teach you how to make, design, craft or develop all kinds of things such as : Robots • Rockets • Bicycles • Alternative Energy Devices • Electronics • Crafts• Circuit Boards • Sustainable Food • Musical Instruments • Wood Working• Knitting • Eco Modding Cars • Kites • Special Effects • Sewing • and more...

Rob and I met a nice lady who owns a wonderful tea business in Austin. Check out their site: http://www.zhitea.com/ Rob and I were planning on volunteering at the Maker Faire so we can get a free pass to get in. We decided that we'd like to help Candice & Jeffrey (Zhi Tea) instead since they're a vendor at the Maker Faire instead of helping the actual faire organization. So Candice was able to get us free passes to the faire. We got to know Candice & Jeffrey better and helped them a bit here and there whenever they needed help. We only needed to help them for a bit over an hour and then we got to enjoy the rest the faire. We saw robots battling it out, tesla coil to music, pedaling a bike attached to guitars to make the play, decorated automobiles, burlesque dancers, life-size mouse trap, live music, flame throwing robots, biker zoo, and the diet coke & mentos guys, Steve & Fritz! Just to name a few... Check out my youtube page for the video I took of the BattleBots!