A brief condensation of the Maker Faire at the San Jose Fairgrounds, Saturday, 22 April 02006.

Lego. Lego. More Lego including a nice hands-on with the Mindstorms Nxt sets.

Musical instruments made from reclaimed motorcycle parts.

Monome. People loving it. The Monome tables were continually jammed with crowds of bobbing heads rocking the demos.

Robotics everywhere. Basic stamp programming classes for Boe-bot kids.

Sheetmetal and welding workshops, The Crucible blasting fire into the air all day long.

Glass blowing explanations and demonstrations.

Yosh's cartoon cats playing the drums.

Computer-guided woodcutting with the ShopBot.

Motorized unicycles.

Bonsai clovers, orchids on intergalactic journeys in hermetic, antiseptic environments, fungal art. An incredible conversation with artist Phil Ross on the nature of fungi, humans and the web of life on earth.

On-demand laser etching of laptops and mobile phones. "This phone is tapped!"

Segway polo. Segways everywhere, actually.

Leif's accrc.org cluster of crusty computers rendering incredible graphics with 7.9 GHz of combined crunching power, all while running off a vegetable oil generator. "Obsolescence is a lack of imagination."

Resizing mobius strip handbags and air powered, convertible ball gowns. Recycled clothing remade.

Children creating helium filled soap suds and watching in delight as they floated away into the sky.