There was an LED sign there from UT Austin that had been hacked (by me) when I was a student and my hack was still attached to it. It was cool to see it still working 10 years later. This year I’ll be showing the ps3toothfairy device and my theater LED controller. I thought a 2yo would be too young, but it really is something unique.

and if the cost is still a problem you could have emailed me or someone at MAKE, we could have helped out.

if you never went in, i don’t think it’s fair to say what was in there — but you keep saying “typical of burning man” which isn’t accurate at all.

I am sure there are some very interesting things to see, as for me the entrance fee is attendance prohibitive.

we have robots, rockets, alt energy, electronic classes and workshops, crafts, food hackers, music, wood working, lasers, workshop areas (techshop, etc), cars projects and best of all it’s family friendly — so bring the kids, we have kid’s events and workshops just for young folks. the whole idea is to help and inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists. hack a day does that (i started the site for that reason back in the day) but don’t just snark maker faire because you don’t like bicycles or burning man.

Too bad so much of it is just a burning man downgrade.

various bicycles welded together to make a human powered fair ride is not impressive nor something I wish to spend any sort of money on.

If you like burning man type stuff you will like maker faire, if you do not like burning man type stuff Hackaday.com is a better use of your time then going to maker faire.