Meredith is Live Blogging Maker Faire: Austin!

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Lucky lucky Meredith Scheff is at Maker Faire Austin right now and she’s twittering everything she sees! You can follow her here or add satiredun on Twitter.

  • A final, fantastic show by arc attack concludes maker faire: Austin 2008. about an hour ago
  • I Cant tell you how happy it makes me that marching bands are the new geek music of choice. about 3 hours ago
  • The diet coke and mentos guys are going on. I’ve never actually seen them. about 4 hours ago
  • Aiden creating in swap-I-ramaRana- I’m getting sucked into the scrap pile myself. Creation ensues. about 6 hours ago
  • And a congrafylations to @docpop, @ekimtiki and @thisisstar for completing the 24 hour comics day challenge! about 6 hours ago
  • Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of fahioning technology, shows me some smart fabrics and flexible cicuitry http://snipurl.com/4i7ih about 6 hours ago
  • Ken murphy teaching the younger makers how to build blinky bugs on the maker shed http://snipurl.com/4i6ye about 6 hours ago
  • It’s a (make your own) hula hoop extravaganza! about 6 hours ago
  • Weavers and spiiners teach me basic weaving http://snipurl.com/4i6gb about 6 hours ago
  • Bilal is giving demos at instructables of his cheap homemade 2 scanner laser cutter, very enthusiastically. http://snipurl.com/4i61r about 7 hours ago
  • Cash course in circuit building to cut my flexible circuit board about 7 hours ago
  • The shopbot folk as doingdemos of all their CNC machines, cutting wood, plastic, vinyl, and flexible pcb’s. Sweet! http://snipurl.com/4i4r5 about 8 hours ago
  • Etching the iPod touch using the epilog ‘zing’ laser. http://snipurl.com/4i462 about 8 hours ago
  • Bilal ghalib is preparing to be scanned in the ink scanner http://snipurl.com/4i2la about 9 hours ago
  • Egood morning maker faire! about 10 hours ago
  • Ending the maker faire day sitting around john saruigate’s zen fire garden. about 22 hours ago
  • Therm is starting up their show. http://snipurl.com/4hlbw 1 day ago
  • Looks like the mouse trap us about to smoosh a washing machine. Yay. 1 day ago
  • @dczanik favorite thing? Out of all this awesome? Not an easy task to figure. 1 day ago
  • Arc attack has made me swoon over tesla coils in a whole new way. 1 day ago
  • How many mallows could a robot roast if a robot could roast mallows? About to find out at the robogsmes arena. 1 day ago
  • After battlebots, the machines escape the scythe but not the repair. http://snipurl.com/4hin0 1 day ago
  • Using the axe grinder can be hard when you can’t reachthe peddles http://snipurl.com/4hids 1 day ago
  • The gore cannon takes another victim http://snipurl.com/4hdfl 1 day ago
  • Ogi lumen’s nixie tube kits http://snipurl.com/4hd5t 1 day ago
  • Air instrument jam out http://snipurl.com/4hd3u 1 day ago
  • Woodblock printing station rolling put the art http://snipurl.com/4hcru 1 day ago
  • Antique sock knitting machines,in essence, creating a series of tubes. http://snipurl.com/4hc6u 1 day ago
  • Imy completed felted fellow eeminds me of someone http://snipurl.com/4hc01 1 day ago
  • Mary jane’s attic ladies teaching me felting. Dainty! With needles. http://snipurl.com/4hb7w 1 day ago
  • The tesla coil musical theatre has just taken yhage, and won the geek award by playing the star wars theme.. With tesla coils. 1 day ago
  • Aaron ristaus’s sculpture is beautiful majonery art porn, and makes me stomp my feet in geeky steampunk glee. http://snipurl.com/4ha19 1 day ago
  • I was 3-d scanned in a pool of inky liquid- a sort of baptismal waterboarding, but fun, and for science! http://snipurl.com/4h9wk 1 day ago
  • The Hungry Scientists are making liquid nitrogen ice cream- this is the cool table. http://snipurl.com/4h8q1 1 day ago
  • The blacksmithing is in full swing- makes me want to toss aside my camera, pick up a hammer, and pound some steel http://snipurl.com/4h8er 1 day ago
  • Build your own cnc (.com) showing off their machines. http://snipurl.com/4h7wv 1 day ago
  • Spark Fun is doing continual soldering workshops all day; with the lilly pad arduino and ‘flame’ responsive kit. http://snipurl.com/4h7u5 1 day ago
  • @dczanik it is totally awesome! 2 days ago
  • Boiler bar birthday bash! http://snipurl.com/4gr05 2 days ago
  • The Maker faire team (or part of it) http://snipurl.com/4gnf9 2 days ago
  • Cranky and plucky by dominique Vyborny http://snipurl.com/4gnd0 2 days ago
  • The life sized mousetrap by Cyclecide @makerfaire setup. http://snipurl.com/4gm34 2 days ago
  • Shop Bot @makerfaire setup, cutting Halloween themed foam samples http://snipurl.com/4glgm 2 days ago
  • @makerfaire I’m in your venues, blogging ur events 2 days ago
  • Er, but hopefully without the spelling errors. 2 days ago
  • Oh, and BTW: I will be starting livebloggibg of maker faire tonight! 2 days ago