Maker Faire Bay Area Returns • Hacker News Board

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by brk » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 12:57 PM UTC

andrewguenther wrote: post #25

pengaru wrote: post #4

I wonder how much bigger the GM/Chevrolet auto sales presence will be this time around...

Yeah. It was really rough to see how Maker Faire declined as time went on. I attended from 2009-2015 and corporate sponsored space consistently grew every year. The venue never got bigger, it just pushed out...makers.

I feel like the whole "Make" brand/site/magazine/everything transitioned too much from Hacker to Hipster. As another comment pointed out, it become more craft-y, almost like "tech crafts". Probably a larger audience there, but I feel like today's Make is a bit far off from the original.

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by itomato » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 1:14 PM UTC

Good to hear, but man was it nice to take CalTrain.

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by itomato » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 1:15 PM UTC

samtho wrote: post #12

I’m happy to see this. As someone coming from Sacramento, I am liking the location a little more than San Mateo as it cuts my travel time in half.

You gonna take Amtrak?

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by itomato » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 1:18 PM UTC

pbjtime wrote: post #49

As someone in the Tampa Bay metro area it always shocks me how Californians think they have the market cornered on the term "Bay area".

All “bay areas” are “bay areas”.

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by andrewguenther » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 2:57 PM UTC

dieselgate wrote: post #42

andrewguenther wrote: post #28

Maker Faire has a really special place in my heart. In 2011 I ran the iFixit booth where we not only ran phone repair workshops, but we also did a teardown of a car...live. A volunteer was kind enough to lend us his VW Golf, which he was also going to need to drive to work the following Monday. We were the last exhibitors out as it took us until around 2AM on Monday morning to get the whole thing back together and dr…

Cool. What constitutes tearing down a car in this case?

We disassembled it as much as we could on day 1 of the show and started putting it back together about halfway through day 2.

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by iancmceachern » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

clhodapp wrote: post #47

iancmceachern wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And sadly the ferrys have a worse carbon Footprint than driving also

The city are in the process of slowly transitioning the ferries to electric (battery powered and hydrogen fuel cell, based on distance). I believe that there's already a fuel cell ship in limited service.

(See my comment below)

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by _whiteCaps_ » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 5:57 PM UTC

I hope this gets revived for Vancouver as well - I have a great memory of my kids on a couch/spider thing, I think it was by the folks from eatART.

And I learned how to make bacon there!

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by samtho » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 6:12 PM UTC

itomato wrote: post #53

samtho wrote: post #12

I’m happy to see this. As someone coming from Sacramento, I am liking the location a little more than San Mateo as it cuts my travel time in half.

You gonna take Amtrak?

Maybe, if I’m traveling with more than one person it might make more sense to drive.

They have a weekend promo for $5 per leg for addition round trip tickets on weekend that might be more worth while, however. The transit center is next to the ferry stop so I’m guessing it will be easy to get to Maker Faire from that area.

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by idrios » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 6:27 PM UTC

Something very specific that's been on my mind for years:

I used to occasionally go to a hacker space in SF called Noisebridge. They had a couple textbooks there, but one was this insanely cool almanac of various circuits that can be used to create different devices.

On the off chance that someone here goes to that hacker space or knows what I'm talking about, I'd be thrilled to know the name of that textbook.

Re: Maker Faire Bay Area Returns

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Post by skyyler » Thu, Jul 13, 2023, 7:07 PM UTC

pbjtime wrote: post #49

As someone in the Tampa Bay metro area it always shocks me how Californians think they have the market cornered on the term "Bay area".

"Bay Area" on Wikipedia redirects to San Francisco Bay Area, not a disambiguation page listing a bunch of different bay areas.

Not trying to say that Wikipedia defines culture or anything, but when searching for "bay area" on google, I have to go pages deep before finding anything about Tampa.