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Hi Windell, I'm out here, will be there Thursday


You can hear my new windharp that I will show at Makers faire 08 at: http://home.comcast.net/~botronics/mf...


@Linda Chavez Lagunas: An even more godlike woman.



@John Guy: Hey John, are you out there? We'd like to get in touch!

Contact me here, through E-mail, or at
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/staticpages/index.php/contact

Thanks!


@Jeremy Boyle: nice machines, my friend. It was a pleasure to meet you and see your creations.


@Simran Gleason: Simran! I still can't figure out where we've met before the faire, but it was nice to meet you again. See you around, I'm sure.


@Kaden Harris: was a pleasure to see your creations in action! Nice work, and it was a pleasure to meet you.


@Peter Kirn: Peter, had a blast sunday night. Was great to meet you and talk music nerd language.


@Michael Gurevich: Yes! I was definately inspired by our little cluster of music madness. Keep up the great work!!


@Peter Kirn: Hey, thanks Peter, we had lots of fun. I'm sorry I didn't make it to the gigs in SF over the weekend. Actually I was at Edinburgh Castle on Saturday, but I think the music was over by the time I got there. I will be at NIME along with a few other CCRMA folks, and hope to catch up then.


@Peter Kirn: Anybody who uses sock monkeys in music (or in any other medium) is a friend o' mine!


@Natalie Zee Drieu: Hey Natalie, brilliant work with the CRAFTer booths -- and I was especially pleased at all the intermixing of the Craft and Make sides! By the end, we were talking about soft circuits, right through a SuperShuttle ride home from JFK.


@michelle Hlubinka: Binka is one of the sweetest people you'll ever meet!


@Steve Cooley: Was great to meet you in person, Steve; I really wish I could have made it over to the other hall to see what you were doing. Hope we meet up again soon!


@Adrian Freed: Adrian, I didn't get to say hi as you were entertaining the masses, but the booth looked truly terrific. I thought the idea of bringing together as many inputs as possible was really brilliant.


@Michael Gurevich: The CCRMA stuff was really amazing. Nice to finally see it in person as an East Coast person. Hope to see some of y'all at NIME here in NY?


@Tim Thompson: It was a pleasure sharing a booth quadrant with you, Tim! Keep us posted on everything.


@Simran Gleason: Well, darnit, I was so tied to my booth I didn't ever find your thing. Send along documentation if you've got it; sounds great!


@Mitch Altman: Mitch, I enjoyed sharing sushi Sunday night. Susan on our staff was thrilled to receive her TV-B-Gone gift. I accidentally turned off the TV in my hotel room when I dropped it on the desk, and Richard and I did experiment with it at the airport. Thanks for improving our society!


@Mitch Altman: nice job at the faire, mitch. I enjoyed seeing your POV hacks and the TVBGone is sweeeeeeet


@Mark Allen: Doh! Didn't find you at the Maker Faire :(
To make it up, I'd love to come by for the next Dorkbot and bring one of the installations I had at my booth


@Dale Dougherty: DALE!!!

What a fantastic weekend. Thanks so much for all your hard work. I had a blast and did a lot of valuable networking.


@John Maushammer: I did a time lapse of our area.

Saturday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Nk4lSEUhU
Sunday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ULDSeqODo

Great job on the watch!


@I-Wei Huang: I made a time lapse of our area on Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Nk4lSEUhU
Sunday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ULDSeqODo

See you at Robogames !


@Ben Krasnow: Here is a time lapse of our area I took on Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Nk4lSEUhU
Sunday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ULDSeqODo


@Ambidextrous Magazine: Great to meet you all at the party last night - hope the fair is a success for you. I couldn't get out of my workshop to visit you. Hopefully tomorrow.
If you get a chance, come visit my workshop (MAKE Play Day).


@Elise Engelhardt: Awesome project. Crazy that you know my cousin. It's a small world!


@Scott Feen: Enjoyed meeting you and Katie today, Scott. Richard and I are buzzed to be working on MAKE:TV!


@Cris Benton: Enjoyed meeting you yesterday and look forward to working with you on MAKE:TV.


@Mark Frauenfelder: Mark-
I enjoyed meeting you yesterday. We're excited about working with your team on MAKE:TV.

Fred


@Shawn Connally: Shawn-
Great meeting you today...Richard and I are excited about working on MAKE:TV!

Fred


@bre: Great to meet you yesterday Bre! Let's jam on invented instruments this weekend..


@David Merrill: David-
Enjoyed talking with you at the Maker dinner last night. As an old musician, I'm interested in your work on instrument design...I'll have to check it out!

Fred


@Ezra Daly: motor cycle parts bass???? i gotta see this


@Nancy Flynn: Can't wait to see ya in action! ;-)


@Mark Frauenfelder: Mark is the only person I know who can make Stephen Colbert laugh while playing with robots. I've known him for years, and he still amazes me with his talent. In conclusion, Mark rocks!


@Dale Dougherty: Dale-
Richard and I from tpt are excited to be coming to the Maker Faire!


@Shawn Connally: Glad you can make it back this year! Happy Cinco de Mayo!


@Bathsheba Grossman: I'm so glad you're back this year! Your work is so interesting, and beautiful!


@John Collins: If you can send me a drawing with dimension of the unfolded pattern of a very simple (few bends) airplane I bet I could make one. If you can get that to me by thursday I might be able to make one for you.


@Jessica Hobbs: Total respect to the FLG...


@rick walker: Rick!! are you on my wavelenght??

I am building v2 of the controller and a light organ is part of the plan.


@Craig Dorety: ps, this may seem like a silly idea but
it might be cool to add a line of leds to the
outside edge of your controller and simply
attach them to a simple color organ styled
device.

a chain of lights that responded to the music would look like you were controlling them with the lights even though this would only be for show.

gratuitous thought but it just popped into my head for what it's worth.

keep up the wonderful inventing.


@Craig Dorety: thanks for the friend add.

I look forward to seeing you at the Faire.
Do you have a performance slot?

I'll be performing Sunday afternoon, right before
Kid Beyond.

I'll see you then, hopefully. Nice controller, btw!


I wouldn't recommend it. He's kind of an a-hole who likes to steal your girlfriend, your money, or your stash while your retina's busy trying to adjust to his limelight. The unvarnished me is far more of a straight-shooter (altho you might want to keep at least one eye on your stuff).


@Gareth Branwyn: Is there anyway I can meet the legend by itself first?


@rick walker: looking forward to hearing/seeing examples of your work!!


@Bruce Shapiro: Hi Bruce. I think we met once at a Twin Cities Robotics Group meeting. You're the guy with the robotic etch-a-scetch who built the cool bubble printer at the Science museum, correct? Hope to see you at the Faire!


Thanks! Yup, I'm showing the mouth-helmets (also called the Prolixus) and the perform-o-shoes...we'll see what fits in my carry-on. Would love to show more, but those are two long days of demo-ing. Thanks for setting up this network...fantastic!


@Andrew Schneider: You've got some cool projects. Are you presenting any of them at the faire?


@Andy Lee: We need to talk. Are you around on Sunday. I'm doing a paper airplane demo at 1:30p on the main stage. All my designs are origamic. Is it possible to make plastic copies of my planes?


@Nancy Flynn: Can't wait to hang out and make a tote bag!!


@Giana González: You asked me my favorite Italian fashion designer. I'm afraid my fashion IQ is fairly low. I do prefer Chianti to couture!


@Brian Cross: Too bad you can't come this year. Good luck, Brian.


@meadowlark Bradsher: Good luck with finals, I'll hopefully see you in Austin!

Check this out -- it sounds like your project, but 100x grosser: http://bathroom.mit.edu/

p.s. you'll have an *awesome* time


meadowlark - whoops, that was a misunderstanding. The score is the time! What I was talking about was re-drawing the score on the screen... it only needs to be redrawn if the ball crosses over it -- otherwise, it would leave a trail of black dots where the "erased balls" were drawn. The choice was to do this all the time (which slows the ball down and costs energy), or do it just when the ball passes over the score (which takes about a dozen bytes of code to check for tis condition, but I ran out of memory to do this).

The watch was working intermittently this week & it's hard to debug what's wrong with so many small parts soldered to the board. I'll try a software patch to ignore the "low battery" signal. And, of course, the next version will have much more static protection.


@Giana González: It's gonna be fun! I like Dolce & Gabbana, but Versace is pretty great too... And like Natalie, I cannot afford any of them!


@Moxie and Brookelynn : oh needle felting goddesses! can't wait to hang out and learn some needle felting.


@Gareth Branwyn: I'm looking forward to meeting you too! Too bad we couldn't get Amy Sedaris to come!! ;)


@Jamie Marie Chan: Hi Jamie! I want to spin and needle felt! yay! looking forward to hanging out.


@John Maushammer: I think you mentioned that the you didn't want the software to update the score if it wasn't necessary. So I thought instead if the score was the time of day, you'd have a hit on your hands. That would be a money maker.


@Shannon Okey: Can't wait to hang out Shannon!


@Cecily Keim: I can't wait to learn more crochet stitches from you. One of my next projects is your larger than life bag. I need to get yarn at the maker faire for it!


@meadowlark Bradsher: That's a great invention!


@Giana González: Hi Giana! I'm excited to see you soon at the Maker Faire. My favorite Italian designer you ask? I love Giorgio Armani for his modern and clean design. Plus it's too expensive for me to ever afford. ;)


@Jamie Marie Chan: love your work ! Really looking forward to meet you!


@Shawn Connally: Hey Shawn ! this is exciting and I am looking forward to meeting all the MAKERS and CRAFTERS next week.
Quick question, what is your favorite italian Fashion designer?

Giana


@Dale Dougherty: Dale ... Thanks for coordinating all this . I am very excited to go to CA [aka the promised land] .. I wanted to ask you what your favorite fashion[s] is? do you have any preffered italian designers?

Giana


@Natalie Zee Drieu: Natalie it has been a while since I met you in NYC !
I have been following up of course Craft and Make... are you going to hack some italian Fashion?

I wanted to ask you if you had a prefferred italian Label? and why do you like it?

Giana


@melanie miguel(shiloh): I'm using your sweaters as a way to lure several members of my family to the faire. They look great!


@Shannon Okey: Yay! It will be a fiber fest like no other! Can't wait to hang with you! : )


@Cecily Keim: Can't wait to go to your demo! : )


@Sara Winge: Will you be making music at Maker Faire? People have built a lot of pretty crazy instruments.


@Bathsheba Grossman: So neat!! I am inspired


@Bathsheba Grossman: I can't wait to see one of your sculptures in person!


@Natalie Zee Drieu: Thanks so much for asking me to be a part of Maker Faire! This is gonna be craftacular!


@Eric Kurland: Love the mobile movie idea. Will there be a late night maker faire feature?


@Susan Beal: yay! so excited to see you in town for the Maker Faire


@Natalie Zee Drieu: Hey Nat, so looking forward to finally meeting you in person. The Faire should be a blast.


@Blake Maloof: Oh, well if you were trying to sound pretentious, you weren't *nearly* hot-winded enough. Haven't I taught you anything, son? If I know anything, it's how to blow massive amounts of smoke!


I was having some fun trying to sound extremely pretentious :)


@Blake Maloof: >I am the son of brilliant MAKE contributor Gareth Branwyn.
Do you want that in 20s or 50s? Why don't we just go ahead and do crisp, new hundreds? They look so... pretty in your wallet.


@Mark Allen: I have to say how much I adored taking the Felted Circuits class! Look forward to seeing you at the Faire.


@Jamie Marie Chan: Can't wait for BB/MF fiber overload! Yay!


@Jamie Marie Chan: Last fall at Felt Club, you got me addicted to needle felting!

Look forward to seeing you!


@Shannon Okey: Hi Shannon - spin to knit is a great book! hope to have the chance to meet you.
Tracey


@Susan Herrick: Hello from a fellow knitter - hope to catch your demos!
Tracey


@Meaghan Snider: Hi Meghan - thanks for your comment - I am looking forward to seeing your spinning wheel in action!
Tracey


@Rachel Hospodar: Hi there! Thanks for your note - I'm looking forward to checking out your felting!
Tracey


@Blake Maloof: Blake is an artistic genius, a prince among men. Oh, and he's also my son, but that's got nothing to do with it.


@Kirk von Rohr: My friends had an awesome time silkscreening their poster at the faire last year!


@Nathan Seidle: Sizing the controller to match the rest of the game is a stroke of genius!!


@bre: I've been enjoying the weekend projects. I'm hoping to see the signature hand gestures in person!


>You're a legend I've always wanted to meet!

That was *before* the medication. I'm much better now, but far less interesting. I kid. I kid my psyche! I'll see if I can coax the legend into my carry-on luggage.


@Gareth Branwyn: You're a legend I've always wanted to meet!


@Bonnie Burton: Hey Bonnie, looking forward to finally meeting you!


@Bonnie Burton: I have serious commitment to being intrigued by bean and glitter portraits of starwars characters


@bre: Bre also is a cute geek pinup:
http://www.grrl.com/bre.html


@John Maushammer: very nice pong watch!!! impressive :)


@Morgan Woodson: I got my first computer off of Morgan. He sold me his old Timex Sinclair with a green phosphor monitor that didn't have an enclosure and scared my parents. It was awesome.


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