A quick sampling of some of the homegrown technology that makes the Maker Faire such a kick: There's some bizarre transit, in the form of ACME Mufineering's motorized cupcakes; a "giant, fixed-gear, two-person dicycle" called Unwheeldy (hard to describe, but watch and it'll all make sense); and Tom Sepe's Whirlygig Emoto, a steampunk'd electric cycle complete with 15-mile range and, um...operating steam whistle.
Indoors, things were just as charming: Sisyphus V uses a rotating magnetic arm to propel a steel ball through sand, creating Zen-garden geometric patterns; that crazy ferrofluid you keep reading about populates the hand-cranked Magnetoscope, turning magnetic fields into impossible-looking 3D artwork; and the spooky moving images of a homemade camera obscura turn out to be the result of something as simple as an LED light and some bits of shiny foil on a turntable.
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