{"id":583,"date":"2008-10-19T18:54:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T00:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T19:07:40","slug":"kelly-austin-at-maker-faire-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/19\/kelly-austin-at-maker-faire-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly &#038; Austin at Maker Faire 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kelly &amp; Austin reporting from Texas<\/strong> &#8211; The weather yesterday couldn&#8217;t have been more perfect; upper 70&#8217;s, blue skies, sunshine. We got to the the Faire and first saw all the crazy cars. One was covered entirely in fake turf- outside and inside. My favorite was covered in singing fish and lobsters that would break out in song from time to time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3172\/2952995078_e7eb52caa2.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We moved on to the Bizarre Bazaar where I discovered lots of gorgeous clothes and jewelry. Later in the day, I returned and procured a shirt and necklace. We ogled blown glass, metal sculptures, fiber arts&#8230; We also toured the techie section where Austin saw some of his favorite vendors and got to check out more products. At random times during our shopping, a robot would swing around in the ceiling and talk and explosions could be heard. There was also a silver armadillo golf cart that cruised by.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3016\/2953081720_b11d469390.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We attended a demo of the Life Size Mousetrap- think Rube Goldberg- and saw bicycles modified to look like butterflies and long dragons. We went to see battling robots at the end and they did not disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>With all this going on, you can imagine that the people watching was outstanding! Austin and I went home tired from all that we took in and a day in the sun; we had a great time.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on their blog at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kellyandaustin.com\/\">www.KellyAndAustin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3017\/2953055322_97925957dd.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3288\/2953057708_ede286d895.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alundeby\/archives\/date-posted\/2008\/10\/18\/\">More photos are here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/slideShow\/index.gne?group_id=&amp;user_id=99205132@N00&amp;set_id=&amp;text=\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"center\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly &amp; Austin reporting from Texas &#8211; The weather yesterday couldn&#8217;t have been more perfect; upper 70&#8217;s, blue skies, sunshine. We got to the the Faire and first saw all the crazy cars. One was covered entirely in fake turf- [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wacky"],"views":7725,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/artcar.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lundeby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}