Maker Faire

I went to Maker Faire once. For those of you who don't know, that's a biannual event held in various places to celebrate the DIY craft, and ostensibly to let your get your solder on with others of a similar bent. In my experience though, it was just a huge, hot place with expensive food and smelly hipsters who think they're all that because they wove their own smelly shirt out of hemp.

There were very few places where any actual tinkering with projects could occur, possibly for liability reasons, and those that existed were lackluster, expensive and filled with the aforementioned hippies. Naturally those who weren't smelly were just there because it was something to do. Even the exhibitors discouraged touching, which completely goes against the spirit of the event, in my estimation.

In short, I was looking for an intimate event with maybe a couple hundred people who love to make shit and blow shit up, but was presented with a horde of some 50,000 idiots, poseurs and hipsters of the worst kind. Attend at your own risk.