The Maker Faire is like an engineer's craft show on acid. There's dudes riding around in go-carts that look like cupcakes, sixty-year-olds playing Jules Verne in the Steam Punk pavilion and lots of fire. This first video features Mark Galt's intoxicating "Quadruped" kinetic sculpture at the Bay Area Maker Faire in May 2010.

SCHEMATIC: More videos and photos from Maker Faire 2010...

Mark Galt - Electric Motor Man

Atoms & Electrons - Apple IIe + Twitter

So this fellow bought an Apple IIe for $15 and rigged it up to turn twitter avatars and feeds into 8-bit artwork. Wicked!

Life-Sized Mousetrap

Remember that game mousetrap? How about a life-sized version for your backyard?

Purincess Labs - Deathwheel 3000dx

With a perverse sense of humor and penchant for fun, classmate Purin's Deathwheel 3000dx was a huge hit at Maker Faire.

Goligorsky Laboratory - Super Relax Concept Electric Research Vehicle (Tandem Bicycle)

David Goligorsky, Design's Oscar Wilde, developed this electric tandem as part of his graduate thesis project at Stanford's Design Program. Also shown is a road bike David designed and built, as well as "Hyper-Lincoln" whose red LED eyes signal out The Gettysburg Address in Morse code. This guys is off the chain. Sorry, bad joke.

HARDER, BETTER, FASTER, STRONGEUR! Don your robot helmet and climb aboard your psychadelic pyramidal spaceship. This funky little web app allows you to perform Daft Punk's Harder Better Faster Stronger or Technologic live using your computer's QWERTY keyboard! It has advanced considerably over time and now has built in beats and pitchbending. Even available as a free iPhone app through iTunes.

Goldberg Coins is holding an auction this Saturday featuring flight manuals, space suits and actual pieces of various space shuttles and rockets. The catalog is available online here. If you're a collector or looking for an awesome, albeit expensive, costume for halloween, this is your jam. [caption id="attachment_180" align="alignnone" width="575" caption="Apollo 17, Scale Replica A7LB EVA Space Suit (EMU) "][/caption]