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PHOTOS: Bay Area Maker Faire

A glimpse of the massive DIY festival held May 21-22 at the San Mateo Event Center.

Makers from around the country converged on the San Mateo Event Center this weekend for a kinetic and frenetic gathering of creatives.

The Bay Area hosted them all: poets, crafters, and printers; innovators, inventors and musicians; hackers and homesteaders.

Half Moon Bay participants included the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, which hosted a design lab for children, and Organamatronic, a musical duo (member Michael La Guardia is a Half Moon Bay resident) who played in a glass booth at the entrance of the Expo Hall. The group altered its music in real time based on suggestions given by the rotating audience. Click for a story on Organamatronic at Maker Faire (including video and photos of one of their Sunday performances).

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In line with the festival's theme, participants were truly participants in every sense of the word, whether one jumped into a MacGyver challenge as a young maker, letterpressed a card, plunged one's hands into a bowl of cabbage to make sauerkraut, learned how to knit, or forged an inventive combination of scraps into a fine garment at the Swap-O-Rama.

Here's a sampling in photos of just some of what the Maker Faire had to offer.

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