MakerFaire 2009
Kinetic Arts, originally uploaded by jason.stajich.
Had a fun day at MakerFaire 2009 – quite overwhelmed by the things to see and do. Picked up a few fun wood art+science piece for my new office. I loved what Xylocopa makes – check them out, one of the pair is a lifesciences graduate student and also an artist drawing some deliciously detailed designs.
We also saw some more fun kinetic art like this piece as well as a some more art pieces from kinetic artist and friend Benjamin Cowden.
I also really want a 3D printer now – just need to figure out how we’ll actually (i.e. in lab) the scanned micrographs turned into 3D models of fungal cells…
My Flickr album plus lots more from others with makerfaire and makerfaire2009 tags.
Venky are discussing. 
I’m sure you’re aware of it, but I’m spreading the word to as many people as possible – LyX is awesome.
I wrote my thesis in it — it does most things that LaTeX does, has decent bibtex interaction (pull down citeulike as bibtex, clean up with bibtool + custom perl, load into LyX), has change tracking + reviewing, built-in versioning, document inclusion (child documents), easy tables + images + math, export to OpenOffice/rtf/txt/html (via texmf) plus all the WYSIWYM goodness.