ETECH: Maker Fair
The Maker Fair at ETECH (and its parent, Make Magazine capture my imagination on lots of levels. As a self-confessed geek, I love hardware hacks like Bunny Huang’s DIY persistence-of-vision LEDs and Billy Hoffman’s magstripe readers; as an activist, I love Natalie Jeremijenko’s robot dogs modded to sniff out environmental toxins.
As a copyfighting lawyer, I loved the spirit of tinkering in the air. The whole event was brimming with the spirit of exploration, interoperation, and user-driven innovation. The more people who catch that excitement, the more people we’ll have fighting laws that restrict our ability to open boxes and re-use the contents.
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