It’s a few days after Maker’s, and I’m still in awe of how the whole nerd-fest went down. We’re still sorting through the videos, and we’ve compiled a medley of all the dangerous Maker’s Faire exhibits. You know, anything involving fire, lightning bolts, and/or killer bots. And we’ve set it to a background track of Loverboy. And yet, the entirety of Maker’s Faire was still cooler in person. – Brian Lam

Videos by Andrew Baron for Rocketboom and Sarah Meyers for Gizmodo, with editing by the amazing Richard Blakeley.

Hey folks, while you were busy doing chores and spending time with the kids, we were off galavanting around Maker Faire in San Mateo with all kinds of crazy craftsmen! We know you couldn’t be there yourselves, so live vicariously through our pictures.

Some of our favourites:

•The guys from Eepybird (Coke + Mentos)
•The Racing Cupcakes
•The Pong Watch! More!
•The Real Digg Button
•The Giant Nose Picker
•The Phil Torrone!
•The Justin.TV!
•The Steam R2D2
•The 3D Printer printing Spiderman

– Jason Chen

Gallery [Gizmodo]

That’s Lisa and yours truly at the Flickr/Yahoo! booth, where they’d take a polaroid and scan it using some custom ware on a Sharp photocopier directly to Flickr.

And here’s my photo stream of 90 photos from the amazing and completely overwhelming Maker’s Faire. If you have the means, you HAVE to come by tomorrow. The weather is great here in San Mateo, and although most of the projects I’ve read about before, it really is incredible to see projects like the pong watch, electric sportbikes, steampunk remote controlled cars and tanks, those crazy coke and mentos dudes, Woz (yes Woz!), fire spitting sculptures, battle bots, among hundreds of amazing booths of stuff. I’m in heaven.

(click on the gallery header to see the many more thumbnails)

And the other nice thing is that Jason Chen and I were joined by lots of familiar faces.

Justin.tv helped us report the madness, Sarah Meyers of Partycrash fame is here, shooting. Andrew from Rocketboom is filming, too. And friends like John Mahoney from Popular Science; my friends from Wired, Chris Anderson, Adam Rogers, Joe Brown, Danny Dumas, Mark McClusky, and Adam Rogers are around here somewhere. Then there are the Make guys. I got to shake Phil Torrone’s hand before, and I think I saw Mark S. walking through a crowd. And Ryan from Engadget is here, too. What a fun day.

If you’re close — hell, even if you’re 100 miles away — and you’re a geek, you have to come on down. If you do, take the exit past the crowded one (Delaware is pretty jammed) and route your way back to the fair grounds. And bring a little sunblock. – Brian Lam

Maker Faire [MAKE]

I'm not sure what the recent trend is, but everyone seems to be life-sizing my childhood. Remember the game Mousetrap? Yes, the game that was fun for 30 seconds, and not worth the effort and time it took to set it up. Someone has created a life-size replicate of the Mousetrap Rube Goldberg machine. Rather than dropping the cage on the mouse and cheese, like in the original, this monstrous version will drop a safe on any object of your choosing (to crush and destroy). It will be on display at the Maker Faire next month. –Travis Hudson

Full Scale Mousetrap Kinetic Sculpture [OhGizmo!]