{"id":1114,"date":"2010-10-02T09:29:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T08:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-09-29T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T20:35:00","slug":"nyc-day-25-maker-faire-and-the-eepybirds-coke-mentos-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeburrage.com\/blog\/archives\/1114","title":{"rendered":"NYC day 25 – Maker Faire and the EepyBird’s Coke & Mentos show."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday was my second-last day in New York. Oh no!<\/p>\n

\nNow, when I was first planning my New York holiday, I mean vacation, I only bought my plane ticket out. For various reasons I made sure I didn’t book the outward and home flights together, because doing exactly that meant I had to buy flight home from the EJC twice. So, my flight home was flexible up until just before I left for NYC.<\/p>\n

\nMy best-case flight home was Monday 27th, chosen so I could stay until the Maker Faire. It was the very last thing on my mental TO-DO-IN-NYC list, so I made sure I went.<\/p>\n

\nThe Maker Faire is all about building fun but useless stuff at home. As someone who has been building a room that rotates in my living room, this kind of things really appeals to me.
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\nNot everything can be built at home. For instance, a “life size” version of Mouse Trap.
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\nOr how about a propane powered rocket that shoots flame from the wrong end?
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\nThis is a fun musical instrument played by pulling on ropes. It’s like bell ringing with different sounds.
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\nThe inside of a geometry puzzle.
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\nA magnetic liquid kaleidoscope thing.
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\nA machine that throws balls from a rotating funnel, through holes set in two oppositely spinning disks, and back into the same funnel (I think).
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\nThe highlight of the Faire (for me) was the EepyBird.com stage. you may know these guys from their experiments with Coke Zero and Mentos.
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\nThe smaller bearded half of EepyBird is Fritz. I know him from years ago, a time when he made his money as a juggler and diabolist, rather than getting soaked with sugar-free cola. I mean soda.
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\nI took photos while they set up. Fritz told me it gets a bit crazy for their show, so said I could come inside the barrier to watch and take photos.
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\nThe “do this at home” method.
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\nResults!
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\nCelebration!
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\nAs you can see from this photo, the crowd was HUGE. These guys are the rock stars of the Maker Faire.
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\nThe Experiment (show) begins!
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\nI got soaked too!
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\nThe reason they use Coke Zero is the lack of sugar. No sugar, no stickiness!
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\nFritz at the end of the show. I tried to take more photos of the show itself, but the fizzy pop on my camera lens kinda got in the way.
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\nThe aftermath.
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\nClearing up.
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\nIt’s amazing how many kids (of all ages) wanted a half-empty bottle of mildly minty Coke Zero as a souvenir.
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\nLater I cycled across Queens and into Manhattan for a burger, then over to the New York Clown Theatre Festival end-of-festival party. I missed the start, which included a clown funeral procession through Williamsburg. I joined in with the dancing for a while, but I couldn’t keep up with a crowd of clowns doing silly things.
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\nMy bike route on Sunday.
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