If you’re local to the Bay Area or even visiting, the annual Maker Faire is this weekend at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. My daughter and I went last year and will check out the action today:

• Giant Mousetrap
• Power tool drag racing
• Steam powered vehicles
• Robot wars (my daughter’s favorite)
• Nose picking machine
• Sensitive robotic giraffe
• And much, much more…

It’s fun for the whole family and there are things at this faire you’ll not see anywhere else. Seriously. I loved the hang gliding simulator (you actually climb into a harness and control the game as if you were really hang gliding by moving your body back and forth.)