{"id":1107,"date":"2008-05-03T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2008-05-03T08:42:06","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T15:42:06","slug":"maker-faire-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/maker-faire-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Maker Faire This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/electricgiraffe1.jpg\" alt=\"Electric Giraffe\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If you&#8217;re local to the Bay Area or even visiting, the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/makerfaire.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Maker Faire<\/a> is this weekend at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/20\/two-thumbs-up-for-maker-faire\/\" target=\"_blank\" >My daughter and I went last year<\/a> and will check out the action today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Giant Mousetrap<\/li>\n<li>Power tool drag racing<\/li>\n<li>Steam powered vehicles<\/li>\n<li>Robot wars (my daughter&#8217;s favorite)<\/li>\n<li>Nose picking machine<\/li>\n<li>Sensitive robotic giraffe<\/li>\n<li>And much, much more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s fun for the whole family and there are things at this faire you&#8217;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.)<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;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&#8217;s favorite) Nose picking machine Sensitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}