Maker Faire, Austin: you going?

Austinites and Texans near and far, we hope you're headed out to your local Maker Faire this weekend -- wish we could be there, too. Seriously, where else in the world are you going to see a skinned Sega Dream Pony? Do us a fave, put your pictures on up the Engadget Flickr group, would ya?

[Grant @ Oct 20th 2007 1:18PM]

lol, thats is so screwed up.

[JAmerican @ Oct 20th 2007 1:27PM]

So let me get this straight, you want others to do the reporting for you engadget and you take the credit? Your starting to sound like CNN's i-Report.

[Ryan Block @ Oct 20th 2007 1:31PM]

Nope. When did I say we were going to post those pictures on Engadget? I'm just asking attendees to share with their fellow Engadget readers.

[Gene Holman @ Oct 20th 2007 1:31PM]

That is good old fashioned nightmare fuel

[Rjay @ Oct 20th 2007 1:32PM]

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

[Jeff @ Oct 20th 2007 1:51PM]

seems like this should be called the "breaker faire"

...i remember back in the day, when the Make Fair was about people who made things - things that do stuff, even if the raw materials were mass produced or sold as something else. Now it appears to be about people who break factory produced toys for no apparent reason.

lame.

[EngadgetFanBoi @ Oct 20th 2007 2:02PM]

I, for one, am kinda freaked out by that robo-pony and whoever tried to skin it too.

[Wayne @ Oct 20th 2007 2:28PM]

I, for one, remember the old comments in the "I, for one," format.

[Samurai Jack @ Oct 20th 2007 3:01PM]

Reminds me of an episode of "Robot Chicken":

"My Little Pony, Apocalypse Pony..."

[peestandingup @ Oct 20th 2007 4:00PM]

Or the Unicorn episode.

"If you polish his horn long enough, it gives you magical unicorn mayonnaise."

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Oct 20th 2007 8:11PM]

Polish? I am A Polock and I take offense to that, we Pols ain't French and don't like mayonnaise.


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=polish

[Jeff @ Oct 20th 2007 3:09PM]

seriously ... WTF? Wait .. let me say that again .. WTF?

[EngadgetFanBoi @ Oct 20th 2007 3:19PM]

Are you Trying to be a total ass, or does it just come naturally?

[Emory Dunn @ Oct 20th 2007 4:16PM]

I plan on going, it should be awsome, since its the first time i've been to a Maker Faire.

[Chris @ Oct 20th 2007 9:51PM]

WTF?!?!?!

That image is wrong on so many levels.

[craig @ Oct 21st 2007 12:19AM]

I've had comments deleted several times now. Engadget doesn't care for criticism. They prefer to refer to themselves as the influential voice of people in the know.

[Ryan Block @ Oct 21st 2007 12:34AM]

Not so. We're fine with critical commentary -- it keeps us on our toes and the site (and our comment threads) would be poorer without it. Making trollish remarks, however, is not the best way to ensure your comments stay live.

[craig @ Oct 21st 2007 12:40AM]

Haha Ryan. It's easy to call comments "trollish" once you've deleted the ones you don't like. "Trollish" comments not critical of Engadget are just fine though, right? Surely you aren't suggesting that you remove all such remarks or that you are even qualified to know...

[Ryan Block @ Oct 21st 2007 1:04PM]

Sounds like you don't quite understand how moderated comments work. People who leave good, interesting, even critical comments get to go about their business; those who leave trollish comments -- about anything, including Engadget -- are liable to have theirs removed.

[craig @ Oct 21st 2007 1:38PM]

Being a moderator on another site, I think I do. Reading Engadget pretty regularly, I don't buy your explanation. There's plenty of trolling, namecalling, flaming, and spamming going on that passes all the time. I've had at least three of my comments removed from Engadget and all were critical of Engadget's work. The fact is that Engadget is far more sensitive to comments about Engadget than it is to hostility among its readership. If Engadget moderated to remove trolls, many of its own trollish editorial comments would get censored. In fact, some of its articles, namely to ones flaming Apple clone manufacturers, wouldn't exist at all. Engadget not only allows trolling, it participates in it. If Engadget could refrain from juvenile, insulting, and judgemental comments from its editors I doubt I'd have ever had a comment removed at all.

Why don't you give me an example of how critical commentary has kept Engadget on it's toes, Ryan? Sounds like nothing more than PR to me.

[tanais @ Oct 21st 2007 4:02AM]

I wonder if the robo pony can be reprogrammed and have sexual organs retro-fitted so furries the world over can finally have the perfect sex partner?

[Chris @ Oct 21st 2007 7:43PM]

Dude. Seriously. WTF?

[tanais @ Oct 22nd 2007 4:17AM]

[makes note to try and remember in future that Americans that say "Dude" usually lack the Irony gene]

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 21st 2007 9:06AM]

Didn't the wolves from "Wolves of the Calla" ride on these?

Thanks, North Central Positronics!

[allen_weiner @ Oct 21st 2007 10:52PM]

I went to the Maker Faire and shot some videos of the event-- http://whatsontonight.blogware.com

[Kizul Emeraldfire @ Dec 4th 2007 12:00AM]

I, for one, welcome our skinned robotic equine overlords.

[Kizul Emeraldfire @ Dec 4th 2007 12:01AM]

P.S.: OH MY GOD IT'S THE PALE HORSE OF THE APOCOLYPSE!