Tesla Coils are cool.

Image by Fir0002/Flagstaffotos under the GFDL License

So we went to the Maker Faire 2009 in San Mateo on Sunday and saw two Tesla Coils. There were lots of other fun things there as well, but the best thing about the Tesla Coils was that every time something happened, the whole audience started cheering – it was just so cool seeing people so excited by science!

I also liked the 3D imaging displays, although I’m not quite sure how useful a card with a 3D kitten on it is – you’d have to put on the glasses every time you wanted to look at it.

Perhaps more usefully, I might take up bee keeping and I think I will definitely become a Bay Area Vegetarian – anything for a group who had badges enquiring “Why did the tofurkey cross the road?”.