The second day of Maker Faire was much more laid back than the first. I did a few presentations, learned some more about the projects I was sharing a booth with, and helped fix some code for a couple of them. One of them was a robotic whiteboard, for which I helped get the pen toggling code running. You can now click the stick to toggle an actuator's position, which will lift the pen off of the whiteboard or put it back on. The guy who made the board told me he needs a stronger motor to make it work, but he knows exactly how to implement it now that the code is going. The other project I got a chance to help out with was a web cam to LED sign application. He wanted to make sure that you could only take one picture at a time and wait for the screens to render to prevent errors, so we added a delay timer. He also wanted to fix the aspect ratio a bit, because the gaps on the LED boards were elongating the picture. We looked at stretching the width to make it look better, but ended up just skipping some lines, so the picture looked like you were behind bars. It looked good, but I think the other fix would have been better.

I also had more of a chance to look at the other booths. I joined the EFF, who wanted a whole lot of personal information, considering. One of the booths was for a magazine called Ambidextrous, which is a project running out of Stanford. I'm going to see if I can work with them once I start working with more schools. And, I got a bag full of ducks from one of the ADEs who was looking to offload some of his swag.

I'm absolutely determined to go back to Maker Faire next year.