Oof... about 8 hours on my feet. Only about 4 miles in all that time, but much maneuvering through crowds.
Ergo, sore feet and sore hips. Also, it got decidedly warm this afternoon. And I really should have taken a couple of bottles of ice, so I would have had cold water handy without having to stop at concession stands (there are a very few drinking fountains at the fairgrounds, and the lines were long).
As usual, a fair amount of cool stuff. Not a lot excitingly new. There was a lot of kid stuff, which I guess is a good thing, but I gravitated toward the Adult Material, like CNC machinery and fun-with-Nixies.
Much chatting with people. I randomly mentioned one of my older Evil Ideas to Steamboat Ed; if he shows up at Burning Man some year with a cross between a doodlebug and bagpipes - a flying, noisy abomination that plays MIDI files scored for the pipes - you'll know who's to blame.
I spent way too much money on fairgrounds concession food (and didn't even find any fried artichoke hearts), but ya gotta do that once or twice a year.
Only thing I actually bought at the event (there being no practical way to take one of these home by bus and car, and besides this is altogether the wrong time for me to buy such a thing, and when it is the time, I'll likely want an 1100) was an ODROID-C1+, for evaluation purposes. Looks like a plausible solution for my cheap-little-embedded-Linux-board needs (it has, apparently, an actual USB host controller, plus an OTG port in case I need it to act like a device for some reason).
Oh, and the Cool Tech of the Moment? Liquid-resin-type 3D printers using LCD panels to cure a layer. Does it work? Um. It seems rather questionable to me, especially the super-cheap one that uses a user-supplied smartphone to do the exposing. But... maybe? Anyway, if it does work, it's awesome. It's not like I'm ready to buy such a thing right now anyway, but I'll keep an eye on the technology, and make a decision several months from now. For tech that's known to work, the price of real laser-type SLA printers is coming down.
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