From flaming unicorns and drivable hammocks to chair-sized 3-D printers and cat-accommodating wagons, check out the highlights of NYC’s 2012 Maker Faire.
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Dancing Robots
Handmade robots at NYC's 2012 Maker Faire dance in sync to music.
Dave Mosher
Thousands of inventors, hackers, makers, and do-it-yourself enthusiasts swarmed New York City this weekend to get a taste of Maker Faire, one the planet’s biggest do-it-yourself festivals.
Organizers call their event the “greatest show (and tell) on Earth” after the hundreds of projects hauled out for display every year, from flame-and-sparkle-shooting unicorns to remote-control hammock cars.
Popular Science grabbed a camera and headed out to the New York Hall of Science -- the grounds of the festival since it landed on the East Coast in 2010 -- and documented the smorgasbord of mind-blowing projects.
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It's like electronic technology, robotics, anime, gothic, fantasy, home hobbyist inventors merge in one park. Now this is so cool-able! Kudos to all the inventors!