But cut scene a few months and there we were anyway, surrounded by toys…<\/p>\n
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<\/a>WASTEWORLD, woo!<\/p><\/div>\n
A few more photos of Brett’s exhibit additional to those here are in this gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n This was the debut of Open Sauce<\/a>, which I’m currently describing as a convention for electromechanical play and adjacent hobbies & tool building<\/em>. A gathering of tinkerers, artistic engineers, and technical artists. That means lots of homemade robots, kinetic art installations, custom video game hardware, DIY electric skateboards, 3D printers, and so on. A lowercase maker fair, as differentiated and genericized from an uppercase Maker Faire<\/a>, the conventions organized by Make: magazine<\/a>. The community fabric of this one is largely a loosely associated collection of YouTube personalities and their audience, which is how Brett knew of the event. Nearly every person asked us “So what’s your channel?” and we were like “Naw, we don’ do that, yo.”<\/p>\n I have a few more photos and videos from around the convention in addition to those here, though just a small subset of what was on display, in this gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\nOpen Sauce<\/h2>\n