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The Make: magazine-sponsored, 2nd annual Maker Faire tickets are now on sale! If you missed last year's inaugural event, you missed quite a bit. Imagine an entire weekend full of exhibits, classes, and vendors catering strictly to the ubergeeky DIY types. Imagine a giant walking robotic giraffe, a preview of some really cool new wireless java-based gadget platforms from Sun, classes from Parallax, teaching people how to build RFID readers you can take home, a flame-throwing trampoline, Steve Wozniak on his Segway, frygrease-powered cars, and much, much more.

That's just a tiny sampling of last year's.

I am still kicking myself for missing the auditions for this year's Faire, but I hear there will be, among other things, a demo of a homemade 3-dimensional (think: print your own solid objects out of thin air) printer using sugar as the main building material. How cool is that?

Go. Buy. Be enticketed.