#my dad was VERY enamored of the vacuum forming setup

[gender-trash]

went to maker faire yesterday, wiped myself out AGAIN but it was very Worth It

sometimes it feels like maker faire is all People Who Want To Sell You Intro Circuits Kits/Jewelry/Machine Tools but then sometimes you wander around enough and find a random student org doing hdpe vacuum forming using a shopvac taped to a mason jar with holes punched in the lid. king shit

i also spent like an hour and a half watching two guys make cast iron The Old Fashioned Way, with a sand mold and everything. they were associated with a local steam power society that needed cast iron parts to repair their 100-year-old steam tractor and went "oh okay i guess i'll figure out how to do that". learned a lot of information i probably won't use, but you never know!