Technologies Old and New

The large pod pictured above can walk across the ground when operated by someone inside. It reminded me a lot of the walking machines in the early Star Wars movies, which is appropriate since I saw it at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire and people in Oakland, California, think that George Lucas got his ideas for some of those walkers from the huge cranes at the Port of Oakland.

The pod was exciting, but what made the Faire such a thrill was the range of technology from impossibly ancient to thing...