VAN @ SXSW
March 31st, 2010 by Chris QuigleyWhoooah! Team VAN are finally back from a v.fun trip to the SXSW festival in Austin + a mini (VAN) tour of the states.
SXSW was a fully inspirational experience – full of the weird + wonderful + generally futuristic.
Possibly the most interesting thing I saw came from the Dorkbot session – where Bre Pettis demo-ed his latest invention is the “Makerbot“, a 3-D printing device that allows you to literally print stuff. That’s right – you draw it, it prints it. For example, Bre told a story about how a guy was due to referee at his son’s football match and realised he didn’t have a whistle – so, using Makerbot he printed out a whistle in a couple of hours. That’s right – he actually printed out a working whistle. Fricking awesome.
I was also pretty blown away by Arcattack’s mind-bending Tesla Coil musical extravaganza which was kinda like a musical electric storm.
Check out photos below – including Arcattack, Ally and his Ice Cream VAN and our super-rad VAN meme badges . . .
Ally and his Ice Cream VAN in Austin
VAN meme badges (I HEART Ceiling cat)
Arcattack’s dancing Tesla Coils @ Dorkbot
