Maker Faire starts today! While I roam the San Mateo County fairgrounds looking for wonderful things to photograph and write about later, please enjoy one last take on Maker Faire from an insider: Jacob Applebaum, a.k.a. ioerror, one of the forces behind Noisebridge, a hacker space just a hop, skip and jump from the 16th Street BART station in San Francisco's Mission District. So, what's your name? My name is Jacob Appelbaum. What do you do? I'm a photographer and I work as a developer for The Tor Project. Is this your first Maker Faire? This is not my first; I've been attending since the very first. How would you describe the event to someone unfamiliar? Maker Faire is not unlike a typical county fair. However, it lacks the carnies and it replaces them with robots, fire, interesting art, targeted commercialism, sometimes healthy foods and interesting people sharing their ideas. What are you most looking forward to seeing at the Faire? Independent makers who have interesting crafts relating to magnetics. Is there anything not at the Faire that you wish were there? I'm hoping for another round of performance from Survival Research Laboratories. I'm not sure if that's ever going to happen again. Any advice for how visitors can get the most out of the weekend? Try not to make any plans unrelated to the Faire and be spontaneous. Show up early, stay late. Aside from the fairgrounds themselves, is there anything that you'd recommend out-of-town visitors to do or see? Take a trip to Noisebridge in the heart of the quaint Mission District of San Francisco!

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