At the weekend of 14-15th March it was the UK's first Maker Faire in Newcastle Upon Tyne, which took place as part of Newcastle Science Fest.

Paul Foster and James Bruton ran an exhibit called 'Build the 'Jetsons' digital lifestyle today' featuring two White Box Robotics 914 PC Bots as well as some other Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio technology and a home brew multi-touch display that Paul built.

You can see coverage of the UK Maker Faire on the BBC News website, check out 2:10 for the parts on MRDS and PC based robots.

There’s an official Maker Faire Flickr photoset that you can check out as well as three YouTube videos of the event. Check out 1:05 and 4:10 on the third YouTube video for the PC Bots in action and more on Paul's multi-touch display. Here's the Vid:

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