A girl experiments with a DIY robot construction kit called Cubelets from Modular Robotics

Bill Sherman makes these interactive artbots out of spare computer parts

ETFLED is an e-textile flexible LED mesh, created by Erik Johnson

It just wouldn't be a place to build stuff without giant piles of Lego bricks

Lunarsaurus is a fearsome (but smiling!) dinosaur with a pneumatic head that you control by playing different notes on a midi keyboard

Remember that Catherine Zeta Jones scene from Entrapment? The Stanford Optical Society let you try it out for yourself

Yes, it's a field of giant inflatable glowing asparagus. Seriously, it's supposed to be asaparagus

ETFLEDs can be woven into shirts, where they can display animated patterns of all kinds

Believe it or not, this contraption can be worn by a woman to protect her nether regions. It's part of an exhibition called Impenetrable Devices by Ira Sherman

The paper airplane auto launcher takes over the fun part paper airplanes for you

Fire Jam is a slightly modified version of Guitar Hero that shoots giant fireballs whenever you press one of the keys. It was designed and constructed by a group of exceptionally talented high school students

This plush has semi-rigid steel "bones" inside that you can snap (they spring right back). Breaking this thing's neck is an immensely satisfying way to relieve stress

Saphira is a fire-breathing dragon named after the dragon from Eragon

Why yes, these are drivable cupcakes

Trust me, these CrateBots are unpleasant things to have following you around

Rock the Bike's Pedal Powered Stage is a musical stage where all of the speakers and amps are powered by people pedaling frantically on bicycles hooked up to generators

Thankfully, there were many ways for parents to exhaust their children, including pulling giant flying rocks around in a circle

The 'Raffe is a giant robotic giraffe who likes to have his nose scritched

Two printers and two shredders make up an "over-engineered, inefficient, expensive, doesn't-keep-good-time clock."

Cool Neon makes cool stuff out of neon and LEDs, like this huge wall of LED lights

ArcAttack brought their musical tesla coils, and had a dude in a chainmail suit playing electric guitar while getting zapped by lightning

Tesla coils: pure, distilled, unadulterated awesomeness

Landsharks are glow in the dark animated sharks mounted on RC cars that can hit 25 MPH. In other words, no, you can't outrun them

Next they stuffed a 16 year old volunteer in a schoolgirl outfit into a Faraday cage and had her dance around a bunch

The Digi-Comp II is a mechanical computer that can calculate simple sums using gravity and pool balls. It was constructed by Evil Mad Scientist Labs.