David Pogue talks about the making of NOVA's Making Stuff at Maker Faire, of course

From skiing in a 100-year blizzard to diving with sharks, David Pogue, the host of PBS's popular NOVA Making Stuff TV series, has done it all. Saturday, May 17, he gave a standing-room only audience at the Maker Faire Bay Area, an insider's look into the show's making. We were there and live-tweeted the event and you can see your tweets below. Bad news: the program has run out of funding.
Side note: we were hoping Pogue would mention Making Stuff Safer, which featured the Jacobs School's shake table, but it was not to be.

In 2001 NSF gave $3M to Nova to make a miniseries about materials science. @Pogue hosted this year.
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

Shark skin: nothing sticks to it: replicate in a material. @Pogue swam w sharks for that show. Attracted w fish guts.
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

"David you must ski faster of you'll sink." Austrian skier to Pogue in 100 y blizzard for Making Stuff Colder. @Pogue #MakerFaire
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

Liquid carbon dioxide thermo syphons keep permafrost frozen around Alaskan oil pipeline. @Pogue #MakerFaire
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

Hag fish slime as the next fabric of the future? @Pogue #MakerFaire even stronger than silk
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

You would not believe what's going on w robotics and bio mimicry. @Pogue #MakerFaire
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

Got made up to be a Neanderthal and walked the streets of SF. No one even blinked. @Pogue #MakerFaire
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

Got stained with mr fluid for science. Stuff that they make high tech bumpers from. @Pogue #SFmakerfaire
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

I tickled a penguin and it jut got turned on. Handled bees for cancer killing venom. @Pogue
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014

NSF cutting back #novapbs funding. No more shows in pipeline. @DavidPogue #MakerFaire
— UCSD Engineering (@UCSDJacobs) May 17, 2014