All Maker Faire Events and Makers
1 to 339 of 33921st Century Woodworking Tools
Ted Hall
Status: Accepted
The founder of ShopBot tells how his company was an outgrowth of his passion for building wooden boats and how that led him to create an affordable, capable CNC machine for the rest of us.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:shopbot tools
3, 2, 1 Kill!
ColdTowne Theater
Status: Accepted
'''3, 2, 1 Kill!''' mixes on-the-spot film making with live stage performances and musical accompaniment for a one-of-a-kind multi-media laugh riot. (Note: do not riot). Your suggestion drives the piece. Is it funny? Yes. Is it made up right then and there? Yes. Is it dangerous? Not really. Is it hard to pull off? Heck yeah. Most movies take months to make. They get ten minutes.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:performance
3D Shapes from 2D Cutting
James Mallos
Status: Accepted
Making customized two-dimensional shapes is easy with computer-controlled cutting. But if you want to make three-dimensional surfaces and structures with no fasteners or adhesives, here’s a systematic way of interweaving flat shapes to make 3D surfaces.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:unit+weaving laser+cutting 3D+surfaces
Acroyoga
Ashley Gloor
Status: Accepted
AcroYoga blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of Thai massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. These three ancient lineages form the foundation of a unique new practice that cultivates trust, connection and playfulness. Our highest aim is to bring individuals into a state of union with themselves, with each other, and with the divine. From this place of mutual support the true self can be realized, honored and shared for the benefit of all. Om Shanti
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:love, light, and flight
Air Fair
Austin Children's Museum and American Society of Civil Engineers
Status: Accepted
You can't always see it, but it's at work all around us - it's AIR. Four hands-on exhibits from Austin Children's Museum make the science of air touchable and allow fairegoers to playfully discover the powers and properties of air. Make and take activities include Penny Parachutes & Paper Flying Objects. Use the properties of air to take flight. Join professional engineers from the Austin area to build, design, test and modify your flying objects!
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:air play
All Hands
Rene Muhl
Status: Accepted
Based on the theme of transition and depicting the passage of time from youth to old age, this sculpture will be created onsite using resin castings of hands.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:resin cast hands
Amateur Ham Radio
Austin Amateur Radio Club
Status: Accepted
This popular hobby encompasses many skills and talents. See demonstrations of making antennas, circuit troubleshooting, communicating via voice and data on shortwave and ultra-high frequency bands, kit-building and more.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:Ham+Radio Amateur+Radio
Aranzi Aronzo
Aranzi Aronzo
Status: Accepted
Make your own menagerie of trippy Sanrio-esque characters with everyday household fabrics and items.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:crafts, japanese, plush+dolls
ArduWiino
Christos Polemankos
Status: Accepted
An experiment in using the Arduino to access the functionality the Wii controller for unconventional applications
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Arduino Wii physical+interface
ARG:0
Ian Quinn
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Nathaniel Eliot
Status: Accepted
This altered reality laser-tag game is built on modified Meraki mesh routers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:arg mesh wifi laser+tag infrared altered+reality+game
Armchair Astronomy
Tierney O’Dea
Status: Accepted
You can now use an observatory telescope even though you are sitting at your computer at home. Tierney of SLOOH.COM will talk about a web site for armchair astronomers. SLOOH.COM is an online network of observatories with its flagship observatory located at the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands and two more online soon in Chile and Australia.
Type: Topic: Science
Tags:slooh astronomy observatory telescope space
Art of the Catapult
Bill Gurstelle
Status: Accepted
Author of "Backyard Ballistics" and "Art of the Catapult", Bill Gurstelle offers a historical and technological review of the catapult as well as a preview of the day's King of Fling contest.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:ballistics catapult king+of+fling fling
ArtGolf
Philo Northrup
Status: Accepted
A miniature golf course designed and built by artists that offers a decidedly esoteric, Rube Goldberg experience, ArtGolf® was originally created in 1987 by Philo Northrup.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:artgolf golf art miniature+golf mad+scientist logic+gate
Attic Ted
Attic Ted
Status: Accepted
It's an insane asylum country gothic carnival of musical performance art, utilizing old Hammond organ, cello, noises, and masks.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:attic+ted oddball carnival
Austin Food Makers
Edible Austin Magazine
Status: Accepted
The editor of Edible Austin, Marla Camp, talks about the local makers of good food and how rewarding it is to make your own food.
Type: Topic:
Tags:food austin permaculture
Austin Green Art
Randy Jewart
Status: Accepted
Come by and contribute to a site-specific, environmentally themed, or just bring by your electronics for our computer take-back and recycling.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:"computer take-back" zero-waste recycling
Austin Modders
Austin Modders
Status: Accepted
This group of innovators in their area of the PC universe shares unusual and clever ways to modify computers and other electronics mods. They build custom tools to do their mods and use different materials and electronic techniques not found in your normal PC.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:computers electronics modding
AustinEV Electric Vehicles and PHEV Build with CalCars
AustinEV
Status: Accepted
Take a peek at electric cars and discuss innovative vehicles and electric conversions with the local experts.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:EV PHEV electric+vehicle Prius plug-in hybrid conversion electric cars
Authentic Innovation
Status: Accepted
As consumers, we are armed with cash -- the most powerful and efficient mechanism to separate good design from bad. As innovators, we need to respect the cash and we can not begrudge people their inherent awesomeness. Authentic innovators design products that people will not only want to buy, but will want to protect these inspired objects from harm.
Type: Topic:
Tags:
Automata: Life in Wood
Sarah Alexander
Status: Accepted
A jaunt through the last 30 years of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre with its director who is the daughter of the founder, Sue Jackson. Glimpse some of the fantastic automata from the collection and learn about the artists who made them.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:automata mechanical toy kit 'build your own' caberet mechanical theatre
Bag Bag
Michelle Olson
Status: Accepted
Crochet your "disposable" plastic bags into better, sturdier, stylish and eco-friendly tote bags perfect for shopping, visits to the pool, or other times when you need to lug around a lot.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:crochet plastic recyled bag
Bare Bones Board & Applications
Paul Badger
Status: Accepted
This open-source board (implemented with Arduino) controls an 8x8 personal (and extensible) LED sign and a versatile windshield wiper motor servo.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:"Bare-Bones Board" Arduino Kit 8x8 personal LED sign
Baruzuland Shadow Theater
Baruzula
Status: Accepted
Moving, living art in the form live shadow puppetry layers projections, theater, soundscape, dance and fire to create an enchanting tale through a visual stream of consciousness. This spectacle emerges from a live-in performance studio Step-Van, gypsy style.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:shadow+puppetry ,fire+dancing,enchanted+forest
Batastic
Patrick Cupp
Status: Accepted
The artist will make replicas of Batman's batarang, a bat-shaped throwing weapon, in various materials, from resin to cold flexible foam. He will also sculpt a batman mask on a head cast of himself, then will mold and cast it in latex.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:rubber mask prop resin moldmaking
Baubles & Bliss
Meg Stearns
Status: Accepted
Watch an artist at work making hand-beaded jewelry and rosaries and hand-folded "Masu" paper boxes.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:jewelry, beads, handmade, paper, boxes, origami,
Be My Shark
Anne Petrimoulx
Status: Accepted
The sidewalks of the world glisten with little bits of urban treasure. Combining these with other re-purposed jewelry bits, be my shark creates sustainable jewelry: funky, one-of-a-kind accessories.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:recycled jewelry found+objects eco+chic sustainability urban
Belaharr Drum and Dance Troupe
Belaharr
Status: Accepted
This group of drummers, dancers, and friendly musicians in Austin performs rhythm and music drawn from Afro-Cuban, Middle Eastern, and other cultures around the world.
At 2pm, after our regular performance, we're having a MakerJam. Bring anything percussive and come play along with us, or join in the MakerLine conga line!
Type: Topic:
Tags:Performance
Bella Peregrina Ranch
Kumpania Peregrina
Status: Accepted
This versatile, interactive Halloween troupe includes horses and a blue and gold macaw and a bevy of costumes: Renaissance, cowboys & Indians, Headless Horseman, Lord of the Rings, a wolf, a witch. Performances include rides, petting zoo, dancing horses, flying parrot, jousting, skills-at-arms games (mounted archery, quintain, rings, heads, reeds, pigsticking, javelin), Roman riding, poi (flag & fire dancing), singing, and fortune-telling.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:interactive Halloween costumes performance horses bird poi fire flag singing jousting games "fortune
Benderella's Toy Lab, A Circuit-Bending Work-Zone
Dr. Manda Clair Jost
Status: Accepted
Circuit bending, the art and science of modifying battery-powered soundmaking devices, inspired Benderella's most famous project, the Defib-Modulator--a synthesizer expression modulator based on a vintage heart defibrillator. Come by to smear your chest with conductive gel and try it out! Or build your own FrankenToyZilla. All ages welcome.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:circuit+bending circuits music toys sound electronics circuit bending
Bento Boxes
Kayobi Tierney
Status: Accepted
See how to create Japanese bento boxes, including the history, traditions, artistic presentation, health, preparation methods (for sushi and gyoza, for example), color coordination, and time-saving tricks. This demo emphasizes using locally available ingredients.
Type: Topic:
Tags:bento lunch boxed+lunch
Beyond the Frames of Light and Strange Sounds
Lori 16MM Varga
Status: Accepted
A handmade, analog 16mm motion picture exhibit of experimental media which reappropriates material in 35mm slide & 16mm film formats, all juxtaposed from seven projectors. Circuit-bent instruments & mag oxide tape readers supply Avant-Audio for the screening.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:AVANT GARDE, LORI 16MM, 16MM, FILM , ANALOG, weird, unusual, performance, experimental, culture jam
Big Bold Embroidery
Jenny Hart
Status: Accepted
Austin-based artist and entrepreneur Jenny Hart will present a slide show of her embroidered portraits and talk about her innovations in embroidery design. Hart is an artist, author of three titles with Chronicle Books (Sublime Stitching Craft Pad out Spring '09) and founder of Sublime Stitching."
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:Embroidery, Crafts, Art, Sewing
Bigger Better Hula Hoops
Laura Scarborough and Jake Lenahan
Status: Accepted
Hula-hooping has re-emerged as a fun fitness trend for all ages. Learn to make your very own fancy, weighted hoop that’s bigger and better than store-bought hula hoops.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:"hula-hoops" hooping excercise+hoops
Bike with Mods
Carl Bajandas
Status: Accepted
This bicycle has both sculptural and electronic modifications.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:bike bycicle generator wings LED
Biking Wind Deflector
Amanda May
Status: Accepted
Put these around your ears while you are biking to get rid of the air howling in your ears and allow you to hear more important sounds, like cars in your blind spot.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:biking, safety, wind
Bioelectric Light Sequencer
Logan Keech
Status: Accepted
This bioelectric light sequencer explores the patterns generated by making several heartbeats visible at once. The different rhythms are sensed through an infrared opto device.
Type: Topic: Arts | Science
Tags:biofeedback light sequencer arduino
BioSquat
Bio-Squat
Status: Accepted
These homemade DIY projects, borne of the nomadic homesteading culture, include one combining solar electronics with four-season outdoor living -- capable of bicycle transportation and floating on water.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:homesteading mutant+electronics bicycle+techne
Blacksmithing and Live Tool Forging
Colin McIntyre
Status: Accepted
Watch an accomplished blacksmith as he uses his own handmade tools to forge tongs and other blacksmithing tools.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:blacksmith forging "hand-forged" toolmaking tool+forging hand+forging tongs
Bleep Labs Thingamagoop
Will Guy and John-Michael Reed
Status: Accepted
In response to the world's ever increasing appetite for bleeps and bloops, and after many months of feverish prototyping and testing, Bleep Labs created a device featuring portability, unusual sounds, and the appearance of a small robot. It's also cuddly, in a robot kind of way. Now the world has a new friend to guide them through the sonic landscape of the 21st century.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:Synthesizer toy electronic
Blinky Lights
Peter Tabur
Status: Accepted
These abstract paintings with blinking LEDs evoke different moods in a Rothko-like fashion.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Blinky+Light Paintings and Tables
Botanicalls
Kate Hartman, Kati London, Rebecca Bray, and Rob Faludi
Status: Accepted
Thirsty plants on the Botanicalls network place phone calls for human help whenever they need water, opening new channels of communication and promoting inter-species cohabitation.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:wireless+sensor telephony asterisk zigbee sustainability networking DIY plants
Brain Machine
Mitch Altman
Status: Accepted
Put on these glasses to synchronize your brainwaves with a pre-programmed sequence, from wakefulness into deep meditation and back out into fabulousness, all along hallucinating wild patterns.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:brainwave microcontroller MiniPOV Brain+Machine SLM "TV-B-Gone" Trippy+RGB+Light Bugbot "EL-Wire
Bubo the Copper Owl
Carl Bajandas
Status: Accepted
This large copper owl sits on a branch. But this wise bird didn't come from a nest, but rather from an electrolytic machining process gleaned from Steampunk Workshop's website.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:mechanical owl copper
Build Your Own CNC Machine
Patrick Hood-Daniel
Status: Accepted
This CNC machine is a product of much research and then efficient re-design. Motivated by a desire to expose designers to fabrication, this CNC build can also be seen on the web.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:cnc machine, router, linear slide bearings, driver, stepper motors
Calcars
Calcars
Status: Accepted
Over the two days of the Faire, a Prius Hybrid will be converted into a plug-in vehicle that gets 100+miles per gallon which can be powered with whatever form of electricity you have on the other side of your outlet—whether solar, wind, or others.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Plug-in PHEV Calcars Hybrid Environment 100mpg Prius demonstration
Calligraphy Using Different Pens, Quills, and Nibs
Sandy Odom, Teri Gaus, and Trish Taylor of Capital City Scribes
Status: Accepted
Get a bookmark with your own name on it, made by an expert calligrapher using writing tools from over a century ago, including oblique pens for Spencerian or Copperplate script or a broad-edged nibs commonly used for Italic, Gothic, Uncial and others.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Calligraphyspecialty+writing
CamBam
Andy Payne
Status: Accepted
Combining CAD and intuitive CAM capabilities to generate machining instructions (gcode) to drive a variety of CNC machinery, CamBam has many users worldwide, from CNC hobbyists to professional machinists and engineers. It is completely free and fully functional and backed by an enthusiastic online community of users and developers.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:CNC CAD CAM
Camera Van
Harrod Blank
Status: Accepted
An interactive Art Car that was inspired by an actual dream, the Camera Van has the ability to capture the amazed reactions of people who see it for the first time. Of the 2,500 cameras mounted to the van, six are functional Canons that shoot print film, and two are operational video cameras that transmit live images to the giant “filmstrip” composed of four TV monitors on the passenger side of the vehicle. One of the best-known Art Cars in the world, the Camera Van has toured the US, England, Germany, and Canada capturing shocked expressions in over 5,000 photos.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:artcar art+car camera van
Capitol BEST Robotics
Capitol BEST Robotics
Status: Accepted
Get a taste of this annual engineering contest designed to inspire students towards further studies in the fields of science and engineering. Starting from a box of raw materials, teams of high school students are given six weeks to design, build, and then demonstrate a remote-controlled machine that will perform a given task. SATURDAY ONLY.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robots robotics
Cardboard-Fiberglass Sculpture
Gray Mack
Status: Accepted
Using Google Sketchup and Pepacura Designer, this person-sized sculpture was formed out of cardboard and covered with fiberglass.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Sculpture Fiberglass Cardboard
Central Texas 4-H Robotics
Matthew Evans
Status: Accepted
A demonstration of 4H club Lego Robotics and Alternative Energy Sources
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robotics, Lego NXT, youth organization
Chainmaille: Not Just for Armor Anymore
Heidi Neff
Status: Accepted
See a true craftsperson as she creates real chainmaille for everything from clothing to fine jewelry and household items. Pick up a pair of pliers and practice rings to try making a small piece of maille yourself.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:Chainmaille Jewelry
Children's Haven
Ian Cion
Status: Accepted
This easily transportable, affordable, and beautiful fabric structure can be utilized as dwelling, community space, play space, healing space, or school in crisis situations, while being fun, playful, and inspiring for kids.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:habitat shelter "children's haven" emergency+response collaborative+art participatory+design
Circuit-Bent "Easy" Button
Mattheiu Brooks
Status: Accepted
Make a fun instrument by circuit-bending an Easy® button that you can buy at any Staples office supply store. The switch in the upper right activates the bend and the potentiometer tweaks the bend. "Tha-a-aaat was eeeeaaaaasy!"
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Circuit bent, instrument
Cirque Du Molé
Doryan Rice
Status: Accepted
In this performance cooking / variety show, two chefs go head-to-head, and their bouts are peppered by variety acts that come out to entertain the audience between courses.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Cirque, Food, Iron Chef, Molé, variety show
Cold-Forging Copper Wire & Making Seeds into Beads
Kathy Sahagian
Status: Accepted
See how a jewelry maker pounds copper on an anvil to make lovely earrings, rings, and bracelets. Learn what local seeds can be made into beads for natural seed jewelry.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:copper forge seeds jewelry
Combat Robotic Presentation
Logan Davis
Status: Accepted
See the SHW BattleBot "Steel Reign", the LW Combat Robot "Spinner Bait Jr.", and the UK-Ant Combat Robot "Robotussin", and get a chance to witness combat robots in action!
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:BattleBots, Combat Robotics, Robotics, Remote, Operated, Safety, Fabrication, Milling, CnC, Autocad,
Community Totes
American Sewing Guild
Status: Accepted
Patients of the Cancer Resource Center get these easy-to-make, spacious, canvas shoulder totes. It's a community service project of the Austin chapter of the American Sewing Guild.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:sewing, totes, community service
Compute @ Home
HOTLUG
Status: Accepted
Come see various home automation and media management solutions, including an open source LinuxMCE box and more! Make your computer work for you!
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:home+automation linux LinuxMCE tablet+pc touchscreen better+living+through+technology
Contact Contact
Colleen Ludwig
Status: Accepted
This interactive costume explores the power of touch and personal connections in public places. You are invited to touch it to elicit a musical response.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:interactive+performance tangible+media tangible+computing touch costume "computerized" "physic
CoolAzz Chiller
Victor Eller
Status: Accepted
Small DC and hand pumps circulate chilled liquid through copper tubing to cool the body by direct contact, designed by a USPS employee who delivers mail in the extreme heat.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:chiller windshield+washer+pump
Cooper Cruisers
Bryan Jobe
Status: Accepted
From refurbished classic Schwinns to full custom frames and hacked two-wheelers, see the range of custom cruiser bicycles for an easy, stylish ride.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:custom bicycles
Crafty Biz 101
Jenny Ryan
Status: Accepted
Learn about crafting as a business and get tips on exhibiting at local craft fairs from Jenny Ryan, founder of Felt Club in LA.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:craft business craft+fairs felt+club
Cranky and Plucky
Dominique Vyborny
Status: Accepted
These two large, interactive cones made of sheet steel create sounds from soothing to cacophonous. Cranky boasts 24 hand-crank music boxes pop-riveted to its exterior. Plucky looks very much like an old gramophone horn. Its four piano strings produce a deep, bass-like sound.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:art metal+work interactive music resonance
Crazy Quilt Handbags & Accessories
Shelley Norwood
Status: Accepted
The 19th-century crazy quilt technique has been time-warped with some modern twists--machine stitching & stopstitching, lots of embellishment, and bright, fun fabrics.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:textiles, sewing, crazy+quilting, handbags
Creative Character Lamp
Leslie Blackford
Status: Accepted
Create a softly glowing, whimsical creature from recycled Glade candle votive cups covered with translucent polymer clay.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:recycled, votive,polymer clay
Crepe Paper Costumes & Props
Ann-Denise Anderson
Status: Accepted
Get creative and maybe even creepy with crepe! Crepe paper has it all: colorful, easily manipulated, inexpensive, sewable, and pastable! As seen in the September/October Somerset Studio Magazine.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:Vintage "Crepe Paper " Halloween Costumes Props
Crochet and Yarn Works
Pixie Worx! & Aberrant Crochet (TM)
Status: Accepted
Crochet projects, techniques and even tools, all presented in honor of her grandmothers. For those interested in crochet, stop by for a lesson. Or just come by to learn how this craft has evolved in the modern world.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:crochet hats blankets dolls purse scarves scarf baby toys texture fiber+art freeform
Cycle Circus Austin
Cycle Circus Austin
Status: Accepted
Bicycle billboard, cargo bicycles, and super-size bicycle taxis carry passengers to destinations at the Faire and beyond! Puppetry, parade floats, music and other theatrics bring to life
giant bicycles, trailers, tricycles and other human-powered creations!
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:human power, bicycles, cycle circus, puppetry, theatrics
Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo
Cyclecide
Status: Accepted
Monster bikes, music and comedy sketches lassoed into a clown rodeo which includes: The Pedal-Powered and Kiddie-Powered Carousels and Ferris Wheel; The Dizzy Toy; The Cyclo-fuge; The Whirl & Hurl; The Melody Maker; The Flight of the Bumble Bee; and Alter-bikes
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:transportation bikes engineering "man-powered" circus carnival attraction
Daisy and Friends
Raphael Abrams
Status: Accepted
Come by to get your hands on the Make Daisy mp3 with its gang of fun peripheral projects. Be among the first to see a brand new kit for making your own twitchy artbots.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:mp3 art craft fun fur robot twitch kit
Deep Sea Suburbs: Backyard Anthropology
Mister Jalopy
Status: Accepted
Born out of the need to repair garage sale purchases, Mister Jalopy embarked on the quest to be handy about 10 years ago. This talk traces his inspiring path of discovery as he built skills and became a Make contributing editor.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:mister jalopy makers skills workshop
Design Squad
Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Unleash your ingenuity and challenge yourself to think like an engineer with this area inspired by the popular PBS show--at the Faire through its friends at Austin Children's Museum. Don't miss special guest appearances by Design Squad host Nate Ball and second season cast member Deysi.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:"cast" design+squad connective+sculpture
Designing Automata with CMT
Sarah Alexander
Status: Accepted
Build fun mechanical toys with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre's Designing Automata Kit. Get to grips with cams and cranks without getting cranky - no tools, no glue required. We aim to inspire the aspiring tinkerer and enchant the uninitiated to the world of automata.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:automata mechanical toy kit 'build your own'
designs by lanese: Adorable Hand Puppets and Perfect Totes
Lanese Bush
Status: Accepted
Need some stars for an upcoming puppet show or story hour? Or the perfect carry-all to transport your puppets or anything else? Come check out this unique collection.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:puppets, toys, puppet show, tote, bag, reusable bag, handmade toys, fleece
Diet Coke and Mentos Mega-Fountains
Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz
Status: Accepted
Help the original Eepybird guys build their amazing Mega-Fountain using Diet Coke and Mentos! Soda practically explodes as carbon dioxide rapidly escapes from the bottle.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:coke, mentos, interactive, performance
Dirty Car Art
Scott Wade
Status: Accepted
Go way beyond "wash me". Watch what happens when an artist works a canvas of dirty car windows using a medium of fine, white limestone dust, the "caliche" of the mile-and-a-half long dirt road he hits whenever he leaves home. His art results in amazingly detailed and shaded drawing.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:car, art
Disco Light Machine
john van strien
Status: Accepted
Three lights, two perf boards, one screen = a whole lot of eye candy. The moire patterns generated on the screen are mesmerizing and captivating!
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Disco Light Show
DIY Juggling Props
Jeremy Frank
Status: Accepted
Learn how to make three great clubs for less than eight bucks. Then make three balls for mere pennies! See brief juggling demonstrations and get a free juggling lesson.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:juggling clubs balls
DIY Synergistic Security
Thomas Croswell
Status: Accepted
See a number of demos of physical security and surveillance systems.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:DIY Security Home Store Business
Drop Drop
Byeong Sam Jeon
Status: Accepted
Don't drink, but do draw and drive. Create an abstract expressionist painting while remotely controlling a miniature car. Park and pick up your beautiful print.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:Interactive+Electronic+Arts Virtual+Painting Art+and+Technology Motion+Tracking+System "New
Duct Tape iPod Mini/Nano Cases
Stephanie Mallard
Status: Accepted
See how an artist uses duct tape to make a case for iPod Minis or Nanos.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:"Duck Tape IPOD cases
Edible Austin’s Food Maker Pavilion
Edible Austin
Status: Accepted
Arguably, there is no DIY project more practical than growing and making your own food. Edible Austin Magazine hosts this special showcase of local food makers, artisans and growers. Over 25 food makers and farmers will be on hand with samples, products for sale, and useful advice on how they make their wares. Activities include Sustainable Pumpkin Painting, Talk To A Farmer, and an interactive Day of the Dead food art altar. Strolling musicians celebrating food and food traditions will also performing throughout the area.
Type: Topic:
Tags:food day+of+the+dead pumpkin eating beer bee cheese butter pasta bison coffee oven vodka tea ferti
Eggbot
Rick Abbott
Status: Accepted
This little machine draws beautiful designs on eggs with a colored marker, using CAD files.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:"Drawing on Easter eggs
Embroidered Drawings
Anne Beckett
Status: Accepted
This embroidery digitizer takes her own drawings, including medical illustrations, and places them on t-shirts and other garments.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:embroidery medical+illustrations political+cartoons
Enactable
Peter Wang, David Kammeyer and Robert Kern
Status: Accepted
A computer touchscreen and an infrared camera detects and tracks multiple simultaneous finger touches, and infrared light illuminates the back of the surface.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:multitouch touchscreen interface
Engineering Activities for Kids
American Society of Civil Engineers
Status: Accepted
Build bridges and towers. Create flying hoop gliders, paper helicopters, balloon cars and delta-wing flyers. Take home how-to sheets. Get a taste of Engineer's Day, held annually at the the Austin Children’s Museum and sponsored by the local branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering
Tags:ENGINEERING+ACTIVITIES
Enlarged Sliding Puzzle
Matthew Marchand
Status: Accepted
This five-foot-square sliding puzzle includes 15 squares that slide around to form a puzzle. it is made of plywood and particle board.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:manual sliding puzzle
Exercise Vehicles
Ramiro Rosa
Status: Accepted
Take a ride to burn some calories and add some juice to the grid. Test these power-generating exercise vehicles, an ellipticycle, treadmill-cycle, and rowing machine.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:human powered vehicles
EyeBot Robot Group
Sonia Santana
,
Tom Davidson
Status: Accepted
This mobile platform telepresence robot is controlled by a very basic remote-control and uses two microcameras: an infrared monochrome one and a high-resolution color one.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robotics, mobile, telepresence, remote+controlled, R/C, The+Robot+Group
Fab Lab
Ed Baafi
Status: Accepted
Get a glimpse of the Fab Lab featured in the very first volume of Make in this working, temporary recreation.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:fablab, fabrication, make, microcontrollers, avr, epilog+laser, shopbot, roland+modela
Fab@Home/Koba Industries
Koba Industries
Status: Accepted
Inspired by the open source, rapid prototyping system designed by Evan Malone and Hod Lipson of Cornell University, this company uses CNC-based machinery, such as lasercutters, rapid prototypers, and milling centers, to develop new products. They are involved in the Fab@Home project as fabricators and as the retail point for full kits.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:rapid+prototyper
Fantastic Piano
Soyoung Park
Cho Rong Hwang
,
Laurel Boylen
,
Shin-Yi Huang
Status: Accepted
Water, pumps, glitter and lights react as you conduct your own 'water orchestra'. Sensors detect your movements and translate them into a mystic and beautiful piece of music that you can manipulate through your motion and proximity to the instrument.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Interactive Art, Physical Computing, Musical Instrument, Water Globe, Sensors and Motors
Fast and Easy Electronic Make-and-Take
Brad Martin
Status: Accepted
Make your own electronic circuit kit in five minutes -- without soldering! Assemble a simple LED flasher or an electronic music instrument known as a "ribbon controller" or "electro-theremin". Complete the LED project as a prerequisite to the second project. Both kits include extra at-home experiments for extra "making" fun.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:ribbon+controller LED flasher throwie transistor kit electronic
FENPRO Percussion Pieces
James T. Fenner, Jr.
Status: Accepted
Recycle, reuse, rethump. These percussive instruments take bottle caps, jar lids, spoons, speaker baskets, and more, and turn them into music!
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:musical+instruments
Fire Show
adelyn botto
,
David Umlas
,
Edwin Wise
,
Jason Mika
Status: Accepted
A variety of fire-art performances by Jason Mika, David Umlas, Edwin Wise and Adelyn Botto.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:fire
Flamethrowers to Firecracker Hats
Jason Mika, Dave Umlas, and Kenney Browning
Status: Accepted
Great balls of fire! This gang of fire artists will exhibit their forced air, articulated, and big fireball flamethrowers, alongside the Iron Maiden art car, Longbikes, The Fire Table and the infamous Firecracker Hat Extravaganza.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:fire art+cars
Flaming Halloween
Edwin Wise
Status: Accepted
Get set for the season with pneumatic and static props, makeup, lifecasting, and a preview of the SCARE for a Cure haunt.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:halloween fire science sound vibration props lifecasting silicon The+Robot+Group
Flaming Hula Hoop
adelyn botto
Status: Accepted
The name says it all! Watch a self-described "circus/fire/bellydance/go-go dance/burlesque performer" who's a pro at swaying with fire.
Type: Topic:
Tags:flaming hula hoop
Flat-Top Haircuts
Status: Accepted
Need a trim? This barber will give a flat-top haircut (free of charge) to anyone who wants one. Want to give a flat-top haircut to yourself or others? Come by for a lesson!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:flattop flat-top flat+top haircut hair+cut cut+hair how+to
Flying Car
Vernon Porter
Status: Accepted
Using a Mazda RX engine and regular gas, this car flies at 150 mph cruise speed, fits two people, and fits in an ordinary garage.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:aircraft automobile flying car dual+use
Flying Cars
Vernon Porter
Status: Accepted
Vernon believes that the future of the flying car is now. He is building a prototype flying car that uses a Mazda RX-engine and runs on regular gas. Designed to fly two people at 150 mph cruise speed, it fits in an ordinary garage.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:aircraft automobile flying car dual+use
Flying Large Kites
Charlie Cullen
Status: Accepted
If you miss these large, beautiful kites on your way in, head back out to the entrance and enjoy the breeze and the view.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Kites
Foleyvision
Foleyvision
Status: Accepted
Strange foreign films are dubbed live with voices, music, and sound effects. Come by to enjoy an episode of Japanese Spiderman.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:"Film with live dubbing!" "Live sound effects!"
Food Maker: American Grassfed Association
American Grassfed Association
Status: Accepted
Grassfed products are...
<br>* Better for the animals
<br>* Better for the environment
<br>* Better for farmers and ranchers
<br>* Better food
<br>* Better for you!
Type: Topic:
Tags:"grassfed" Grazing+America+2007
Food Maker: Austin Area Permaculture Group
Austin Area Permaculture Group
Status: Accepted
Practioners of permaculture design systems that create sustainable human environments. People often arrive at permaculture through an interest in gardening. Growing food where people live is an essential element of sustainable culture.
Type: Topic:
Tags:"sustainable" "gardening" growing+food
Food Maker: Barefoot Botanicals
Barefoot Botanicals
Status: Accepted
Soothin' Infusion is a delicious, nutritive blend of tonic herbs that is a refreshing, calming, soothing, antioxidant, mineral-rich, naturally caffeine-free, 100% certified organic iced tea alternative. It improves immune function and supports healthy digestion, and it is safe for diabetics. Unlike other teas made with black or green tea, it will not deplete your adrenal glands or leave you feeling wired or jittery. Instead, it will boost your energy, calm your nerves and quench your thirst.
Type: Topic:
Tags:Soothin+Infusion "Organic" " Organic Herbal Iced Tea" "Tea"
Food Maker: Bark for Peace!
Bark for Peace!
Status: Accepted
These are the very best doggie/human treats on the planet, period! They're vegan, organic, allergen-free, 100% human-grade, and you can even eat them WITH your dog! Plus, they are shipped using carbon-offsets and