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21st 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 , 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 | Music 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 | Green 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 | Green 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 | Music 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 | Green 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: Music 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 | Music 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 | Music | 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 | Music Tags:AVANT GARDE, LORI 16MM, 16MM, FILM , ANALOG, weird, unusual, performance, experimental, culture jam

Big Bold Embroidery Kyle Wiens
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 | Green | 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 | Music 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 | Music 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 | Music 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 | Music 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 | Green 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: Green 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 | Music 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 | Music | 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 | Music | 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 | Music 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: Green 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: Green 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: Green 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 in 100% biodegradable/compostable packaging from an office and print shop that are wind-powered! Woof!
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"organic" "vegan" dog+treats "100% Human-Grade" "Allergen-Free" "Free of all major allergens" "bi

Food Maker: CKC Farms CKC Farms
Status: Accepted
Not all the Makers of these cheeses will be on hand. The pasture-fed goats who yield a sweet milk and very good cheese couldn't come along to the Faire. But you can come meet the artisans who hand-make and package all of their goat cheeses with TLC.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"cheese" goat+cheese

Food Maker: Greenling Organic Delivery Greenling
Status: Accepted
Buy local. Support sustainability. Find out how this delivery service visits local farms in order to get to know the people growing food for you. It also investigates every company it deals with, local or non-local, to ensure they share their values of organics and sustainability. Local, Organic Food. Home-Delivered.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"organic" "Austin"

Food Maker: Gundermann Farms & CAEDA Farms Joan Gundermann
Status: Accepted
Meet a family of farmers who have been growing and gathering for over three decades. The sisters each have a farm.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"organic" "farm" "fruits" "vegatables"

Food Maker: Jake's Natural Fine Foods Jake's Natural Fine Foods
Status: Accepted
Come by for a taste of these gourmet, specialty foods, like granola, biscotti and spiced nuts.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"granolas" "biscotti" Bourbon+Spiced+Pecans "Jake's Natural" "natural"

Food Maker: Katz Coffee Katz Coffee
Status: Accepted
Come by for a local cup o' joe.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:fair+trade+certified+coffee

Food Maker: La Strada La Strada
Status: Accepted
Enjoy covers of Fellini soundtracks, Balkan folk dance music, Brazilian, Tango, Fred Astaire hits, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, a little Cajun, Van Morrison, old-timey waltzes, a few classical pieces, a bit of Beatles and much more.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"music" "band"

Food Maker: Living Arts Bakery Living Arts Bakery / Great Life LLC
Status: Accepted
Take a nibble of these inspired, delicious, and unexpected items, made by the Chronicle Readers' Choice Award for Best Wholesome Fix for Baked-Good Cravings.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:baked+goods "catering" alternative+food

Food Maker: Luxe Sweets Luxe Sweets
Status: Accepted
Stop by this booth to enjoy tasty samples or for your children to enjoy cookie-decorating.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:'chocolate" cookies samples cookie+decorating "catering" "gifts"

Food Maker: Maine Root Handcrafted Beverages Maine Root Handcrafted Beverages
Status: Accepted
Take a swig of one of their four flavors: Root Beer, Sarsaparilla, Ginger Brew and Prickly Pear Lemonade.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:maine+root root+beer "beverage"

Food Maker: Mary Louise Butters Brownies Mary Louise Butters
Status: Accepted
Mary Louise bakes her brownies daily, so they’ll arrive fresh and feisty. Rich, comforting squares of chocolate, sugar, butter, eggs and flour. Mary Louise also adds rose essence or chipotle chilies or crystallized ginger to her rich dark chocolate base. In all, there are twelve delectable varieties of Mary Louise Butters brownies.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:”Brownies” "Live Life More Sweetly”

Food Maker: Pralinières Pralinières
Status: Accepted
Experience the handmade Organic Creole Pralines that are both mouth watering in flavor and size. They are rich with organic European-style cultured butter and carry the hint of organic citrus flavoring, with bulging Texas mammoth size organic pecans.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"organic" "pralines" "creole"

Food Maker: Ringger Family Farm; Ringger & Company Amy Ringger
Status: Accepted
Take home some pastured farm eggs produced in Smithville by a family farm. Clean up with real goat milk soap. Pick up some handmade prairie and pioneer clothing for old-fashioned days, field trips, and costumes. (They make great gifts too!) The family who runs the farm demonstrates butter-making. SATURDAY ONLY.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:fresh+farm+eggs; pastured+eggs; pioneer+clothing prairie+dresses "old-fashioned clothing"

Food Maker: Round Rock Honey Round Rock Honey
Status: Accepted
What the bees give them, they bring to you! When they say 100% honey, they mean it! Round Rock honey is not a varietal honey, but instead a true wildflower honey. Producing wildflower honey is difficult, and its yields unpredictable. But in the opinion of Round Rock Honey owners Konrad and Elizabeth Bouffard, it is more important to focus on quality than on quantity!
Type: Topic: Green Tags:“Raw Honey” “Round Rock Honey”

Food Maker: Rude Mechanicals Theater Rude Mechanicals Theater
Status: Accepted
Leilah Stewart and Laura Cannon of The Rude Mechanicals, an experimental theater collective, present excerpts of their show, "If I Knew You Were Coming," a performance / sculpture / costume / pastry event.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:Austin+theater+performance

Food Maker: SASS (Season All Stuff Sauce) Sisters & Company
Status: Accepted
Need an all-purpose dressing / dip / cooking sauce / marinades for your meat, veggies, and tofu? All ten of these natural dressings, sauces and marinades are made with the finest fresh ingredients, but without gluten, white sugar, corn syrup, MSG, preservatives.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"gluten-free" "natural fresh+dressings no+white+sugar no+corn+syrup

Food Maker: SESA Tea SESA Tea
Status: Accepted
Products include hand-crafted herbal blends with ayurvedic properties to help maintain wellness, pure organic single-estate green and breakfast teas, and environmentally friendly jute shopping bags.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"beverage" "spice" "tea" "wellness" "chai" "organic" "tonic" allergy+relief jute+bags "weight lo

Food Maker: Spiceburst Gourmet Spices Spiceburst Gourmet Spices
Status: Accepted
Come by for a smell-abration of spice! While most seasonings are heavily processed and contain dehydrated ingredients or preservatives, these are made using only fresh, high-quality herbs, peppers, and produce. All are blended with the least possible amount of hand-processing.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:sea+salt "Austin" "food" "natural" "fresh-roasted"

Food Maker: Sunset Valley Farmers Market Sunset Valley Farmers Market
Status: Accepted
Pasture-raised meats, yard eggs, fresh cheeses and locally grown fruits and vegetables of all kinds.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"Austin" organic" farmers+market "serving austin organically since 1987" "voted in top five farmer

Food Maker: Sustainable Food Center Sustainable Food Center
Status: Accepted
Learn about sustainable food gardening practices that the Center teaches to children and adults, or how individuals and institutions can prepare healthy and affordable meals. Find out about markets for locally-grown produce in urban areas accessible to low-income residents or how to donate produce to area food pantries.
Type: Topic: Green Tags::”gardening” “cooking” “sustainable” “farmers” “farmers market” “healthy food”

Food Maker: Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association (TOFGA) Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association
Status: Accepted
Learn how organic agriculture serves as a sustainable systems approach in the production of food and fiber - a system that protects human and animal health, and preserves the environment.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"organic" "sustainable" 'farming" "ranching" "local' 'food" "environment" "gardening" "workshops" "c

Food Maker: Thai Cooking with Jam Jam Sanitchat
Status: Accepted
Set up your own private Thai cooking class! A great way to bring friends and family together, it is also a great idea for team-building for small groups in companies. These classes cater to your specific interests, your palate and dietary requirements, and your depth of interest in cooking and Thai food. Plus, classes are designed using locally available ingredients.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:Thai+Cooking+Classes Private+Home+Cooking+Class Personal+Chef+Service

Food Maker: The Original Out to Lunch The Original Out to Lunch
Status: Accepted
This sandwich-maker has 23 different, yummy items to choose from, including vegetarian and vegan choices. The favorite? Smoked Turkey Pita Sandwich with Provolone Cheese, Fresh Spinach & Chipotle Mayo.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"sandwich" "wraps" fresh+sandwiches boxed+lunches "burritos" fresh+burritos tofu+salad "egg

Food Maker: Thunder Heart Bison Shape Ranch
Status: Accepted
This bison rancher's newest product is a 100% bison jerky that has no preservatives.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"grass-fed" "bison" "jerky"

Food Maker: Watson Farms of Fredericksburg Watson Farms
Status: Accepted
Get a taste of jams and preserves made from locally grown fruit, much of it grown right at Watson Farms in Fredericksburg.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:"farm" "jams" "preserves" "trees"

Food Maker: YouthLaunch’s Urban Roots Farm Program YouthLaunch
Status: Accepted
Meet the people behind this youth development program that uses sustainable, urban agriculture as means to effect lasting change. Through it, youth participants grow healthy, affordable food for East Austin residents who have limited access to healthy foods.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:“urban farm” “youth” “growing food”

Foot Patrol Foot Patrol
Status: Accepted
Enjoy the only foot-fetish funk band in existence. The singer / keyboard virtuoso is blind and happens to be very interested in feet, so all of the songs this band sings are about that oft-underrated body part.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:funk band live music foot feet

Four-Player Tabletop MAME Cabinet Robert Eckstein
Status: Accepted
Play your favorite retro videogames on this flat, four-player, tabletop arcade cabinet that can be used by children and adults alike. It uses the emulation software MAME.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:tabletop MAME arcade cabinet flat flattop

Free Software Demonstration Joe Barr
Status: Accepted
Get to know free software projects such as Linux and others through demonstrations and take-home CDs.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Free software, open source, Linux

Fun-Noodling Cerrise Weiblen
Status: Accepted
Say hello to a puppet made from a single fun-noodle. Learn to build a folding computer desk. Play a modified Simon electronic game or a light-triggered musical instrument. Beware of the Halloween mask with lighted eyes!
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:puppet kids fun make foam desk woodworking craft simon game mask halloween light sound

Futurama: The DIY Home of the Future David Demaris , Derek Woodgate , Jon Lebkowsky
Status: Accepted
This environment, created through the use of screens and interactive elements, demonstrates a new context and redefinition of the "DIY Home in 2012." By focusing on the broader ambient experience, it illustrates how emerging behavior, attitudes and technologies will fuse to create new ideas about space, content, interface, connectivity, personal engagement and how this will open up fresh opportunities for DIY lifestyles and environments.
Type: Topic: Arts | Green | Science Tags:DIY future home self identity

Gigapan Rich LeGrand
Status: Accepted
Gigapan is a robotic device to take gigapixel panoramic images with a standard digital camera.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:panorama photography google+earth

Gigapan Rich LeGrand
Status: Accepted
The next generation of panaromic imaging is here and in gigapixels. Rich LeGrand of Austin-based Charmed Labs has been working with Google, NASA and Carnegie-Mellon University to create a robotic unit for taking gigapixel pictures with ordinary digital cameras. The images can be viewed in Google Earth or online at gigapan.org.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:panorama photography google+earth

Girlstart Girlstart
Status: Accepted
See the projects, experiments, and activities that have allowed Girlstart to make dramatic breakthroughs in math, science, technology and engineering education for girls since its founding ten years ago.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:girls math+education science+education "technology" gender+equity

GOOD Projects GOOD Magazine
Status: Accepted
Projects from GOOD's first year include making bumper stickers, soliciting problems that need fixing, altering the front page of newspapers, sending care packages to needy politicians et. al., making mix tapes, calling out good and bad design, and documenting lost arts. Take four pictures of your project and yourself in the GOOD photo booth.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:bumper+stickers, newspapers, mix+tapes, design

Hacking the iPhone George Hotz
Status: Accepted
Rochester Institute of Technology student and chronic hardware hacker, George Hotz recently unlocked the iPhone.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:iphone unlock

Haircuts by Robots amelia winger-bearskin
Status: Accepted
No, it's not automated grooming, but rather an epic sci-fi rock opera that tells the story of a torrid love-triangle between a woman, a man and a robot, all set against an intergalactic backdrop where danger lurks around every corner. The robot's parents are a guitar and a typewriter.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:band, rock, concert, projector, projections, video, art, video art, multimedia, stills, visual, arts

Hand Quilting Denise Scioli
Status: Accepted
Come grab a needle and try your hand at some good, ol’ fashioned hand quilting at a quilting stand, and learn the technique from a master of the art.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:Art Quilting

Handmade Clothing: Serging and Sewing Miayawear
Status: Accepted
See demos of serging and sewing techniques, including how to thread a serger.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Green Tags:sewing serging organic+cotton organic+hemp clothing

Handmade Dog Collars, Leashes, Halters, and Bandanas Kimberly Weaver
Status: Accepted
Creativity unleashed! Cute and crafty handmade dog products; sewn from retro, vintage, and recycled fabrics. Your hound has never looked so hip!
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:dog collars, dog leashes

Handmade Nation Faythe Levine
Status: Accepted
Faythe will discuss the new wave of craft that is sweeping the nation. In 2006, she began shooting her documentary, Handmade Nation, traveling to 15 cities and interviewing over 50 community members. She will show a clip of the documentary in progress and discuss the different ways to get involved with the craft community as a maker.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:documentary, diy, craft, art, design, "the new wave of craft", film, DIY+craft

Handmade Nation Documentary Faythe Levine
Status: Accepted
Director Faythe Levine traveled to 15 cities and interviewed over 50 DIY community members. Her film, Handmade Nation, currently in post-production, investigates the new wave of craft, how it is influenced by the history and techniques of traditional handiwork, modern aesthetics, politics, feminism and art.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:documentary, diy, craft, art, design, "the new wave of craft", film, DIY+craft

Handpainting Yarn in the Microwave Robin Pascal
Status: Accepted
Use a fiber reactive dye to handpaint skeins of yarn, then set color with the microwave.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:handpainted+yarn procion+dyes microwave+dyeing

Hawgfly Productions, Inc. Hawgfly Productions, Inc.
Status: Accepted
We are an Austin-based special effects makeup company that creates custom effects and props for films of all levels and genres. We have several props that we can bring to Maker Faire as well as our gore cannon that has been a crowd favorite at other events.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:special effects makeup

Hebron Crushing Machine George Sabra
Status: Accepted
For many years, this group of artists has worked with recycled materials to turn them into art. A heavy-duty machine they created can crush any material: paper, aluminum, steel, plastic, glass, dirt, and much more. All are transformed into a beautiful brick ready to use to sculpt into art. The material made by this machine was used for Keep Austin Beautiful awards for 2007. Come by to see the machine that can recycle just about anything.
Type: Topic: Arts | Green Tags:recycling wood plastic glass metal paper wires

Henna Mela Knight
Status: Accepted
Learn to do the craft of Henna, the ancient form of body adornment. Henna is an all-natural art of body decoration made up of a paste from the henna plant, lemon juice (or something similar) and essential oils that stains the skin for a few weeks in the pattern of which it was applied. It has been done for weddings in many cultures for centuries and has now become as trendy and stylish as getting a tattoo with out the pain and long-term commitment. This henna artist will adorn your hands, feet, arms, back or even show you how to do this for yourself!
Type: Topic: Arts | Green Tags:henna, body art, tattoo, creative, all natural, beauty

Henna Arts Nisha Agrawal
Status: Accepted
Henna is an ancient Indian body art to adorn one's hands, especially the palms, using a paste made of the leaves of <i>Lawsonia inermis</i>. Once applied henna leaves reddish brown markings which fade away after several days.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:Henna Mehandi Indian Body Art

High-Tech Pumpkins Windell H. Oskay and Lenore Edman, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Status: Accepted
Make your porch the envy of the neighborhood on Halloween with these pumpkin projects that employ electronics, robotics, and carving: a Cylon jack-o-lantern, a remote-controlled pumpkin Dalek and other high-tech squash.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:electronics robotics LED halloween pumpkin jackolantern

Hodge Podge Huong Huynh
Status: Accepted
These are the cutest, hippest baby booties for the fashion-savvy mom. They are one of a kind. They're cheerful, bold and chic. They make great gifts for moms-to-be or for your own baby.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:baby+booties shoes accessories

How to Machine Knit Lisa Thakker
Status: Accepted
Get an introduction to several types of knitting machines, terms, tools, etc.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:machine+knittng knitting+with+a+machine Bond+Ultimate+Sweater+Machine "Brother knitting machin

How to Make Melt-and-Pour Soap Lisa Chouinard
Status: Accepted
Get soapy. Learn to make your own bars of soap using a glycerin base that you can easily melt and pour.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:handcrafted+soap handmade+soap soap craft diy

Hyperbolic Origami Adrienne Sack
Status: Accepted
Model floppy, flexible, fascinating, seemingly infinite hyperbolic planes using modular origami units that are fairly easy to fold and assemble.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Science Tags:hyperbolic geometry, modular origami

I-C-Gallery Ismael Cavazos
Status: Accepted
Based on patterns such as clouds and scribbles, the Abstract Extractionist artwork displayed here ranges from drip paintings to scribbles that have had images extracted from the random patterns. Don't miss the highlight: performance art of carving peanuts. Buy your own unique peanut sculpture to take home!
Type: Topic: Arts | Green Tags:art sculpture green organic

Inclement Viewer Michael Johnson
Status: Accepted
This device enables the driver of a vehicle to see past visual impairments, such as rain, fog, blowing snow, and sandstorms. It allows the area before the vehicle to be visible as if no conflicts exist.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:visual+penetration

Inflatable Speakers Marc Greenberg
Status: Accepted
With some mylar balloons, off-the-shelf parts, and an hour of your time, you can make a your own set of inflatable speakers. Come see the world's first inflatable flying amplified MP3 player!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Music | Science Tags:Inflatable Speaker Loudspeaker Amplified MP3

Instructables Instructables
Status: Accepted
Meet, greet, and get inspired. Instructables' great projects, Makers, robot t-shirts, patches, stickers, gear will all be there. Make sure to bring your phone or camera to engrave on our lasercutter!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:instructables tech craft art

Interactive Art Car Build Sponsored By HEYA HEYA
Status: Accepted
Get involved in a HEYA project made possible by Toyota! In the spirit of collaboration, HEYA and art car expert Harrod Blank will be hosting an interactive Art Car Build throughout the weekend and Maker Faire attendees will have the opportunity to take part in the creation.
Type: Topic: Arts | Music Tags:Art Car, Build, Art, Car, Music

Internet Station / Gaming Pod Chase Hammock
Status: Accepted
This computer usage chair revolutionizes the way that you enjoy your computer by relieving you of the conventional desk and chair interface model. It houses everything you need to use a computer and is an all-in-one solution for a single computer user.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:internet station, gaming pod, gaming station, gamer chair, computer chair, ergonomic

Invention Adventure with Perry Kaye Perry Kaye
Status: Accepted
How do ideas become products? What does it take to be a Real Inventor? Find out by building a cool product yourself! Meet award-winning designer and inventor Perry Kaye. No experience necessary. Kids of all ages welcome (with parental supervision.)
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:inventions, building, kids, fun, create, make, prototypes

Jack Sparx Electrical Toys John Dyer
Status: Accepted
This playground of high-voltage toys includes a Tesla Coil that plays music, a shockingly large Van de Graaff generator, Jacob's Ladder, and more.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Tesla+coils Van+de+Graaff+generator "Jacob's Ladder"

Jacob's Ladder / Climbing Arc Device Ethan Reesor
Status: Accepted
This device generates an electrical arc that then "climbs" a set of electrodes.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:

Joule Thief / Throwie Mike Scioli
Status: Accepted
Joule thief is a boost circuit to suck the last juice out of a battery. It is made entirely (in most cases) of recycled components. Throwie is LED-lighting/flashing circuit coupled with a magnet to temporarily attach it to most steel surfaces.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:robotics science electronic+art the+robot+group recycled+electronics The+Robot+Group

Junk Mail Art Patricia Zapata
Status: Accepted
Recycle your piles of junk mail to design (cheap!) modern wall art.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:recycling wall+art paper+craft junk+mail green

Jupiter Rug Carl Bajandas
Status: Accepted
This decorative wall tapestry was handwoven.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:weaving tapestry rug

Kinetic Sculptures Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Make a piece of art that moves in the wind!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:kinetic+sculpture

King of Fling Catapult Contest William Gurstelle
Status: Accepted
See who becomes the Count of Catapults, the Earl of Hurl, the Baroness of Ballistas. Join us by building a real, working catapult and enter it our competition. Catapult building is fun, exciting, and as easy (or as intricate) as you want to make it. In a nutshell, you'll be competing against and cooperating with other Makers to produce a hurling machine. Your goal is to be the Maker who can build the most accurate catapult. Get your guidelines for participation at the link below!
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:king+of+fling fling ballistics potato+cannon cannons catapults trebuchets

Kite-Making and Kite Demonstrations Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Join Exchange Club of Austin in a kite making and flying adventure. The Club is getting ready to present the 80th annual Zilker Kite Festival next spring - come practice by making a "Mr. Happy Kite" that really flies! After constructing your kite take it outside to the kite flying area and join kite demonstrations by kite enthusiasts.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:kites

Knitted Car Antenna Cosy Sabrina Gschwandtner
Status: Accepted
Learn how to knit a car antenna cosy, a graffiti project courtesy of the Houston-based knitting collective Knitta, from the book "KnitKnit: Profiles and Projects from Knitting's New Wave."
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:KnitKnit, Knitta, graffiti, knitting, art

Kosmophone Jerry Chamkis
Status: Accepted
This synthesizer plays "music from space". A gamma-ray spectrometer controls a MIDI music synthesizer using cosmic rays in the range of about 3 to 7 million electron-volts (MeV).
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Music | Science Tags:cosmic+ray space+music gamma+spectrometer

Kosmophone: Music from the Spheres Jerry Chamkis
Status: Accepted
Jerry is founder of the Acme Electric Robot Company in Austin. He builds music recording equipment and teaches at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. His Kosmophone is a gamma-ray spectrometer operating in the range of about 3 to 7 million electron-volts (MeV) controlling a MIDI music synthesizer.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:cosmic+ray space+music gamma+spectrometer

L2C Michael Snyder
Status: Accepted
This 120-foot diameter, completely hand-built ring of lenses, LEDs, and boards makes for a mesmerizing display. L2C now has nearly a half mile of wiring, and over 2600 ultrabright LEDs in it.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:LED LIGHTS

Lace Making Austin Lacemakers Guild
Status: Accepted
Transport yourself in lace and time by making lace from long ago. Bobbin lace, a form of weaving, dates back to about 1350, while tatting, tying knots with shuttle and thread, goes back to Colonial times.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:Bobbin+Lace, Tatting, Lace, thread, bobbins,shuttle

Lego Mosaics Chris Huybregts
Status: Accepted
Use Lego to make your own custom artistic mosaics to illustrate still lifes, self portraits, and more.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:Lego Mosaic

Life-Sized Mousetrap Mark Perez
Status: Accepted
A 25,000-lb superbly interactive play structure, this "vaudevillian encounter" challenges you to make the simple outrageously complex. Get a piece of the action in this megaversion of the classic board game.
Type: Topic: Tags:

Lighting with LEDs and More MonkeyLectric and Synoptic Labs
Status: Accepted
A dozen popular Instructables DIY projects for show-n-tell-n-try including: any-color lighting, wobbly bike, ultimate LED headlamp, clear plastic art bike with led's, the rotoplasmic LED bike wheel, polyhedron lampshade building kit, 5-cent wedding ring, giant steel skeleton hand, secret image shadow sculpture and more. Q&A with Instructables co-founder & Maker Dan Goldwater.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:led instructables

Lithium-Powered Scooter Lorin Thwaits
Status: Accepted
This stock Razor scooter has been upgraded to use lithium batteries instead of lead acid. It now goes seven miles instead of just four with noticably zippier performance and charging time of just one hour instead of five. Four miles cost just one cent in electricity! It weighs 11 pounds less than the original--light enough that it can even be checked in as airline baggage when traveling! It can carry a driver and a 50-pound suitcase on an effortless ride.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Green Tags:lithium scooter efficient transportation

Livid: Experimental Video Controlling Instruments Livid Instruments
Status: Accepted
Use the Viditar, or trigger video while playing the either the bass or guitar models, or manipulate video effects with motion detecting interactive projection system.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Music Tags:video+instruments midi+controllers video+performance

Lopez the Robot Dale Gibson
Status: Accepted
As for the robot, he is a bit over 120 lbs, six-wheeled WiFi controlled robot by the name of Lopez(the tele-presence menace). We send commands via TCP/IP protocol. I programmed all the software and built the motor controller, and guys from Oklahoma are currently redesigning the drive train because it was too slow. He is controlled with dual joysticks and sends video back with a high power RF. transmitter.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Wifi robot 'musical tesla coils'

LPFM Austin Austin Pirate Radio League
Status: Accepted
Tune in to find out what components and setup you need to operate your own home-built low power FM radio station.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:radio FM pll lpfm free low power frb

Luminous Kyveli Vezani and Evrim Sahin
Status: Accepted
This luminescent dress with fiber optics and tri-color LEDs changes color in response to ambient temperature, a warm breath, or a cool breeze, allowing for interesting interactions between the wearer and other people.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:wearable+computing, physical+computing, fiber+optics

Lunar Laser Ranging at McDonald Observatory Washtub Jerry
Status: Accepted
Learn about the first 37 years of lunar laser ranging at McDonald Observatory in west Texas. Lunar data is used to study many aspects of the earth and much more.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:talk "with Q & A"

Magnetic Mini-Submersible Juan Carlos Orozco
Status: Accepted
This magnetic mini-submersible can be moved around inside a small container using externally generated magnetic fields. The mini-submersible can commanded to move in any direction in three dimensions using push-buttons. It can also be controlled with computer software.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:electromagnetic submersible magnetic+field miniature+submersible

Make Bot, Break Down: An Audio/Video Centrifuge Michelle Mayer
Status: Accepted
This three-member information ministry instigates spontaneous throw-downs everywhere and anywhere Earth people need a party.
Type: Topic: Arts | Music Tags:DJ VJ DVJ video projection DIY

Make Music Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Build your very own instrument from recycled materials and make music of your very own. Then join us for a hand made instrument concert!
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:kites

Make Your Own Light-Up Purse Alison Lewis
Status: Accepted
Shine on, fashionistas! Fumble for keys in the dark no more. Assemble easy-to-buy parts into a functional, fashionable light-up purse panel that also displays a message.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:light fashion craft purse LED

Maker First Aid Rex Hollingsworth
Status: Accepted
This 15-minute, basic safety session covers first aid techniques, tailored specifically to Maker mishaps. Topics include what to pack in your kit (beyond the basics) and first aid technique demonstrations.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Science Tags:safety first+aid cpr injury prevention

Manager's Choice Manager's Choice
Status: Accepted
This mutated new wave dance rock hatched in a garage laboratory from an explosive concoction of worldbeat and early punk music with one goal ... dancing zombies. The unit boasts 4 singer-songwriters who send the beakers bubbling over with a hook-riddled and danceable set. During the day, they masquerade as: 1) a dementor 2) a tuscan raider 3) a golf pro and 4) a replicant. Can you guess who does what?
Type: Topic: Music Tags:performance

Mass Customization Chris Norman
Status: Accepted
Make and buy or make and sell anything you can imagine using this WYSIWYG, CAD-based design software connected to 3D printers around the country.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:mass customization, 3D printing, make anything

Mechanical Flower Denise Scioli , Puiyee Hung
Status: Accepted
Inspired by a stainless steel vegetable steamer, this flower opens and closes, lights up, and plays music and sounds when you move in front of it.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:robotics The+Robot+Group interactive art

mittlermade Lisa Mittler
Status: Accepted
I am the project!! I am a textile artist, metal sculptor and photographer all in one. I can demo any or all of the above!
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:textile art, metal sculpture, photography, artist

Model Rocketry John Boren, Estes-Cox
Status: Accepted
A product designer at Estes, John will begin with a brief history of Estes and why it came to be. He will discuss the different types of model rockets and in particular the different methods of recovery devices. He will look at how advancements in technology have allowed the modeler to use model rockets for more then just shooting them off for enjoyment.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:model rockets rocketry

Mosaic Art Bryan Arnett
Status: Accepted
See how mosaic wall art is made: starting from a raw shape, adding tiles and other media to fill in the design, and grouting the tiled product bring it all together.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:mosaics crosses tabletops mirrors

Mouth Loom Kristen Nyce
Status: Accepted
Chat and weave simultaneously! Operate this unusual loom with your mouth movements to create a conversational record with a tactile weavings and bright patterns.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:looms

Move My Magnets Lindsey Silvis
Status: Accepted
Interact with this steel, sculptural wall-hanging. Come move its magnetic parts around the steel backing to create a composition of your own. Once you are through with your unique magnetic masterpiece, take a Polaroid photo of it to take home with you.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:"Magnetics" "Interactive"

New and De-constructed Jewelry Designs Liza Eyster
Status: Accepted
These jewelry designs from new materials as well as deconstructed, used, vintage and thrift store jewelry fall into two categories: bright polymer clay and chain jewelry. Recycled components are used in each.
Type: Topic: Tags:Polymer+Clay DIY+Jewelry Deconstructed

Nyx Illuminated Jacket Monstrous Company
Status: Accepted
This amazing, high-tech fashion statement has large LED display grids embedded in a flexible circuit board arrangement and bluetooth that can accept commands from a Palm device! It must be seen to be believed.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:microcontroller LED wearable clothing fashion

Open Hardware Laptops ZaReason
Status: Accepted
If you can't open it, you don't own it. Come crack open and tool around with these open-hardware laptops. Kids welcome!
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Green | Science Tags:open+hardware, laptop, desktop, hardware, open source, Linux

Operator Operator
Status: Accepted
This Euro-synth band based in Austin prepares a potion of equal parts synth-pop and indie rock with a dash of glam. Operator makes music that's extremely foreign yet instantly appealing. Arrangements consist of whirling electronics and taut guitar, structured around an inextricable combination of bass and electronic drums. Smooth vocals cool it all down, and simple melodies arranged in complex layers drift apart only to recombine in anthemic moments that sparkle with emotional depth and humanity.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:music rock synthesizer analog electronic band

PAC-4 Golf Ball Launcher Angel Cabrales
Status: Accepted
What would happen of the military industrial complex called "Fore!"? Here's a guess. This one-third scale Patriot Missile launcher shoots golf balls. It is a major part of an interactive piece in development, and you can see the Makers tinker with the launching system.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:golf ball launcher

Pedal Menagerie Chalo Colina Datri Bean
Status: Accepted
This selection of unique handmade two- and three-wheeled pedal machines answer questions and question assumptions about what sorts of things are feasible for bikes and trikes. Passenger transport, alternative vehicle dynamics, and mental time travel are among the issues addressed.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:bike trike big+wheel kinetic art cnc human pedal

Personal Fabrication Tom Owad
Status: Accepted
See some of the projects covered in an upcoming O'Reilly book on personal fabrication, including a 3D scanner and a working prototype of a 3D printer.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:personal+fabrication reprap 3d+scanner cnc

Pinball Wizard Rex Hollingsworth
Status: Accepted
See how to build your own virtual pinball machine using free and open source software. Play with the actual complete machine at HOTLUG's Compute @ Home booth.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:pinball open+source woodworking computer

Pinewood Derby, Mousetrap Racers, and Carving Troy Thorne
Status: Accepted
Root for your favorite fast and sleek Pinewood Derby cars as they race down a 24-foot track. They're all built by an undefeated Derby Dad. Plus, get a peek at mousetrap racers built by the National Teacher of the Year, who happens to be from Austin TX. Finally, learn how local woodcarvers carve by watching them as they work.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:Pinewood Derby Mousetrap Racers Whittling Experiments

Ping Pong Pop Fly Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Ready, set, launch! Invent a way to send a ping pong ball flying.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:ping+pong+balls

Pipe Dream Craig Newswanger
Status: Accepted
Resonance Labs presents a windless pipe organ based on controlled feedback. Its 16 tuned, MIDI-controlled PVC pipes provide a rafter rattling bass line for an orchestra composed of Tesla coils by the Geek Group. Each pipe has a speaker and microphone pickup with a control circuit that feeds the microphone signal to a 30-watt amplifier and a speaker for each pipe.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Music | Science Tags:Resonance tesla+coil music electronic pipe+organ

Plastic Bag Koozies Cristen Andrews
Status: Accepted
Crochet your own waterproof and washable koozies from strips of plastic bags. They aren't just easy to hold -- they also provide excellent insulation!
Type: Topic: Crafts | Green Tags:crochet crocheted crocheting plastic+bags koozie koosie koozies koosies recycle recycling recycled

Pleo and Its Maker, Caleb Chung Caleb Chung
Status: Accepted
Caleb co-invented the 1998 hot toy of the year, Furby, which sold over 40 million units worldwide, generating over $1 billion in sales. Caleb is inventor and co-founder of UGOBE Life Forms, which will be coming out soon with Pleo, a robotic dinosaur.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:pleo dinosaur artificial life

Plexi-Class Tonia Davenport
Status: Accepted
Transform acrylic sheeting (such as Plexiglas or Lucite) into unusual jewelry and accessories.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:plexi plexiglass jewelry

Poor Man's Bagpipe Bob Pennington
Status: Accepted
Say you join an Irish band, and the need arises for a bagpipe player. But bagpipes are very expensive and they take years to master, and players are hard to come by. No problem! Combine some odd parts, a bunch of ingenuity and a bit of leprechaun luck, and the pipes they will be a-blowin'.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Music Tags:An affordable , easy to master Bagpipe "Non-Traditional " materials used Can be learned to

PowerPoint Slam Donald Pitschel
Status: Accepted
This staring contest between ironic wit and the tools of corporate-think airlifts the competitive energy of poetry slams past the iron curtain of bulleted lists and clip art. Competitors can be funny, sincere, ironic, maudlin, obtuse, or hostile--any human expression that defies the oversimplified, unctuous paternalism of corporate presentation style.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:presentations, slam, powerpoint

Precision Thickness Sander: The Luthier's Friend Ken Picou
Status: Accepted
Instrument makers, model fabricators, and woodworkers, take note! This precision thickness and pattern sander attaches to a standard drill press so you can sand materials very accurately and with nearly perfect dust collection.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Sander sanding " thickness sanding" model+making instrument+making

Printmaking Basics Stan Scott
Status: Accepted
Learn how to do the basics of both etching and relief printmaking, including how to create materials and tools for your own artwork. Get a glimpse of monotype, Xerox transfer, Drypoint, Woodcut, Intaglio (including aquatint, line etching & soft ground), making chemicals for acid resists, stop-out varnish, hardground for line etching, aquatint shakers, rosin-making, ink-making, studio setup, and more!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Science Tags:printmaking etching relief chemistry tools "fun with acid and pointy implements"

Projectile Painting Melinda and Christopher Hunter
Status: Accepted
Paint + catapults + kids = fun! Small toy catapults shoot paint-bearing projectiles at a canvas to create a fun color-mixing mess (er, art). Make a postcard to take home with you.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:catapult, paint, kid+friendly, color, mess, toys

Publishing Your Project: Tips & Tricks Rex Hollingsworth
Status: Accepted
Learn to put your projects on the web in a clear and professional manner using photo or video, focusing on how to make a good Instructable and solid YouTube videos, including what settings to use. Techniques used will be platform independent, and will feature a mix of equipment and tips to better your posts.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:web+content publish publishing instructable youtube video photo

Pumpkin Play Day Dremel
Status: Accepted
Come and carve pumpkins with the special Dremel tool pumpkin carving kit, and win a Dremel of your own. Plus: see cool "hack-o'-lanterns" with LEDs and more.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:pumpkin play+day carving LEDs

Purl Drums Corey Fogel
Status: Accepted
This ain't how your granny makes your scarves! This unique, ongoing, ambient performance combines two very different artforms: knitting and drums.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Music Tags:knitting drumming corey fogel

PVC Recyling George Sabra
Status: Accepted
Turn recycled PVC pipe into beautiful works of art with amazing texture and beauty.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:PVC, plastics, recycling, art,

Quest for the Dark Planet John P. Funk
Status: Accepted
This dramatic, entertaining space/fantasy/adventure film introduces and explores an original universe full of unique characters. Years in the making, the movie features completely original props and hardware, visual effects, and music. Old toys, model kits and other items have been recycled and repurposed to create art and inventions that are reminiscent of 1980s shows, before the age of computer graphics.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:"space" "scifi" "film" "props" "robots" "adventure"

Rabbit Fist Harold Lehman
Status: Accepted
This band combines guitars, drums, laptop/keyboards and voices to create layered punchy-pop arrangements around subjects ranging from fear to death, unrestrained-capitalism to sensory overload.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:music rock

Race Wreath Mike Pool
Status: Accepted
Twelve pine wood cutouts shaped like stock cars encircle two checkered flags.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:cars wreath racing

Radarcave Steve Marsh
Status: Accepted
This performance of electronic noise and music uses circuit-bent drum machine and keyboard, and self-made analog synth.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:performance circuit+bending electronic noise Steve+Marsh

Ralph White Ralph White
Status: Accepted
Banjos, kalimba and mbiras, accordion, and singing: this artist makes no attempt to process or arrange his material. Although he plays the banjo, his style has more to do pre-bluegrass, southern Appalachian "claw-hammer" playing, where the whole fist is used, sort of like a claw, rather than the popular style of finger-picking the strings.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:music

Rattletree Marimba Joel Laviolette
Status: Accepted
This Zimbabwean marimba band builds all its own marimbas--including the impressive six-foot tall bass one.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:Homemade+marimba Zimbabwean

RAVolt Alex & Isaac Hirschfeld
Status: Accepted
See how you too can take a 1996 RAV4, some EV parts (including lead acid batteries) and just under $10k to create a vehicle that gets 30 miles range per charge.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:RAV4 EV Electric+Car Batteries Conversion

Ray Guns: Unique and Sophisticated Bob Pennington
Status: Accepted
Get your hands on our collection of (non-functioning, but oh-so-realistic) ray guns straight out of the holsters of Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and Han Solo.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:ray+guns

Raygun Robyn Raygun Robyn
Status: Accepted
From the closet of the future to the future of your closet, this interstellar seamstress brings you space age shirts and cosmic clothes, guaranteed to make you shine as bright as a shooting star!
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:clothes, robots, rayguns, squid, octopus, bigfoot

ReadyMade Shrinky Sheet Keychain and Jewelry Making Mike Senese Alex Sheehan
Status: Accepted
ReadyMade magazine will help you make your own keychains and jewelry using ReadyMade Shrinky Sheets. Design, cut out, heat and shrink. Fun and creative for people of all ages.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:jewelry " key chain" ring necklace crafts

Recycle / Rebuild / Rebirth New Orleans Unique Products
Status: Accepted
Mold "re-fused" Mardi Gras beads and other object d'art from the streets of New Orleans into fun and funky lighting and houseware.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:recycled post+katrina+art lighting housewares

Recycle Cycle Luke Iseman
Status: Accepted
This electric motorcycle built out of an old rolling chassis cost under $2000 to build.
Type: Topic: Green Tags:transportation motorcycle green electric

Recycled Fabric Badges Seedling Textiles
Status: Accepted
Fabric scraps can become unique badges with a bit of screenprinting, paint, embroidery, drawing, stamps, quilting and layering. See a gallery of these tiny works of art that can be displayed anywhere.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Green Tags:scrap+fabric screenprinting sewing painting badges

Recycled Stationery Chelsea Martinez
Status: Accepted
Old textbooks, expired calendars, salvaged loose-leaf notebooks, a sewing machine, and anything else you can find for free and/or really cheap can become beautiful handmade papers in their next life.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Green Tags:paper recycled cards letters

Reel Retro Jordan Dupuis , University of North Texas
Status: Accepted
Reel Retro combines hacked cassette tapes and players to create a sonic wave. A single piece of tape is threaded through three tape players, all playing, while one records and two play. The recorded sound echoes through the other tape players in real time.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:cassette+tape hacking wire+bending

RepRap: The Self-Replicating 3D Printer Sebastien Bailard
Status: Accepted
This 3D printer, or rapid prototyper, makes three-dimensional plastic parts. Most of its significant mechanical components are made of plastic, so it is a self-replicating machine.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Green Tags:reprap, rapid+protoyper, 3D+printer, fabricator, fabber

RetroGame Eric Rothfus
Status: Accepted
Using old-fashioned parts and an open-faced design, kids can assemble the RetroGame and play "Retris" or "RetroRover".
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:retro video+game

Revealing the Gizmo Within Mike Weiblen
Status: Accepted
Many inexpensive items can be harvested for their parts, rather than their intended purposes. Learn how cheap components from bargain outlets can be used to make cool gadgets, thus revealing the gizmos within.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:electronics gizmos hacking

Robo Thespian Will Jackson
Status: Accepted
Broadway, beware? This life-sized humanoid robot can act.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:robot+actor humanoid+robot robothespian

Robo Thespian Will Jackson
Status: Accepted
Meet a robot who was made for the stage. Will explains how RoboThespian works and describe the surprising reactions people have to his robot.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:robot+actor humanoid+robot robothespian

Robo-Tower (aka Ponginator) Ed Xavier Gonzalez
Status: Accepted
A 15-foot-tall tower integrates a video & audio system and illustrates various Robot Group activities real-time. Its shell evokes the look of a toy robot from the 1960s.
Type: Topic: Arts | Science Tags:Robot+Tower The+Robot+Group

RoboSpinArt The Robot Group
Status: Accepted
The venerable spin art machines of the 1960s and 70s created funky, psychedelic artwork by dropping paint onto rotating paper, so that centrifugal force would make bright streaks of color. With this machine you can create spin art using a joystick to position a “paint gantry” above a rotating piece of paper, and then press a series of buttons to dispense paint in measured amounts. Plus, it's accompanied by an exciting light show, a rocking soundtrack, and a countdown timer that creates a sense of urgency.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:robo spin art robospinart painting kids The+Robot+Group

Robot Building Made Simple Bob Comer , David Comer
Status: Accepted
Designing and building a medium-sized robotic platform can be very complex. Using PVC pipe and parts from electric, ride-on childrens' toys greatly simplifies the process. See how to build platforms with two-wheel and four-wheel drive.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:robot robotics telepresence surveillance The+Robot+Group

Robot Glove, Babbling Head, Froggo, and Seeker Robot Eric Lundquist
Status: Accepted
See a rich collection of diverse robotics projects, including a virtual reality glove which controls a robot arm in five axes, an animatronic art head that sings sea shanties (Robot Group classic!), an animatronic low-budget creature-feature prop, and a GPS-autonomous RoboMagellan contestant.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Robotics special+effects The+Robot+Group

Robot with Paintbrushes Meets Girl with Scissors Kris and Carly DeGraeve
Status: Accepted
This iRobot has been programmed and modified to apply acrylic paint on fabric, which is then cut up and sewn into small wearable items (such as cuff bracelets) and given away.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:robots paint art sewing jewelry fabrics

Robotic Boat for Benthic Mapping Jim Patek
Status: Accepted
This mostly autonomous boat maps depths in shallow areas. It has two pontoons, tractor steering, central GPS control, compass, IMU, sonar, and spread spectrum radio for serial communications.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:robotics navigation oceanography

Robotics and Automation Society at UT Austin Austin Robotics and Automation Society
Status: Accepted
Ranging from tabletop robots to autonomous ground vehicles to a balancing robotic platform, these robots do it all.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:robots robotics autonomous

Robotics at Austin Community College Austin Community College
Status: Accepted
The Chess Board Manipulator's robotic arm moves chess pieces. The mobile Surveillance Robot broadcasts video over a local area network.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Austin+Community+College ACC robot robotic chess arm manipulator surveillance

Robotics Studio Hacks Special Computing
Status: Accepted
Discover the hacks behind converting a Tyco Batmobile (from a previous Maker Faire) into a swarm of autonomous robots wirelessly controlled by a Windows Mobile phone.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:robotics studio wireless simulation

Rosy Delights Rosetung
Status: Accepted
Knit clothing, recycled corkboards, plastic bag rugs, plant hangers, blockprints, recipe zines, cat toys, and more at this mini arts and crafts fair –- whose proceeds partially benefit charities that need warm winter clothing, pet supplies, etc.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:art crafts recycled knits special+deals

Rubber-Band-Powered Cardboard Toys Mike Rigsby
Status: Accepted
Use cardboard, rubber bands, glue and pencils to make your very own moving toys. We're taking paper airplane technology to the ground!
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:rubber+band+cars cardboard+cars toys

Sand Castle: The Interactive Audio Retrocluster Jason Asbahr, Ed Robinson, Heather Dority, John Cooney
Status: Accepted
This experimental, interactive audio installation retrocluster, built on an obsolete NeXT system, displays images of animals and machines while reacting to children with sounds of matching and juxtaposition.
Type: Topic: Arts | Music Tags:cluster audio interactive retro

SanDraw: Sand Drawing Machine Paul Atkinson , Rick Abbott
Status: Accepted
Inspired by Dr. Bruce Shapiro's original art piece "Sisyphus", SanDraw plots patterns in the sand using a robotic arm to trace polar coordinates. SanDraw is made from hand-machined aluminum parts and uses a microcontroller and stepper motors.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:robotics science electronic+art the+robot+group

Science in the Movies Steve Wolf
Status: Accepted
See the science behind challenging special effects in the movies, such as mechanics, kinetics, heat, electronics, optics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, computers, and safety.
Type: Topic: Science Tags:science in the movies, physcial science

Science in the Movies Steve Wolf
Status: Accepted
Steve is a Special Effects Coordinator who has designed, engineered, and performed stunts and special effects for feature films and television shows. Steve uses his knowledge and experience to help students develop an appreciation and understanding of science.
Type: Topic: Science Tags:science in the movies, physcial science

Scratch Sensor Board Amon Millner , Paul Medlock-Walton , Robbieb Berg
Status: Accepted
Use this sensor board and the Scratch programming language to sense and respond to things going on in the physical world. Come by to use the Scratch Boards and craft materials to quickly create things like interactive Halloween projects.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Music Tags:sensors programming crafts interactive scratch

Screamin' Babyhead Band Marvin Niebuhr aka Professor Conrad
Status: Accepted
This visual and audio extravaganza features Rogue Bio-mechanicals.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Music Tags:circuit bending,bizarre mechanicals, salvaged toy parts, musical distortion, The+Robot+Group

Secret Tree Aichen Lin and Ji Sun Lee
Status: Accepted
Confess a secret, and its flowers bloom, and its fruits ripen. The tree interprets and stores secrets in a uniquely altered format to be enjoyed later. It is inspired by and transcends the special trees in Shel Silverstein's book The Giving Tree and Wong Kar Wai's movie In the Mood for Love.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Music Tags:"max/msp" "arduino""tree"

Self-Guided Design Chalo Colina
Status: Accepted
A prolific maker, Chalo will talk about the role of common sense and self-confidence in meeting technical objectives using resources at hand. He believes that most people already have most of what they need to make things they might assume that are beyond their ability.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:bike trike big+wheel kinetic art cnc human pedal

Semiprecious Stone Jewelry
Status: Accepted
Semiprecious stones are cut and polished from rough stone then wrapped in sterling silver, gold, and copper wire. The process results in gorgeous pendants for beaded necklaces.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:jewelry, sterling silver, lapidary, wire wrap, beaded

Sewing and Serging Clothing Miayawear
Status: Accepted
Try out a professional's serger on your own stuff or scraps on hand. Learn to thread a serger. Take a peek at how freshly serged baby blankets and towels come to be.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Green Tags:clothing, sewing, serging, organic

Sideshow Tramps Sideshow Tramps
Status: Accepted
Not only will they play you a set using their own homemade musical instruments, but they will also demonstrate the philosopher's stone, faith healing, and other miscellaneous lesser miracles.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:performance music musical+performance homemade+instruments cigar+box+guitar washtub+bass "tr

Silversmithing Kyle Gross
Status: Accepted
See how a true silversmith creates sterling silver rings and a cabochon set pendant.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:silverr, silversmith, jewelry

Skyline: An Amazing Balloon & Wind Sculpture Robert Bose
Status: Accepted
A line of balloons creates a combination windsock-kite that morphs into different shapes as it plays on the wind.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:helium balloons art

Sock Skeleton Claire Chauvin
Status: Accepted
Make your own creepier cousin of the more common species, sock monkey.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:sock+skeleton softies Halloween+project

Soft Engineering Gretchen Eisner
Status: Accepted
Design a garment from unusual materials, such as burlap, bubble wrap, tyvek, plastic, and latex. Add soft electronic circuitry. Engineer a pop-up book. Find these projects among many other inspiring textile projects in the Swap-o-Rama-Rama area.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:

Solar-Powered Geodesic Living Room Bob and Monica Smoot
Status: Accepted
Chill out or dry off in a 23-foot diameter portable living room constructed of PVC pipe, tarp and a few nuts and bolts. A small solar array and deep-cycle battery provide power for LED lights, a sound system and laptop-driven widescreen LCD panel.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Green Tags:solar geodesic dome camping

Solargrafica Andreas A. Zingerle
Status: Accepted
Solarigrafica uses lensless camera with exposure times of up to 6 months to demonstrate the path of the Sun, revealing the invisible movements across landscapes. This installation includes a soundscape of processed samples to create a spherical atmosphere.
Type: Topic: Arts | Music Tags:pinhole camera, recycled cans, bioart, experimental photography, soundart

Space Squid Puppet Show and Postmodern Storytelling David Chang , Matthew Bey , Steve Wilson
Status: Accepted
Come by for kid-friendly puppet plays and stories! Of course, they'll be infused with the slightly-askew sensibilities of Space Squid, Austin's worst sci-fi and humor 'zine.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:zine magazine scifi "sci-fi" humor publication journal rag funny space squid kids puppets postmodern

Space Squid Zinefest Space Squid
Status: Accepted
Zine publishers turn their haiku-laden thoughts to you to write personalized poetry on the spot. Or, see what you look like as a superhero flying over the Earth. Contribute to a special Maker Faire edition Space Squid issue made right before your eyes all weekend. Hear crazy stories, get a zany t-shirt, or just sign up for a free PDF of issue 4 of this great 'zine. Check them out on the Acoustic Stage for kid-friendly puppet plays and stories, too.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:zine magazine scifi "sci-fi" humor publication journal rag funny space squid

Spelunker Steve Marsh
Status: Accepted
This solo act creates a primitive blues-in-a-cave experience. It is performed exclusively on self-made instruments, including an electric 2x4 with slide, a bass 4x4, and electric springs, and vocals channeled through effects and live loops.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:performance electric+2x4 solo electric+blues Steve+Marsh

Spinner Bikes Randy Lisbona
Status: Accepted
Imagine a homemade Big Wheel where the rear wheels spin out when you turn. It's perfect for doing lazy donuts in your driveway.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Bikes

Spinners and Weavers (WSSA/CHT) Weavers and Spinners Society of Austin (WSSA)
Status: Accepted
Make yarn at our drum carding and spinning stations and then weave with your freshly spun fiber at a real loom.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:carding spinning weaving

Star Wheel Paul Cesewski
Status: Accepted
Star Wheel is a 22-foot-diameter rolling, participant-powered ferris wheel. The inner wheel is a bicycle ferris wheel powered by three riders, within a larger wheel, which looks like two giant bicycle wheels side by side with the rims connected by stancheons.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:cyclecide carnival ferris wheel "man-powered" DIY

Stirling Engines Rick Abbott
Status: Accepted
The Stirling engine was invented in the 18th century as an alternative to the steam engine. These model Stirling engines include three powered by alcohol lamps and two powered by hot water in a coffee cup. They are unusual and fun to watch.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:model+engines The+Robot+Group

Stop-Motion Armatures Matt Norris
Status: Accepted
These articulated, metalwork sculptures can change and hold a pose. They function as standalone "reconfigurable sculpture" or can be photographed serially to create animation.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:metal toy doll armature animation stop+motion

Student Parallel Computing Projects: Lots of Clusters Walton Yantis
Status: Accepted
One 10-node and four 5-node diskless clusters constructed by TSTC Computer Networking students will be used in TSTC labs to teach students the principles of parallel computing. Just pop in a live cluster distro disc (there will be several to choose from) and hack away!
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:cluster parallel+computing node diskless computer

Stumper Brian "ViSKER" Mahanay
Status: Accepted
Half monster truck and half charismatic monster, this street-legal, electroluminescent vehicle with eyes on stalks and pointy teeth is the alter-ego of a 1984 Dodge pickup.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Artcar Art Car Mobile Sculpture Dodge Badass Monster Stalk Eyes

Sub-Par Voyeuristic Voyage Sub-Par Submarine Crew
Status: Accepted
In this interactive experience in voyeurism, you enter the submarine through a side portal and peer through a periscope viewfinder to look at the gallery crowd in a new light. The crowd is recorded through a periscope and then fed through to a projection in the sub. Meanwhile, you can enjoy the sounds of the sea swirling around the sounds of the previous voyeur-visitors.
Type: Topic: Tags:submarine, audio, visual, voyeur, hot pink, installation

Swap-O-Rama-Rama Angela Coneflower , Sarah Presson Wendy Tremayne
Status: Accepted
Get rid of your tired clothes and make them new by joining in the communal process of creative reuse at Swap-o-Rama-Rama, the world's largest clothing swap and creativity workshop. Get hands-on and experience how much more fun it is to be a creator than a consumer. Lean to sew with the help of local designers. Modify and transform clothing through artist-led workshops. Silkscreen your garments with fresh original designs. All materials for creativity are provided. Take away as much clothing as you can carry! <b>It's all free: a Maker Faire ticket plus any size bag of unwanted (clean) clothes admits you to this textile paradise.</b>
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:swap swaporamarama clothing fashion sewing modding

Swimming Linda Bernal
Status: Accepted
In this elegant piece of kinetic sculpture, circles of mylar spin in an out of sync with one another.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:"microcontroller" "art"

Swinger, Long John, and Special Guest Lee Gresham
Status: Accepted
Take a spin on three wacky bikes: a double-hinged steering bicycle, a chopped delivery bicycle in the "Long John" style, and an extra-special scooter-like thing with a non-concentric drive wheel that you propel by bouncing!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:bicyclehacks

Terp 2 It ColdTowne Theater
Status: Accepted
A nerdcore rapper from Austin whose performance is aided by sketch comedy videos and a professional wrestling belt, Terp 2 It has opened for MC Chris and for "Comedy Central Presents...."
Type: Topic: Arts | Music Tags:performance, nerdcore, rap

TeslaPhonics Scott Coppersmith
Status: Accepted
I'll be joining Joe DiPrima (local Austin Geek) and some other members of The Geek Group - Kalamazoo, MI with my MIDI controlled Tesla Coils. If I can work out the shipping (from IN), I could bring my IEC demo Fusor also.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Music | Science Tags:MIDI Musical Tesla Coils

Tessera: Robot Puppets los de la máquina
Status: Accepted
Get a preview of the robotic cabaret-style performance to be launched in Summer 2008 by los de la máquina. In it, a mix of mechanical characters, digital interaction, vintage analog remixes, human actors and puppeteers draw audiences into Tessera –- the fairypunk machine dreamworld that exists somewhere between binary ones and zeros. See a robot-controlled marionette and steampunk bunraku puppet from the show.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:robot puppets puppetry robotics tessera performance art

Tetrahedral Tilt Lamp Sean Ragan
Status: Accepted
This table lamp in the shape of a methane molecule with glowing hydrogen atoms turns on when tilted onto the appropriate face.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:LAMP TILT TETRAHEDRAL CHEMISTRY+LIGHT TETRAHEDRON LIGHT

Texas Student's Exhibition Andy Holtin
Status: Accepted
See work by Texas university students, with a focus on tech innovations and creative applications. This exhibition incorporates students and faculty from throughout the state.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:sculpture art university student

The "Art" of Photography John Gusky
Status: Accepted
Photographers can't necessarily create what they imagine in our heads, as a painter can. They have to use what actually exists on their "palette". But they can capture the light, shapes, textures, and all the other visual elements of an image within a split-second. Meet a photographer and bounce all your nitty-gritty questions off his years of expertise and piles of gear. Find out about the unique challenges for photographers: how to use different components to create different visuals and different apertures for varying depths of field, to avoid harsh light when using a flash, to be an inconspicuous "fly-on-the-wall" photojournalist, and to compose a subject creatively. I can use some of my photos to show how technique and technology are used together to create "art".
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:photography light composition technique technology

The 999 Eyes Authentic Freakshow 999 Eyes
Status: Accepted
America's last genuine traveling freakshow featuring living oddities such as the human tripod, the dancing dwarf, lobster girl, the Black Scorpion lobster boy, and more.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:freaks, freakshow, living+human+oddities, clown+inventor, clown, human+tripod, lobster+girl,

The Art of Living Dangerously Bill Gurstelle
Status: Accepted
There are people who take extraordinary risks to achieve their goals. What can we learn from them? What keeps us from living dangerously and participating in events like Punkin Chunkin, Burning Man, and High Desert Rocket Launches.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:danger makers risk

The Artist's Market Jamie Rood
Status: Accepted
Meet ten different artists who invite you into their craft. Each one will be either working in their craft and talking about their work, or doing something to allow you to experience their work.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:art demonstration silversmith painting photography

The Caveman Collective Garreth Wilcock Bob Smoot , Denshi , Doryan Rice , Eric Meyer , Garreth Wilcock
Status: Accepted
See how to build your own small electric trikes out of inexpensive parts and a wooden frame.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Green Tags:electric+vehicle trikes first+night caveman

The ChakraTron Scott Gasparian
Status: Accepted
An interactive illuminated kinetic sculpture made from microcontrollers, LEDs, and recycled materials accompanied by demos of programming microcontrollers, shaping plastics, and repurposing sewing machine parts -- all with a live webcam "karma relay" link too.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:recycled, microcontroller, sewing machine, led, touch sensor, plastic forming, plastic casting

The Geek Group Geek Group
Status: Accepted
Five musical Tesla coils harmonically accompany a selection of high voltage/physics experiments, including liquid speakers, a 10-foot-tall Jacob's Ladder, ring launchers, fusers, and quarter-shrinkers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Music | Science Tags:musical music tesla coil high voltage geek group

The Gemini Pan Megan O'Connor
Status: Accepted
This unique frying pan allows multitaskers to quickly cook for picky eaters, or those with many nutritional needs, or for a bunch of people at once.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:The Gemini Pan

The Jitterbox Gabe Barcia-Colombo
Status: Accepted
Change the tune on this modern dance contraption and watch the beautiful tiny dancer shake and shimmy along with any song (as long as it's a hit from the 1940s)! But beware the talky talk radio, this dancer loves to boogie but hates chit chat!
Type: Topic: Arts | Music Tags:physical computing radio video art music

The Luna Project Christopher Carson
Status: Accepted
This open-source space program works to send humans to the Moon again by the year 2012, in order to have these lunar visitors stay for good.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:space moon colony future rocket manufacturing life+support environment habitat

The Maker As Revolutionary Wendy Tremayne
Status: Accepted
In 2005, Wendy launched Swap-O-Rama-Rama, an "alternative to consumerism" in the form of a clothing swap and DIY workshop. The aim is to inspire creative reuse through the recycling of used clothing by cutting, sewing, and transforming the garments into something new, original, and decidedly your own. Since its introduction, Swap-O-Rama-Rama has grown to more than 40 cities around the world, including a very special swap at Maker Faire.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:swap swaporamarama clothing reuse recycle consumerism anticonsumerism revolutionary

The Making of ArtGolf ArtGolf Team
Status: Accepted
ArtGolf is Maker Faire’s newest homemade attractions. Get the scoop on this design-and-build project from its makers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:artgolf golf art miniature+golf mad+scientist logic+gate

The MultiMachine Pat Delany
Status: Accepted
This all-purpose tool acts as a metal or wood lathe, end mill, horizontal mill, drill press, wood or metal saw or sander, surface grinder and sheet-metal spinner. Any semi-skilled mechanic can build one using just common hand tools and discarded vehicle parts. Different versions range from closet-sized to one weighing up to 5 tons.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:machine+shop metal+lathe milling drill

The Painful Leg Injuries The Painful Leg Injuries
Status: Accepted
This unique music combines field recordings, homemade electronics, gameboy, circuit bent toys, software-based instruments, warped old instruments, audio data gathered from file conversions of visual art, and lovely cello drones.
Type: Topic: Arts | Music | Science Tags:"performance" "artist" experimental+music circuit+bending "LSDJ" Gameboy+Music sound+art "no

The Planck Stringed Instrument Seven Sexton
Status: Accepted
Sounding like a guitar, pedal steel, koto, or sitar, this 7-stringed musical instrument is played horizontally, a bit like a piano, by tapping the strings.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:guitar stringed+instrument tapped pickup transducer

The Robot Group The Robot Group
Status: Accepted
Through the synergy of fusing art and technology, The Robot Group has stimulated the public into a playful interest in high technology, and art now has new vehicles for affecting culture. It is based in Austin, Texas.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:

The Table of Gizmonic Contents Brooks Coleman
Status: Accepted
A tableful of gizmos and projects ranging from some classic, favorite Robot Group blimps, fashion arts, robots, and musical devices, to several new works-in-progress like the "machine shop in an Altoids can" and the "seat crawler."
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:"robots" gadgets "art" The+Robot+Group

The Water Flowers Make Believe Arts
Status: Accepted
The petals of these unique flowers are shaped by the surface tension of water exiting the nozzles, with each petal being illuminated by its own individually addressable tri-color LED.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:lights LED fountains flowers water

Theremin for the Masses Aileen Adler
Status: Accepted
The Theremin is one of the first electronic instruments ever built, in Russia in 1919. It is played without actual, physical touch! You simply control pitch and volume by moving your hands back and forth within two electromagnetic fields that are radiated off of two separate antennas. Come by for a short demonstration on how the Theremin works, hear how it sounds, and give it a try yourself.
Type: Topic: Music | Science Tags:Performance

Thereping Vernon Graner
Status: Accepted
Come play this unusual, synchronized, digital musical instrument. Simply wave your hand, and you’ll hear something that’s part theremin and part bagpipe.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Music | Science Tags:Thereping theremin electronic+music Basic+Stamp "Parallax" The+Robot+Group

Thermal Electric Photo Voltaic Alex Conn , Michael Perkins
Status: Accepted
Combining stock solid-state cooling devices with standard photovoltaic panels in a novel way yields unexpected results. Generate electricity by heating two metals orthogonally in voltaic series using the Seebeck effect. This method improves panel efficiency (watts per dollar) and life expectancy.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Green | Science Tags:PV+panels Photo+Voltaic Seebeck+effect Peltier+effect Voltaic+series Solar+cells "Solar

Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle Gary Krysztopik
Status: Accepted
Find out how to design a three-wheel, battery-electric vehicle from the ground up. Currently a rolling chassis with steering, suspension, and the motor and electronics in place, it will soon be in a state of "just add batteries" for testing.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:electric+car

Toolmonger Chuck Cage
Status: Accepted
Maker Faire is the kickoff to "Break Stuff Week," when Toolmonger will be featuring a week's worth of demolition tools and projects. Come see a small competition in which two teams will demolish their way through a series of walls with various tools. You can grab some tools to help them test.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Tools, Toolmonger

Trail Camera Controller Board Bill Green , Donald Kirk
Status: Accepted
This controller board (built around a Microchip 16F690 microcontroller) detects physical motion using a PIR (Pyroelectric Infrared) sensor, and when motion is detected the controller board turns on a camera, signals the camera to take a picture, and also triggers a slave flash if it's nighttime. A complete homemade trail camera unit run by the controller board will be on display. Winner of the IEEE Spectrum Competition.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:trail camera control

Trampoline Sensor MK II James Delaney
Status: Accepted
Control games and music by demo games by jumping or running on this mini-trampoline with two position sensors.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:trampoline joystick jump run sensor music midi The+Robot+Group

Tranquilounger Kai Mantsch
Status: Accepted
This odd-looking, yet very inviting, seating device lures humans to sit, where they become so comfortable and tranquil it becomes nearly impossible to escape, thereby trapping them for study. It features contoured back and bass-driven musical vibrations that shake the entire device.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:tranquilounger couch seat bass shaker

Treasure Trash Megan Whitten
Status: Accepted
Take everyday items and "trash" and turn it into art of all kinds from smooshed bottletop earrings to cigarbox purses.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:recycled junk jewelry

Tree Music Trevor Reichman
Status: Accepted
Performing original compositions about sustainability, the earth, and other related interests, and focusing on all original compositions, self production, and distribution, tree music takes DIY independence from the music industry to the extreme.
Type: Topic: Arts | Music Tags:music DIY

Trio 1 Jeremy Boyle
Status: Accepted
A trio of self-playing MIDI-controlled pneumatic instruments--guitar, bass and drums--performs original compositions.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:midi-controlled pneumatic instruments

TSTC Photonics Texas State Technical College
Status: Accepted
Top students from TSTC's photonics club demo their more interesting lasers. Come by to enjoy hands-on projects, such as how to align a laser, the singing laser demo, and more.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:laser fiber+optic delivery

TweakFreaks Christopher Brown
Status: Accepted
TweakFreaks™ is Maker Faire Austin's Festival-within-a-Festival dedicated to the art and science of circuit-bending and other forms of electronic musical madness. Featured benders will include: Sk1 Project (Houston), AtariMatt (College Station), The Spaceinvader Orchestra (Austin), The Furby Youth Choir (Austin), Larz (Denton), Ontic (Austin), and Radarcave (Austin). (Subject to change)
Type: Topic: Tags:

U-Dome World Shelters
Status: Accepted
This low-cost, lightweight, flame-retardant, hard-shell structure prototype may supplement the large soft-sided shelters World Shelters provides to meet the humanitarian needs of natural disaster survivors.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:shelter temporary+shelter transitional+shelter dome domes disaster+relief humanitarian

Umbrella Bat Costume Demo Windell H. Oskay and Lenore Edman, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Status: Accepted
See how you can take those broken black umbrellas off your porch and turn them into bat costumes that can go trick-or-treating around the neighborhood.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Green Tags:halloween costume reuse bat umbrella

Video HowTo + DIY YouTube
Status: Accepted
YouTube experts answer any questions new users have, help solve issues existing users may be experiencing, and showcase great DIY videos created by Make Magazine and the many other great gurus on YouTube.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Green | Music | Science Tags:video

VMV Cars Chris Hightower
Status: Accepted
Inspired by Make’s "Mod Your Rod", this open-source car can be easily, safely, and quickly made, modified, or customized. Start with a known vehicle donor platform, or from the ground up with an electric motor, diesel, etc.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Green Tags:kit+car electric+car biodiesel

Warlord of Nibblecheese Piñata Brian Anderson
Status: Accepted
Behold Zack Proton's space mice in their cosmic super-size pinata form, and take a swing at the end of the Faire to find what goodies the Warlords have plundered in their intergalactic travels.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:pinata

Washer Game Randy Lisbona
Status: Accepted
This backyard game of pitching washers is must-have for any barbecue or car camping trip.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:Washers Game

Washtub Jerry & Bruce Newman Washtub Jerry & Bruce Newman
Status: Accepted
This combination workshop and music performance will reveal materials used, reasons for selection, Q & A with Wash & Bruce, and crazy things that have happened along the way to making the washtub bass.
Type: Topic: Music Tags:performance workshop

Watercolor Painting Pauline Jacobson
Status: Accepted
Watch an artist paint sunny fields of bluebonnets in watercolors to reveal the secrets of this popular medium.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:art painting watercolors

Wheels of Misfortune Anthony and Charlene Oaks
Status: Accepted
In this first aid training game original created for a Boy Scout Camporee, one wheel helps the patrol select the victim, another specifies the injury, and a third the means of transport.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:Wheels+of+Misfortune First+Aid+Game Scouting

When Worlds Collide Madeleine Reardon Dimond
Status: Accepted
Hawaiian shirt decor, bridal white, fractal math, science fiction patchwork, multicultural healing symbols, and animals from on high and deep down under: this isn't your grandma's quilting square. Come by and make your own.
Type: Topic: Crafts Tags:jacket quilt 5+Cat

Whirlygigs holly burroughs
Status: Accepted
Found parts and off the shelf parts combined with plexiglass and vellum sails, attached to hobby motors, run through PIC interface, operated by the viewer. Intended to make the viewer giggle and feel like a kid again.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:spinning motorized microcontroller sails

Wonderful Little Things Mark Frauenfelder
Status: Accepted
Editor-in-Chief of MAKE and founder of Boing-Boing,net, Mark Frauenfelder will give a little talk about the funny little things you find in the back of old magazines, and what you can find there today.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:magazines

Woodcarving-Painting Doodles on Tile Kap Stanfield
Status: Accepted
This artist carves wood and paints doodles on tile.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:woodcarving

World's Fastest Barstool Bill Jenkins
Status: Accepted
This motorized barstool runs at over 100 when its supercharged engine gets all the gasoline and carbon dioxide it needs. It also sports flame and smoke systems, a full electrical system with AM/FM/CB/stereo, and bells, whistles, etc.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:barstool, "world's fastest", alternative+energy

World's Largest Solderless Clock Karl Papadantonakis
Status: Accepted
The electronics in this 4-foot wide clock cost less than the lumber! Based on a popular kit, it has 192 LEDs, all powered by a single driver. Not one single LED or wire requires soldering; everything can be twisted with a pair of pliers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:kits LED+clock electronics solderless solder+free

XD Five-Minute Design Challenge: Adobe®XD The Adobe XD Team
Status: Accepted
Everybody works better under a deadline. Especially designers. Jam with the Adobe XD team. You'll get the tools, the materials, and five whole minutes to create a design, cut a stencil using a laser, and five more minutes to spray-paint it onto a t-shirt. It’s urban guerilla meets Buck Rogers, a culture-mash of street-punk and precision print-making techniques. Keep your stencil, keep the t-shirt, and the two best designs each day (as judged by our resident designers) get copies of Adobe Creative Suite® 3.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:t shirt stencil laser cutter spray paint

Zomadic Zomicile Rob Bell
Status: Accepted
This green building system for creating temporary, semi-permanent or permanent shelter solutions uses a rigid tension framework.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:zome dome foam tension structure