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1 to 158 of 1583, 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
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
Aranzi Aronzo
Aranzi Aronzo
Status: Accepted
Make your own menagerie of trippy Sanrio-esque characters with everyday household fabrics and items.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:crafts, japanese, plush+dolls
ArduWiino
Christos Polemankos
Status: Accepted
An experiment in using the Arduino to access the functionality the Wii controller for unconventional applications
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Arduino Wii physical+interface
ARG:0
Ian Quinn
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Nathaniel Eliot
Status: Accepted
This altered reality laser-tag game is built on modified Meraki mesh routers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:arg mesh wifi laser+tag infrared altered+reality+game
ArtGolf
Philo Northrup
Status: Accepted
A miniature golf course designed and built by artists that offers a decidedly esoteric, Rube Goldberg experience, ArtGolf® was originally created in 1987 by Philo Northrup.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:artgolf golf art miniature+golf mad+scientist logic+gate
Attic Ted
Attic Ted
Status: Accepted
It's an insane asylum country gothic carnival of musical performance art, utilizing old Hammond organ, cello, noises, and masks.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:attic+ted oddball carnival
Austin 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
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
Bare Bones Board & Applications
Paul Badger
Status: Accepted
This open-source board (implemented with Arduino) controls an 8x8 personal (and extensible) LED sign and a versatile windshield wiper motor servo.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:"Bare-Bones Board" Arduino Kit 8x8 personal LED sign
Baruzuland Shadow Theater
Baruzula
Status: Accepted
Moving, living art in the form live shadow puppetry layers projections, theater, soundscape, dance and fire to create an enchanting tale through a visual stream of consciousness. This spectacle emerges from a live-in performance studio Step-Van, gypsy style.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:shadow+puppetry ,fire+dancing,enchanted+forest
Batastic
Patrick Cupp
Status: Accepted
The artist will make replicas of Batman's batarang, a bat-shaped throwing weapon, in various materials, from resin to cold flexible foam. He will also sculpt a batman mask on a head cast of himself, then will mold and cast it in latex.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:rubber mask prop resin moldmaking
Baubles & Bliss
Meg Stearns
Status: Accepted
Watch an artist at work making hand-beaded jewelry and rosaries and hand-folded "Masu" paper boxes.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:jewelry, beads, handmade, paper, boxes, origami,
Bella Peregrina Ranch
Kumpania Peregrina
Status: Accepted
This versatile, interactive Halloween troupe includes horses and a blue and gold macaw and a bevy of costumes: Renaissance, cowboys & Indians, Headless Horseman, Lord of the Rings, a wolf, a witch. Performances include rides, petting zoo, dancing horses, flying parrot, jousting, skills-at-arms games (mounted archery, quintain, rings, heads, reeds, pigsticking, javelin), Roman riding, poi (flag & fire dancing), singing, and fortune-telling.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:interactive Halloween costumes performance horses bird poi fire flag singing jousting games "fortune
Benderella's Toy Lab, A Circuit-Bending Work-Zone
Dr. Manda Clair Jost
Status: Accepted
Circuit bending, the art and science of modifying battery-powered soundmaking devices, inspired Benderella's most famous project, the Defib-Modulator--a synthesizer expression modulator based on a vintage heart defibrillator. Come by to smear your chest with conductive gel and try it out! Or build your own FrankenToyZilla. All ages welcome.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:circuit+bending circuits music toys sound electronics circuit bending
Beyond the Frames of Light and Strange Sounds
Lori 16MM Varga
Status: Accepted
A handmade, analog 16mm motion picture exhibit of experimental media which reappropriates material in 35mm slide & 16mm film formats, all juxtaposed from seven projectors. Circuit-bent instruments & mag oxide tape readers supply Avant-Audio for the screening.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:AVANT GARDE, LORI 16MM, 16MM, FILM , ANALOG, weird, unusual, performance, experimental, culture jam
Big Bold Embroidery
iFixit
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Chainmaille: Not Just for Armor Anymore
Heidi Neff
Status: Accepted
See a true craftsperson as she creates real chainmaille for everything from clothing to fine jewelry and household items. Pick up a pair of pliers and practice rings to try making a small piece of maille yourself.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:Chainmaille Jewelry
Children's Haven
Ian Cion
Status: Accepted
This easily transportable, affordable, and beautiful fabric structure can be utilized as dwelling, community space, play space, healing space, or school in crisis situations, while being fun, playful, and inspiring for kids.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:habitat shelter "children's haven" emergency+response collaborative+art participatory+design
Circuit-Bent "Easy" Button
Mattheiu Brooks
Status: Accepted
Make a fun instrument by circuit-bending an Easy® button that you can buy at any Staples office supply store. The switch in the upper right activates the bend and the potentiometer tweaks the bend. "Tha-a-aaat was eeeeaaaaasy!"
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Circuit bent, instrument
Cirque Du Molé
Doryan Rice
Status: Accepted
In this performance cooking / variety show, two chefs go head-to-head, and their bouts are peppered by variety acts that come out to entertain the audience between courses.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Cirque, Food, Iron Chef, Molé, variety show
Cold-Forging Copper Wire & Making Seeds into Beads
Kathy Sahagian
Status: Accepted
See how a jewelry maker pounds copper on an anvil to make lovely earrings, rings, and bracelets. Learn what local seeds can be made into beads for natural seed jewelry.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:copper forge seeds jewelry
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
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
Cranky and Plucky
Dominique Vyborny
Status: Accepted
These two large, interactive cones made of sheet steel create sounds from soothing to cacophonous. Cranky boasts 24 hand-crank music boxes pop-riveted to its exterior. Plucky looks very much like an old gramophone horn. Its four piano strings produce a deep, bass-like sound.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:art metal+work interactive music resonance
Crazy Quilt Handbags & Accessories
Shelley Norwood
Status: Accepted
The 19th-century crazy quilt technique has been time-warped with some modern twists--machine stitching & stopstitching, lots of embellishment, and bright, fun fabrics.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:textiles, sewing, crazy+quilting, handbags
Creative Character Lamp
Leslie Blackford
Status: Accepted
Create a softly glowing, whimsical creature from recycled Glade candle votive cups covered with translucent polymer clay.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:recycled, votive,polymer clay
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
Daisy and Friends
Raphael Abrams
Status: Accepted
Come by to get your hands on the Make Daisy mp3 with its gang of fun peripheral projects. Be among the first to see a brand new kit for making your own twitchy artbots.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:mp3 art craft fun fur robot twitch kit
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
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
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
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
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
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Laurel Boylen
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Shin-Yi Huang
Status: Accepted
Water, pumps, glitter and lights react as you conduct your own 'water orchestra'. Sensors detect your movements and translate them into a mystic and beautiful piece of music that you can manipulate through your motion and proximity to the instrument.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Interactive Art, Physical Computing, Musical Instrument, Water Globe, Sensors and Motors
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
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 Large Kites
Charlie Cullen
Status: Accepted
If you miss these large, beautiful kites on your way in, head back out to the entrance and enjoy the breeze and the view.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:Kites
Foleyvision
Foleyvision
Status: Accepted
Strange foreign films are dubbed live with voices, music, and sound effects. Come by to enjoy an episode of Japanese Spiderman.
Type: Topic: Arts
Tags:"Film with live dubbing!" "Live sound effects!"
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
Futurama: The DIY Home of the Future
David Demaris
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Derek Woodgate
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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 | Science
Tags:DIY future home self identity
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
Tags:sewing serging organic+cotton organic+hemp clothing
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
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
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
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
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
Tags:art sculpture green organic
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 | 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
Tags:Art Car, Build, Art, Car, Music
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
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
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 | 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
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
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
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
Tags:video+instruments midi+controllers video+performance
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
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
Tags:DJ VJ DVJ video projection DIY
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
Tags:scrap+fabric screenprinting sewing painting badges
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Tags:clothing, sewing, serging, organic
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
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 | 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
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 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 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 | Science
Tags:musical music tesla coil high voltage geek group
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
Tags:physical computing radio video art music
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 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 | Science
Tags:"performance" "artist" experimental+music circuit+bending "LSDJ" Gameboy+Music sound+art "no
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
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 | Science
Tags:Thereping theremin electronic+music Basic+Stamp "Parallax" The+Robot+Group
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
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
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 | Science
Tags:video
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
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
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 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
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