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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

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

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

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

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

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

Build Your Own CNC Machine Patrick Hood-Daniel
Status: Accepted
This CNC machine is a product of much research and then efficient re-design. Motivated by a desire to expose designers to fabrication, this CNC build can also be seen on the web.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:cnc machine, router, linear slide bearings, driver, stepper motors

Calcars Calcars
Status: Accepted
Over the two days of the Faire, a Prius Hybrid will be converted into a plug-in vehicle that gets 100+miles per gallon which can be powered with whatever form of electricity you have on the other side of your outlet—whether solar, wind, or others.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Plug-in PHEV Calcars Hybrid Environment 100mpg Prius demonstration

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

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

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'

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

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

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

Fast and Easy Electronic Make-and-Take Brad Martin
Status: Accepted
Make your own electronic circuit kit in five minutes -- without soldering! Assemble a simple LED flasher or an electronic music instrument known as a "ribbon controller" or "electro-theremin". Complete the LED project as a prerequisite to the second project. Both kits include extra at-home experiments for extra "making" fun.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:ribbon+controller LED flasher throwie transistor kit electronic

Fire Show adelyn botto , David Umlas , Edwin Wise , Jason Mika
Status: Accepted
A variety of fire-art performances by Jason Mika, David Umlas, Edwin Wise and Adelyn Botto.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:fire

Flamethrowers to Firecracker Hats Jason Mika, Dave Umlas, and Kenney Browning
Status: Accepted
Great balls of fire! This gang of fire artists will exhibit their forced air, articulated, and big fireball flamethrowers, alongside the Iron Maiden art car, Longbikes, The Fire Table and the infamous Firecracker Hat Extravaganza.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:fire art+cars

Flaming Halloween Edwin Wise
Status: Accepted
Get set for the season with pneumatic and static props, makeup, lifecasting, and a preview of the SCARE for a Cure haunt.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:halloween fire science sound vibration props lifecasting silicon The+Robot+Group

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 , 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 | Science Tags:DIY future home self identity

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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 | Science Tags:open+hardware, laptop, desktop, hardware, open source, Linux

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 | Science Tags:Resonance tesla+coil music electronic pipe+organ

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"

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"

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

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

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 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

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

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:

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

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

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

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 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 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: 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 | 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 | Science Tags:PV+panels Photo+Voltaic Seebeck+effect Peltier+effect Voltaic+series Solar+cells "Solar

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

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

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