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1 to 113 of 1133D 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
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
Automata: Life in Wood
Sarah Alexander
Status: Accepted
A jaunt through the last 30 years of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre with its director who is the daughter of the founder, Sue Jackson. Glimpse some of the fantastic automata from the collection and learn about the artists who made them.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:automata mechanical toy kit 'build your own' caberet mechanical theatre
Bag Bag
Michelle Olson
Status: Accepted
Crochet your "disposable" plastic bags into better, sturdier, stylish and eco-friendly tote bags perfect for shopping, visits to the pool, or other times when you need to lug around a lot.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:crochet plastic recyled bag
Baruzuland Shadow Theater
Baruzula
Status: Accepted
Moving, living art in the form live shadow puppetry layers projections, theater, soundscape, dance and fire to create an enchanting tale through a visual stream of consciousness. This spectacle emerges from a live-in performance studio Step-Van, gypsy style.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:shadow+puppetry ,fire+dancing,enchanted+forest
Batastic
Patrick Cupp
Status: Accepted
The artist will make replicas of Batman's batarang, a bat-shaped throwing weapon, in various materials, from resin to cold flexible foam. He will also sculpt a batman mask on a head cast of himself, then will mold and cast it in latex.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:rubber mask prop resin moldmaking
Baubles & Bliss
Meg Stearns
Status: Accepted
Watch an artist at work making hand-beaded jewelry and rosaries and hand-folded "Masu" paper boxes.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts
Tags:jewelry, beads, handmade, paper, boxes, origami,
Be My Shark
Anne Petrimoulx
Status: Accepted
The sidewalks of the world glisten with little bits of urban treasure. Combining these with other re-purposed jewelry bits, be my shark creates sustainable jewelry: funky, one-of-a-kind accessories.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:recycled jewelry found+objects eco+chic sustainability urban
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
DIY Juggling Props
Jeremy Frank
Status: Accepted
Learn how to make three great clubs for less than eight bucks. Then make three balls for mere pennies! See brief juggling demonstrations and get a free juggling lesson.
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:juggling clubs balls
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
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
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
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
Fast and Easy Electronic Make-and-Take
Brad Martin
Status: Accepted
Make your own electronic circuit kit in five minutes -- without soldering! Assemble a simple LED flasher or an electronic music instrument known as a "ribbon controller" or "electro-theremin". Complete the LED project as a prerequisite to the second project. Both kits include extra at-home experiments for extra "making" fun.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:ribbon+controller LED flasher throwie transistor kit electronic
FENPRO Percussion Pieces
James T. Fenner, Jr.
Status: Accepted
Recycle, reuse, rethump. These percussive instruments take bottle caps, jar lids, spoons, speaker baskets, and more, and turn them into music!
Type: Topic: Crafts
Tags:musical+instruments
Fire Show
adelyn botto
,
David Umlas
,
Edwin Wise
,
Jason Mika
Status: Accepted
A variety of fire-art performances by Jason Mika, David Umlas, Edwin Wise and Adelyn Botto.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:fire
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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 | Science
Tags:open+hardware, laptop, desktop, hardware, open source, Linux
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
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
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
Tags:crochet crocheted crocheting plastic+bags koozie koosie koozies koosies recycle recycling recycled
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
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
Tags:knitting drumming corey fogel
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"
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
Raygun Robyn
Robyn Anderson
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
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
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
Tags:paper recycled cards letters
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
Tags:reprap, rapid+protoyper, 3D+printer, fabricator, fabber
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
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
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
Tags:sensors programming crafts interactive scratch
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
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
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
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:
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
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
Swap-O-Rama-Rama
Angela Coneflower
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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
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
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 Caveman Collective
Garreth Wilcock
Bob Smoot
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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
Tags:electric+vehicle trikes first+night caveman
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 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 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
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
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
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 | Science
Tags:video
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
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
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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