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Engineering
1 to 153 of 15321st Century Woodworking Tools
Ted Hall
Status: Accepted
The founder of ShopBot tells how his company was an outgrowth of his passion for building wooden boats and how that led him to create an affordable, capable CNC machine for the rest of us.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:shopbot tools
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
Air Fair
Austin Children's Museum and American Society of Civil Engineers
Status: Accepted
You can't always see it, but it's at work all around us - it's AIR. Four hands-on exhibits from Austin Children's Museum make the science of air touchable and allow fairegoers to playfully discover the powers and properties of air. Make and take activities include Penny Parachutes & Paper Flying Objects. Use the properties of air to take flight. Join professional engineers from the Austin area to build, design, test and modify your flying objects!
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:air play
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
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
Art of the Catapult
Bill Gurstelle
Status: Accepted
Author of "Backyard Ballistics" and "Art of the Catapult", Bill Gurstelle offers a historical and technological review of the catapult as well as a preview of the day's King of Fling contest.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:ballistics catapult king+of+fling fling
ArtGolf
Philo Northrup
Status: Accepted
A miniature golf course designed and built by artists that offers a decidedly esoteric, Rube Goldberg experience, ArtGolf® was originally created in 1987 by Philo Northrup.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:artgolf golf art miniature+golf mad+scientist logic+gate
Austin Modders
Austin Modders
Status: Accepted
This group of innovators in their area of the PC universe shares unusual and clever ways to modify computers and other electronics mods. They build custom tools to do their mods and use different materials and electronic techniques not found in your normal PC.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:computers electronics modding
AustinEV Electric Vehicles and PHEV Build with CalCars
AustinEV
Status: Accepted
Take a peek at electric cars and discuss innovative vehicles and electric conversions with the local experts.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:EV PHEV electric+vehicle Prius plug-in hybrid conversion electric cars
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
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
Bike with Mods
Carl Bajandas
Status: Accepted
This bicycle has both sculptural and electronic modifications.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:bike bycicle generator wings LED
Biking Wind Deflector
Amanda May
Status: Accepted
Put these around your ears while you are biking to get rid of the air howling in your ears and allow you to hear more important sounds, like cars in your blind spot.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:biking, safety, wind
BioSquat
Bio-Squat
Status: Accepted
These homemade DIY projects, borne of the nomadic homesteading culture, include one combining solar electronics with four-season outdoor living -- capable of bicycle transportation and floating on water.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:homesteading mutant+electronics bicycle+techne
Bleep Labs Thingamagoop
Will Guy and John-Michael Reed
Status: Accepted
In response to the world's ever increasing appetite for bleeps and bloops, and after many months of feverish prototyping and testing, Bleep Labs created a device featuring portability, unusual sounds, and the appearance of a small robot. It's also cuddly, in a robot kind of way. Now the world has a new friend to guide them through the sonic landscape of the 21st century.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:Synthesizer toy electronic
Botanicalls
Kate Hartman, Kati London, Rebecca Bray, and Rob Faludi
Status: Accepted
Thirsty plants on the Botanicalls network place phone calls for human help whenever they need water, opening new channels of communication and promoting inter-species cohabitation.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:wireless+sensor telephony asterisk zigbee sustainability networking DIY plants
Brain Machine
Mitch Altman
Status: Accepted
Put on these glasses to synchronize your brainwaves with a pre-programmed sequence, from wakefulness into deep meditation and back out into fabulousness, all along hallucinating wild patterns.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:brainwave microcontroller MiniPOV Brain+Machine SLM "TV-B-Gone" Trippy+RGB+Light Bugbot "EL-Wire
Bubo the Copper Owl
Carl Bajandas
Status: Accepted
This large copper owl sits on a branch. But this wise bird didn't come from a nest, but rather from an electrolytic machining process gleaned from Steampunk Workshop's website.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:mechanical owl copper
Build Your Own CNC Machine
Patrick Hood-Daniel
Status: Accepted
This CNC machine is a product of much research and then efficient re-design. Motivated by a desire to expose designers to fabrication, this CNC build can also be seen on the web.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:cnc machine, router, linear slide bearings, driver, stepper motors
Calcars
Calcars
Status: Accepted
Over the two days of the Faire, a Prius Hybrid will be converted into a plug-in vehicle that gets 100+miles per gallon which can be powered with whatever form of electricity you have on the other side of your outlet—whether solar, wind, or others.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Plug-in PHEV Calcars Hybrid Environment 100mpg Prius demonstration
CamBam
Andy Payne
Status: Accepted
Combining CAD and intuitive CAM capabilities to generate machining instructions (gcode) to drive a variety of CNC machinery, CamBam has many users worldwide, from CNC hobbyists to professional machinists and engineers. It is completely free and fully functional and backed by an enthusiastic online community of users and developers.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:CNC CAD CAM
Capitol BEST Robotics
Capitol BEST Robotics
Status: Accepted
Get a taste of this annual engineering contest designed to inspire students towards further studies in the fields of science and engineering. Starting from a box of raw materials, teams of high school students are given six weeks to design, build, and then demonstrate a remote-controlled machine that will perform a given task. SATURDAY ONLY.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robots robotics
Central Texas 4-H Robotics
Matthew Evans
Status: Accepted
A demonstration of 4H club Lego Robotics and Alternative Energy Sources
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robotics, Lego NXT, youth organization
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
Combat Robotic Presentation
Logan Davis
Status: Accepted
See the SHW BattleBot "Steel Reign", the LW Combat Robot "Spinner Bait Jr.", and the UK-Ant Combat Robot "Robotussin", and get a chance to witness combat robots in action!
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:BattleBots, Combat Robotics, Robotics, Remote, Operated, Safety, Fabrication, Milling, CnC, Autocad,
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
CoolAzz Chiller
Victor Eller
Status: Accepted
Small DC and hand pumps circulate chilled liquid through copper tubing to cool the body by direct contact, designed by a USPS employee who delivers mail in the extreme heat.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:chiller windshield+washer+pump
Cycle Circus Austin
Cycle Circus Austin
Status: Accepted
Bicycle billboard, cargo bicycles, and super-size bicycle taxis carry passengers to destinations at the Faire and beyond! Puppetry, parade floats, music and other theatrics bring to life
giant bicycles, trailers, tricycles and other human-powered creations!
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:human power, bicycles, cycle circus, puppetry, theatrics
Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo
Cyclecide
Status: Accepted
Monster bikes, music and comedy sketches lassoed into a clown rodeo which includes: The Pedal-Powered and Kiddie-Powered Carousels and Ferris Wheel; The Dizzy Toy; The Cyclo-fuge; The Whirl & Hurl; The Melody Maker; The Flight of the Bumble Bee; and Alter-bikes
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:transportation bikes engineering "man-powered" circus carnival attraction
Daisy and Friends
Raphael Abrams
Status: Accepted
Come by to get your hands on the Make Daisy mp3 with its gang of fun peripheral projects. Be among the first to see a brand new kit for making your own twitchy artbots.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:mp3 art craft fun fur robot twitch kit
Deep Sea Suburbs: Backyard Anthropology
Mister Jalopy
Status: Accepted
Born out of the need to repair garage sale purchases, Mister Jalopy embarked on the quest to be handy about 10 years ago. This talk traces his inspiring path of discovery as he built skills and became a Make contributing editor.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:mister jalopy makers skills workshop
Design Squad
Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Unleash your ingenuity and challenge yourself to think like an engineer with this area inspired by the popular PBS show--at the Faire through its friends at Austin Children's Museum. Don't miss special guest appearances by Design Squad host Nate Ball and second season cast member Deysi.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:"cast" design+squad connective+sculpture
Designing Automata with CMT
Sarah Alexander
Status: Accepted
Build fun mechanical toys with Cabaret Mechanical Theatre's Designing Automata Kit. Get to grips with cams and cranks without getting cranky - no tools, no glue required. We aim to inspire the aspiring tinkerer and enchant the uninitiated to the world of automata.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:automata mechanical toy kit 'build your own'
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
DIY Synergistic Security
Thomas Croswell
Status: Accepted
See a number of demos of physical security and surveillance systems.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:DIY Security Home Store Business
Drop Drop
Byeong Sam Jeon
Status: Accepted
Don't drink, but do draw and drive. Create an abstract expressionist painting while remotely controlling a miniature car. Park and pick up your beautiful print.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:Interactive+Electronic+Arts Virtual+Painting Art+and+Technology Motion+Tracking+System "New
Enactable
Peter Wang, David Kammeyer and Robert Kern
Status: Accepted
A computer touchscreen and an infrared camera detects and tracks multiple simultaneous finger touches, and infrared light illuminates the back of the surface.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:multitouch touchscreen interface
Engineering Activities for Kids
American Society of Civil Engineers
Status: Accepted
Build bridges and towers. Create flying hoop gliders, paper helicopters, balloon cars and delta-wing flyers. Take home how-to sheets. Get a taste of Engineer's Day, held annually at the the Austin Children’s Museum and sponsored by the local branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering
Tags:ENGINEERING+ACTIVITIES
EyeBot Robot Group
Sonia Santana
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Tom Davidson
Status: Accepted
This mobile platform telepresence robot is controlled by a very basic remote-control and uses two microcameras: an infrared monochrome one and a high-resolution color one.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robotics, mobile, telepresence, remote+controlled, R/C, The+Robot+Group
Fab Lab
Ed Baafi
Status: Accepted
Get a glimpse of the Fab Lab featured in the very first volume of Make in this working, temporary recreation.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:fablab, fabrication, make, microcontrollers, avr, epilog+laser, shopbot, roland+modela
Fab@Home/Koba Industries
Koba Industries
Status: Accepted
Inspired by the open source, rapid prototyping system designed by Evan Malone and Hod Lipson of Cornell University, this company uses CNC-based machinery, such as lasercutters, rapid prototypers, and milling centers, to develop new products. They are involved in the Fab@Home project as fabricators and as the retail point for full kits.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:rapid+prototyper
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
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David Umlas
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Edwin Wise
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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
Flying Car
Vernon Porter
Status: Accepted
Using a Mazda RX engine and regular gas, this car flies at 150 mph cruise speed, fits two people, and fits in an ordinary garage.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:aircraft automobile flying car dual+use
Flying Cars
Vernon Porter
Status: Accepted
Vernon believes that the future of the flying car is now. He is building a prototype flying car that uses a Mazda RX-engine and runs on regular gas. Designed to fly two people at 150 mph cruise speed, it fits in an ordinary garage.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:aircraft automobile flying car dual+use
Four-Player Tabletop MAME Cabinet
Robert Eckstein
Status: Accepted
Play your favorite retro videogames on this flat, four-player, tabletop arcade cabinet that can be used by children and adults alike. It uses the emulation software MAME.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:tabletop MAME arcade cabinet flat flattop
Free Software Demonstration
Joe Barr
Status: Accepted
Get to know free software projects such as Linux and others through demonstrations and take-home CDs.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:Free software, open source, Linux
Fun-Noodling
Cerrise Weiblen
Status: Accepted
Say hello to a puppet made from a single fun-noodle. Learn to build a folding computer desk. Play a modified Simon electronic game or a light-triggered musical instrument. Beware of the Halloween mask with lighted eyes!
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering
Tags:puppet kids fun make foam desk woodworking craft simon game mask halloween light sound
Gigapan
Rich LeGrand
Status: Accepted
Gigapan is a robotic device to take gigapixel panoramic images with a standard digital camera.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:panorama photography google+earth
Gigapan
Rich LeGrand
Status: Accepted
The next generation of panaromic imaging is here and in gigapixels. Rich LeGrand of Austin-based Charmed Labs has been working with Google, NASA and Carnegie-Mellon University to create a robotic unit for taking gigapixel pictures with ordinary digital cameras. The images can be viewed in Google Earth or online at gigapan.org.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:panorama photography google+earth
Girlstart
Girlstart
Status: Accepted
See the projects, experiments, and activities that have allowed Girlstart to make dramatic breakthroughs in math, science, technology and engineering education for girls since its founding ten years ago.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:girls math+education science+education "technology" gender+equity
Hacking the iPhone
George Hotz
Status: Accepted
Rochester Institute of Technology student and chronic hardware hacker, George Hotz recently unlocked the iPhone.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:iphone unlock
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
Inclement Viewer
Michael Johnson
Status: Accepted
This device enables the driver of a vehicle to see past visual impairments, such as rain, fog, blowing snow, and sandstorms. It allows the area before the vehicle to be visible as if no conflicts exist.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:visual+penetration
Inflatable Speakers
Marc Greenberg
Status: Accepted
With some mylar balloons, off-the-shelf parts, and an hour of your time, you can make a your own set of inflatable speakers. Come see the world's first inflatable flying amplified MP3 player!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | 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
Internet Station / Gaming Pod
Chase Hammock
Status: Accepted
This computer usage chair revolutionizes the way that you enjoy your computer by relieving you of the conventional desk and chair interface model. It houses everything you need to use a computer and is an all-in-one solution for a single computer user.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:internet station, gaming pod, gaming station, gamer chair, computer chair, ergonomic
Invention Adventure with Perry Kaye
Perry Kaye
Status: Accepted
How do ideas become products? What does it take to be a Real Inventor? Find out by building a cool product yourself! Meet award-winning designer and inventor Perry Kaye. No experience necessary. Kids of all ages welcome (with parental supervision.)
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:inventions, building, kids, fun, create, make, prototypes
Jack Sparx Electrical Toys
John Dyer
Status: Accepted
This playground of high-voltage toys includes a Tesla Coil that plays music, a shockingly large Van de Graaff generator, Jacob's Ladder, and more.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Tesla+coils Van+de+Graaff+generator "Jacob's Ladder"
Jacob's Ladder / Climbing Arc Device
Ethan Reesor
Status: Accepted
This device generates an electrical arc that then "climbs" a set of electrodes.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:
Joule Thief / Throwie
Mike Scioli
Status: Accepted
Joule thief is a boost circuit to suck the last juice out of a battery. It is made entirely (in most cases) of recycled components. Throwie is LED-lighting/flashing circuit coupled with a magnet to temporarily attach it to most steel surfaces.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:robotics science electronic+art the+robot+group recycled+electronics The+Robot+Group
Kinetic Sculptures
Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Make a piece of art that moves in the wind!
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:kinetic+sculpture
King of Fling Catapult Contest
William Gurstelle
Status: Accepted
See who becomes the Count of Catapults, the Earl of Hurl, the Baroness of Ballistas. Join us by building a real, working catapult and enter it our competition. Catapult building is fun, exciting, and as easy (or as intricate) as you want to make it. In a nutshell, you'll be competing against and cooperating with other Makers to produce a hurling machine. Your goal is to be the Maker who can build the most accurate catapult. Get your guidelines for participation at the link below!
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:king+of+fling fling ballistics potato+cannon cannons catapults trebuchets
Kite-Making and Kite Demonstrations
Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Join Exchange Club of Austin in a kite making and flying adventure. The Club is getting ready to present the 80th annual Zilker Kite Festival next spring - come practice by making a "Mr. Happy Kite" that really flies! After constructing your kite take it outside to the kite flying area and join kite demonstrations by kite enthusiasts.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:kites
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
L2C
Michael Snyder
Status: Accepted
This 120-foot diameter, completely hand-built ring of lenses, LEDs, and boards makes for a mesmerizing display. L2C now has nearly a half mile of wiring, and over 2600 ultrabright LEDs in it.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:LED LIGHTS
Lighting with LEDs and More
MonkeyLectric and Synoptic Labs
Status: Accepted
A dozen popular Instructables DIY projects for show-n-tell-n-try including: any-color lighting, wobbly bike, ultimate LED headlamp, clear plastic art bike with led's, the rotoplasmic LED bike wheel, polyhedron lampshade building kit, 5-cent wedding ring, giant steel skeleton hand, secret image shadow sculpture and more. Q&A with Instructables co-founder & Maker Dan Goldwater.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:led instructables
Lithium-Powered Scooter
Lorin Thwaits
Status: Accepted
This stock Razor scooter has been upgraded to use lithium batteries instead of lead acid. It now goes seven miles instead of just four with noticably zippier performance and charging time of just one hour instead of five. Four miles cost just one cent in electricity! It weighs 11 pounds less than the original--light enough that it can even be checked in as airline baggage when traveling! It can carry a driver and a 50-pound suitcase on an effortless ride.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:lithium scooter efficient transportation
Livid: Experimental Video Controlling Instruments
Livid Instruments
Status: Accepted
Use the Viditar, or trigger video while playing the either the bass or guitar models, or manipulate video effects with motion detecting interactive projection system.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:video+instruments midi+controllers video+performance
Lopez the Robot
Dale Gibson
Status: Accepted
As for the robot, he is a bit over 120 lbs, six-wheeled WiFi controlled
robot by the name of Lopez(the tele-presence menace). We send commands
via TCP/IP protocol. I programmed all the software and built the motor controller,
and guys from Oklahoma are currently redesigning the drive train because it
was too slow.
He is controlled with dual joysticks and sends video back with a high power RF.
transmitter.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Wifi robot 'musical tesla coils'
LPFM Austin
Austin Pirate Radio League
Status: Accepted
Tune in to find out what components and setup you need to operate your own home-built low power FM radio station.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:radio FM pll lpfm free low power frb
Luminous
Kyveli Vezani and Evrim Sahin
Status: Accepted
This luminescent dress with fiber optics and tri-color LEDs changes color in response to ambient temperature, a warm breath, or a cool breeze, allowing for interesting interactions between the wearer and other people.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:wearable+computing, physical+computing, fiber+optics
Lunar Laser Ranging at McDonald Observatory
Washtub Jerry
Status: Accepted
Learn about the first 37 years of lunar laser ranging at McDonald Observatory in west Texas. Lunar data is used to study many aspects of the earth and much more.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:talk "with Q & A"
Magnetic Mini-Submersible
Juan Carlos Orozco
Status: Accepted
This magnetic mini-submersible can be moved around inside a small container using externally generated magnetic fields. The mini-submersible can commanded to move in any direction in three dimensions using push-buttons. It can also be controlled with computer software.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:electromagnetic submersible magnetic+field miniature+submersible
Make Music
Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Build your very own instrument from recycled materials and make music of your very own. Then join us for a hand made instrument concert!
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:kites
Make Your Own Light-Up Purse
Alison Lewis
Status: Accepted
Shine on, fashionistas! Fumble for keys in the dark no more. Assemble easy-to-buy parts into a functional, fashionable light-up purse panel that also displays a message.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering
Tags:light fashion craft purse LED
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
Model Rocketry
John Boren, Estes-Cox
Status: Accepted
A product designer at Estes, John will begin with a brief history of Estes and why it came to be. He will discuss the different types of model rockets and in particular the different methods of recovery devices. He will look at how advancements in technology have allowed the modeler to use model rockets for more then just shooting them off for enjoyment.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:model rockets rocketry
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
Personal Fabrication
Tom Owad
Status: Accepted
See some of the projects covered in an upcoming O'Reilly book on personal fabrication, including a 3D scanner and a working prototype of a 3D printer.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:personal+fabrication reprap 3d+scanner cnc
Ping Pong Pop Fly
Austin Children's Museum
Status: Accepted
Ready, set, launch! Invent a way to send a ping pong ball flying.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:ping+pong+balls
Pipe Dream
Craig Newswanger
Status: Accepted
Resonance Labs presents a windless pipe organ based on controlled feedback. Its 16 tuned, MIDI-controlled PVC pipes provide a rafter rattling bass line for an orchestra composed of Tesla coils by the Geek Group. Each pipe has a speaker and microphone pickup with a control circuit that feeds the microphone signal to a 30-watt amplifier and a speaker for each pipe.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Resonance tesla+coil music electronic pipe+organ
Pleo and Its Maker, Caleb Chung
Caleb Chung
Status: Accepted
Caleb co-invented the 1998 hot toy of the year, Furby, which sold over 40 million units worldwide, generating over $1 billion in sales. Caleb is inventor and co-founder of UGOBE Life Forms, which will be coming out soon with Pleo, a robotic dinosaur.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:pleo dinosaur artificial life
Poor Man's Bagpipe
Bob Pennington
Status: Accepted
Say you join an Irish band, and the need arises for a bagpipe player. But bagpipes are very expensive and they take years to master, and players are hard to come by. No problem! Combine some odd parts, a bunch of ingenuity and a bit of leprechaun luck, and the pipes they will be a-blowin'.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:An affordable , easy to master Bagpipe "Non-Traditional " materials used Can be learned to
Precision Thickness Sander: The Luthier's Friend
Ken Picou
Status: Accepted
Instrument makers, model fabricators, and woodworkers, take note! This precision thickness and pattern sander attaches to a standard drill press so you can sand materials very accurately and with nearly perfect dust collection.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:Sander sanding " thickness sanding" model+making instrument+making
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
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
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
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
RetroGame
Eric Rothfus
Status: Accepted
Using old-fashioned parts and an open-faced design, kids can assemble the RetroGame and play "Retris" or "RetroRover".
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:retro video+game
Revealing the Gizmo Within
Mike Weiblen
Status: Accepted
Many inexpensive items can be harvested for their parts, rather than their intended purposes. Learn how cheap components from bargain outlets can be used to make cool gadgets, thus revealing the gizmos within.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:electronics gizmos hacking
Robo Thespian
Will Jackson
Status: Accepted
Broadway, beware? This life-sized humanoid robot can act.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:robot+actor humanoid+robot robothespian
Robo Thespian
Will Jackson
Status: Accepted
Meet a robot who was made for the stage. Will explains how RoboThespian works and describe the surprising reactions people have to his robot.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:robot+actor humanoid+robot robothespian
RoboSpinArt
The Robot Group
Status: Accepted
The venerable spin art machines of the 1960s and 70s created funky, psychedelic artwork by dropping paint onto rotating paper, so that centrifugal force would make bright streaks of color. With this machine you can create spin art using a joystick to position a “paint gantry” above a rotating piece of paper, and then press a series of buttons to dispense paint in measured amounts. Plus, it's accompanied by an exciting light show, a rocking soundtrack, and a countdown timer that creates a sense of urgency.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:robo spin art robospinart painting kids The+Robot+Group
Robot Building Made Simple
Bob Comer
,
David Comer
Status: Accepted
Designing and building a medium-sized robotic platform can be very complex. Using PVC pipe and parts from electric, ride-on childrens' toys greatly simplifies the process. See how to build platforms with two-wheel and four-wheel drive.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robot robotics telepresence surveillance The+Robot+Group
Robot Glove, Babbling Head, Froggo, and Seeker Robot
Eric Lundquist
Status: Accepted
See a rich collection of diverse robotics projects, including a virtual reality glove which controls a robot arm in five axes, an animatronic art head that sings sea shanties (Robot Group classic!), an animatronic low-budget creature-feature prop, and a GPS-autonomous RoboMagellan contestant.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Robotics special+effects The+Robot+Group
Robot with Paintbrushes Meets Girl with Scissors
Kris and Carly DeGraeve
Status: Accepted
This iRobot has been programmed and modified to apply acrylic paint on fabric, which is then cut up and sewn into small wearable items (such as cuff bracelets) and given away.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:robots paint art sewing jewelry fabrics
Robotic Boat for Benthic Mapping
Jim Patek
Status: Accepted
This mostly autonomous boat maps depths in shallow areas. It has two pontoons, tractor steering, central GPS control, compass, IMU, sonar, and spread spectrum radio for serial communications.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:robotics navigation oceanography
Robotics and Automation Society at UT Austin
Austin Robotics and Automation Society
Status: Accepted
Ranging from tabletop robots to autonomous ground vehicles to a balancing robotic platform, these robots do it all.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robots robotics autonomous
Robotics at Austin Community College
Austin Community College
Status: Accepted
The Chess Board Manipulator's robotic arm moves chess pieces. The mobile Surveillance Robot broadcasts video over a local area network.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Austin+Community+College ACC robot robotic chess arm manipulator surveillance
Robotics Studio Hacks
William Mar
Status: Accepted
Discover the hacks behind converting a Tyco Batmobile (from a previous Maker Faire) into a swarm of autonomous robots wirelessly controlled by a Windows Mobile phone.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:robotics studio wireless simulation
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
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
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
Screamin' Babyhead Band
Marvin Niebuhr aka Professor Conrad
Status: Accepted
This visual and audio extravaganza features Rogue Bio-mechanicals.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:circuit bending,bizarre mechanicals, salvaged toy parts, musical distortion, The+Robot+Group
Secret Tree
Aichen Lin and Ji Sun Lee
Status: Accepted
Confess a secret, and its flowers bloom, and its fruits ripen. The tree interprets and stores secrets in a uniquely altered format to be enjoyed later. It is inspired by and transcends the special trees in Shel Silverstein's book The Giving Tree and Wong Kar Wai's movie In the Mood for Love.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
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
Soft Engineering
Gretchen Eisner
Status: Accepted
Design a garment from unusual materials, such as burlap, bubble wrap, tyvek, plastic, and latex. Add soft electronic circuitry. Engineer a pop-up book. Find these projects among many other inspiring textile projects in the Swap-o-Rama-Rama area.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:
Solar-Powered Geodesic Living Room
Bob and Monica Smoot
Status: Accepted
Chill out or dry off in a 23-foot diameter portable living room constructed of PVC pipe, tarp and a few nuts and bolts. A small solar array and deep-cycle battery provide power for LED lights, a sound system and laptop-driven widescreen LCD panel.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:solar geodesic dome camping
Spinner Bikes
Randy Lisbona
Status: Accepted
Imagine a homemade Big Wheel where the rear wheels spin out when you turn. It's perfect for doing lazy donuts in your driveway.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:Bikes
Star Wheel
Paul Cesewski
Status: Accepted
Star Wheel is a 22-foot-diameter rolling, participant-powered ferris wheel. The inner wheel is a bicycle ferris wheel powered by three riders, within a larger wheel, which looks like two giant bicycle wheels side by side with the rims connected by stancheons.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:cyclecide carnival ferris wheel "man-powered" DIY
Stirling Engines
Rick Abbott
Status: Accepted
The Stirling engine was invented in the 18th century as an alternative to the steam engine. These model Stirling engines include three powered by alcohol lamps and two powered by hot water in a coffee cup. They are unusual and fun to watch.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:model+engines The+Robot+Group
Student Parallel Computing Projects: Lots of Clusters
Walton Yantis
Status: Accepted
One 10-node and four 5-node diskless clusters constructed by TSTC Computer Networking students will be used in TSTC labs to teach students the principles of parallel computing. Just pop in a live cluster distro disc (there will be several to choose from) and hack away!
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:cluster parallel+computing node diskless computer
Stumper
Brian "ViSKER" Mahanay
Status: Accepted
Half monster truck and half charismatic monster, this street-legal, electroluminescent vehicle with eyes on stalks and pointy teeth is the alter-ego of a 1984 Dodge pickup.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Artcar Art Car Mobile Sculpture Dodge Badass Monster Stalk Eyes
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"
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
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 999 Eyes Authentic Freakshow
999 Eyes
Status: Accepted
America's last genuine traveling freakshow featuring living oddities such as the human tripod, the dancing dwarf, lobster girl, the Black Scorpion lobster boy, and more.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:freaks, freakshow, living+human+oddities, clown+inventor, clown, human+tripod, lobster+girl,
The Art of Living Dangerously
Bill Gurstelle
Status: Accepted
There are people who take extraordinary risks to achieve their goals. What can we learn from them? What keeps us from living dangerously and participating in events like Punkin Chunkin, Burning Man, and High Desert Rocket Launches.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:danger makers risk
The Caveman Collective
Garreth Wilcock
Bob Smoot
,
Denshi
,
Doryan Rice
,
Eric Meyer
,
Garreth Wilcock
Status: Accepted
See how to build your own small electric trikes out of inexpensive parts and a wooden frame.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering
Tags:electric+vehicle trikes first+night caveman
The ChakraTron
Scott Gasparian
Status: Accepted
An interactive illuminated kinetic sculpture made from microcontrollers, LEDs, and recycled materials accompanied by demos of programming microcontrollers, shaping plastics, and repurposing sewing machine parts -- all with a live webcam "karma relay" link too.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:recycled, microcontroller, sewing machine, led, touch sensor, plastic forming, plastic casting
The Geek Group
Geek Group
Status: Accepted
Five musical Tesla coils harmonically accompany a selection of high voltage/physics experiments, including liquid speakers, a 10-foot-tall Jacob's Ladder, ring launchers, fusers, and quarter-shrinkers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:musical music tesla coil high voltage geek group
The Gemini Pan
Megan O'Connor
Status: Accepted
This unique frying pan allows multitaskers to quickly cook for picky eaters, or those with many nutritional needs, or for a bunch of people at once.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Engineering
Tags:The Gemini Pan
The Luna Project
Christopher Carson
Status: Accepted
This open-source space program works to send humans to the Moon again by the year 2012, in order to have these lunar visitors stay for good.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:space moon colony future rocket manufacturing life+support environment habitat
The 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 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 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
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
Three-Wheel Electric Vehicle
Gary Krysztopik
Status: Accepted
Find out how to design a three-wheel, battery-electric vehicle from the ground up. Currently a rolling chassis with steering, suspension, and the motor and electronics in place, it will soon be in a state of "just add batteries" for testing.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:electric+car
Toolmonger
Chuck Cage
Status: Accepted
Maker Faire is the kickoff to "Break Stuff Week," when Toolmonger will be featuring a week's worth of demolition tools and projects. Come see a small competition in which two teams will demolish their way through a series of walls with various tools. You can grab some tools to help them test.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:Tools, Toolmonger
Trail Camera Controller Board
Bill Green
,
Donald Kirk
Status: Accepted
This controller board (built around a Microchip 16F690 microcontroller) detects physical motion using a PIR (Pyroelectric Infrared) sensor, and when motion is detected the controller board turns on a camera, signals the camera to take a picture, and also triggers a slave flash if it's nighttime. A complete homemade trail camera unit run by the controller board will be on display. Winner of the IEEE Spectrum Competition.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:trail camera control
Trampoline Sensor MK II
James Delaney
Status: Accepted
Control games and music by demo games by jumping or running on this mini-trampoline with two position sensors.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:trampoline joystick jump run sensor music midi The+Robot+Group
Tranquilounger
Kai Mantsch
Status: Accepted
This odd-looking, yet very inviting, seating device lures humans to sit, where they become so comfortable and tranquil it becomes nearly impossible to escape, thereby trapping them for study. It features contoured back and bass-driven musical vibrations that shake the entire device.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:tranquilounger couch seat bass shaker
Trio 1
Jeremy Boyle
Status: Accepted
A trio of self-playing MIDI-controlled pneumatic instruments--guitar, bass and drums--performs original compositions.
Type: Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:midi-controlled pneumatic instruments
TSTC Photonics
Texas State Technical College
Status: Accepted
Top students from TSTC's photonics club demo their more interesting lasers. Come by to enjoy hands-on projects, such as how to align a laser, the singing laser demo, and more.
Type: Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:laser fiber+optic delivery
U-Dome
World Shelters
Status: Accepted
This low-cost, lightweight, flame-retardant, hard-shell structure prototype may supplement the large soft-sided shelters World Shelters provides to meet the humanitarian needs of natural disaster survivors.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:shelter temporary+shelter transitional+shelter dome domes disaster+relief humanitarian
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
VMV Cars
Chris Hightower
Status: Accepted
Inspired by Make’s "Mod Your Rod", this open-source car can be easily, safely, and quickly made, modified, or customized. Start with a known vehicle donor platform, or from the ground up with an electric motor, diesel, etc.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:kit+car electric+car biodiesel
Wonderful Little Things
Mark Frauenfelder
Status: Accepted
Editor-in-Chief of MAKE and founder of Boing-Boing,net, Mark Frauenfelder will give a little talk about the funny little things you find in the back of old magazines, and what you can find there today.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:magazines
World's Fastest Barstool
Bill Jenkins
Status: Accepted
This motorized barstool runs at over 100 when its supercharged engine gets all the gasoline and carbon dioxide it needs. It also sports flame and smoke systems, a full electrical system with AM/FM/CB/stereo, and bells, whistles, etc.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:barstool, "world's fastest", alternative+energy
World's Largest Solderless Clock
Karl Papadantonakis
Status: Accepted
The electronics in this 4-foot wide clock cost less than the lumber! Based on a popular kit, it has 192 LEDs, all powered by a single driver. Not one single LED or wire requires soldering; everything can be twisted with a pair of pliers.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:kits LED+clock electronics solderless solder+free
XD Five-Minute Design Challenge: Adobe®XD
The Adobe XD Team
Status: Accepted
Everybody works better under a deadline. Especially designers. Jam with the Adobe XD team. You'll get the tools, the materials, and five whole minutes to create a design, cut a stencil using a laser, and five more minutes to spray-paint it onto a t-shirt. It’s urban guerilla meets Buck Rogers, a culture-mash of street-punk and precision print-making techniques. Keep your stencil, keep the t-shirt, and the two best designs each day (as judged by our resident designers) get copies of Adobe Creative Suite® 3.
Type: Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering
Tags:t shirt stencil laser cutter spray paint
Zomadic Zomicile
Rob Bell
Status: Accepted
This green building system for creating temporary, semi-permanent or permanent shelter solutions uses a rigid tension framework.
Type: Topic: Engineering
Tags:zome dome foam tension structure
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