Maker Faire Austin 2008
How-to Activities
Here's a few of the things you can learn at the Maker Faire!
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How to carve a peanut
at Art In A Nutshell - »
How to make art that you give away
at Art Unto Others - »
How to do felting, stamping, stenciling, beading and silk screening
at Austin Fiber Artists - »
How to make an indie film on a budget
at Austin Underground Film Booth - »
How to make a marshmallow shooter, vacuum former, LED business card, and keyboard wallet
at Best of Instructables - »
How to make cool blinking insects with LEDs, and how to use LEDs in art projects
at Blinkybugs and LED Art - »
How to forge copper or silver and make jewelry from local seeds
at Copper Strike and Natural Seed Jewelry - »
How-to blow glass
at Dragonfire Glass Blower - »
How to free form cast with melted silver
at Free Form Casting - »
How to make glass and recycled paper beads
at Glass and Recycled Paper Bead Making - »
How to make a hula hoop
at HoopCircle - »
How to find fun projects that kids can do themselves
at Howtoons - »
How to make an art car
at Karmageddon: An Art Car & Other Groovy Things - »
How metal can be brazed and welded
at Metal Brazing and Welding - »
How to do linocutting and silkscreening
at Metamorphosis Design Studio - »
How to crochet and create simple fiber projects
at Modern Crochet and Yarn Works - »
How to do your own printmaking
at the amazing hancock brothers - »
How to use X-Bee radios with an Arduino microcontroller to remote-control anything
at X-Bee and Arduino
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How to make a marshmallow shooter, vacuum former, LED business card, and keyboard wallet
at Best of Instructables - »
How to make clocks and lamps from bicycle parts
at Bicycle Graveyard - »
How to make pot holders using cotton thread and a crochet hook
at Crocheting Useful Items - »
How to make ear plugs
at Custom Fitted Ear Buds and Ear Plugs - »
How to make shrinky dinks
at D.I.Y. Shrinky Dinks - »
How to make your own board games
at DIY Board Games - »
How to make things you can juggle
at DIY Juggling Props - »
How to transform your old clothes into something you treasure
at First Samples Sewing and Design - »
How to make a necklace
at Garden of Flowers - »
How to create a "Peep": a 3" tall alter ego
at Getting Medieval - »
How to knit or crochet handbags from plarn
at Grocery Bag Handbags - »
How to make jewelry from electronic components
at Jewelry for Geeks - »
How to crochet jewelry
at Knitted Guitars and Crochet Jewelry - »
How to use a knitted-sock machine
at Knitted socks in two hours! - »
How to make handmade lace
at Lace Making - »
How to make a kite
at Make a Kite - »
How to revitalize home decor
at Pimp Your Rags - »
How to make jewelry from recycled jewelry
at Recycled Jewelry - »
How to make reusable gift bags
at Recycled Reversible Gift Pouches - »
How to spin yarn
at Red Sheep - »
How to thread a serger
at Robot-themed Bags and Serging Demo and Tutorial - »
How to construct a basic marionette
at Save Our Springs Puppet Show and Marionette Workshop - »
How to make sock monkeys or pop art portraits
at Spins & Needles: Mixing Beats + Making Stuff - »
How to turn your old clothes into something new
at Swap-O-Rama-Rama - »
How to make dolls
at The Doll Queen! - »
How to make hats
at Top me off! - »
How to bind small notebooks using vintage paper
at Vintage Paper in Bookbinding - »
How to knit a scarf
at Virgin Knitters - »
How to make perfume
at We Make Scents - »
How to weave, spin, felt and make braids
at Weavers and Spinners Society of Austin
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How to make a compact air instrument. Make music by playing the air!
at Airheads Air Drums - »
How to use your computer and Arduino microcontroller to make things happen in the real world
at Arduino 101 - »
How to make antennas and learn about shortwave radio
at Austin Amateur Radio Club - »
How to convert a gas-powered car to run on electricity
at Austin Area Electric Vehicle Association - »
how to customize a computer case
at Austin Modders - »
How to work with radio technology
at Austin Pirate Radio League - »
How to make a marshmallow shooter, vacuum former, LED business card, and keyboard wallet
at Best of Instructables - »
How to make a CNC fabrication machine
at Build Your CNC - »
How to hand solder surface mount chips
at Cheap and Easy Surface Mount Soldering Demos - »
How to Hack a Wii-mote
at Cool Glow Wii Mote Modification - »
How to make things from bikes
at Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo - »
How to build a house with plywood and CNC machine
at Digitally Fabricated Housing: Build a house with a computer, a ShopBot, and a rubber mallet - »
How to make your own laser cutter
at DIY laser cutter - »
How to make key chains and guitar picks from old records
at Groovy CNC! - »
How to use microcontrollers to hack all kinds of things, from TVs to your own brainwaves
at Hacking Things with Microcontrollers - »
How to make LED hula hoops and LED camera lights
at LED Hoop and LED Camera Light - »
How to make a toy robot from a tiny motor and a mint tin
at Make Your Own Vibrobot - »
How to make your own "OnStar" phone system with a cellphone and microcontroller
at My Daughter’s Wheelchair Safety System - »
How to build functioning WWII-era model warships
at R/C Warship Combat - »
How to Build a Combat Robot
at RoboGames - »
How to create a simple circuit with solar power
at Simple Solar Circuits - »
How to make an Atlatl
at The Atlatl: Release Your Inner Cro-Magnon - »
How to create your own workshop
at The Barrage Garage - »
How to use X-Bee radios with an Arduino microcontroller to remote-control anything
at X-Bee and Arduino
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How to grow your own 3x3 organic vegetable garden
at Dirty Dylan's Organic Greenscapes - »
How to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen
at Hungry Scientist Cryogenic Ice Cream - »
How to paint a pumpkin
at Sustainable Food Center / Austin Farmers' Market
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How to create a cargo bike
at Austin Bike Zoo - »
How to develop green design skills
at Austin Permaculture Guild - »
How to model the flow of water
at Erosion Table - »
How to re-purpose and re-fashion your old clothes
at Greater Austin Garbage Arts: GAGA - »
how to make art from recycled materials
at JOONWALK - »
How Create a Plug-In Hybrid
at Lithium-ion Plug-In Hybrid Conversion - »
How to build a pizza oven
at Sculpt Your Own Earthen Oven - »
How to use the sun to distill water
at Solar Still - »
How to turn your old clothes into something new
at Swap-O-Rama-Rama - »
How to make green cleaning products
at The Down and Dirty of Green Cleaning
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How To Built a Model Rocket
at Austin Area Rocketry Group - »
How to use blacklight in new ways
at Black Light for Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable Identification - »
How to make your own supercomputer
at Cluster Computing - »
How to model the flow of water
at Erosion Table - »
How to use microcontrollers to hack all kinds of things, from TVs to your own brainwaves
at Hacking Things with Microcontrollers - »
How to get started with chemistry experiments
at Having a Ball with Chemistry - »
How metal can be brazed and welded
at Metal Brazing and Welding - »
How various special effects are produced in the movies
at Science in the Movies - »
How to make a windmill
at Windwheel

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