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Appearance(s)
Maker Stage , Saturday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Manda Clair Jost
Bending Circuits, Bikes, and Musical Traditions in India
Benderella, veteran circuit-bender and Maker, reports on discovering circuit-benders, bike modifiers, and electric analog musical instruments on the crowded streets of India. Stop by to see incredible photographs and a stage demonstration of modern trends in the evolution of Indian electronic musical instruments.

Appearance(s)
Maker Stage , Saturday 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

Marianna Urrutia
ChickRocks & BluGrnDesign
ChickRocks and BluGrnDesign are a versatile and creative team designing jewelry, baby clothing and papergoods.

Mark Demers
Ziggy: CM Robotics Team
All external armor and the weapon assembly are built from Military grade Titanium, with the weapon system pushing with a peak thrust of 14,000 lbs! Weapon control is managed by a freescale 9RS08 microprocessor (Implementation by Nuvation), which produces variable thrust capability, depending on user input. In most situations, smaller "jabs" are used for control and conserving stored pressure, but a full powered flip can launch a 340 lb competitor into the arena ceiling!

Mark Frauenfelder
Make Your Own Vibrobot
Meet MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder, who'll show you how to make the toy robot featured on the cover of MAKE Volume 10, from a tiny motor and a mint tin. Quick, easy, and cool for kids!

Appearance(s)
Maker Shed MAKE Demos , Saturday 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM Make a Vibrobot!
Maker Shed MAKE Demos , Sunday 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM Make a Vibrobot!

Mark Perez
Life Size Mousetrap
The unique design of this giant, Rube Goldberg-style contraption was cleverly gleaned from the memories of childhood, twisted out of scale, then sketched beyond life size. It features an enormous construct of crazy stairs, a flame-throwing lamppost, careening bowling balls, and a hand-built, 30-foot-tall crane capable of lifting and dropping 5 tons! The object of this 25 ton vaudevillian encounter is to "accomplish by complex means what seemingly could be done simply!" So our lucky players get to lift a 400-lb cast-iron bathtub 13 feet into the air, crank cranks, load springs and turn impossibly huge gears, all in a supreme effort to crush a trinket of meaning (say, a 1,200 lb pumpkin) under a falling 2-ton bank safe! The Mousetrap is impressive as a static sculpture, but it is the motion, started by a human, that is the heart of its existence.

Mark Schulze
20th Century Technology Museum

Mark Winkler
Mongo
Mongo is a large trebuchet catapult capable of hurling 10-20 lbs. objects up to 300 yards. It operates using a 1600 lb counterweight.

Marla Camp
Edible Austin Food Makers Pavilion
Arguably, there is no DIY project more practical than growing and making your own food. Edible Austin magazine hosts this special showcase of local food makers, artisans and growers. Over 30 food makers and farmers will be on hand with samples, products for sale, and useful advice on how they make their wares. Activities include Sustainable Pumpkin Painting, Talk To A Farmer, and an interactive Day of the Dead food art altar. Our Food demonstration tent will host ongoing demonstrations presented by our Food Makers. Featured project: Interactive Community Garden: Make your own square foot garden in a box -- and watch our Maker Faire community garden grow! Then take your box home to use as a seed starter for your winter garden or create a square foot garden of your own around it. Grow food not turf! Lawns in the United States consume around 270 billion gallons of water per week -- enough to water eighty-one-million acres of organic vegetables all summer long. An average size lawn could be used instead to produce enough food to feed a family of six. Sponsored by The Natural Gardener with support from Green Corn Project, Urban Roots, Austin Permaculture Guild, Sustainable Food Center and Dirty Dylan's Organic Greenscapes. Plus! Strolling musicians and actors will also perform.

Martin O'Byrne
The Defyer: Syberon Robotics Team
Team Syberon has been competing in combot robotics for the last 6 years. Power comes from 2 Mag Motors and the power source is from two 13ah Hawker batteries. The frame is 1-inch steel bolted to an Aluminum base with 1/4 inch HDPE polymer Plastic body plates. The Defyer's pneumatics are powered by high pressure air and can run between 250 psi up to 1000 psi.

Marvin Niebuhr aka Professor Conrad
Organ Pipe Cactus Pipe Organ
The O.P.C.P.O. is actually a cluster of three sewer pipe organs run by three digital rhythm machines and a digital sampler. Also appearing is another pipe organ made with 13 musical toy recorders. These pieces are the latest members of the band called THE SCREAMIN' BABYHEADS WITH THE INSTRUMENTS OF MASS DISTORTION. The Screamers performed at last year's Maker Faire.

Mary McIlravy
Sublime Stitching
embroidery patterns, kits, books, tools

Matthew Rush
The MakeToy Laser Fabrication Center

Matt Maxham
Sewer Snake: Plumb Crazy Team
Matt grew up 4-wheeling, and designed Sewer Snake to be extremely mobile with exterior wheels. The first version was 4-wheel drive and was originally going to have a drum weapon but switched to a wedge on the front. Matt enjoyed ths so much that the wedge evolved into a modular lifting system with red throwing fork. The 4-wheel drive version of Sewer Snake fought in four tournaments with a 10-6 record. The 6-wheel drive version of Sewer Snake debuted in 2004 Nationals and has been in 45 competition matches with only 7 losses in 9 tournaments in the US & UK

Matt Mets
Laser Harp
The laser harp is a 33-note homemade instrument. It uses a simple microcontroller circuit to monitor the signals from ordinary pen lasers and generate MIDI signals.

Matt Norris
Human-Powered Road-Going Viking Boat
This thing is a car without a motor that looks like a boat. It is propelled by means of the occupants' efforts at a rowing machine mechanism. The videos are of a four-person prototype which served as a warm up for the real thing: a 13 person (12 rowers + 1 helmsman) 38-foot-long road-going viking boat. While the large version remains a work in progress, the prototype is fully functional.

Matt Vance
DIY Board Games

Max Elliott
YouthLaunch's Urban Roots Farm Program

Meagan McGovern
McGovern's Organics

Meagan O'Donnell
Green Corn Project
Green Corn Project installs organic vegetable gardens for folks in need in Central Texas, as well as for schools and community centers. We also hold educational workshops throughout the year to teach all Austinites how to grow their own food.

Megan "Molly" Whitten
Swap-O-Rama-Rama

Megan "Molly" Whitten
Greater Austin Garbage Arts: GAGA

Megan Mucci
Harrilu
hand silkscreened apparel and accessories- adults, babies, toddlers & some home decor items-- I print them all myself using water based (solvent free inks) using original artwork/illustration and some vintage pieces. I use sweatshop free and organic tees for my items.

Meghan Krasnoff
Sugar Tooth Bakery

Meg Wilson
Weavers and Spinners Society of Austin
WSSA will, again, provide demonstrations of weaving and spinning, and add felting and braid making to our hands-on offerings. We will display information on the history of weaving and spinning as well as innovations in these fiber arts. We will have hands-on opportunities for kids and grownups!

Melanie Yugo
Spins & Needles: Mixing Beats + Making Stuff
Work on a hip project to take home - pop art portraits or super sock monkeys - while listening to funky beats in sessions that mix art, craft and music.

Meredith Johns
Hawgfly Productions, Inc.

Michael Mauldin
Ice Cube: Team Toad
Ice Cube is the middle child of Team Toad's family of plow-bladed pushers: antweight Ice Chip, lightweight SnowFlake, middleweight Ice Cube, heavyweight FrostBite and superheavy Iceberg. Ice Cube's strategy is simplicity itself: be a linebacker and gain yards on the ground. Push em back. One of the oldest robots still competing, Ice Cube originally sported a spring steel hoop in the back to keep the plow blade firmly on the ground. In 2006 a complete redesign with a lowered center-of-gravity eliminated the hoop, increased traction and allowed Ice Cube to right itself after being inverted.

Michael Nuzzi
LED Hoop and LED Camera Light
The LED Hula Hoop is a fun product used by professional performers, dancers, and anyone interested in having fun making cool streams of color in the dark. They sometimes cost as much as $300, but Michael Nuzzi will show you how to make one yourself for a lot less, using minimal tools. You can even upgrade to a rechargeable version! LED Camera lights are a great DIY project to add much needed illumination to digital video cameras and allows cool experimentation lighting photographs. Michael unveil ProdMod's newest 1W LED version. It's brighter than ever!

Appearance(s)
Maker Shed MAKE Demos , Saturday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM LED Hula Hoop and LED Camera
Product engineer Michael Nuzzi shows you how to make multicolored LED hula hoops that glow from within, and an LED camera light to brighten up video you shoot indoors with your digital camera.
Maker Shed MAKE Demos , Sunday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM LED Hula Hoop and LED Camera
Product engineer Michael Nuzzi shows you how to make multicolored LED hula hoops that glow from within, and an LED camera light to brighten up video you shoot indoors with your digital camera.

Michelle Kee
Lace Making
Austin Lacemaker's Guild makes, studies and collects handmade lace. We include all laces, such as bobbin lace, tatting, crochet lace, knitted lace and needle lace. Needle lace and bobbin lace are two of the oldest known types of handmade laces. Our guild along with many other lace guilds worldwide are trying to keep these dying arts alive.

Michelle Olson
Knotty bags

Michelle Sanders
Attic Journals
Attic Journals are made from hard-bound vintage books, children's books, and cookbooks.

Michelle Vo
Origami Dress

Michiel Rushing
Free Form Casting
I will be melting silver and pouring it into a straw broom. Then for the first time, I will be using the same broomcasting technique but use different media to pour into. Finally, using the pieces I get out of the castings, I will be making jewelry.

Microsoft .Net Micro Framework
Microsoft .Net Micro Framework

Miguel Vasquez
Solar Natural Foods
Solar Natural Foods, based in Austin, Texas, is a food company specializing in the manufacture and marketing of quality, all natrural vegetarian foods: Hummus, Pita Wraps, and Frozen Falafel. We at Solar have been making all natural vegetarian products for over 17 years. Utilizing family recipes, made from scratch, we use only the freshest quality ingredients, with no preservatives.

Mike Litt
Refashioned Fashion Show

Appearance(s)
Maker Stage , Saturday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Come see creations made on site at Swap-O-Rama-Rama and more, modeled for your enjoyment!

Missy Ozuna
The DIY Factory
The DIY Factory is an annual celebration of creativity that brings together a diverse group of cutting edge independent craftsters, artisans, designers, and musicians to showcase their talents to the general public in a market type setting. It gives many people their first opportunity at being a vendors and allows those that are "old hands" at selling their goods a fresh and new type of market to connect to the community. The 2nd annual DIY Factory will showcase 50+ alternative arts and crafts vendors epitomizing the Do-It-Yourself ethic. You won't see your grandma's country crafts, painted bluebonnets or jams and jellies at our fair. You will, however, see unique fashions and accessories, art dolls, handmade house wares, jewelry, found object art, paintings, silk screened tees and totes, knitted goods, and many other one-of-a-kind hand crafted oddities. The fashion show will feature a range of emerging to established local designers from practical to fantastical. Established local musicians from an assortment of genres will provide the musical entertainment, as well. This year we have added a community information area to our set up. There, you will be able obtain information from local organizations that reflect the DIY ethics, promote the arts, fashion and music scene, as well as non-profits. We will even provide materials and direction at a Make-n-Take area for guests of all ages to get their craft on! The first 100 guests will receive a free handmade goody bag stuffed with some great loot from our vendors and sponsors! Food and Drinks will be available. The DIY Factory is a family friendly event. When: Saturday, November 15, 2008 (3pm to 1am) Where: La Plaza del Rey Ballroom 2716 Fredericksburg Rd. San Antonio, Tx 78201 Admission: $5 (children 12 and under free with adult) www.thediyfactory.org

Mister Jalopy
Authentic Innovation
As consumers, we are armed with cash -- the most powerful and efficient mechanism to separate good design from bad. As innovators, we need to respect the cash and we can not begrudge people their inherent awesomeness. Authentic innovators design products that people will not only want to buy, but will want to protect these inspired objects from harm.

Appearance(s)
Maker Stage , Saturday 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Mitch Altman
Hacking Things with Microcontrollers
Anyone can learn how to make cool things with microcontrollers! Even if you've never sewn a button, you can actually make a fun, intriguing project. Blink lights, hack your brain, play video games, turn off TVs in public places - microcontrollers can do it all. This is for all skill and experience levels. Ages 5 to 100. You can even learn to solder!

Appearance(s)
Maker Shed MAKE Demos , Saturday 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM TV-B-Gone, Brain Machine, Mignonette Game Kit, and Trippy RGB Waves
Come see MAKE contributor Mitch Altman demonstrate his famous TV-B-Gone zapper, and learn how to hack your brain waves with the sound-and-light Brain Machine. Plus: Mignonette game kit and a brand-new project, Trippy RGB Waves.
Maker Shed MAKE Demos , Sunday 3:15 PM - 4:00 PM TV-B-Gone, Brain Machine, Mignonette Game Kit, and Trippy RGB Waves
Come see MAKE contributor Mitch Altman demonstrate his famous TV-B-Gone zapper, and learn how to hack your brain waves with the sound-and-light Brain Machine. Plus: Mignonette game kit and a brand-new project, Trippy RGB Waves.

Mitch Pryor
UT's Robotics Research Group

Appearance(s)
Maker Stage , Sunday 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Mucca Pazza
Mucca Pazza

Appearance(s)
Fire Truck Solar Stage , Sunday 5:00 PM

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