Bay Area Maker Faire: May 19-20, 2007, San Mateo Fairgrounds

All Maker Faire Events and Makers

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3D-Printed Sculpture Bathsheba Grossman
Traditional forms of fabrication don't allow the freedom of CAD software and 3D printers to create incredible objects-- from tiny jewelry to large sculpture--as seen here.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:sculpture 3d+printing rapid+prototyping metal art geometry math

5 Cent Coffee 5 Cent Coffee
5 Cent Coffee is an eclectic trio dedicated to organic old fashioned sound; an amalgamation of a by-gone nation, mixed with the fresh scent of a smile or the wail of a lament. Ukulele driven original material with stand up bass and melodeon - throw in a washboard, a kazoo - some junk - an old shoe, wear a grumpy hat, cry a tear or two, and you're there by the side of an old dusty highway...
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:

Air Raid Tim Hunkin
Designed in 1981 for The Seagull theatre using old bicycle and auto bits and recycled timber, this pair of flying gulls plop mint candies. Ready, aim, drop!
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:game coin-op entertainment

Anachronistic Clocks Eric Schlaepfer
This collection of unusual-looking clocks includes a cathode ray tube clock and two Nixie tube clocks.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:nixie CRT scope clocks

Andrew Lockhart on Network Security Hacks
Learn effective methods for defending your servers and networks from a variety of devious and subtle attacks.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:hacks networking security

Android "Boomer" Mike Overstreet

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:KungFu Androids robots robotics

Animalbots, Plantbots, and Artbots The Sherman Family
Meet this father-son duo's fantastic creations, including Slither, Fireflies in a Jar, a magnetic pendulum artbot, I-PICbugs, Emotion Al, and Sensitive Plant.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:Artbots, Robots, Snakebot, Pendulum

Animalia Chordata Gabe Barcia-Colombo
What if you could collect people in jars, just like bugs? Various humans have been bottled up for your viewing enjoyment. Watch them struggle to escape!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:interactive video, projection, IR, physical computing

Aquaskipper the Hydrofoil Ornithopter Tim Anderson
Bounce up and down and the Aquaskipper's wing flaps and propels this homemade, human-powered, wooden, hull-less hydrofoil ornithopter like Sweden's Trampofoil and South Africa's Pumpabike.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:hydrofoil human powered ornithopter

Art of the Catapult Bill Gurstelle
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: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:ballistics catapult king+of+fling fling

ArtCar Fest Philo Northrup
The largest exhibition of art cars on the West Coast, ArtCar Fest is the only event in the world devoted exclusively to ArtCars.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:

AudioPint InventMusic
Audiopint reinvents the musician's sonic toolbox. Open-source programmability and durability, supporting MIDI controllers, joysticks, stomp-pads, Arduinos, Wii controllers, and more - the possibilities are limitless.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:electronic+music DIY+music+controllers new+instruments "new interfaces for musical expression"

Autonomous Helicopter Control Ben Krasnow
Using a feedback control system, pilots can fly a small remote-controlled helicopter autonomously. It can even maneuver through a simple obstacle course.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:helicopter autonomous computer+vision microcontroller

Backyard Ballistics Bill Gurstelle
Get a historical and technological review of potato cannons, air cannons, trebuchets and catapults from the author of "Backyard Ballistics" and "Art of the Catapult."
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:ballistics potato+cannon cannons catapults trebuchets

Balancing Electric Vehicles Justin Lemire-Elmore
What about an electric skateboard with two wheels that can spin on a dime? See Emanual and other self-balancing personal electric vehicle designs here.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:balancing, skateboard, unicycle, electric

Ballistic Cats Ballistic Cats
Enjoy a combination of Sun Records rock-and-roll (but faster), surf rock (but smarter), swing (tangy!), and roots rock.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:music ballisticcats ballisitc+cats

Bazaar Bizarre Bazaar Bizarre
Shoppers can expect to find the best selection of handmade goods: handbags, knitting supplies, stationery, accessories, journals, and silk-screened t-shirts.
Type: Attraction Topic: Crafts Tags:bazaar+bizarre crafts sell

Black Rock Arts Foundation Rachel Weidinger
Bringing the spirit and intention of Burning Man beyond Black Rock City, the BRAF fosters civic engagement and public interaction in a wider context.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:Burning+Man "ScrapEden" art

Blimp Kits Jed Berk
Come by the Maker Store and check out the Blimp Kits that you can build yourself!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:blimp kits

Blooming Cosmic Inferno Evan Tracy
This sputtering, popping, droning sculpture resembles a biomechanical ember of a planet sprouting tentacles tipped with multicolored, fiery blooms.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:

Blubber Bots Jed Berk
This new generation of a floating DIY robotic species with the capability to navigate autonomously and intelligently belong to a family of "Transitional Species."
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:robotics blimps transitional+species toys sculptures

Botanicalls Botanicalls
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: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:wireless+sensor telephony asterisk zigbee sustainability networking DIY plants

Build a Giant Whale Robin Lise Nielsen
Help build a 25-foot-long orca whale. After constructing the whale and a boost from Bernoulli, you can climb inside the belly of the beast!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Science Tags:Orca Bernoulli science

Build Fantasy Creatures Mark Olson
Make a 3D, life-sized creature using just garden tomato baskets, papier mâché, plaster and fiberglass, molded by lots of little hands and your wonderful imagination!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:Dragon, wire, tomato baskets, casting material

Carbon Neutral T-Shirt Launcher Monica Koenig
Professional sports teams take note! Retire your destructive CO2 cannons and use this design for shirt-to-fan delivery. This giant slingshot built from common hardware sends t-shirts flying.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:launcher

Carnival Claw Game David Randolph
Test your skill--and luck!--with this arcade classic with an Internet twist. Real-time video gives you a claw's-eye view of the loot. Claim your prize, virtually of course.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:web controller claw game

Carnival Dump Tank Bruce Gee
Get wet! Score a sloppy mess for the home team with this homemade dunk tank, built with common parts from a hardware store.
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Carputer WRX Sam Garfield and Jake Haglund
This full-featured, functional Subaru WRX is decked out with real-time remote GPS tracking, navigation, security, and mobile internet, all controlled by touch screen
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:carputer car computer automation

Cassette Jockey World Championships The Evolution Control Committee
Cassette Jockeys vie for prizes in this uniquely entertaining competition for modded boomboxes, walkmans and other CJ-created instruments. Rounds Sunday only.
Type: Presentation Topic: Arts Tags:cj cassette jockey contest

CCRMA Musical Interactives The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
See new sonic interactions that have been developed using tools--such as low-cost hardware prototyping kits and a customized open source Linux software distribution--from Stanford's CCRMA.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:music art electronic sensor microcontroller open+source Linux

Cellestial Body Michael Christian
This large, hollow metal pod emits subtle sounds and mysterious lights and responds to your presence.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:

Chapman Hill Techno Team Chapman Hill Techo Team
See a desalination invention created by this group of bright elementary school students, and enjoy their skit and dance illustrating their solution to <a href="http://makezine.com/08/makeshift/">MAKE 08's MakeShift challenge</a> of being a castaway without fresh water.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Science Tags:makeshift school desalination

Chris Kohler on Retro Gaming Hacks
Come and get tips on hacking ancient hardware, home-brewing classic software, and adapting today's equipment for retro games.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:retro gaming hacks

Classroom Electronics Algis Sodonis
A teacher shares projects in programmable electronics used in his own classroom over the past decade.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:

Clock of the Long Now The Long Now Foundation
Handle and run parts of a monument-scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock, its orrery, and chime generator.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:clock metal stainless+steel monel tungsten mechanical future

Cocktail making robots "Gastone", "Alan", "and "Cockbot One" RoboExotica
Cockbot One mixes 3 different cocktails complete with ice. Alan is a mobile bot offering snacks and drinks. Gastone fetches drinks from a tap when a glass is placed upon him.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:Art+bots robots robotics

Coin-Op Arcadia Tim Hunkin
Best known for his terrific BBC series "The Secret Life of Machines", Hunkin also masterfully crafts whimsical, coin-operated, mad contraptions that blend the history of penny arcade mechanics with modern wit and technology.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:coin-op penny+arcade arcade

Combat robot "BAMBI" Bryan Cochran , John Mills , Melissa Mize , Michelle Rivero , Rolando Iglesias , Tommy Osburn

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Beer Bash" Robot Fight Club
Beer Bash is a combat robot made from a beer keg supplied by Lagunitas Brewing Company. His motto is "Drink Then Fight." Beer Bash's keggeyness has allowed him to achieve many victories in coolness, though few in reality.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Brutality" Colleen Shaver , Paul Ventimiglia

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Crocbot" Lance Richards , Lealan Swanson

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Enforcer X" Joseph Murawski , Pam Murawski

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Exile", "Sweet Knocker", "The Bomb", "The Ladies Bot", and "Rock and Roll" Daniel Chatterton , Kevin French , Orion Beach , Zachary Lytle

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Full Smash" Catherine Houdek , George Montplaisir , Phil Houdek

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Lil Bit Wacky" Chris Baro , Daniel Baron , George Baron , Stass Baron

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Little Black Box" Brian Anderson , Kyle Wiens , Luke Soulesv

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "LNW" Greg Schwartz , Travis Schwartz

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Old No. 7" Bob Girardi , Kenny Girardi

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Plasma Plus" Stephen Felk

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "SJ" Ken Stevens , Richard Van Noy , Robert Stellhorn , Scott Kincaid
SJ is a high ranking contender in the 220 pound combat robot class. He is the 2004 national champion! SJ is also one of the oldest active robots. This is the "11th" version in six years.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Stewie" James Arluck , Joe Sena

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Stumpy" and cleaning robot "Rosie the VacBot" David Wiley , Helen Wiley

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "The Big B" Christina Gin , Dave Needle , Gary Gin , Stan Shepard

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robot "Ultra Wedgie" Jeremy Garrett , Mikael Garrett

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Angry Asp", "Pipe Wench", and "Sewer Snake" Team PlumbCrazy
Sewer Snake is the #1 ranked Heavyweight robot of all time (32 wins, 7 losses). It is the reigning ComBots Cup champion, and the RoboGames international champion.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "CycloneBot" and "Texas Heat" Eliot Barker , Gary Mathiesen , Jeff Hayashida , Mark Demers , Michael Worry , Mohan Gurunathan , Robert Frankovich , Tim Bayne

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Doom on you!" and "Sabretooth 6.0" Jeff Vasquez

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Homer", "pooky", and "Unkown Avenger" David Liaw

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Last Rites" and "The Mortician" Hardcore Robotics
Team Hardcore's specialty is combat robots with very high kinetic energy spinning weapons. Our two entries are The Mortician, which is a 120 pound Middleweight, and Last Rites, which is a 220 pound Heavyweight.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Original Sin" and "Pirinah 2" Al Anderson , Anna Perry , Dennis Lackey , Jim Perry , Kevin Perry , Robert Jensen

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Progenitor" and "Prime" C. Walsh

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Pushy Little Bugger" and "Cannon Fodder"; BEAM robots "Perihelion" and "Pooter"; and Mary Anne Slocum , Terry Slocum

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Tanto" and "Anto" Craig Danby , Derek Danby

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "UBRuined" and "DracUCLA" Anna Davitian , David Meisenholder , Dennis Tran , Jeff Odonohue , John Propst , Robert Glidden , Steven Snyder

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Unblinking Eye" and "The Bob-omb" Jeffrey Scholz , Mark Scholz , Peter Scholz

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots "Vicious Verdict" and "Devil's Advocate" Basher Of Bots
Vicious Verdict is an all-electric combat robot, driven by wheelchair motors and using an electric motor to power its 3 foot long steel blade. This blade spins just above floor level, undercutting the tires and undercarriage of other robots.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robot robotics

Combat robots "Whos Your Daddy" and "Come to Mama" Buffy Yeh , Forrest Yeh , Jim Yeh

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

Combat robots Fear Factor" and "Fear Factor Sr. 2" Dan Wiley , Ron Palmer

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:combat robots robotics

ComBots Fighting Androids RoboGames
They've re-made the HiTech androids to be work off hacked Playstation controllers to use the Zigbee wireless module. They've reprogrammed the robots to be used in kick-boxing, soccer, and acrobatics.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:art+bots robots robotics

Comics Jam The Cartoonist Conspiracy
Improvise a comic with other Maker Faire attendees. The Cartoonist Conspiracy’s San Francisco cell will help you design a jam comic to be published online later.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:San Francisco Cartoonist Conspiracy jam comics

Computational Crafts Mike and Ann Eisenberg
Playful, creative and technologically savvy, these programs and hands-on activities exercise your brain and your Maker skills.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:

Computerized Etch-A-Sketch Alan Nishioka
Connect a computer to an Etch-a-Sketch to draw spirographs and more.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:engineering, spirograph,

Contact Contact Colleen Ludwig
This interactive costume explores the power of touch and personal connections in public places. You are invited to touch it to elicit a musical response.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:interactive+performance tangible+media tangible+computing touch costume "computerized" "physic

Core Memory Mark Richards
Vivid photos capture Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum's collection, including the Eniac, Crays 1 3, Apple I and II and 30 other historically important machines.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:

Crabfu SteamWorks I-Wei Huang
Award-winning roboticist Crabfu returns to Maker Faire with his gang of unusual, remote-controlled, steam-powered robots and vehicles.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:Robotics Steam rc r/c Steampunk

Crank Ensemble The Crank Ensemble
From sparse "plinking" to layered, melodic loopiness to hardcore noise, these all result from rhythmic, repetitive patterns made by crank-operated machines designed by artist Larnie Fox.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:music home made instruments performance art

Crankabout Mechanical Theater Ernie Fosselius
The hand-carved, hand-cranked mechanical automata and puppet passengers who ride in this homebuilt pedal car enjoy the tunes of its homemade crank organ, and so will you!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:human+powered

Create USB Interface Dan Overholt
Connect gestures to digital expressions through a do-it-yourself USB interface for computer input/output developed at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:

Creating Expressive Collages for Self-Exploration Ryl Brock Wilson
Create an expressive collage using magazine images. By noticing both your art-making process and the final collage, you can discover something new about yourself.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:used magazines, collage, transformative arts, self-discovery

Creative Commons Creative Commons
Use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Everything CC does — including the software it creates — is free.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:creativecommons opencontent licensing free sf bayarea rights copyright flexible

Crowd Control: A People-Powered Party Johnny Cakes and Zuckabee
Login now or at the event with your Facebook account, and the Zuckabee Mashbot will use <i>your</i> favorite music in its "mashterpiece" performance. Also featuring live updates from Makers around the Faire.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:Music, interactive, magic,

CTP Design Chris Palmer

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:art+bots robots robotics

Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo Cyclecide
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: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:transportation bikes engineering "man-powered" circus carnival attraction

Daisy the Friendly MP3 Player Raphael Abrams
A multipurpose sound player, Daisy works as a standalone personal music player or in art projects, kiosks, tour guides, toys, or anywhere you need high-quality embedded audio.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:MP3 open source daisy kit

Damien Stolarz on Car PC Hacks
Whether you're venturing into car PC for the first time or an experienced hobbyist, hop in for a joy ride.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:car auto pc hacks

Das Blinkenwheel Robert Kaye
Pedal a bicycle wheel that boasts 48 LEDs that make persistence-of-vision patterns that change with the speed of the person pedaling.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:bicycle led persistance+of+vision pattern

Diet Coke and Mentos Mega-Fountains Eepybird
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. Note: Saturday only.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:coke, mentos, interactive, performance

DIY 3D Sugar Printer Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
This home-built CNC, 3D printer fuses layers of granulated sugar, yielding imprecise and low-resolution but low-cost and sweet objects. Resourceful people could build a similar machine for about $500.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:3d+printing sculpture CNC microcontroller

DIY Margarita Machine John Guy
A DIY Margarita Machine: up to 5 Gallons per Batch! Uses readily available material, and just a couple hours of assembly. The machine is the life of every party to which it has been.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:margarita machine tequila

DIY Motion Control Bruce Shapiro
Developed to increase factory efficiency, motion control is re-purposed in beautiful kinetic sculpture. Meet Eggbot, Animanemone, and other whimsical examples of motion control as art.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:motion+control robotics art kinetic+sculpture stepper+motor CNC algorithmic+art automation

Doggie Diner St. Stupid and friends
From their humble commercial beginnings spinning above local fast food joints, these heads were decreed icons of The First Church of the Last Laugh in 1996.
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Dorkbake Challenge Winner: Flying Saucer Oven Eric and Jodi Kurland
In Machine Project's contest, ovens could use nothing more than 100-watt light bulbs for heat. The winner’s cosmic kitsch evokes 1950's science fiction and bakes at a toasty 425°F.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:flying+saucer oven dorkbake LED cooking baking winner "Sci-Fi"

Dreams of Electric Houses: a Shadow Play Il Teatro Calamari
Build a puppet, and bring it to life in this shadow theater. Follow the life of a house from construction through remodeling, in the portions performed hourly by this company funded by a Henson Foundation Grant.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:shadow puppetry, interactive, performance, hands+on, Teatro+Calamari

Edible Rapid Prototyping from Fab@Home Dan Periard
Build your own 3D printer for the kitchen with the plans, parts lists, and software available online. Create objects with silicon, frosting, EZ-cheese, or chocolate.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:3D+printer open+source "Fab@Home" Rapid+Prototyping

EDP: Experimental Devices for Performance Andrew Schneider
Map natural movement to media control, all wirelessly. Take Polaroids with "BlinkCam" or twitch your head to switch camera angles in "The Face Mask."
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:wireless+sensors dance shoes performance

el Borracho Espanol ComBots
This cocktail making robot is a bit hot under the collar. Simone made it using a flame thrower. It makes Spanish Coffees. You must be very brave to ask for one.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:art+bots robots robotics

Electric Giraffe Frank Lawlor
Look out for this huge, walking robot giraffe roaming the grounds! He doesn't eat leaves, just electricity and propane.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:robotics robot+animals, Rave+Raffe

Electrical Marvels from Jack Sparx John Dyer
Who doesn't want their own Tesla Coils, Jacob's Ladder, and a Van de Graff Generator? Jack Sparx shares his collection.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Science Tags:

Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Learn how EFF fights for open source software, encryption, VoIP, file sharing tools, and much more, to protect innovation and advance freedom.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Tags:

Embedded Microprocessors for Stand-Alone Kiosks Ray Gruenig
Learn a key skill used in many electronically enhanced museum exhibits.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Tags:

Engine Models Bay Area Engine Modelers
See a fascinating collection of functioning model gas engines, in scales of 1:6 or 1:3, actually running.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:miniature engines

Engineering Projects for Kids Silicon Valley Engineering Council
Kids come try out simple engineering projects with the Silicon Valley Engineering Council, Society of Women Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:engineering kids

Evil Mad Scientist Micro Readerboard Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Learn how to build the Evil Mad Scientist Micro Readerboard micro-readerboard, which displays a short message, one letter at a time, on a bright single-character alphanumeric LED display.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:led electronics

Experimenting with Magnets Paul Doherty
Magnets can seem like magic, but there's real physics behind their befuddling tricks.
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Exploratorium Exploratorium
A wonderful collection of exhibits, demos, activities, prototypes, and experiments, including handmade headphones, holographic graffiti, sound sandwiches, light paintings, a leaf fountain, a fog pool, and much more!
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Science Tags:

Fairy Wings Mary Danzer
Created from wire, nylon, elastic, spray paint, glitter, glue, LEDs, mirrors, springs, and other inventive materials, these wings will fly off with your imagination.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:leds fairy+wings wings fairies costumes costuming

Fire fighting robots "Ingoshu"", ""Iye"", "and "Styne" Michael Cipriano , Rose Mills

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Fire+Fighting+Robots robots robotics

Fire Sculpture Robots and Electric Motorcycles Justin Gray
See a few fantastic fire sculpture robots, including Darwin and Copper Oxide, that accentuate subtle industrial beauty of the world around us.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:

Fire Skirt Laura Cesari
Use electroluminescent (EL) wire and reflective and transparent fabrics for a glow-in-the-dark clothing technique that mimics the look of fire.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:electroluminescent+wire, glow+in+the+dark, EL+wire, fashion, clothing

Fire-fighting robots "Flame Out" and "ISIS"; balancing robot "Flexo" Bob Allen , Cory Allen , Ted Larson

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:Fire+Fighting+Robots robots robotics

Flaming Lotus Girls Flaming Lotus Girls
Enjoy portions of fire-art sculpture "The Angel of the Apocalypse" and "The Seven Sisters." Learn about the technology used to create its propane-powered fire "poofers".
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:fire+art propane angel+of+the+apocalypse sculpture poofer

Flaming Lotus Girls Film Olivier Bonin
In footage from Seven Sisters (2004) through their recent trip to Australia, Flaming Lotus Girls shine in this sneak peek at a documentary in the making.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:documentary fire film art women girls metal metal+arts fire+arts

Foal Douglas Irving Repetto
A baby horse table takes awkward steps. Its sibling will emerge from nothing more than scrap wood, a pile of dirty rags, and lots of ice coffee.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:horse table robotics recycled sculpture

Folk-with-Science Experiment-Off Michelle Hlubinka
Ask a question, then make a discovery--or, heck, just make it up--and then share your results at this "science" faker fair-within-a-Faire. Prizes designated hourly.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Science Tags:science pseudoscience bad+science folk+science outsider+science data+collection "data visual

Free Mending Library Michael Swaine
Borrow thread and sewing machines to fix the holes in your life. Become a librarian to teach small workshops in the Tenderloin National Forest.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:

Free Radio Berkeley Free Radio Berkeley
Get acquainted with low-power (up to 150 watts) FM and TV transmitter kits designed and manufactured by Free Radio Berkeley that you can use to broadcast community-based media.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:

Garbage Art Dumpster Divers Anonymous
These resourceful artists make collages and assemblages from library discards, crochet an iPod case from audio tape, and weave clothing from computer tape and baskets from electrical wire.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:garbage+art dumpster+divers+anonymous

Gasifier Jim Mason
This combustion gas generator converts wood or any burnable substance into a gas that can power an engine.
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Giant Bop-It Matt Wirth
Bop it, Twist it, Pull it. Test your skill by following the voice commands.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:"Bopit"

Giant Video Games Spark Fun Electronics
Play a wall-mounted interactive Tetris that changes as you touch the buttons, or operate a Nintendo controller that requires at least two people!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Button Pad Tetris Spark Fun Electronics

Graffiti Research Lab & the Anti-Advertising Agency James Powderly and Steve Lambert
Learn how technologies and urban systems are hacked to take back control of the streets and other public spaces from corporations, advertisers and local and federal governments.
Type: Presentation Topic: Arts Tags:graffiti+research+lab "anti-advertising agency" grl aaa graffiti hardware hacking opensource GNU a

Gravity Rally Car Bryan Reinero
Weld two mountain bikes together, add a seat, and you'll have a safe roll-structure called a gravity rally car perfect for bush league racing.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:rally car dunebuggy offroad atv

Greathouse Labs Lance Greathouse
See the Sandman (a 750-pound walking machine), TrackThing (a mobile propane cannon), Robobust (a talking robot bust), an electric motorcycle and scooter, a golf ball cannon, a pneumatic can crusher, and other machines.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Robots machines

Hacking Couture, The Italian Collection Giana Pilar González
Calling all fashionistas, DIY queens, and techies! Design Hacking Couture's latest collection--focusing on Italia and performance--and join the fashion collaborative with new aesthetics and alternative design approaches.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:"couture" "Fashion" "DIY" "Workshop" "sewing" "gucci" "Fendi" "versace" hacking+couture

Halloween Alien Invasion Halloween Alien Invasion
Over the past decade, creatures from outerspace have invaded Earth each October. See their flying saucer, as well as the government facility used for alien examination and containment.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:halloween props aliens alien

Happy Family Lamp Proxy
This sculptural metal lamp uses CNC waterjet technology to create unique pieces of intricate design.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:CNC fabrication metal sculpture custom geometry

HatManDo Offline Multiplayer Games William Nye and Yun-Sook Joh
In this series of interactive games (pronounced "hat-man-due"), players move around a room to move their face icon on a large projected game screen.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:multiplayer+game offline teamwork cooperation

Haunted Garden Sound Art Simran Gleason
This spooky room listens to your every movement and creates an ambient soundscape based on what it hears.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:generative music interactive soundscape

Hiller Flying Platform Simulator Hiller Aviation Museum
Feel what it was like to ride the famous Flying Platform, a top-secret prototype single-person aircraft built by the Palo Alto-based Hiller Aircraft Corporation in 1955.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:aviation simulator flying+platform museum

Hollywood Mobile Movie Eric Kurland
L.A.'s only drive-in that drives in! See how filmmaker and artist transformed his car, turning it into a road-worthy projection booth for ephemeral, guerrilla cinema.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:MobMov Hollywood Mobile Movie projection car DLP FM "drive-in"

Homebrew Mobile Phones Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club
Why should the telcos have all the fun? Build your own mobile phone! See tools you can use to build your own "mobile convergence devices."
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:mobile phone

Homebrew Segway Jordan Ross
A self-balancing scooter inspired by and modeled after Trevor Blackwell's Segway at last year's Faire--and made with no prior experience in programming microprocessors.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:

HomebrewCPU - A TTL Computer Bill Buzbee
Magic-1 is a completely home-built computer (including the CPU) constructed from more then 200 TTL chips and wire-wrap.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:computer cpu ttl wire-wrap

How to Build Monumental Sculpture Corbett Griffith
An experienced and irreverent engineer shows how to design, engineer, and construct large scale, multi-ton sculpture featured at events such as Coachella and Burning Man.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:design, engineering, granite, steel, art, sculpture

How To Crochet Cecily Keim
Crochet can do just about anything knitting can do, with just one needle instead of two. Whatever your whim, there is likely a crochet technique to use to build your idea.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:crochet

How To Crochet 3D Shapes Cecily Keim
Out-of-this-world forms and elegant shapes in the universe inspire these crocheted projects. Learn how a hook and yarn can sculpt a 3D fabric hyperbolics and much more.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:crochet

How To Crochet Granny Squares Cecily Keim
It's a classic, but your own grandmother may not know how to make one. Come on by to learn how, and you can take it home to Gramma.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:Crochet

How to Design and Build Wooden Bikes Tom Kabat
Learn unusual design and easy construction techniques to use to build your own unique, fantastic bike at home.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:Bikes, Bicycles, Woodenbikes

How to Knit in the Round Susan Herrick
Demystify circular knitting. Learn to work with one and two circular needles, double-pointed needles, and the Magic Loop! Come learn a cutting-edge trick or a new skill.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:Knit, knitting, yarn

How to Make Portable Leaf Fountains Denise King
Learn to make a portable leaf fountain.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Science Tags:

How To Needle Felt Wool Jamie Marie Chan
Get acquainted with the basic tools and materials needed to make a wool felt. Learn the fundamentals of needle felting round and flat objects.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:Needle Felt Felting Maryjanes+Attic wool felt

How to Refashion Sweaters Melanie Miguel
Take scissors to your sweaters! Redesign dormant pullovers into something you’ll love to wear. You can combine sweaters, add collars and cuffs, and use interesting hardware.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:redesign clothing fashion sewing

How to Sew a Bias-Tape Tote Bag Nancy Flynn
Make a simple, stylish bias-tape tote bag that will become a staple in your wardrobe and sewing repertoire.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:tote+bag craft fabric sewing bias+tape bag tote

How To Sew a Shoulder Tie Tank Top Nancy Flynn
Sew a simple, breezy, gathered cotton shoulder-tie tank top for summer in as few as six seams sewn in a yard of fabric.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:fabric sewing camisole tank+top craft

How to Silkscreen
Get a quick overview of using photo-emulsion for silkscreening at home or in your workshop. Learn about designing successful prints and preparing screens for exposure and printing.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:Silk+Screen "101" "Craft"

How to Spin on a CD-Drop Spindle Spindles & Flyers and Serendipity
Drop by and take a first class in drop-spindle spinning. We have the wool, spindles and teachers ready to help you learn this ancient art...with a modern twist.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:spinning CD+drop+spindle yarn wool Serendipity Spindles+and+Flyers

How To Spin Yarn Jamie Marie Chan
Be a spinmeister! Learn the basic tools and techniques of hand spinning. Try using a hand spindle and experiment with a spinning wheel.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:spinning, yarn making, fiber arts,

How to Yo-Yo Doctor Popular
Learn to use and maintain a modern yo-yo from a master of the art.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Tags:yo-yo Makers+Faire Doctor+Popular

Howtoons Nick Dragotta
These cartoons show kids of all ages "How To" build things. Each illustrated episode is a stand-alone fun adventure accessible to all.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:

Hullaballoo Eric Paulos
Dynamically generating new urban sonic experiences, these “Objects of Wonderment” radically expand our expectations of mobile phones. Contribute your own unique, personal sound to this place-based ringtone mix.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:mobile phone mashup object of wonderment

Human-Powered Train Paul Cesewski
This homemade, human-powered train travels on abandoned railroads. Re-experience its backroad adventures as documented via a Super 8 camera.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:transportation train cyclecide "man-powered" DIY

I Heart Switch Alison Lewis
Alison Lewis talks about the new wave of electronic crafts and fashion technology with designers Diana Eng, Emily Albinski, and Syuzi Pakhchyan.
Type: Presentation Topic: Crafts Tags:switch electronics fashion

Il Verme, The Renaissance Car Nathaniel Levine
Turn a crank to drive the worm gears and swing the hoes of this model of a Renaissance era self-propelled, wooden ditch-digging vehicle.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:

Instinct Engineering Corbett Griffith
See concepts for beautiful objects in both product design and sculpture disciplines go from sketches to mechanical reality.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:sculpture product+design art burning+man consumer design

Interactive Birthday and Wedding Cakes Ji Sun Lee and Youjeong Paik
Designed for family and friends, and friends, this unusual cake enhances special occasions like birthdays and weddings with LED candles, audio greetings, and musical accompaniment.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:interactive+toy electronic+crafts “social celebrations”

Interactive Oracles MOTO
This large round table uses technology to allow more than one person to interact with displays by touch - in diverse lighting situations.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:multitouch

Jason Striegel Hackszine.com
O'Reilly's Hacks Series reclaims the term 'hacking' for the good guys--innovators who explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on their own.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:hacks hackszine

Jet Packs and B9 Andrew Filo
B9, the Lost In Space Robot, gets a cybernetic makeover. The jet pack front contains a rocket belt simulator and a micro jet turbine testbed.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:"Jet Pack " Rocket+Belt " Lost In Space Robot" " Micro Jet Engine"

Josh Paul on Digital Video Hacks
With digital video, the hacking possibilities are limitless, for both amateurs and professional artists. From acquiring footage, mixing, editing, and adding effects to final distribution, you can learn some unique tips, tools, and techniques for every stage of video production.
Type: Presentation Topic: Arts Tags:digital video hacks

Junior's Returns Philip Ross
In this multiplexed hydroponic garden, roots bathes in nutrient-rich liquid and LEDs shine enough to keep the plant in a dwarf state, surviving but never thriving.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:

Junkyard Jet Sparky Bartlett Jewell
It's a childhood dream for gearhead geeks. Build it now: a single stage jet turbine. Use junkyard turbo chargers and pharmaceutical surplus. Don't forget marshmallows!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:fire jet+turbine junk found+object

Kamishibai: Japanese Storycard Theater David Battino and Hazuki Kataoka
Classic folktales told with kamishibai ("paper theater") storycards enchant kids of all ages. Japanese street performers popularized this format in the days before television.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:kamishibai storytelling storycard theater kids folktales performance Hazuki Kataoka Battino

Kid Beyond Kid Beyond
Singer. Beatboxer. Songwriter. Live looper. One-man vocal band. Kid Beyond loops and multitracks his voice onstage to create his own live backing tracks – layering his impassioned lyrics over his own beatboxing and vocal instrumentation. The result is a riveting, soulful brew of pop electronica. What takes most people an entire band to produce, Kid Beyond executes with his own mouth. You're in the presence of a higher power... you want to get up and dance." – SF Weekly, Best of SF
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:beatboxer live+looper electronica

Kinetic Pastry Science Mobile Muffins Greg Solberg
Hungry for mechanical yumminess? Meet the drivers of these giant muffin- and cupcake-shaped electric vehicles with unique fluffy toppings—and get plans to build your own.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:muffins cupcakes electric+vehicles electric+cupcakes

King of Fling Catapult Contest Bill Gurstelle
See who becomes the Count of Catapults, the Earl of Hurl, the Baroness of Ballistas. Saturday only.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:king+of+fling fling ballistics potato+cannon cannons catapults trebuchets

Kite Aerial Photography Cris Benton
Who needs satellite photography? Get a kite's-eye view of what's happening down below. See how you can make your own aerial photography apparatus at home.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:KAP kite aerial photography

Kyle Rankin on Knoppix/Ubuntu Hacks
Get Ubuntu installation advice and tips on getting the most out of the free applications packaged with the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Plus, learn how the Knoppix Live CD can help you troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, disinfect, and generally be productive without Windows--without the difficulty of installing Linux itself.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:ubuntu knoppix hacks

LED Light Paintings Ken Murphy
An array of color-shifting LEDs project diffused, abstract patterns as they drift in and out of phase, creating an endless series of combinations.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:LED light art

Lego Mindstorms robots "Game Bot 1", "Game Bot 2", "Race Bot 1", "Robo William" and "AquaKeeper 2.0 Addien Wray , Alan Wray , Corwin Wray , Tirion Wray , Vanessa Maclaren-Wray , William Coley

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:Lego+Bots robots robotics

LEGO Train Town and Village Bay Area LEGO Users Group
This lively landscape--constructed by local fans of LEGO--includes Hogwarts village, Mindstorms train controls, "Goofy Train", a long 100% LEGO bridge, and lots of LEGO trains.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:lego trains robotics modeling toys

Lemon Lime Lights Lemon Lime Lights
Tangos, waltzes, and punk-ass rock make for a Junkyard Cabaret.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:

Life-Sized Mousetrap Mark Perez
A 25,000-lb superbly interactive play structure, this "vaudevillian encounter" challenges you to make the simple outrageously complex. Get a piece of the action in this megaversion of the classic board game.
Type: Attraction Topic: Tags:

Lil Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum Michael Schiess
Outfitted with its own jukebox and six vintage pinball machines, this 1947 Spartan Manor has been rebuilt with a hydraulic leveling system, reinforced frame, and Torflex suspension.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:pinball trailer mobile+museum

Lil' Billies The Lil' Billies
Lil' Billies play bluegrass and American folk. They all started playing under music teacher John Fuller at Menlo Park’s Peninsula School, one of California's oldest progressive schools.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:"Lil' Billies" " Bluegrass" Penninsula+School" Music"

LivePAd Music Controller Craig Dorety
Custom-built from space-age plastics and psychedelic circuitry, this MIDI computer music controller for the 21st century allows the complete, dynamic control in a small guitar-like instrument.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:MIDI electronic+music custom+controller alien+ice+pod

Loop.pooL Rick Walker
Found and invented sounds combine in an interesting musical show using state-of-the-art live looping techniques.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:live+looping music found+sound electronica interactive

Machine Project Machine Project
Meet a group of interesting artists doing interesting work who are interested in you. Stuff is going on but you can come by, sit down, hang out, and be social.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Science Tags:machine+project machineproject mark+allen wii banjo monome hydroponics phil+ross corey+fogel

Make Controller Kit Liam Staskawicz
Supporting hobby and professional projects requiring connectivity, ease of use, and control/feedback, this programmable microcontroller interfaces with Max/MSP, Flash, Processing, Java, Python, Ruby - anything that supports OSC.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:sensors actuators controller microcontroller electronics programming mechanical

Make Your Own Amazing Halloween Props EFX-TEK
Use simple controllers to bring your holiday props and displays to life. Automate like the pros, and see just how easy it can be.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:prop+automation halloween christamas special+fx

Make Your Own Animation Zeum
Come create your own stop-motion animation with the artists from Zeum, San Francisco's own arts and technology museum for youth and families.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:animation, art, technology, stop-motion

Make Your Own B2B Salmon Run Costumes Hallie McConlogue
Build salmon costumes to wear in the Breakers to Bay Run, which runs west to east against the Bay to Breakers on Sunday, May 20th. This guerrilla build will happen Saturday only.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:robot, costume, salmon, bay to breakers, breakers to bay, upstream, cacophony society

Make Your Own Bead Jewelry Susan Beal
Use simple wire techniques and vintage beads to create a pair of simple, stylish earrings--and a necklace or pendant--after your own fashion.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:jewelry beads jewelrymaking bead+simple diy crafty

Make Your Own Blinkybug Ken Murphy
Use simple electronic parts to build your own blinking insect with motion-detecting antennae. Any bump or breeze activates their LED eyes in a delightful way.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:robots robotics art electronics workshop leds

Make Your Own Board Game SCRAP
Invent a game that nobody has ever played before! Sunday only.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:

Make Your Own Calligraphy & Suminagashi Marbling Marcia Friedman
Try your hand at elegant lettering. Expert calligraphers demonstrate using metal pens, quills & reeds. Then, marble paper with bright colors using the Japanese suminagashi technique.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:art, craft, lettering, calligraphy, marbling, ink, paint, colorful, tools, fun

Make Your Own Cartoon Characters Joe Wos
Learn the art of cartooning and visual storytelling while learning the basic skills needed to both draw and create compelling characters.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:cartooning, instructional, cartoon, lessons, art, toon

Make Your Own Cat Furniture Susan Kralovec
These stylish, aesthetically pleasing scratching posts and play gyms you can make yourself of heavy-duty triple wall corrugated cardboard material please the most finicky felines.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:cat+furniture cat+scratchers cardboard+furniture

Make Your Own Clay Pot Mother Earth Clay Art Center and Foundation
Create beautiful clay artwork on a real potter’s wheel! Talented potters will show you the basic techniques of throwing a pot, including centering, pulling and shaping.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:Pottery Clay Art Ceramics Wheel Throwing

Make Your Own Cool Devices: The Marathon Mitch Altman
Microcontrollers do your bidding! Use inexpensive MiniPOV kits to make quirky gadgets like trippy colored blinky lights, brainwave hallucinators, a simplified TV-B-Gone, or EL-wire sequencers.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:

Make Your Own Costumes Doree Tschudy
Share ideas for taking a character from the most creative corner of your brain to dress-up reality. See two Ben 10 aliens and other surprises.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:

Make Your Own Dorodango Jason Arnold
Learn how to create a traditional Japanese dorodango, an art form in which you mold mud into a shiny, marble-like ball.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:dirt mud dorodango easy low-tech

Make Your Own Eggcological Art on the "Cheep!" Madame Ovary
Madame Ovary eggsplains her eggsciting yolklore with puns, puppetry, story-spinning, and tips on acquiring useful discards. Witness eggxtraordinary Trash Transformations of wands, wings, and wonderful things.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:

Make Your Own Electronic Firefly Micro-Kids
Young adults, get your hands on microcontrollers with Micro-Kids! Program and take home a small device that can sense light, blink its LEDs, and more. (ages 11-17; materials fee: $15)
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:microcontroller kids programming

Make Your Own Fancy Knots, Braids, and Splices Tim Allwine
These fancy knots, braids, and splices will amaze you! See complex knotwork--both practical and decorative--as it's made, or grab some rope to learn the trusty bowline.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:fancy+knots knots rope+work braiding

Make Your Own Felted Computer Tote Ashley Helvey
Learn how to felt a modern computer bag with organic wool. Think of it as a soft wear for your hardware.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:

Make Your Own Food Automata Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
Spit out your fears of making hand-cranked mechanical toys and indulge in our buffet of ginger-cookie cams, pasta shafts, and a secret double-Cheerio interface.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:mechanics toys automata food

Make Your Own Glass Beads Ralph McCaskey
Learn the secrets of the Venetian Masters! With common equipment, you can make your own glass beads, buttons (and some dishes). Come see how it's done.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:glass beads glass+beads

Make Your Own Gocco Prints Francois Paultre
This clever, hard-to-get Japanese printing technology makes it a snap to print your own stationery, cards, and zines in minutes. Try this cult favorite and you too will be loco for Gocco.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:paper, gocco, book-binding

Make Your Own Handcrafted Headphones Sebastian Martin
Why buy buds for your ears when you can make your own?
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:

Make Your Own Handheld Animated Butterflies Roger Sonntag
Create your own winged creatures, then hold them in your hands as they fly and wiggle. (ages 3 and up)
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts | Science Tags:flying+magnets

Make Your Own HiFi Bicycle Cruising System Paul Freedman
Design your own Soul Cycle, a beautiful, powerful bike sound system. Bicycle rap artist Fossil Fool reveals the basics of bicycle audio and how to organize a successful cruiser ride.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:bicycle cruising audio SoulCycle

Make Your Own High-Speed Strobe Photos Quaketronics
Learn how to shoot high-speed photos with a digital camera and strobe light. Capture a bursting balloon mid-pop. Get your own kit from the Make Store.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:photography high+speed Edgerton

Make Your Own Hologram Graffiti Maz Destruction
Etch on plastic to create an amazing holographic effect.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts Tags:

Make Your Own Iron-Ons Amy Cluck
Add some iron-on zip to your wardrobe when you apply your own special, custom-designed felt shapes to your clothes.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:

Make Your Own Jewelry Susan Beal
Create your own gorgeous jewelry, custom-designed by you, and get a handy how-to pamphlet so you can make more at home.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:jewelry beads jewelrymaking bead+simple diy crafty

Make Your Own Knit T-Shirt Rug Susan Herrick
Don't say good-bye to your beloved old shirts! Turn them into a washable rug you can knit yourself.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:Knit, recycle, rug,

Make Your Own Light Painting The Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Network
Use colored lights in our dark tent to make a beautiful, abstract image of motion that you can take home with you.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Tags:

Make Your Own Light-Up Purse Alison Lewis
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: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:light fashion craft purse LED

Make Your Own Monorail Racers Tinkering School
Go for distance! Go for speed! Use salvaged household junk to build and race vehicles on a miniature monorail. Can your vehicle survive the Torture Track? (all ages; kids under age 7 must have adult supervision.)
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:typography "hands-on" craft

Make Your Own Mousey the Junkbot Gareth Branwyn
Build a zippy little light-hungry roborodent out of decommissioned analog computer mice and other recycled and cheap analog electronic parts. All skill levels welcome.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:robotics Mousey+the+Junkbot electronics

Make Your Own PetBOT Chris Myers
Kids come create your own PetBOT with common electronics and cool lasercut parts. Connect motors, lights and batteries, then test your creations in the isobotics proving grounds.(ages 6 & up; materials fee, $10)
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:Artbots robots isobot mouse+bot

Make Your Own Refashioned Thrift Store Knits Shannon Okey
Give wooly thrift store finds new life with a wealth of techniques. Learn to alter and embellish them using knitting, crochet, embroidery, felting, dyeing and more.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:knit spin felt crochet thrift+store crafty

Make Your Own Robot Rumble Costumes Hallie McConlogue
Create cardboard robot suits and protective padding to be used in the flash mob Robot Rumble on Saturday, June 2nd at 6:30 pm. This guerrilla build will happen Sunday only.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:robot, costume, cacophony society

Make Your Own Rockets LUNAR
Be a rocket scientist! Build and fly a rocket with LUNAR, the Livermore Unit of the National Association of Rocketry, the nation's largest model rocket club.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:rockets space

Make Your Own Scratch Foam Prints John Sullivan
Get creative with a soft plastic foam printing plate and water-based inks for a fast, fun, inexpensive, non-toxic introduction to printmaking.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:

Make Your Own Sensing Game Controller Björn Hartmann
Author sensor-based interactions (like accelerometer tilt control) using the open-source, graphical program Exemplar. Combine it with a board and Flash/Processing to rapidly build your own Nintendo-Wii-style game controller.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:sensors exemplar authoring+tools games

Make Your Own Simple Single-Signature Book Francois Paultre
Quickly create books from standard letter-sized paper with a simple bookbinding technique perfect for any small book, such as a journal, zine, or guest book.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:paper, book-binding, books, binding, book+arts

Make Your Own Soft Circuits Syuzi Pakhchyan
Create your own wearables and interactive toys using these basic techniques for sewing simple, soft circuits with conductive threads, fabrics, inks, hook-and-loop, and zipper tapes.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:crafts electronic+crafts sewing circuits

Make Your Own Solar-Powered Robots and Gizmos Solarbotics
Power your devices with a tiny solar cell and a solar engine circuit. Build a super-fast "SolarSpeeder" racer, all without a battery or off-switch.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Robotics Solar Solar+energy kits

Make Your Own Sound Toys The Exploratorium Outreach Program
Create Bee Buzzers and Sound Sandwiches with the Exploratorium.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Science Tags:

Make Your Own Tapeless Cassette Player Julie Yu
When you get stranded on a deserted island, you'll be glad you have this survival skill under your belt!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:

Make Your Own Telescope Mirror Chabot Telescope Makers
See how to grind and polish a reflecting telescope mirror. The Chabot Telescope Makers have been creating precision mirrors with amateur astronomers for 50 years
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Science Tags:amateur+telescope+making mirror+making astronomy

Make Your Own Things in Second Life Steve Cooley
Calling all avatars. Get a a tour of building tools for making things in Second Life.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:secondlife second+life second life

Make Your Own Tribbles Rachel McConnell and Annie Shao
Love everything blinky, wiggly, and fluffy? Of course you do! Incorporate electronics into soft, stuffed toys as you make a wiggly Tribble.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:sewing electronics LED stuffed

Make Your Own Unusual Books San Francisco Center for the Book
Learn quick, easy bookbinding techniques, such as Japanese stab bound book, and get a peek at SFCB's other book arts, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking classes.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:letterpress bookbinding book+arts

Make Your Own USB Peripherals Garrett Mace
Build your own USB keyboard, mouse, and joystick devices with Zedomax's easy, open-source HID (human interface device) portal.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:USB HID microcontroller basic+stamp cubloc keyboard mouse joystick input

Make Your Own Veeblefetzers Rachel McConnell and Annie Shao
Love everything blinky, wiggly, and fluffy? Of course you do! Incorporate electronics into soft, stuffed toys as you make a blinky-eyed Veeblefetzer.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:sewing electronics LED stuffed

Make Your Own Vibrobot Mark Frauenfelder
Learn to make the Vibrobot featured on the cover of MAKE 10, and meet the editor of MAKE who will show you how you can make your own!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:vibrobot make robot

Make Your Own Video Game Pixel Projects Spins & Needles
Using iron and beads, design an image of your favourite video game character. Take home cool pixelated objects to wear or to display. All materials and instructions provided.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:craft project DJ music

Make Your Own Water Rockets Morgan Woodson
Build a "Coney" back-gliding water rocket from a plastic bottle and cardboard. Learn to construct simple and complex launchers, fins, and nosecones. Materials supplied.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:rocketry plumbing

Make Your Own Wet-Felted Wool Beads and Patches Rachel Hospodar
Learn to wet-felt durable textile shapes of your own creation. Make a necklace or a patch to sew onto your clothes.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:wool, felt,

Make Your Own WMD Cozy Tracey Cockrell
Join forces to knit a 72-foot-tall cozy for the ICBM Peacekeeper, a retired weapon of mass destruction. Get basic training in beginner's knitting, intarsia and duplicate stitching. All ages welcome.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:radical+knitting knitting sculpture drawing wmds

Make Your Own Yoda Doll Bonnie Burton
A Jedi crafter must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Serious fans of all ages come craft cute but simple Yoda dolls!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:star+wars crafts

Maker Store Demo: Raphael Abrams Brian Jepson
12pm-1pm. Raphael Abrams will be in the Maker Store showing off the Daisy MP3 player.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:

Maker Store Kit Demos Brian Jepson
The Maker Store staff will be on hand to demonstrate all the kits we have for sale.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:electroncs kits

Making Copper Pendants (Without Soldering) Margaret Donnelly
These beautiful copper pendants require no soldering! Learn to create a mini-masterpiece to wear and enjoy. The charm incorporates images, papers, color, and a little glue.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:collage jewelry ephemera pendant charm

Making DIY Music Tools Control DIY Visuals Derek Scott and Steve Cooley
Learn how you too can use Pure Data (PD), Open Sound Control (OSC), Processing, and Quartz Composer to combine music and visuals.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:PD pure+data puredata processing OSC music visuals

Making Things Talk with XBee Tom Igoe
These microcontroller-based projects--a toxic alert system and a solar voltage meter--communicate using Maxstream's XBee radios, which make low power wireless networking very simple.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:ITP, microcontrollers, Zigbee, physical computing, electronics, embedded networking

Man-Made Lightning Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
This 5-foot-tall Tesla Coil generates dazzling, long, electrical arcs while also revealing basic physics principles with the Jacob's Ladder, Faraday's Cage, and grounding.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:tesla+coil electricity zorro knight faradays+cage

Manufacture in Your Own Garage Perry Kaye
Learn this award-winning designer's tricks for designing and manufacturing products in a rented garage! You too can do this without millions of dollars of tools.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:CNC, Prototyping, CAD, Manufacturing, Business, Entrepreneur, Design, Product Development, Innovatio

Mercedes Pens Art Car Costas Schuler
Have any dead pens lying around? Bring them by to add to the 5000+ writing implements on this 1981 300 SD Mercedes Pens neé Benz.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:Art+Car Mercedes+Pens The Pen Guy" Recycled Pens PVC+instrument Funny Humor

MintyBoost and MiniPOV Limor Fried
Stop by the Maker Store to learn about the MintyBoost and MiniPOV kits directly from their creator.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:electroncs led power usb

Mister Jalopy's Garage Mister Jalopy
Mister Jalopy says, "a throwaway society means rocket science technology is available for bubble gum money and a willingness to get dirty." Exploring "Deep Sea Suburbs" has given him insight into custom vans, backyard anthropology, and the California dream.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:mister+jalopy mister jalopy mechanic cars auto

Mobzombies Will Carter, Aaron Meyers, and Julian Bleecker
Run away from zombies in this handheld game. Tracked wirelessly, you are the joystick navigating the undead world. But remain vigilant of your current real-world surroundings!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:games wireless+sensors pervasive+games "electronics" mobile

Model Engine Builder magazine Mike Rehmus
Learn to build model internal combustion engines from plans for engines that range from simple to complex.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:Model+Internal+Combustion+Engines Machine+Shop+Techniques Model Engineer"

Model Rocket Video Camera John Maushammer
Watch a model rocket launch from the perspective of a miniature astronaut. Hack a disposable video camera to fly in a small kit-built rocket.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:Rocket video camera hack

monochrom: Law and Second Order monochrom
These roving musician-philosophers will confront you with concepts, yielding a joyful bucket of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:roving band performance concept

Monome Monome
A multi-user interactive audio-visual installation demonstrating elements of Monome's design philosophy: versatility, minimalism, and endless reprogrammability. Open-source applications, modifications, and interfacing tricks are shared amongst a growing community of users.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:interface opensource hardware

Moonshine-Powered Motors David Blume
See how to produce your own alcohol auto fuel from ground corn and enzymes, and how to convert your car to run on it.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Biofuel distill distillation moonshine auto+fuel E-85 alcohol+fuel ethanol "car conversion to al

Moto Motes MOTO
A project of MOTO and the Art Center in Pasadena, Motes is an open-source, multi-nodal wireless sensor network platform that is low-cost and easy-to-use.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:robots sensors wireless+devices open+source

Motorcycle Musical Instruments Ezra Daly
Hear the Frankenbass--a stand-up bass made from a Moto Guzzi gas tank, a chrome tailpipe and hardwood, as well as the Flatracula and other entertaining creations.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:musical instrument motocycle bass

Multitouch Multimedia Devices Tim Thompson
All hands on deck! Play with a variety of musical and graphical applications using controllers that detect multiple fingers simultaneously.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:multitouch graphics music python flash

Nabaztag Bunny Hacks Roy Batchelor
Discover the unexpected, cool tricks your Nabaztag can do with these custom hardware and software hacks from the Nabaztalk developer community. The Nabaztag is a robotic rabbit.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:robotics nabaztag wireless+gadgets

Needle Felting Playground Moxie and Brookelynn
What's all the fuzz about? Use lush, colorful wool fiber and felting needles to play with needle felting, or take a project from beginning to end.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:make craft needle+felting wool fiber felting felt

Nemomatic Nemo Gould
Nemo Gould sculpts “Fauxbots”, which are mechanical sculptures inspired by popular conceptions of robots. Nearly every piece is made entirely from found materials.
Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Art+bots robots robotics

Neon Art Shop Shawna Peterson
Combining found objects with new and scrap neon, illuminated sculpture and furniture exhibit a master tube-bender's craft. See her glass bending techniques using a set of portable crossfires.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Science Tags:neon glass fire glass+blowing tube+bending

Neverwas Neverwas Haul
This steam-powered car is made of a 100-year-old dog cart, a steam cleaner tubing coil, a machined "sliding-D" valve, and steam-rated plumbing left over from the previous century.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:steam+technology Victorian science+fiction steam+art

Nueva School Interactive Art Program The Nueva School
See what kids create at the crossover between the worlds of robotics, electronics and art, including an interactive guitar and 3D interface video projects.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:"Interactive", "Art", "electronics", "sensors" "education"

O'Reilly Hacks O'Reilly Hacks
Learn how to hack your car, do amazing things with digital video, make your home and office network secure, map the world in amazing ways, get the most out of Linux, and much more. Several of our Hacks authors will be on hand throughout Maker Faire. Stop by the Hacks booth (just outside the MAKER store) and let the Hacks authors help you hack your world!
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:hacks books hacker

Once Upon a Toon Joe Wos
Uniquely blending storytelling and live illustration, this cartoonist/storyteller draws the stories as he tells them in this lively interactive program for all ages.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:cartooning, storytelling, performance, family

Open Sound Control Showcase Adrian Freed
The popular protocol OSC (Open Sound Control) connects gestural controllers to sound and image synthesizers. Experience commercial and university projects that make use of OSC.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:OSC MIDI internet+jamming Open+Sound+Control sensor gestures Max/MSP PD

Open Source Hardware Phillip Torrone and Limor Fried
Make Senior Editor Phil Torrone and kit-maker Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries discuss how open source hardware is playing out in gadgets, kits and homebrew projects.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:open+source+hardware open source hardware

Paper Airplanes John Collins
These paper airplanes tumble, flip, flap, circle, drop helicopters, pierce the air like darts, and even stay aloft indefinitely. Learn to fold some simple planes yourself!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Crafts | Science Tags:

Paulina Hollers and Carlin Brent Green
Enjoy this collection of animated films, with live sound effects and musical accompaniment provided by the filmmaker.
Type: Presentation Topic: Arts Tags:Brent+Green Nervous+Films Bellwether+Gallery animated films outsider art folk art

PicoCrickets Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Network
Create musical sculptures, interactive jewelry, dancing creatures, and other playful inventions with PicoCrickets.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:

Pinball Restoration Bill Bumgarner
Flashback with classic, fully restored pinball machines set up for free play. Learn how they work and about the amazing array of mechanisms they hold.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Mechanics pinball restoration collector

Plankton Microscope Tom Zimmerman
Watch plankton swim with a lensless microscope made from a clever hack of a web or security camera. Take home a Rotifer sample for your own hacked microscopecam!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Science Tags:microscope web+camera security+camera

Plastigami Andy Lee
See how to form plastic sheets into origami patterns. This new, unique process uses linear electric heating elements arranged in the pattern of unfolded origami.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Plastic, origami

Platforms The Aphrodite Project
Paying homage to the cult of love goddess Aphrodite, this interactive, wearable device can be used for walking or as a vehicle for public dialogue.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:gps wearable led video surveillance security

Play Day Michael Shiloh
A treasure trove of electronics, construction materials, and expert assistance has all you need to turn a creative doodle in your noodle into something physical. Drop in or stay all day.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:

Plug-In Hybrid Car Conversions California Cars Initiative
Plug in your Prius! See how to add a larger battery and electronic components that allow a hybrid car to juice up from electricity as well as gasoline.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:Auto DIY environment electric+vehicles entrepreneur

Pneumatic Machines Bernie Lubell
Play with these intricate, whimsical machines.
Type: Topic: Arts Tags:

Power Tool Drag Races Power Tool Drag Races
Super Stock off-the-shelf machines and full-tilt multi-motor Top Fuel monstrosities go head-to-head in this capacitor-blowing shrapnel mayhem. Thrill to the speed and smells as hardware store favorites battle down a racetrack to glory.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:Tools Engineering Beer

Practical Poetry Machine Roger Carr
Devices unrealized in appropriate eras remain to be created later. Feed cloth tape like film into this large, ridiculous clockwork wooden movie projector to display poetry.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:retro poetry machine

Precision Puzzlemaking Lee Krasnow
These beautiful and ingenious wooden puzzles and puzzle boxes will confound and inspire you.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:precision puzzles CNC woodworking metalworking

Project: Pimento Project: Pimento
Prepare to swagger in sophisticated, space-age style with the world's only theremin lounge band and its repertoire of toe-tapping mid-20th-century favorites.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:theremin lounge band awesome

Puppy Mover Monorail James Horecka
It began as a joke, but it became a whimsical work of kinetic art, that's also a working, five-car monorail train serving some surprisingly well-behaved puppies.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:monorail train model railroad

QuadPod Hang-Gliding Simulator The Thompsons
Climb into a hang-glider harness and take off on a simulated flight above the rim of the Grand Canyon down to a land on the canyon floor.
Type: Attraction Topic: Science Tags:

Quantum Mechanics' Flaw Revealed Eric Reiter
An experiment that defies a strong prediction of quantum mechanics for light and charge in the photoelectric effect.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Science Tags:physics invention understanding+physics+of+energy

Quick Crafts with Fusible Interfacing C&T Publishing
Use fast2fuse® fusible stiff interfacing with fabric or paper to make vases, boxes, bowls, postcards, costumes, decorative clocks, and more creative projects from the from the Fast, Fun & Easy® how-to book series.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:crafts

Quickup Pickup Camper Jay Baldwin
The exceptionally roomy, radical, patented pickup-based RV is uniquely stable, agile and efficient (about 20 mpg — more than double that of conventional designs with similar amenities).
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:

Rambot Joni Carlson
This remotely controlled, 4-wheel drive robot can pick up inflatable pool rings and play tic-tac-toe on a tall rack with its a custom-made grabber arm.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:

Re Cycle Saloon Jamie Vaida
Build motorcycles from found objects.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:

Realtimelapse Mobile Camera Tower Derek Lomas
Spot yourself in a real-time time-lapse representation of crowd movements captured by this inexpensive, quickly assembled mechanism for recording aerial footage of public spaces.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:aerial photography timelapse surveillence

Recollections ++ Ed Tannenbaum
Create animated paintings with your silhouette's movements echoing color and form. Each moment is unique. The images never repeat.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Science Tags:"real-time video effects" interactive art

Recycled Fencing Flowerboxes Robert Hermes
Did winter storms blow down your old redwood fence? Redwood's naturally occurring chemicals provide resistance to rot and decay, making it perfectly suited for flowerbox construction.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:recycled wood flowerbox

Redneck Pool Heater Todd Harrison
To warm you up on those cooler days, see how you can use a standard outdoor gas grill to heat a small in-ground swimming pool.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:redneck pool heater pool+heater water+heater gas grill

Refrigerator Facelift Brennan O'Brien
Jazz up your refrigerator with wood panels, metal sheet, artwork, "stained glass", and custom handles. Make any fridge an objet d'art using commonly available materials.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:kitchen home+improvement customization refrigerator makeover

Relaxing Plant Margit Blauhut and Eva Artinger
Plants provide beautiful decor as well as a positive effect on room climate. The health of the Lucky Bamboo shifts the ambient mood of this room.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:plant, uv light, illuminating, moisture sensor

Remote-Controlled Telescope Linux Astronomy
Use a telescope that is available online through a web interface and can be controlled from anywhere with an Internet connection.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:linux astronomy telescope optic automation robotic sky+chart stars+chart

Retro-Gaming Hacks Joe Grand
Homebrew games and hardware, created by gamers, for gamers, combine nostalgia with modern technology--just for the thrill and challenge. Play with Atari and other retro gaming goodies.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering Tags:

Rich Gibson on Google Maps and Mapping Hacks
Learn creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images and underlying API of Google Maps. Plus, learn some simple techniques available to developers and power users who want to draw digital maps.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:google mapping location hacks

Rich Gibson on Wireless Hacks
Whether your wireless network needs to extend to the edge of your office or to the other end of town, some non-obvious, "from the field" techniques will show you how to get the job done.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:wireless hacks networking

Robo-Insect Legion Tony Pratkanis
Buzz by to see robots based on the logic of social insects: fire-fighting robots, six-legged ant-like walking robots, and a robotic honeybee blimp.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:robots robotics ants firefighting walking+robots

RoboGames Presents: The ComBot Cup RoboGames
Rev your microprocessors with two days of grudge matches and class competitions. What attack hacks will prevail? This rowdy event will deliver $10,000 in prizes to the toughest, hottest bots on the block.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:Robot Engineering

Robomagellan robot "RM1" James Nugen

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Art+bots robots robotics

Robot "PoohBearBot" Alan Downing , Andrew Downing , Karen Downing , Matthew Downing

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:art+bots robots robotics

Robots "Buggy", "Protobot army" and "My little 'Wired' robot Camp Peavy , Delay Soto , Dianne Worku

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:art+bots robots robotics

Robots & Designers Living Together in Harmony Because We Can
Ask us how affordable CNC production can bring your big ideas into the world, about what's possible and what's easy via CNC, or about the robot!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:CNC computer+numerically+controled design robots CAD BIM modeling sculpture furniture interiors "h

Rocket Launch Pad LUNAR
Be a rocket scientist! Build and fly a rocket with LUNAR, the Livermore Unit of the National Association of Rocketry, the nation's largest model rocket club.
Type: Attraction Topic: Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:rockets space

Rockets, High-Powered and Experimental AeroPAC
Holding three high-power rocket launches annually in the Black Rock Desert, AERO-PAC represents the Northern California and Northern Nevada prefecture of the Tripoli Rocketry Association.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:high powered rocketry science space cansat

Rolling Greenhouse Jason McLean
Built out of salvaged lumber, it catches and carries its own water and powers fans and pumps with solar energy to nourish and protect carnivorous plants.
Type: Attraction Topic: Crafts | Science Tags:mobile greenhouse

Roomba Hacks Tod Kurt
Give a Roomba a new brain. Control it from a PC. Teach it to sing, dance, and make art. Watch the sinisterly cute Cylon Roomba!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:roomba hacking robot

Russian Alfa Class Submarine Michael Wernecke
A five-foot Russian radio-controlled submarine built from scratch of epoxy and fiberglass with highly detailed exterior. It submerges and surfaces with compressed air.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:

Sci-Fi Car Enhancements Damien Stolarz and Ajay Juneja
Computers eventually infiltrate every industry they touch, and the automotive industry is no exception. Installing a PC in your car will give you tommorow's sci-fi features today.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:carpc in-car computing carputer

Science & Art Surprises Thomas Humphrey

Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Tags:

Science in a CD Holder Resource Area for Teaching
Explore science and math concepts using devices and instruments made from compact disc packaging including a solar cooker, liquid accelerometer, zoetrope, and 20 other hands-on investigations.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Science Tags:science "creative re-use" creative+repurposing magnetism static+electricity circuits models edu

SciVan A Schmahl Science Workshop
Put the “sizzle” back in science. Take apart engines next to a biodiesel van full of hands-on science projects.
Type: Attraction Topic: Science Tags:science+education

Searching for ET with SETI@home Dan Werthimer
Are we alone? Discover life in the universe--or at least the possibility of it. Learn how your computer could be the one to detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.
Type: Presentation Topic: Tags:

Secret Tree Aichen Lin
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.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:cardboards LEDs Arduino MAX

SEEMEN Kal Spelletich
Born in junkyards and dumpsters, these unusual art-bots invite you perceive the world and your place within it differently by interacting with them.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Tags:

Sensor Control of Music and Visuals Peter Kirn
Sock monkeys as DJ tools? Wii controllers as musical instruments? Animations generated wirelessly through distance sensors? Learn to produce sound and visuals with readily available sensor-to-computer kits.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Science Tags:midi sensors how-to make physical+computing visuals vj music

Shipyard Projects Kimric Smythe
This homemade "uniflow" steam engine showcases how to build a simple yet powerful working engine from one compressor cylinder, valves, and little bits of metal.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:

Show robot "Remote" Gilles De Bordeaux

Type: Topic: Engineering Tags:Art+bots robots robotics

Show robots "Ziggy", "Flik", "Squeaky the Giant Spider" and "The Mummy" Aiden Donaldson , Nick Donaldson , Orion Donaldson , Rebecca Donaldson

Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:Art+bots robots robotics

Show-n-Tell-n-Try DIY Projects with Instructables Dan Goldwater
A dozen popular Instructables projects, featuring: any-color lighting, beanbag sofa, wobble bike, polyhedron lampshades, nickel ring, giant steel skeleton hand, and fantastic LED projects galore.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:led instructables

Silicon Death Valley The Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)
A tribute to obsolete technology, this graveyard features live builds from discarded materials—from the familiar to the unidentifiable. Make and take your own souvenir of consumerism madness.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:technology creativity

Silver Robots Jana Brevick
Design and function meet in this artist's fine articulations, big control panels, and concepts influenced by old technology, chemistry and the quirks of human nature.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:

Simple Sewing Lotta Jansdotter
The author of "Simple Sewing: Patterns and How-To for 24 Fresh and Easy Projects" shares the inspiration behind and projects from her new book. Afterwards, she will sign books and answer your crafty questions.
Type: Presentation Topic: Crafts Tags:crafts sewing

Skyline: An Amazing Balloon & Wind Sculpture Robert Bose
A line of balloons creates a combination windsock-kite that morphs into different shapes as it plays on the wind.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:helium balloons art

Small House Project Jay Shafer
Step inside a tiny house on wheels that has all the comforts of home you can need. Discuss the merits of smaller houses and the pitfalls of oversized houses.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:

Sociable Tandem Vehicles Jay Bain
You can test drive these two-person bicycle cruisers sitting side-by-side with a friend, then learn the key steps to making one yourself.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:sociable+tandem art+bicycle green multi-person fun safe comfort welding "off-the-shelf"

Society for Creative Anachronism Barony of the Westermark
Slip four centuries or more into the past to experience the Barony of the Westermark's take on everything from archery to smithing, weaving to scribing.
Type: Attraction Topic: Crafts Tags:

Sock Monkey Madness Spins & Needles
Learn to make your very own plush sock monkey from a new pair of socks. Then take the little guy home with you. All materials and instructions provided.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:craft project DJ music

Solar Energy Disc Sharon Smith
This disc with a prismatic lens converts solar energy quite efficiently. Housed in a cylinder, its attractive design compliments the outside environment, unlike roof-mounted units.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:

Solarbotics BEAM Robots Solarbotics Ltd.
Dave Hrynkiw of Solarbotics will be showing off four of their kits, which will be available for purchase in the Maker Store.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:robotics solar

Solder Without Electricity Kee Nethery
No electricity? No problem! You can solder in any tight spot with a common butane lighter. You'll see how to repair broken cables and wires anywhere without electricity.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:solder wiring

Sparky 2, The Autonomous Telepresence Robot Marque Cornblatt
Put your face on the robot! This self-powered, mobile, interactive videochat robot can be operated remotely over the internet. It improves the design presented at last year's Faire.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:robot telepresence autonomous video chat ichat

Spinning with Rapunzel Meaghan Snider
Once upon a traditional Ashford spinning wheel, raw fiber becomes great skeins of yarn, that may, perhaps, live happily ever after as long, braided ladders (in another tale?)
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:spinning wheel

Spins & Needles Craft + DJ Session: Mixing Beats + Making Stuff Spins & Needles
Work on hip projects (sock monkeys, pixel bead projects and DIY t-shirt printing) while listening to funky beats in sessions that mix craft and music.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Crafts Tags:craft project DJ music

Spirograph CNC Machine John Guy
This low-cost CNC machine, made from reused and easy-to-find parts, can make 3D objects in wood, foam and plastic. Today it will draft beautiful spirographs.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:homemade+cnc diy+cnc "low-cost cnc"

SS Alpha Fox Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate
A former civil service vehicle re-imagined as a giant child's toy, SS Alpha Fox captures the past's vision of the future and flaunts two kinetic fire sculptures.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:ss alpha fox, array, Mate, Sarriugarte, Jon, Kyrsten, fire, SRL, Oakland, Form & Reform

Star Wars reproductions R2-D2, C-3PO, and more! R2 vs 3PO
R2-D2 is here in several forms, all home-build, using stuff that you can make yourself. 3PO is being made right here - watch as we vacuum form and pour his parts! Trooper outfits were all vacuum formed for about $150.
Type: Topic: Tags:Star+Wars robots robotics

Stereoscopic 3D Cameras and Displays The Stereo Club of Southern California
The members of the Stereo Club of Southern California (SCSC) present many of their unique 3D imaging camera rigs, display devices, and stereoscopic imagery.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:"3-D" stereoscopic photography video cinema camera rig display anaglyph polaroid polarization phanto

Stirling Engine Donald Isaac
This Stirling engine outputs 600 watts. A dozen years have evolved it from proof-of-concept to a pressurized engine that produces mechanical power from propane fuel.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:Stirling+engine energy+conversion efficient+power+production clean+energy

Suminagashi Jessica Henricks
This traditional Japanese artform uses water, ink, and air currents to generate beautiful, natural forms that can be transferred to paper.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts Tags:

Super Stencilling Spins & Needles
Learn how to print the easy way using stencils. Print your stencil of choice on a tote bag or wallet to take home with you. All materials and instructions provided.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts Tags:craft project DJ music

Superplexus Michael McGinnis
See the 20-year development of this 3D maze-like game. A high school student stuck with his great idea until it became a real toy.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Superplexus toy game invention sculpture fun topology maze labryinth escher mobius interactive 3d "t

Survival Research Labs Survival Research Labs
A rare opportunity to meet Mark Pauline and his cohorts, human and machine, behind the legendary mechanical performances dubbed "the most dangerous shows on Earth."
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:

Swap-O-Rama-Rama Swap-O-Rama-Rama
Get rid of your tired clothes. Swap it or refashion old into new! A Maker Faire ticket plus any size bag of unwanted (but clean) clothes admits you to this textile paradise.
Type: Attraction Topic: Crafts Tags:swap swaporamarama clothing fashion sewing modding

Tango, A Narrow Electric Car Jorg Brown
This 39"-wide EV goes zero to 60 in four seconds. Only three currently exist. Get a peek at how it was constructed (from a kit!)
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:fast electric vehicle NiMH battery

Tarantulas Jug Band The Tarantulas Jug Band
Early 20th-century musicians began playing on cigar boxes, washboards, and so on. Hear ragtime, tin-pan-alley, Delta blues, rockabilly, and work songs on homemade jug-band instruments.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:jug band music home-made instruments

Tea and Circuitry Randy Sarafan
You are cordially invited to drink tea and make things. The menu includes: peppermint, chamomile, chai, hot glue, capacitors, copper, googly eyes, solenoids, glitter, and cookies.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:art craft design circuitry DIY tea

Tech Challenge The Tech Museum of Innovation
Tough scenarios inspired by real-world engineering problems have challenged nearly 12,000 youth from across the Bay Area. Come see the finest, most creative solutions!
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Engineering Kids Innovation Mars

TechShop TechShop
Come to the TechShop area and try your hand at using some of the machines and equipment available at this local, membership-based workshop.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:mill milling machine lath MIG TIG welder welding plasma cutter laser cutter 3D printing 3D printer s

Tesla Coil Twins Greg Leyh
These two nine-foot Tesla Coil towers will operate for ten minutes every hour on the hour.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:lightning, Tesla, electricity

The Art of Motion Control Bruce Shapiro
The history of Bruce Shapiro's large-scale motion control installations at national and international science centers.
Type: Presentation Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:art kinetic+art CNC algorithmic+art motion+control

The Brink of Creative Expression Jaipal Parath
Mix images, text and vector graphics to create presentations or image files without the necessity of expensive, platform dependent software with Brink.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:presentation+software creative+software image+creation+software

The Crucible The Crucible
Two Fire Trucks-- educational response vehicles--demonstrate welding, torch cutting, blacksmithing and firepower. See the custom-built Die Moto, a motorcycle that consumes diesel, biodiesel, or straight vegetable oil.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts Tags:Welding blacksmithing foundry moldmaking glass jewelry neon light FIRE kinetics machine+shop stone

The Disgusting Spectacle Team Spectacle
Inspired by Tim Hunkin's 1979 coin-op nose-picking machine, made bigger and grosser. It's huge. It has nostrils. A finger goes in. Boogers come out. Eeeeew!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Tim+Hunkin Disgusting+Spectacle Hamster+wheel nose nosepicking Don+Bruce Tracy+Feldstein

The Eccentric Cubicle Kaden Harris
Let this worker bee inspire you to bring the philosophy of 'Improvisational Fabrication' back to your own mundane office.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science Tags:Eccentric+Genius Improvisational+Fabrication Eccentric+Cubicle

The Evolution Control Committee: Live Infringement TradeMark Gunderson
With credits including inventing a music genre (the mashup) and a cease-and-desist from CBS, The ECC's party-science Thimbletron performance is not to be missed.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:copyright sampling music

The Exhale System Matt Jones
This sculptural installation inflates and deflates like an industrial respiratory system made of an air compressor, 20 bicycle inner tubes, solenoid valves, electrical components, and recycled materials. (2003-05)
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Science Tags:art sculpture artificial+life kinetic+sculpture biology

The Great Puppet Musical The Un-Scripted Theater Company
Specializing in exclusively improvised, handcrafted theater, The Un-Scripted Theater Company presents its newest show. Puppets they made star in scenes and songs determined by you!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts | Crafts Tags:improv theater puppets music singing crafts performance handmade

The ORB James Nick Sears
Displaying surface images of spherical objects in true 3D, the Orb allows the viewing of information -- such as the breakup of Pangea -- with unprecedented perspective.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:display 3d earth visualization persistence+of+vision pov

The Time Outs and The Devil-Ettes The Time Outs and The Devil-Ettes
Toe-tapping tunes send tykes and go-go dancers jumping. Submit to the songwriting contest before the set or online—and hear the winning lyrics premiered live!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:

The Woz Steve Wozniak
Meet the renowned Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist who helped shape the computing industry.
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:woz wozniak apple

Thereping Vern Graner
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: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science Tags:Thereping theremin electronic+music Basic+Stamp "Parallax" The+Robot+Group

TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball Greg Maletic
Learn about Pinball 2000, an industry giant’s effort to resuscitate the withering fortunes of pinball back in 1999, and about the documentary that tells this fascinating story.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:pinball documentary film movie

TinkerThink Mechanical Puzzle Aaron Geman
Pinballs roam a web of tracks in this mechanical puzzle/kinetic sculpture prototype. You can control the machine with cranks and levers in order to solve the puzzle.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Aaron Geman TinkerThink TinkerThink.net kinetic sculpture mechanical puzzle rube goldberg

Total Annihilation Total Annihilation
Fronted by 11-year-old Eddy Demon, these young masters of kid punk annihilate the universe, starting with your eardrums and everything in between!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:rock music, kid band

Trio 1 Jeremy Boyle
A trio of self-playing MIDI-controlled pneumatic instruments--guitar, bass and drums--performs original compositions.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:midi-controlled pneumatic instruments

Uke-y Stardust Kelly McCubbin / Ukeapocalypse
Kelly "The Ukulele Apocalypse" McCubbin and his extended band of variously-attired uke-heads will perform David Bowie's "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars," from beginning to end, cabaret-style, entirely on ukulele and other cheap instruments. Freak out! All right!
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts Tags:ukulele Ziggy+Stardust ukeapocalypse

Unusual Home-Built Cycles Tom Kabat, Bob Gillis, and Max Chen
It's fun and easy to build unique bikes from scrap wood, furniture, dumpster finds, old bike parts and imagination. Recycle your old and new ideas here.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts | Engineering Tags:Wooden+Bikes, "woodenbikes", home+built+bikes

Vehicles: Short John Silver Art Car Edward Haas
This go-cart for land-lubber pirates cannot sneak up on victims at night, but its fanciful use of EL wire gets a hearty "YO-HO!"
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering Tags:electroluminescence mechanics art+car

Vintage Manual Typewriter to Bluetooth Keyboard Hack Mark Delman
Operate an Apple Bluetooth keyboard that was once an Art Deco 1941 Remington Streamliner typewriter. And learn the secrets to make your own!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:

Vintage PDP-8e Minicomputer Willard MacDonald
This recently restored PDP-8E minicomputer, originally released in 1971 by Digital, has a whopping 32K words of core memory, input of 12 binary switches, and output of 12 light bulbs.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:antique+computer "PDP-8"

Vintage Wi-Fi Internet Radio Al Linke
Which century is it, anyway? Span the decades as you scan the dials of this old-fashioned receiver, tuning it to any modern Internet Wi-Fi station.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Crafts Tags:Wi-Fi Radio, Vintage Radio, Internet Radio

VJ Kung Fu / Retinal Rumble Surya Buchwald
Your video performance headquarters features tutorials, hands-on VJ software, interactive AV projects, DVDs, books and more. Bring your favorite videos and mix them up in our Retinal Rumble.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts Tags:vj audiovisual performance

Walking Robotic Chariot Bob Schneeveis
This walking mechanical man demonstrates bio-mechanics and solar electric propulsion while pulling a chariot behind him.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:Electric Electric+Vehicle Chariot robot robotic Solar Mechanical+Man

Wall Wars: The Bookshelf vs. Art Truce Norman Sperling
Art-loving bibliophiles! Have bookshelves consumed all your vertical surfaces? Walls full of books need not preclude hanging art. This simple construction trick will bring peace to your library.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:

wardrobe_remix Tricia Royal
Share your flare for everyday creative outfits. Post pictures of yourself donning your unique threads. Be inspired by trendsetters, and spur other fashion mavens with your style.
Type: Presentation Topic: Arts Tags:fashion, street+fashion, d.i.y.,

Wearable Computing Hacks Ross Bochnek
Repurposed hardware plus a handmade connector hack yield a wearable computing configuration for an Archos Pocket Media Assistant / Personal video recorder. Learn to hack your own!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:Wearable Computing, Glogging, Cyborg, Hardware Hacks, Mobile, Video

Weekend Projects/Drawbot Bre Pettis and Phillip Torrone
Stop by and meet Phillip and Bre of the blog and podcast who will be putting the drawing robot through its paces!
Type: Presentation Topic: Engineering Tags:weekend projects bre+pettis

Windmills from the Trash Heap Ted Baer
Come see a variety of windmills, made from such unlikely materials as garbage cans, bicycle wheels, salad bowls, and more.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts | Engineering Tags:windmill, windmills, bicycle+wheels alternative+energy

Windows Embedded Devices Bill Mar
More and more consumer devices are running Microsoft Windows Mobile/Embedded software. You don't have to be a large company with hundreds of engineers to build these devices; many are designed by small teams. See what tools are used!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering Tags:

World War II PT-588 Boat
This remote-controlled 1:16 scale model of a WWII patrol torpedo boat boasts operational rockets, smokescreen, and cannon. The three-year project incorporates parts from around the globe.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Tags:

Worm Dissection Ambidextrous Magazine
Dissect many kinds of worm (-gear-driven devices, large and small) to get a taste of Functional Dissection, a core feature of Ambidextrous Magazine.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:mechanical design dissection

Wrightspeed Electric Supercar Ian Wright and Rich Hilleman
The lightweight Wrightspeed X1can go zero to 100mph in 6.8 seconds, beating some of the world's fastest supercars. Plus it's quiet, easy-to-drive, and purely electric.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering Tags:electric+car

X-Cycle Electric Convertible Avian Motors
This custom, 3-wheeled, uniquely styled, highly efficient electric convertible handles like an ordinary car, reaching up to 75 mph, but has a tandem seat.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:electric vehicle

XGameStation Pico Edition 2.0 Andre Lamothe
Stop by the Maker Store and learn about the XGameStation Pico 2.0; build it and write some games for it!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science Tags:retro gaming

Yo-Yo to Wow You Doctor Popular
Five minutes, music, and a yo-yo is all Dr. Popular needs to amaze you with the newest styles of innovative yo-yo play.
Type: Presentation Topic: Arts Tags:yo-yo Makers+Faire Doctor+Popular

Your Master's Voice Modesto Tamez and Peter Richards
See some stunning effects of sound on everyday materials, as presented by two long-time Exploratorium staff members.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Science Tags:

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