Maker Faire

Chapman Hill Techno Team  
See the group's skit and dance illustrating their Make Shift idea of being a cast away without fresh water.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Woz  
Steve Wozniak
Meet the renowned Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist who helped shape the computing industry.

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.

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.

The Art of Motion Control  
Bruce Shapiro
The history of Bruce Shapiro's large-scale motion control installations at national and international science centers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cassette Jockey World Championships  
Round One
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.

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.

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.

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.

Cassette Jockey World Championships  
Round Two
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.

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!

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.

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."

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.

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!

Cassette Jockey World Championships  
Finals Round
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.