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1 to 170 of 1703D-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
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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
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
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
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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"
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
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
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
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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 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
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
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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
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
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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
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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,
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
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 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
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
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
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!
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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 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
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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
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
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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
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"
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
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"
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 Make Portable Leaf Fountains
Denise King
Learn to make a portable leaf fountain.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Science
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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
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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
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”
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
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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
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
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
Lemon Lime Lights
Lemon Lime Lights
Tangos, waltzes, and punk-ass rock make for a Junkyard Cabaret.
Type: Interactive Performance Topic: Arts
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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 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 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
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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 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
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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
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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 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
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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 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 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 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
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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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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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
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Pneumatic Machines
Bernie Lubell
Play with these intricate, whimsical machines.
Type: Topic: Arts
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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
Re Cycle Saloon
Jamie Vaida
Build motorcycles from found objects.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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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"
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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 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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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