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1 to 76 of 76Aquaskipper 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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 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
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
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
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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
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
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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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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
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
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
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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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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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
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 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 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 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 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 Sound Toys
The Exploratorium Outreach Program
Create Bee Buzzers and Sound Sandwiches with the Exploratorium.
Type: Topic: Crafts | Science
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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
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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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
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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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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