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1 to 103 of 103Bazaar 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
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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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,
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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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
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”
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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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
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 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 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 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
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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 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
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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 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 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
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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-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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
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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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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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
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 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
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