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Demonstration Workshops
1 to 64 of 64Blimp 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
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
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
Embedded Microprocessors for Stand-Alone Kiosks
Ray Gruenig
Learn a key skill used in many electronically enhanced museum exhibits.
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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
Experimenting with Magnets
Paul Doherty
Magnets can seem like magic, but there's real physics behind their befuddling tricks.
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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
How To Crochet
Cecily Keim
Crochet can do just about anything knitting can do, with just one needle instead of two. Whatever your whim, there is likely a crochet technique to use to build your idea.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:crochet
How To Crochet 3D Shapes
Cecily Keim
Out-of-this-world forms and elegant shapes in the universe inspire these crocheted projects. Learn how a hook and yarn can sculpt a 3D fabric hyperbolics and much more.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:crochet
How To Crochet Granny Squares
Cecily Keim
It's a classic, but your own grandmother may not know how to make one. Come on by to learn how, and you can take it home to Gramma.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:Crochet
How to Design and Build Wooden Bikes
Tom Kabat
Learn unusual design and easy construction techniques to use to build your own unique, fantastic bike at home.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
Tags:Bikes, Bicycles, Woodenbikes
How to Knit in the Round
Susan Herrick
Demystify circular knitting. Learn to work with one and two circular needles, double-pointed needles, and the Magic Loop! Come learn a cutting-edge trick or a new skill.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:Knit, knitting, yarn
How to Make Portable Leaf Fountains
Denise King
Learn to make a portable leaf fountain.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Science
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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 Yarn
Jamie Marie Chan
Be a spinmeister! Learn the basic tools and techniques of hand spinning. Try using a hand spindle and experiment with a spinning wheel.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:spinning, yarn making, fiber arts,
How to Yo-Yo
Doctor Popular
Learn to use and maintain a modern yo-yo from a master of the art.
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Tags:yo-yo Makers+Faire Doctor+Popular
Make Your Own Bead Jewelry
Susan Beal
Use simple wire techniques and vintage beads to create a pair of simple, stylish earrings--and a necklace or pendant--after your own fashion.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:jewelry beads jewelrymaking bead+simple diy crafty
Make Your Own Blinkybug
Ken Murphy
Use simple electronic parts to build your own blinking insect with motion-detecting antennae. Any bump or breeze activates their LED eyes in a delightful way.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:robots robotics art electronics workshop leds
Make Your Own Board Game
SCRAP
Invent a game that nobody has ever played before! Sunday only.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Crafts
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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 Electronic Firefly
Micro-Kids
Young adults, get your hands on microcontrollers with Micro-Kids! Program and take home a small device that can sense light, blink its LEDs, and more. (ages 11-17; materials fee: $15)
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
Tags:microcontroller kids programming
Make Your Own 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 Gocco Prints
Francois Paultre
This clever, hard-to-get Japanese printing technology makes it a snap to print your own stationery, cards, and zines in minutes. Try this cult favorite and you too will be loco for Gocco.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:paper, gocco, book-binding
Make Your Own Handcrafted Headphones
Sebastian Martin
Why buy buds for your ears when you can make your own?
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
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Make Your Own Handheld Animated Butterflies
Roger Sonntag
Create your own winged creatures, then hold them in your hands as they fly and wiggle. (ages 3 and up)
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts | Science
Tags:flying+magnets
Make Your Own HiFi Bicycle Cruising System
Paul Freedman
Design your own Soul Cycle, a beautiful, powerful bike sound system. Bicycle rap artist Fossil Fool reveals the basics of bicycle audio and how to organize a successful cruiser ride.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:bicycle cruising audio SoulCycle
Make Your Own 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 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 Painting
The Playful Invention and Exploration (PIE) Network
Use colored lights in our dark tent to make a beautiful, abstract image of motion that you can take home with you.
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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 Mousey the Junkbot
Gareth Branwyn
Build a zippy little light-hungry roborodent out of decommissioned analog computer mice and other recycled and cheap analog electronic parts. All skill levels welcome.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
Tags:robotics Mousey+the+Junkbot electronics
Make Your Own 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 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 Tapeless Cassette Player
Julie Yu
When you get stranded on a deserted island, you'll be glad you have this survival skill under your belt!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
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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 Veeblefetzers
Rachel McConnell and Annie Shao
Love everything blinky, wiggly, and fluffy? Of course you do! Incorporate electronics into soft, stuffed toys as you make a blinky-eyed Veeblefetzer.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:sewing electronics LED stuffed
Make Your Own Vibrobot
Mark Frauenfelder
Learn to make the Vibrobot featured on the cover of MAKE 10, and meet the editor of MAKE who will show you how you can make your own!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
Tags:vibrobot make robot
Make Your Own Video Game Pixel Projects
Spins & Needles
Using iron and beads, design an image of your favourite video game character. Take home cool pixelated objects to wear or to display. All materials and instructions provided.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:craft project DJ music
Make Your Own Water Rockets
Morgan Woodson
Build a "Coney" back-gliding water rocket from a plastic bottle and cardboard. Learn to construct simple and complex launchers, fins, and nosecones. Materials supplied.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
Tags:rocketry plumbing
Make Your Own Wet-Felted Wool Beads and Patches
Rachel Hospodar
Learn to wet-felt durable textile shapes of your own creation. Make a necklace or a patch to sew onto your clothes.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:wool, felt,
Make Your Own Yoda Doll
Bonnie Burton
A Jedi crafter must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. Serious fans of all ages come craft cute but simple Yoda dolls!
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Crafts
Tags:star+wars crafts
Maker Store Demo: Raphael Abrams
Brian Jepson
12pm-1pm. Raphael Abrams will be in the Maker Store showing off the Daisy MP3 player.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering | Science
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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
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
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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Plug-In Hybrid Car Conversions
California Cars Initiative
Plug in your Prius! See how to add a larger battery and electronic components that allow a hybrid car to juice up from electricity as well as gasoline.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
Tags:Auto DIY environment electric+vehicles entrepreneur
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
Retro-Gaming Hacks
Joe Grand
Homebrew games and hardware, created by gamers, for gamers, combine nostalgia with modern technology--just for the thrill and challenge. Play with Atari and other retro gaming goodies.
Type: Demonstration Workshop Topic: Engineering
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Science & Art Surprises
Thomas Humphrey
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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
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
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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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
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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