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Maker Workbenches
1 to 192 of 1923D-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
Anachronistic Clocks
Eric Schlaepfer
This collection of unusual-looking clocks includes a cathode ray tube clock and two Nixie tube clocks.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:nixie CRT scope clocks
Android "Boomer"
Mike Overstreet
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:KungFu Androids robots robotics
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
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"
Autonomous Helicopter Control
Ben Krasnow
Using a feedback control system, pilots can fly a small remote-controlled helicopter autonomously. It can even maneuver through a simple obstacle course.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:helicopter autonomous computer+vision microcontroller
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
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
Carbon Neutral T-Shirt Launcher
Monica Koenig
Professional sports teams take note! Retire your destructive CO2 cannons and use this design for shirt-to-fan delivery. This giant slingshot built from common hardware sends t-shirts flying.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:launcher
Carnival Claw Game
David Randolph
Test your skill--and luck!--with this arcade classic with an Internet twist. Real-time video gives you a claw's-eye view of the loot. Claim your prize, virtually of course.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:web controller claw game
Carputer WRX
Sam Garfield and Jake Haglund
This full-featured, functional Subaru WRX is decked out with real-time remote GPS tracking, navigation, security, and mobile internet, all controlled by touch screen
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:carputer car computer automation
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
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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Cocktail making robots "Gastone", "Alan", "and "Cockbot One"
RoboExotica
Cockbot One mixes 3 different cocktails complete with ice. Alan is a mobile bot offering snacks and drinks. Gastone fetches drinks from a tap when a glass is placed upon him.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:Art+bots robots robotics
Combat robot "BAMBI"
Bryan Cochran
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John Mills
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Melissa Mize
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Michelle Rivero
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Rolando Iglesias
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Tommy Osburn
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Beer Bash"
Robot Fight Club
Beer Bash is a combat robot made from a beer keg supplied by Lagunitas Brewing Company. His motto is "Drink Then Fight." Beer Bash's keggeyness has allowed him to achieve many victories in coolness, though few in reality.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Brutality"
Colleen Shaver
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Paul Ventimiglia
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Crocbot"
Lance Richards
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Lealan Swanson
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Enforcer X"
Joseph Murawski
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Pam Murawski
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Exile", "Sweet Knocker", "The Bomb", "The Ladies Bot", and "Rock and Roll"
Daniel Chatterton
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Kevin French
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Orion Beach
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Zachary Lytle
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Full Smash"
Catherine Houdek
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George Montplaisir
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Phil Houdek
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Lil Bit Wacky"
Chris Baro
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Daniel Baron
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George Baron
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Stass Baron
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Little Black Box"
Brian Anderson
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Kyle Wiens
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Luke Soulesv
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "LNW"
Greg Schwartz
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Travis Schwartz
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Old No. 7"
Bob Girardi
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Kenny Girardi
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Plasma Plus"
Stephen Felk
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Stewie"
James Arluck
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Joe Sena
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robot "Stumpy" and cleaning robot "Rosie the VacBot"
David Wiley
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Helen Wiley
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "Angry Asp", "Pipe Wench", and "Sewer Snake"
Team PlumbCrazy
Sewer Snake is the #1 ranked Heavyweight robot of all time (32 wins, 7 losses). It is the reigning ComBots Cup champion, and the RoboGames international champion.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "CycloneBot" and "Texas Heat"
Eliot Barker
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Gary Mathiesen
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Jeff Hayashida
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Mark Demers
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Michael Worry
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Mohan Gurunathan
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Robert Frankovich
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Tim Bayne
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "Last Rites" and "The Mortician"
Hardcore Robotics
Team Hardcore's specialty is combat robots with very high kinetic energy spinning weapons. Our two entries are The Mortician, which is a 120 pound Middleweight, and Last Rites, which is a 220 pound Heavyweight.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "Original Sin" and "Pirinah 2"
Al Anderson
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Anna Perry
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Dennis Lackey
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Jim Perry
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Kevin Perry
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Robert Jensen
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "Progenitor" and "Prime"
C. Walsh
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "UBRuined" and "DracUCLA"
Anna Davitian
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David Meisenholder
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Dennis Tran
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Jeff Odonohue
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John Propst
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Robert Glidden
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Steven Snyder
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "Unblinking Eye" and "The Bob-omb"
Jeffrey Scholz
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Mark Scholz
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Peter Scholz
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots "Vicious Verdict" and "Devil's Advocate"
Basher Of Bots
Vicious Verdict is an all-electric combat robot, driven by wheelchair motors and using an electric motor to power its 3 foot long steel blade. This blade spins just above floor level, undercutting the tires and undercarriage of other robots.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robot robotics
Combat robots "Whos Your Daddy" and "Come to Mama"
Buffy Yeh
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Forrest Yeh
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Jim Yeh
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
Combat robots Fear Factor" and "Fear Factor Sr. 2"
Dan Wiley
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Ron Palmer
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:combat robots robotics
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
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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Computerized Etch-A-Sketch
Alan Nishioka
Connect a computer to an Etch-a-Sketch to draw spirographs and more.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:engineering, spirograph,
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
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
CTP Design
Chris Palmer
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:art+bots robots robotics
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
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 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
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"
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
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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Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Learn how EFF fights for open source software, encryption, VoIP, file sharing tools, and much more, to protect innovation and advance freedom.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic:
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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
Engineering Projects for Kids
Silicon Valley Engineering Council
Kids come try out simple engineering projects with the Silicon Valley Engineering Council, Society of Women Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:engineering kids
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-fighting robots "Flame Out" and "ISIS"; balancing robot "Flexo"
Bob Allen
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Cory Allen
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Ted Larson
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:Fire+Fighting+Robots robots robotics
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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Free Radio Berkeley
Free Radio Berkeley
Get acquainted with low-power (up to 150 watts) FM and TV transmitter kits designed and manufactured by Free Radio Berkeley that you can use to broadcast community-based media.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:
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 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
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
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
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
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"
Homebrew Mobile Phones
Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club
Why should the telcos have all the fun? Build your own mobile phone! See tools you can use to build your own "mobile convergence devices."
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:mobile phone
Homebrew Segway
Jordan Ross
A self-balancing scooter inspired by and modeled after Trevor Blackwell's Segway at last year's Faire--and made with no prior experience in programming microprocessors.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
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HomebrewCPU - A TTL Computer
Bill Buzbee
Magic-1 is a completely home-built computer (including the CPU) constructed from more then 200 TTL chips and wire-wrap.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:computer cpu ttl wire-wrap
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 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
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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Il Verme, The Renaissance Car
Nathaniel Levine
Turn a crank to drive the worm gears and swing the hoes of this model of a Renaissance era self-propelled, wooden ditch-digging vehicle.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
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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”
Jet Packs and B9
Andrew Filo
B9, the Lost In Space Robot, gets a cybernetic makeover. The jet pack front contains a rocket belt simulator and a micro jet turbine testbed.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:"Jet Pack " Rocket+Belt " Lost In Space Robot" " Micro Jet Engine"
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
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
Lego Mindstorms robots "Game Bot 1", "Game Bot 2", "Race Bot 1", "Robo William" and "AquaKeeper 2.0
Addien Wray
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Alan Wray
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Corwin Wray
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Tirion Wray
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Vanessa Maclaren-Wray
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William Coley
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:Lego+Bots robots robotics
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
Make Controller Kit
Liam Staskawicz
Supporting hobby and professional projects requiring connectivity, ease of use, and control/feedback, this programmable microcontroller interfaces with Max/MSP, Flash, Processing, Java, Python, Ruby - anything that supports OSC.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:sensors actuators controller microcontroller electronics programming mechanical
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 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 Cool Devices: The Marathon
Mitch Altman
Microcontrollers do your bidding! Use inexpensive MiniPOV kits to make quirky gadgets like trippy colored blinky lights, brainwave hallucinators, a simplified TV-B-Gone, or EL-wire sequencers.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
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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 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 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 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
Tags:
Make Your Own Sensing Game Controller
Björn Hartmann
Author sensor-based interactions (like accelerometer tilt control) using the open-source, graphical program Exemplar. Combine it with a board and Flash/Processing to rapidly build your own Nintendo-Wii-style game controller.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:sensors exemplar authoring+tools games
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 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 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
Make Your Own Things in Second Life
Steve Cooley
Calling all avatars. Get a a tour of building tools for making things in Second Life.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:secondlife second+life second life
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 USB Peripherals
Garrett Mace
Build your own USB keyboard, mouse, and joystick devices with Zedomax's easy, open-source HID (human interface device) portal.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:USB HID microcontroller basic+stamp cubloc keyboard mouse joystick input
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
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
Model Engine Builder magazine
Mike Rehmus
Learn to build model internal combustion engines from plans for engines that range from simple to complex.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:Model+Internal+Combustion+Engines Machine+Shop+Techniques Model Engineer"
Model Rocket Video Camera
John Maushammer
Watch a model rocket launch from the perspective of a miniature astronaut. Hack a disposable video camera to fly in a small kit-built rocket.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:Rocket video camera hack
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
Moto Motes
MOTO
A project of MOTO and the Art Center in Pasadena, Motes is an open-source, multi-nodal wireless sensor network platform that is low-cost and easy-to-use.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:robots sensors wireless+devices open+source
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
Multitouch Multimedia Devices
Tim Thompson
All hands on deck! Play with a variety of musical and graphical applications using controllers that detect multiple fingers simultaneously.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:multitouch graphics music python flash
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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
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
Re Cycle Saloon
Jamie Vaida
Build motorcycles from found objects.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Arts
Tags:
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
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
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
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
Robots "Buggy", "Protobot army" and "My little 'Wired' robot
Camp Peavy
,
Delay Soto
,
Dianne Worku
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:art+bots robots robotics
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
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
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
Russian Alfa Class Submarine
Michael Wernecke
A five-foot Russian radio-controlled submarine built from scratch of epoxy and fiberglass with highly detailed exterior. It submerges and surfaces with compressed air.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:
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
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
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
SEEMEN
Kal Spelletich
Born in junkyards and dumpsters, these unusual art-bots invite you perceive the world and your place within it differently by interacting with them.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic:
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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
Tags:
Show robots "Ziggy", "Flik", "Squeaky the Giant Spider" and "The Mummy"
Aiden Donaldson
,
Nick Donaldson
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Orion Donaldson
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Rebecca Donaldson
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:Art+bots robots robotics
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
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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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"
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
Tags:
Solder Without Electricity
Kee Nethery
No electricity? No problem! You can solder in any tight spot with a common butane lighter. You'll see how to repair broken cables and wires anywhere without electricity.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:solder wiring
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
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
Spirograph CNC Machine
John Guy
This low-cost CNC machine, made from reused and easy-to-find parts, can make 3D objects in wood, foam and plastic. Today it will draft beautiful spirographs.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:homemade+cnc diy+cnc "low-cost cnc"
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
Stirling Engine
Donald Isaac
This Stirling engine outputs 600 watts. A dozen years have evolved it from proof-of-concept to a pressurized engine that produces mechanical power from propane fuel.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:Stirling+engine energy+conversion efficient+power+production clean+energy
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
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
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 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 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
TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball
Greg Maletic
Learn about Pinball 2000, an industry giant’s effort to resuscitate the withering fortunes of pinball back in 1999, and about the documentary that tells this fascinating story.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:pinball documentary film movie
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
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
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
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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Vintage PDP-8e Minicomputer
Willard MacDonald
This recently restored PDP-8E minicomputer, originally released in 1971 by Digital, has a whopping 32K words of core memory, input of 12 binary switches, and output of 12 light bulbs.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:antique+computer "PDP-8"
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
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
Wall Wars: The Bookshelf vs. Art Truce
Norman Sperling
Art-loving bibliophiles! Have bookshelves consumed all your vertical surfaces? Walls full of books need not preclude hanging art. This simple construction trick will bring peace to your library.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:
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
Windows Embedded Devices
Bill Mar
More and more consumer devices are running Microsoft Windows Mobile/Embedded software. You don't have to be a large company with hundreds of engineers to build these devices; many are designed by small teams. See what tools are used!
Type: Maker Workbench Topic: Engineering
Tags:
World War II PT-588 Boat
This remote-controlled 1:16 scale model of a WWII patrol torpedo boat boasts operational rockets, smokescreen, and cannon. The three-year project incorporates parts from around the globe.
Type: Maker Workbench Topic:
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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
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