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1 to 61 of 61Air Raid
Tim Hunkin
Designed in 1981 for The Seagull theatre using old bicycle and auto bits and recycled timber, this pair of flying gulls plop mint candies. Ready, aim, drop!
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:game coin-op entertainment
ArtCar Fest
Philo Northrup
The largest exhibition of art cars on the West Coast, ArtCar Fest is the only event in the world devoted exclusively to ArtCars.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
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Bazaar 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
Black Rock Arts Foundation
Rachel Weidinger
Bringing the spirit and intention of Burning Man beyond Black Rock City, the BRAF fosters civic engagement and public interaction in a wider context.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:Burning+Man "ScrapEden" art
Blooming Cosmic Inferno
Evan Tracy
This sputtering, popping, droning sculpture resembles a biomechanical ember of a planet sprouting tentacles tipped with multicolored, fiery blooms.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
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Carnival Dump Tank
Bruce Gee
Get wet! Score a sloppy mess for the home team with this homemade dunk tank, built with common parts from a hardware store.
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Cellestial Body
Michael Christian
This large, hollow metal pod emits subtle sounds and mysterious lights and responds to your presence.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
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Clock of the Long Now
The Long Now Foundation
Handle and run parts of a monument-scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock, its orrery, and chime generator.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:clock metal stainless+steel monel tungsten mechanical future
Cyclecide Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo
Cyclecide
Monster bikes, music and comedy sketches lassoed into a clown rodeo which includes: The Pedal-Powered and Kiddie-Powered Carousels and Ferris Wheel; The Dizzy Toy; The Cyclo-fuge; The Whirl & Hurl; The Melody Maker; The Flight of the Bumble Bee; and Alter-bikes
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:transportation bikes engineering "man-powered" circus carnival attraction
Doggie Diner
St. Stupid and friends
From their humble commercial beginnings spinning above local fast food joints, these heads were decreed icons of The First Church of the Last Laugh in 1996.
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Electric Giraffe
Frank Lawlor
Look out for this huge, walking robot giraffe roaming the grounds! He doesn't eat leaves, just electricity and propane.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering | Science
Tags:robotics robot+animals, Rave+Raffe
Exploratorium
Exploratorium
A wonderful collection of exhibits, demos, activities, prototypes, and experiments, including handmade headphones, holographic graffiti, sound sandwiches, light paintings, a leaf fountain, a fog pool, and much more!
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Science
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Fire Sculpture Robots and Electric Motorcycles
Justin Gray
See a few fantastic fire sculpture robots, including Darwin and Copper Oxide, that accentuate subtle industrial beauty of the world around us.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
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Flaming Lotus Girls
Flaming Lotus Girls
Enjoy portions of fire-art sculpture "The Angel of the Apocalypse" and "The Seven Sisters." Learn about the technology used to create its propane-powered fire "poofers".
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:fire+art propane angel+of+the+apocalypse sculpture poofer
Flaming Lotus Girls Film
Olivier Bonin
In footage from Seven Sisters (2004) through their recent trip to Australia, Flaming Lotus Girls shine in this sneak peek at a documentary in the making.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:documentary fire film art women girls metal metal+arts fire+arts
Gasifier
Jim Mason
This combustion gas generator converts wood or any burnable substance into a gas that can power an engine.
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Giant Bop-It
Matt Wirth
Bop it, Twist it, Pull it. Test your skill by following the voice commands.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:"Bopit"
Gravity Rally Car
Bryan Reinero
Weld two mountain bikes together, add a seat, and you'll have a safe roll-structure called a gravity rally car perfect for bush league racing.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:rally car dunebuggy offroad atv
Greathouse Labs
Lance Greathouse
See the Sandman (a 750-pound walking machine), TrackThing (a mobile propane cannon), Robobust (a talking robot bust), an electric motorcycle and scooter, a golf ball cannon, a pneumatic can crusher, and other machines.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:Robots machines
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
HatManDo Offline Multiplayer Games
William Nye and Yun-Sook Joh
In this series of interactive games (pronounced "hat-man-due"), players move around a room to move their face icon on a large projected game screen.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:multiplayer+game offline teamwork cooperation
Hullaballoo
Eric Paulos
Dynamically generating new urban sonic experiences, these “Objects of Wonderment” radically expand our expectations of mobile phones. Contribute your own unique, personal sound to this place-based ringtone mix.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:mobile phone mashup object of wonderment
Human-Powered Train
Paul Cesewski
This homemade, human-powered train travels on abandoned railroads. Re-experience its backroad adventures as documented via a Super 8 camera.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:transportation train cyclecide "man-powered" DIY
Interactive Oracles
MOTO
This large round table uses technology to allow more than one person to interact with displays by touch - in diverse lighting situations.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:multitouch
Kinetic Pastry Science Mobile Muffins
Greg Solberg
Hungry for mechanical yumminess? Meet the drivers of these giant muffin- and cupcake-shaped electric vehicles with unique fluffy toppings—and get plans to build your own.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:muffins cupcakes electric+vehicles electric+cupcakes
King of Fling Catapult Contest
Bill Gurstelle
See who becomes the Count of Catapults, the Earl of Hurl, the Baroness of Ballistas. Saturday only.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:king+of+fling fling ballistics potato+cannon cannons catapults trebuchets
LEGO Train Town and Village
Bay Area LEGO Users Group
This lively landscape--constructed by local fans of LEGO--includes Hogwarts village, Mindstorms train controls, "Goofy Train", a long 100% LEGO bridge, and lots of LEGO trains.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:lego trains robotics modeling toys
Life-Sized Mousetrap
Mark Perez
A 25,000-lb superbly interactive play structure, this "vaudevillian encounter" challenges you to make the simple outrageously complex. Get a piece of the action in this megaversion of the classic board game.
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Lil Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum
Michael Schiess
Outfitted with its own jukebox and six vintage pinball machines, this 1947 Spartan Manor has been rebuilt with a hydraulic leveling system, reinforced frame, and Torflex suspension.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
Tags:pinball trailer mobile+museum
Machine Project
Machine Project
Meet a group of interesting artists doing interesting work who are interested in you. Stuff is going on but you can come by, sit down, hang out, and be social.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Science
Tags:machine+project machineproject mark+allen wii banjo monome hydroponics phil+ross corey+fogel
Man-Made Lightning
Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics
This 5-foot-tall Tesla Coil generates dazzling, long, electrical arcs while also revealing basic physics principles with the Jacob's Ladder, Faraday's Cage, and grounding.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:tesla+coil electricity zorro knight faradays+cage
Mercedes Pens Art Car
Costas Schuler
Have any dead pens lying around? Bring them by to add to the 5000+ writing implements on this 1981 300 SD Mercedes Pens neé Benz.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:Art+Car Mercedes+Pens The Pen Guy" Recycled Pens PVC+instrument Funny Humor
monochrom: Law and Second Order
monochrom
These roving musician-philosophers will confront you with concepts, yielding a joyful bucket of good clean fanaticism, crisis, language, culture, self-content, identity, utopia, mania and despair.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:roving band performance concept
Neverwas
Neverwas Haul
This steam-powered car is made of a 100-year-old dog cart, a steam cleaner tubing coil, a machined "sliding-D" valve, and steam-rated plumbing left over from the previous century.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:steam+technology Victorian science+fiction steam+art
O'Reilly Hacks
O'Reilly Hacks
Learn how to hack your car, do amazing things with digital video, make your home and office network secure, map the world in amazing ways, get the most out of Linux, and much more. Several of our Hacks authors will be on hand throughout Maker Faire. Stop by the Hacks booth (just outside the MAKER store) and let the Hacks authors help you hack your world!
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:hacks books hacker
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.
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Power Tool Drag Races
Power Tool Drag Races
Super Stock off-the-shelf machines and full-tilt multi-motor Top Fuel monstrosities go head-to-head in this capacitor-blowing shrapnel mayhem. Thrill to the speed and smells as hardware store favorites battle down a racetrack to glory.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:Tools Engineering Beer
QuadPod Hang-Gliding Simulator
The Thompsons
Climb into a hang-glider harness and take off on a simulated flight above the rim of the Grand Canyon down to a land on the canyon floor.
Type: Attraction Topic: Science
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Quickup Pickup Camper
Jay Baldwin
The exceptionally roomy, radical, patented pickup-based RV is uniquely stable, agile and efficient (about 20 mpg — more than double that of conventional designs with similar amenities).
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science
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Rambot
Joni Carlson
This remotely controlled, 4-wheel drive robot can pick up inflatable pool rings and play tic-tac-toe on a tall rack with its a custom-made grabber arm.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
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Redneck Pool Heater
Todd Harrison
To warm you up on those cooler days, see how you can use a standard outdoor gas grill to heat a small in-ground swimming pool.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:redneck pool heater pool+heater water+heater gas grill
RoboGames Presents: The ComBot Cup
RoboGames
Rev your microprocessors with two days of grudge matches and class competitions. What attack hacks will prevail? This rowdy event will deliver $10,000 in prizes to the toughest, hottest bots on the block.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:Robot Engineering
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
SciVan
A Schmahl Science Workshop
Put the “sizzle” back in science. Take apart engines next to a biodiesel van full of hands-on science projects.
Type: Attraction Topic: Science
Tags:science+education
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
Skyline: An Amazing Balloon & Wind Sculpture
Robert Bose
A line of balloons creates a combination windsock-kite that morphs into different shapes as it plays on the wind.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:helium balloons art
Small House Project
Jay Shafer
Step inside a tiny house on wheels that has all the comforts of home you can need. Discuss the merits of smaller houses and the pitfalls of oversized houses.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
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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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Survival Research Labs
Survival Research Labs
A rare opportunity to meet Mark Pauline and his cohorts, human and machine, behind the legendary mechanical performances dubbed "the most dangerous shows on Earth."
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Engineering
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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
Tango, A Narrow Electric Car
Jorg Brown
This 39"-wide EV goes zero to 60 in four seconds. Only three currently exist. Get a peek at how it was constructed (from a kit!)
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:fast electric vehicle NiMH battery
Tech Challenge
The Tech Museum of Innovation
Tough scenarios inspired by real-world engineering problems have challenged nearly 12,000 youth from across the Bay Area. Come see the finest, most creative solutions!
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Engineering Kids Innovation Mars
TechShop
TechShop
Come to the TechShop area and try your hand at using some of the machines and equipment available at this local, membership-based workshop.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags:mill milling machine lath MIG TIG welder welding plasma cutter laser cutter 3D printing 3D printer s
Tesla Coil Twins
Greg Leyh
These two nine-foot Tesla Coil towers will operate for ten minutes every hour on the hour.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:lightning, Tesla, electricity
The Crucible
The Crucible
Two Fire Trucks-- educational response vehicles--demonstrate welding, torch cutting, blacksmithing and firepower. See the custom-built Die Moto, a motorcycle that consumes diesel, biodiesel, or straight vegetable oil.
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts
Tags:Welding blacksmithing foundry moldmaking glass jewelry neon light FIRE kinetics machine+shop stone
The Exhale System
Matt Jones
This sculptural installation inflates and deflates like an industrial respiratory system made of an air compressor, 20 bicycle inner tubes, solenoid valves, electrical components, and recycled materials. (2003-05)
Type: Attraction Topic: Arts | Science
Tags:art sculpture artificial+life kinetic+sculpture biology
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
Walking Robotic Chariot
Bob Schneeveis
This walking mechanical man demonstrates bio-mechanics and solar electric propulsion while pulling a chariot behind him.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:Electric Electric+Vehicle Chariot robot robotic Solar Mechanical+Man
Wrightspeed Electric Supercar
Ian Wright and Rich Hilleman
The lightweight Wrightspeed X1can go zero to 100mph in 6.8 seconds, beating some of the world's fastest supercars. Plus it's quiet, easy-to-drive, and purely electric.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering
Tags:electric+car
X-Cycle Electric Convertible
Avian Motors
This custom, 3-wheeled, uniquely styled, highly efficient electric convertible handles like an ordinary car, reaching up to 75 mph, but has a tandem seat.
Type: Attraction Topic: Engineering | Science
Tags:electric vehicle
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