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"Crude Awakening" Action Figures Dan Das Mann + Karen Cusolito–Das Womann
Epiphany, Mumbatu and Ecstasy are three of the figures from "Crude Awakening," a massive collaboration created for the Burning Man event in 2007. One hundred and eighty people contributed in some fashion to the construction of the 100' tall "Revered Oil Derrick," the eight 30' tall figures of the faithful, the fantabulous and explosive pyrotechnics show, the original musical score, and the unforgettable finale that was seared into the minds of the 45,000 who witnessed it.

Location:   Makers Market

 

"Crude Awakening" Welding Workshops Dan Das Mann + Karen Cusolito–Das Womann
Step right up and get your bead on! We will be hosting welding workshops throughout Saturday and Sunday, from 10am 'til 6pm. We will provide gloves, welding hood, instruction, and materials so you can have a go at making your own sculpture. Note: long hair will need to be tied back, no fringie-frayed jeans or open shoes are allowed due to safety issues.

Location:   Outdoors

 

"How to make a Million! (of a thing)"
Examples from the international portfolio of Corbett Griffith illustrating the intersection and interactions between Art, Design, and Engineering.

 

1-Bit Music Tristan Perich
1-Bit Music is a project by artist and composer Tristan Perich that combines his music with primitive, hand-programmed electronics that investigate the foundations of digital sound. Distributed inside a standard CD jewel case, the custom-built electronics synthesize an album of electronic music, illustrating the structure of the circuit and combining that transparent aesthetic with the lowest fidelity sound. (Co-located in the Maker Shed with Loud Objects.)

Location:   Maker Shed

 

10 Years ROBOEXOTICA
Does this robot know how you need your Martini? Yes it does! Presenting the MindReadingMartiniMaker and other award-winning cocktail-robots, the founders of ROBOEXOTICA, the world's leading festival on the matter, announce the american franchise of the cocktail-robotic plot to achieve world-domination. Meet them in the Robogames pavilion.

Location:   Robo Games

 

2πr Interpretive Arson
2πr: A blisteringly interactive large-scale fire toy that translates anyone's movement into fire. A central stage lined with proximity sensors is surrounded by an outer ring of flame effects, creating huge bursts of flame when a dancer moves onstage.

Location:   Outdoors

 

21st Century Woodworking Tools
The founder of ShopBot tells how his company was an outgrowth of his passion for building wooden boats and that led him to create an affordable, capable CNC machine for the rest of us.

 

3 Quick Projects
Come and check out three quick projects you can do yourself... right out of Make Labs!

 

3D Animation Zoetrope
A 3 dimensional animation device was made based on a Zoetrope "stop motion" design. A 12" diameter turntable was built from simple parts and made to spin at 60 rpm. Multiple identical lego men were attached to the top of the turntable,each one with a slight change in position as if running and spaced equally around the turntable. A short duration variable speed LED strobe was designed and used to "stop" the motion of the LEGO men as they spin. The result is a visible 3D animation effect.

Location:   Dark Room

 

3D Printer
A home made 3D printer which prints plastic models from computer file. Based loosely off of the Reprap project.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

56 Ford F100 Biodiesel
Installed a 2-cycle Detroit Diesel engine from a Navy boat into my 1956 Ford truck. I run it on Biodiesel. It gets over 20 mpg. Truck signals a LED lights that I control with a simple 8051 circuit that I threw together. I have been driving the truck for the past 2 years.

Location:   Outdoors

 

914 PC-BOT
It's a PC and it's a Robot! IT’S THE ULTIMATE DEVELOPER’S MACHINE. The 914 PC-BOT is the first general service robot designed for digital life in the home, at work, at school, and at play. Created by White Box Robotics.

 

A Mandolin in Two Days
Fretboard Journal is bringing Rick Turner, a luthier from Santa Cruz, to build a mandolin from a template in 48 hours.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

A Schmahl Science Workshop
Last year, A Schmahl Science Workshop delighted youngsters with four hands-on projects from the SciVan. This year, in addition to the SciVan projects, youngsters will also be able to do bio and bio tech experiments in the BioMobileLab. Schmahl Science puts the "sizzle" back into science!

Location:   Expo Red

 

Abney Park Abney Park
Abney Park comes from an era that never was, but one that we wish had been. An era where airships waged war in the skies, and corsets and cummerbunds were proper adventuring attire. They’ve picked up their bad musical habits, scoundrelous musicians, and anachronistically hybridized instruments from dozens of locations and eras that they have visited in their travels and thrown them into one riotous dervish of a performance. Expect clockwork guitars, belly dancers, flintlock bassists, middleastern percussion, violent violin, and Tesla powered keyboards blazing in a post- apocalyptic, swashbuckling, Steampunk musical mayhem.

 

Abney Park Exhibit
Here is where you will find CD's and T-shirts, and other gear associated with Abney Park.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Abstract Chess
Abstract Chess is the game that you and your stolen office supplies have been waiting for. All you need is an index card, some markers and crayons, and a willingness to scribble. It’s the perfect challenge for anyone who’s ever looked at a Kandinsky or Pollock painting and thought, “I could do that!”

Location:   Robo Games

 

Acme Muffineering
Acme Muffineering presents Kinetic Pastry Science Mobile Muffins. Discover the recipe for a full batch of 1:18 scale mobile muffins. Delicious scratch-built, electric-powered, highly maneuverable, and capable of 18mph+!

Location:   Outdoors

 

AeroPAC High Power Experimental Rocketry
We will have on display several different large rockets as examples of what can be done with this hobby. We will also have construction materials, propellant, motors, etc., on display as well as multiple videos and hand outs. Depending on space we may demonstrate a mid power rocket motor being ignited in the parking lot in a safe stand.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Alcohol Can Be a Gas David Blume
A fast-paced introduction to making moonshine to power your vehicle, garden equipment, or even cooking and heating. Will show how to produce alcohol fuel for about 30 cents per gallon. Powerpoint visuals of equipment how-to's adapting other stuff to work as distilleries or vehicle conversion devices.

 

ALERT: Active Learning Environment with Robotic Tangibles AME ALERT
ALERT uses computer vision fiducial markers placed in an environment to communicate instructions to iRobots, allowing participants to create meaningful environments for robots and engage in competitive and collaborative interactions with the system. We will provide specific technical details allowing participants to learn to use these techniques for their projects

Location:   Expo Red

 

Altered Couture
My line of Altered Couture, a style of design that embellishes existing garments and accessories, represents outfits that have been coordinated using fabrics and paints. Outfits begin with an item of clothing or an accessory, and evolve until an entire ensemble has been created that is as unique as the wearer of the outfit.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Alternative "Mutant" Vehicles
Three vehicles built for fun and to illustrate structural engineering and alternative energy usage (electric and solar vs. gas), and have been "mutant" vehicles at Burning Man. The Solar Trike is a 3-wheeled personal vehicle that appeared in the 2007 Bay Area Maker Faire, Hourglass is an electric powered structure, stands 16' tall and has a 16 x 16 x16 triangular footprint. Driver-operated from mid level. Shaped like an hour glass out of metal conduit tubing. Skychair is pyramidic in shape, has a suspended canvas sling chair, is electric powered and also built from metal tubing conduits.

 

Amateur Radio: Getting On the Air
Demonstration of amateur radio station, with radios, antennas, and related gear; use local repeaters to communicate; learn how to get your FCC license; see how to set up a mobile station you can use anywhere; volunteer for emergency communication in emergencies.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Animate Anything
We'll show you how to use simple controllers to animate anything for a holiday display or prop.

Location:   Robo Games

 

Anomaly
Anomaly will be a kinetic sculpture and adaptive sound and light controller. The sculptural component will be made of scrap bicycles and scrap pipe, welded and bolted into the shape of a tree. Bike wheels in the horizontal plane, suggesting branches, will be fitted with magnets and sensors, allowing them to act as the giant knobs of a huge electronic instrument. The sensors on the wheels as well as other sensors in the rest of the installation will connect to a MIDI controller, that will connect to a computer. Max/MSP programs will generate sounds that will respond to the environment and the movement of the wheels. Anomaly is in process, we will show a prototype.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Applied Kinetic Arts
A group showing of like-minded kinetic sculptors, makers all, who turn scrap and ideas into amazing devices and art.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Aqua Forest Aquarium George & Steven Lo
AFA (Aqua Forest Aquarium) is the first aquarium store in the U.S. dedicated to the Nature Aquarium Style concept. We have the largest selection of aquatic plants in the San Francisco Bay Area, an excellent selection of fresh water tropical fish, and carry a full line of aquarium supplies.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Arduino Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build interesting projects with Arduino. Kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you.

 

Art Lessing and the Flower Vato
We are a DIY ear-friendly music ensemble with a variety of home-made, one-of-a-kind TONAL instruments. The "Space Bass" has become legendary to some in Sacramento. We have been playing the Second Saturday Art Walk in Sacramento for several years where we showcase these creations. We are not a noise outfit or a jam band.

 

ArtCar Fest
The largest exhibition of art cars on the West Coast, ArtCar Fest is the only event in the world devoted exclusively to ArtCars. A sampling of these cars will be at the Faire.

Location:   Expo Red

 

ArtGolf
For 2008 we want to add two new holes, “Demolition Croquet” & “Bad Sign.” In addition we invite Makers to submit proposals on how to make their own hole, using ArtGolf base track.

 

Authentic Innovation
As consumers, we are armed with cash -- the most powerful and efficient mechanism to separate good design from bad. As innovators, we need to respect the cash and we can not begrudge people their inherent awesomeness. Authentic innovators design products that people will not only want to buy, but will want to protect these inspired objects from harm.

 

Automated Electronic Music Tom Grimley
An ensemble of self-constructed automated electronic devices that perform analog experimental music. Each box with speakers plays itself and is made up of circuit boards, motor-driven mechanical interfaces, and variable resistors.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Avian Motors X-Cycle
The X-Cycle is a ground up electric vehicle design optimized for minimum power usage and maximum fun! It is a three wheel reverse trike, with power to the rear wheel and steering from the front.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Axis vs. Allies: Model Warship Battle Rob Wood
Watch 6-foot-long robotic warships duel to the death in a specially built 30’ x 60’ “pond” at this year’s Faire. Sophisticated DIY robotics and guns fire CO2-powered steel balls. Safe for the whole family. Hands-on exhibits and technology demonstrations provided by the Western Warship Combat Club (WWCC) of San Jose, California.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Babbage's Difference Engine Computer History Museum
Learn about the Victorian inventor Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine No. 2, which goes on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

 

Backpackless Bicycle Bite-valve Hydration System
I've designed and constructed a bite-valve hydration system that uses a recycled soda bottle as the water container rather than a backpack. The key component is a purpose-made Delrin stopper on which is mounted a check valve that holds the bottle near atmospheric pressure.

 

Backyard Astronomy with Binoculars Robert Thompson
With the advent of inexpensive, high-power telescopes priced at under $250, amateur astronomy is now within the reach of anyone, and with the right binoculars, you can make this even cheaper. The author of the "Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders" explains how to get started on the cheap, and where to find hundreds of spectacular objects in the deep sky -- double and multiple stars as well as spectacular star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. You can find Robert in the Maker Shed, and he'll also be appearing on the Maker Main Stage as well as the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Fiesta Blue  Maker Shed

 

BallFrog FIRST Robotics Team 100
"BallFrog" is Team 100's (Woodside/Carlmont Robotics Team) robot created for the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition. This robot led the winning alliance at the Silicon Valley Regional and won the Motorola Quality Award at two separate regionals. Each year through FIRST, Team 100 members have a fascinating real-world engineering experience.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Batik Chic
This is a demonstration of the batik process that will be appearing as a CRAFT project, "Batik Chic." Traditionally, the batik technique entails using wax to block the dyes used to color the fabric. I used wax to block various colors and shades of cold--water dye on cotton fabric.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Projects
Computer music technology projects including:

Location:   Expo Green

 

Bay Area LEGO Users' Group William Ward
The Bay Area LEGO Users' Group (BayLUG) will be displaying a detailed model train layout, passing through urban, suburban, industrial, and rural scenery, all constructed from LEGO bricks. We will also have a variety of other LEGO models on display covering a range of subject matter.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Bay Area Science Buzz Cafés
Drop in on Science Buzz Café for several hours each day of informal conversations on science. Science Buzz Café is hosted by three Bay Area Science Café founders. Come for the conversation and learn about where to find Science Cafés near you. The Café will be open 1-4pm each day. Robert Porter will be presenting.

 

Bazaar Bizarre
90 Crafters! A smorgasbord of handmade items, many cleverly made with recycled materials. Something for everyone—jewelry, toys, lotions, art, glass, fiber arts, ceramics, handbags, baby items, even crafting supplies.

Location:   Craft Zone

 

Bill's Artbots
I will demonstrate several artbots, one of which is a windharp outfitted with homemade, electric-guitar pickups. This artbot will produce erie and harmonious sounds as a nearby fan is used to simulate a light wind. When people walk by, they change the wind patterns and the sounds. This windharp is a smaller version of one I have connected to an Internet Radio Station that can be heard at: <a href="http://windharp.webhop.net">http://windharp.webhop.net</a> Other artbots shown will be: Farad, Jar-o-circuits, Picbugs, Fireflys, Solar lifeforms in jars.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Bleep Labs
Bleep Labs produces hand made, electronic music toys with personality. Our main product, the Thingamagoop, is a light-controlled synthesizer that produces a wide range of sounds using a simple interface. We are also releasing a kit version as well as digital toy designed with fellow makers, Loud Objects.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Blinkybug Workshop
Learn how to make these interesting insects with LEDs, batteries, and pipecleaners. Ken will also be appearing on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

BlinkyBugs and More LED Projects
Learn how to make these interesting insects with LEDs, batteries, and pipecleaners.

 

BlinkyBugs Hands-On Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and make one of Ken Murphy's BlinkyBugs. Kits will be available for sale, and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help.

 

BlinkyBugs Hands-On Workshop (with the Maker)
Come to the Maker Shed and make BlinkyBugs with their creator, Ken Murphy. Kits will be available for sale,

 

Blubber Bot Robotic Inflatable Blimps
Come by the Maker Shed and check out the Blimp Kits that you can build yourself!

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Bob's Electric Vehicle Corral
A robotic man in the likeness of the Governator himself pulls a chariot on solar power alone. A sport motorcycle with serious acceleration: for display only.

 

Boiler Bar and Theater
We took inspiration from the 1920s oil rush to create the Boiler Bar and Boiler Bar Theater. The bar is riveted top to bottom and topped with a fire show that, for a tip, will get you an 8 foot fire ball from the bar tender. I have created Zen Fire Gardens that will amaze a sober patron and wow the eyes. While enjoying the warmth of our fire and the comfort of a drink you can take in the sights of exotic belly dancers, fire performers, and readings from the biggest little stage at the “Boiler Bar Theater.”

Location:   Boiler Bar Stage

 

Bottled Plants
Grow your own futuristic plantlet on nutrient agar medium.

 

Brain Machine Workshop
Buy a Brain Machine in the Maker Shed and build it right there. The Maker Shed team will be on hand to help.

 

Breathalyzer Genie Christopher Palmer
Christopher Palmer's kinetic sculptures include Breathalyzer Genie and Breathing Trouble.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Build a Guitar
Learn how to make string instruments (mainly guitars) from kits. See sample kits, a finished guitar and some cool tools.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Build a Whole LED Clock on Just 6 Wires!
Learn the LED multiplexing technique used in the clocks from LEDkit.biz and find out why LEDkit.biz Clocks Only Need 6 wires.

 

Build an LED Hula Hoop
Come to the Maker Shed and build the LED Hula Hoop kit. The Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you build it and kits will be available for sale.

 

Build an LED Hula Hoop (with the Maker)
Come to the Maker Shed and join Michael Nuzzi, maker of the LED Hula Hoop kit. Michael will be on hand to help you build it and kits will be available for sale.

 

Build the LED Camera Light Kit
Come and build one of Michael Nuzzi's LED Camera Light Kit. Kits will be available for purchase in the Maker Shed and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you make them.

 

Build the LED Camera Light Kit (with the Maker)
Join Michael Nuzzi, the Maker of the LED Camera Light Kit, in the Maker Shed workshop, and build your own. Kits will be available for purchase in the Maker Shed.

 

Build Your Own Vacuum Forming Machine
With a shop vac and other common supplies found at any hardware store you can build a simple Vacuum Forming Machine for under $300! Displays and demonstrations include; Mold making, costume building, Theatrical Armor fabrication and Prop making.

Location:   Work Shop

 

Busycle
The Busycle creates press and a huge sensation everywhere it goes. Mayors and luminaries from Boston to San Francisco have driven and/or ridden it. It has been featured in the media across the globe.

 

CalCars Felix Kramer
CalCars is an enabling organization that seeks to accelerate the adoption of PHEVs. We achieve these goals through advocacy and education as well as through demonstrating technology projects. CalCars itself is a hybrid non-profit organization in that it is comprised of entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers. Our projects tackle national security, jobs and global warming -- at the same time. We are always seeking volunteers to work with us.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Calligraphy & Paper Marbling
Demonstrations of calligraphy and suminagashi paper marbling by accomplished Bay Area artists. Opportunities for guests to try their hand at both art forms.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Camera Obscura Theater
A 10’x10’ camera obscura that will be an interactive theater. Attendees will view the surrounding environment from inside the camera obscura. As the image will be reversed left to right and top to bottom, sculptural elements will be placed outside to enhance the illusion and provide props for entertainment.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Camp Rehab Chevy
Join us as we restore this 1948 Chevy back to her former glory and put her back on the road. All tools supplied.

Location:   Outdoors

 

CCRMA Musical Interactives Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University
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 University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Cereal Box Biz Card Holder
Transform old cereal boxes into this super-cute business card holder. It comes packed with recycling power! With a few cuts and folds, you'll have a one-of-a-kind holder made from your favorite breakfast brand. You can also use it as a wallet.

Location:   Expo Red

 

CerviScope
The cerviScope is a portable colposcope. This is a medical device designed for use in low-resource settings based on requirements taken from gynecologists around the world. The cerviScope detects HPV lesions on the cervix with the goal of preventing cervical cancer for women in the developing world.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Charley Chinese Christian Schools
Chinese Christian Schools would like to exhibit the robot the high-school students built for their FIRST Robotics competition. It is a double-forklift robot that can pick up and lever a 10 pound ball.

 

Chronic Revelator
A cement mixer as time machine, filled with sand and water, slowly grinding 35mm cameras into river stones.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Chumby
Hardware hacker Bunny Huang talks about Chumby, his low-cost, wifi-enabled information delivery device.

 

City Bag Trade Kendra Stanley
How do you combine fashion, practicality, and sustainability into one product? You recycle old rain jackets into grocery bags! Welcome to the next evolution in social responsibility through environmentally safe and friendly alternatives to plastic. My intentions are to increase awareness around the use and waste of common, plastic grocery store bags, and to hopefully change our old bag habits.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Cityscape Photography

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Clothing Makeover Sonya Nimri
A reinvention of commonly found closet dwellers. Sprucing up old garb with inventive alterations and additions. Also, a how-to on making Halloween Costumes out of household items.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Combat robot "Beer Bash" Avish Bharwani , Bruce White , Joshua Mehlman , Rebecca Sutton , Susan Reno
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.

 

Combat robot "CycloneBot" Eliot Barker , Gary Mathiesen , Jeff Hayashida , Mark Demers , Michael Worry , Mohan Gurunathan , Robert Frankovich , Tim Bayne

 

Combat robot "Plasma" Stephen Felk

 

Combat robot "SJ" Ken Stevens , Richard Van Noy , Robert Stellhorn , Scott Kincaid
Presented by Team Blackroot, SJ is a high ranking contender in the 220 pound combat robot class. He is the 2004 national champion! SJ is also one of the oldest active robots. This is the "11th" version in six years.

 

Combat robot "Vlad The Impaler II"

 

Combat robots "Last Rites" and "The Mortician" David Gustavson , Justin Billings , Laurie Stratton , Ray Billings
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.

 

Combat robots "Pipe Wench" and "Sewer Snake" Matt Maxham , Wendy Maxham
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.

 

Combat robots "The Big B" and "Original Sin" Christina Gin , Dave Needle , Gary Gin , Stan Shepard

 

Combat robots "The Bully" and "Come to Mama" Buffy Yeh , Forrest Yeh , Jim Yeh

 

ComBots Fighting Androids Dan Albert , David Calkins
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.

 

Compubeaver / Text-o-possum
Compubeaver is a computer case mod. A full computer housed in a taxidermied beaver. Text-o-possum is an accessory, a bluetooth laser keyboard housed in elegant possum.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Computerized Etch A Sketch
Etch A Sketch toys are notorious for their difficult user interface. This project enables one to draw on an Etch A Sketch using a mouse, joystick, or GUI. Save drawings, edit them, replay them later. Render fractals autonomously. When finished, the whole machine flips over and shakes itself clear.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Contraptor Lounge
Leading Steampunk practitioners will talk about "contrapting" techniques and the creative process, including the metalworking and finishing techniques they use in their widely acclaimed Steampunk tech projects (such as von Slatt's Steampunk keyboard and monitor, and Datamancer's key-wound Victorian laptop). They'll also talk a little bit about their design philosophy and how one can "steampunkify" modern gadgetry.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Cooking with the Sun
Cook using a Solar Sport Oven from solarovens.org. Half hour discussion and demonstration of the oven and recipes from sunskysoil.blogspot.com.

 

CoolEatz Catering
CoolEatz Catering makes a difference by using food and wine raised, harvested, and produced sustainably and regionally. We support and use as many organic ingredients as possible. Our food is local, organic, seasonal, sustainable, and ultimately delicious.

 

Cosmos Ignite Innovations: Solar LED lighting
Millions of homes in India and around the world are left to the mercy of dim light from dangerous, polluting and expensive-to-use kerosene oil lamps. The growing energy crisis heralds the urgent need for novel solutions. Can Disruptive Technology help cut through the mire of age old problems? Can Renewable Energy light a path to a new dawn? Can we deliver this through a Sustainable Corporate Venture? We’ve designed the MightyLight, a solar-powered LED light which replaces kerosene lanterns.

 

Courtroom Artist Makes Live Drawings of Makers as They Work! Suzanne Forbes
I used to be a courtroom artist and I make awesome drawings of creative people as they do things and then put them on Flickr for the enjoyment of all! It's like Toulouse Lautrec with Creative Commons :)

Location:   Outdoors

 

Covert Public Messages
Inspired by movies like "They Live", "The Spiderwick Chronicles" and countless spy films, I wanted to create a means of displaying information in public, that only a select few could see. To the unaided eye, the mosaic of tinted film squares seems uniform and holds no particular meaning. But when viewed though a polarized filer (or a pair of polarized sunglasses), the concealed message becomes clear.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Craft Con Rachel Hospodar
Craft Con is a business development conference for the craft community.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Craft Hamsters
Learn how to make your very own adorable pom-pom hamster, complete with its own plastic ball. As seen on the Craft: blog on 12/21/07. <a href="http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/12/craft_hamster_ornaments.html">http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/12/craft_hamster_ornaments.html</a>

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Crafty Chica: Squeezing a Dollar from a Dime: How to Make the Most of What You Have
This presentation is about defining what makes you special and then how to work it the best you can!

 

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. Each instrument has a mounted piezo (contact microphone) to amplify its sound.

 

Crayon Physics Deluxe
Simulated physics from free-hand drawing on Tablet PCs created by Crayon Physics Deluxe.

 

Create Ribbon Straw Flowers on Vintage Flower Looms
Learn how to make flowers using ribbon straw and a loom. Ribbon straw flowers were a popular craft in the 60s and 70s but the supplies are no longer made. Using vintage supplies, Cathy has assembled kits that she will be selling at Bazaar Bizarre.

 

Create Your Own Photo Flip Book Jackie Ortega
Using action shot sequences from a digital camera, you will have the base images to create prints. Then use traditional bookbinding techniques to create text blocks and do a perfect bind to create a soft-cover flip book.

 

Creating Disney-themed Parks Designs
Senior VP of Disney Imagineering's Creative Development Group,Tony Baxter has played a key role in the design and creation of many Disney attractions and theme parks of the last 25 years, including Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Splash Mountain, the Indiana Jones Adventure, and the overall creative role for Disneyland and Disneyland Paris.

 

Creating Sustainable Spaces Where Anything Goes Umberto Crenca
AS220, a non-profit, unjuried, and uncensored arts center in Providence, RI, has been growing since 1985. Despite the complexity of growing such a space, AS220 has thrived and become a model for organizations looking to create sustainable spaces. Bert Crenca, the Founder and Artistic Director of AS220, tells the story.

 

Creative Repurposing for Science
No money for expensive equipment and materials? Constraints can often lead to more innovative designs! Join RAFT for fun science activities made from discarded, found, and other “creatively repurposed” materials! Resource Area for Teaching (RAFT) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting hands-on education.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Critter and Guitari
Critter and Guitari will be demoing their kits: The Cellular Automata Video Synthesizer is a good introduction to basic video synthesis and pattern generation. It turns any ordinary TV into a color demonstration of 1 dimensional elementary cellular automata. The Pocket Piano Arduino Shield is a brand new kit that turns the Arduino board into a portable electronic keyboard synthesizer. Different synthesizer patches can be created with the Arduino software and downloaded over USB.

Location:   Fiesta Blue  Maker Shed

 

Crystal Focus LED "lightsaber" Project Matthew Carauddo
The most amazing and dynamic sound & light driver board you'll ever see. Made specifically for "LED saber props," in the spirit of the "Star Wars" films by Lucasfilm. (No affiliation or association with Lucasfilm, LTD or Lucasarts.)

Location:   Dark Room

 

Culann's Hounds Culann's Hounds
San Francisco-based high-energy, virtuosic musicians playing traditional Irish, hoe-down, zydeco, and original music. Their other influences include punk, rock, country, and reggae. Violin, Accordion, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocal Harmonies; jumping, dancing, rebel yells. Headliners for the San Francisco Irish festival.

 

Curiously Bright LED & Audio Extravaganza!
Darker Technologies and Macetech combine forces this year to bring a variety of original projects including LED grow lights, simple RGB pixel elements, a giant RGB array nearly five feet tall, an Altoids tin-based high quality stereo component system, and more!

Location:   Dark Room

 

Cypod Musical Movement
Live electronic music performed by Cypod, LX Rudis, and Bill Wolter.

 

D-I-Y @ Home & Work: Cohousing, Coworking, EcoVillages, Neighborhoods Raines Cohen
Share your vision of community at home or at work by writing on the bike-towed mobile mini-trailer's whiteboard sides or recording your video reactions to other green community visions. Make connections -- you have the power and support you need to reshape where you live and work.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Devil's Canyon Brewing Company
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company, located in the heart of the San Francisco bay area peninsula, produces award winning, hand-crafted beers centered on the most premium ingredients. Brewed in Belmont, and delivered to over 100 taps on the peninsula. Please support local businesses and enjoy our premium beers.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Digital Co-laboratory
Come visit our exhibit and create art, play games, solve mysteries, manipulate data, capture ideas, and make connections. We'll use multiple formats of digital media with projection and electronic white board technology to dynamically bring makers of all ages into a digital co-laboratory.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Digital Foosball
Augmented Foosball game with electronic scoring, instant replay, statistics, etc., created by Clarity Consulting.

 

Divine Strake Project
The Moment of Divine Strake is an installation of bronze bells that receives real-time seismic data that actuate the bells' tolling hammers. The World Wide Web functions as a conduit, funneling a natural pulse from remote events occurring in the landscape to the installation site.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

DIY Drones
Wired Magazine editor describes his own projects in building unmanned aerial vehicles.

 

DIY Relationships
How does being in a relationship help you collaborate? Do problem-solving approaches cross over from projects to life? Relationship hacks and MAKE/CRAFT stories from couples who make stuff (and more) together. Geek comedian Heather conversates with Jillian Northrup and Jeffrey McGre (becausewecan.org) and Christy Canida + Eric Wilhelm (instructables.com).

 

DNA Fun Dr. Dawei Lin
A group of creations provides means to use fun model building to understand basic concepts of biology. In particular, a variety of LEGO and knitting DNA models will be used to illustrate the biological features and the beauty of DNA structure. All models can be built in a short time.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Dry-erase XY Board
Mechanical drawing device that paints via X-Y coordinates over a whiteboard programmatically controlled with a computer.

 

Duck Tape Flower Pens
I make flowers out of duck tape and put them on bic pens. I will be walking around the Faire selling them for $2 each.

 

Dystopic Horizons Realty Spy Emerson
Dystopic Horizons Realty will host an open-house tour of their green constructed model homes. Affordable housing starting in the low $100 dollars.

Location:   Craft Zone

 

Eccentric Genius
Kaden Harris is the author of Eccentric Cubicle, and the brains behind Eccentricgenius.ca. He'll be in the Maker Shed store showing The Silicon Projectile Centrifuge and other exotica from the halls of beautiful Eccentric Manors.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Eccentric Maker
Scrap Fu 101, Beginning Binning, Happenstance Reutilization and Industrial Design, and the role of The Great Cosmic Random in Improvisational Fabrication.

 

Eddy Demon Total Annihilation
A rock and roll alternative that's hip and surreal rock with awesome lyrics, great drummer, experimental guitarist, and a bass player. It is most excellent with a new wave of licks.

 

Edible Austin
Edible Austin is a community-based publication that connects readers with local growers, retailers, chefs and food artisans—enabling those relationships to grow and thrive in a mutually beneficial, healthful and economically viable way. Through our publication, website, and events, we celebrate local, sustainable, seasonal, authentic foods and culinary traditions.

 

Edible East Bay
Edible East Bay is a beautiful (print) magazine that celebrates the farmers, fishers, food artisans, and culinary heritage of San Francisco's East Bay region.

 

Educational Robotics
Robotic demonstrations and video highlights for two youth robotic competitions. First LEGO League, youth in 5th through 8th grades and first Tech Challenge, youth in 7th to 12th grades.

Location:   Expo Red

 

EepyBird Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz
See the original Internet sensation LIVE! Geysers of soda shoot over twenty feet into the air in this spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains, brought to you by the mad scientists of EepyBird. EepyBird has been featured on Late Night with David Letterman, Ellen, the Today Show, and Mythbusters, and they were named "Best of 2006" by People Magazine. Their online videos have won two Webby Awards and received two Emmy nominations.

 

Electric Bicycle Technology, Design, and Building
Demonstration of 3 different home-made electric bicycles and the technology and engineering that makes them work, plus details of how to build them.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Electric Rainsticks
Using some common hardware and a contact mic, you can build an electric rainstick that delivers a surprisingly varied and subtle tone. They are fairly inexpensive to make, can be completed in less than an hour, and are loads of fun.

 

Electric Western: Handbuilt Instruments of the High Mojave Lorin Edwin Parker
Unique and expressive electronic instruments in many forms: vacuum tube theremins, steam-powered synthesizers, singing robot heads, spark gaps, telegraphs, and electrosparklaviers--constructed from recycled, often antique, parts. These instruments connect futuristic synthesis with the western American past.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Electronic Drum
Build an electronic drum out of PVC pipe, guitar string, foam and aluminum tape. Connect to a cheesy keyboard or drum machine to kick some beats. Build an analog drum circuit for that 80’s disco ping sound. Members of a high school science class will show you how it’s done.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. EFF believes protecting innovation is central to advancing our freedom and has fought to clear the way for encryption, VoIP, file-sharing software, open source HDTV tools, and much more. Visit our booth to learn about our current work and pick up some cool EFF swag including our latest t-shirt and stickers!

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Elements of Sculptural Crochet
Crochet is not just for hats and scarves –- this medium has true sculptural potential. Jessica Polka of Wunderkammer will demonstrate how different combinations of stitches can be used to make three-dimensional forms. First-time crocheters welcome!

Location:   Expo Orange

 

elliptiGO Glide Bike PT Motion Works
The elliptiGO is a new kind of bicycle that is a cross between an elliptical trainer and a bicycle. We displayed the elliptiGO in public for the first time at the Stanford Cool Products Expo.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Engineers Without Borders: Appropriate Technology Pavilion
The Appropriate Technology Design Team is a group of Bay Area engineering professionals developing appropriate and sustainable design solutions for organizations working in disadvantaged communities. We strive to empower communities to help themselves by providing tools that facilitate economic development and provide basic needs, local education, training and entrepreneurial opportunities.

 

Escama Studio
Fashion accessories combining crochet and 100% post-consumer recycled aluminum pop tops. Handmade in fair trade artist cooperatives in Brazil. DIY crochet with pop top tutorial available at the booth.

 

Experimental Aircraft Assocation
We build our own airplanes from plans and kits. We are interested in all kinds of things related to building and operating recreational aircraft. Our organization exists to support all areas of personal aviation—everything from 55 mph ultralights to 350 mph carbon fiber turbine-powered high-altitude screamers.

Location:   The Hangar

 

Experiments with Smart LEDs
LEDs are energy efficient, low-cost, and colorful. Placing a tiny computer on the LED creates a "Smart LED" where you can fully control the hue/brightness and create color patterns that change over time. All without knowing electronics. Come see and play with various Smart LED products and home-made projects.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Exploratorium
Meet the makers from the Exploratorium! Scientists, artists, and tinkerers of every stripe will lead activities, share exhibits, and show their work.

 

Exploring New Ways to Interact with Computers
I will demonstrate input (game controllers, cameras, microcontrollers) and output (sound, custom circuits) methods that can form non-traditional user interfaces. I will also show how to use things like PyGame, Pd, OSC and MIDI to quickly build these interfaces. Examples will be shown. Bring a controller, learn to use it!

Location:   Expo Green

 

Extra Action Marching Band
Powerful and empowering, the Extra Action Marching Band (unamplified) seduces the pre-civilized will. They are immediate and visceral -- more of a sweaty invitation than a show. They are a parody of idioms with shattering volume -- guerrilla theater with the rug rolled up.

 

Extreme Craft
Extreme Craft is a website that gleefully explores the gray area between art and craft.  Does a popsicle stick Viking ship qualify as art?  Will the souls of Polish grannies who knit scandalous lace underwear be doomed to eternal Hellfire?  Can Craft be used to combat Nigerian email scammers?  Find out the answer to these questions and much much more on www.extremecraft.com.

 

Fashioning Technology: DIY Intro into Smart Crafting
Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? Learn how to blend traditional sewing and assembly techniques with new conductive and smart materials and electronics to create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, shift-patterns, make sounds, or do even more.

 

Fashioning Technology: DIY Style
Live demonstration on how to use "smart" materials from the author of "Fashioning Technology," releasing July 2008 from O'Reilly Media.

 

Felt Faux Fruit
Needle felting is the kind of craft that has to be seen to be believed. With the swift action of the felting needle, wool goes from fluffy roving to dense sculpture. This demo will showcase the techniques used to make the felt fruit from the cover of Craft.

 

Ficklesticks Diana Taylor
I have invented a bendable, weavable fabric art stick in two thicknesses and various lengths. It can be used to create weavings, baskets, structures, stick figures, body adornments, costuming, jewelry. I can show completed work and allow others to create with extra sticks.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Finger Puppet Workshop
Come learn how to build Stacey Gordon's Finger Puppet kits. Kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help.

 

Finger Puppet Workshop (with the Maker)
Come learn how to build these Finger Puppet kits from their Maker, Stacey Gordon. Kits will be available for sale.

 

Finger Puppets Who Wish To Not Die Stacey Gordon
Watch finger puppet-maker Stacey Gordon turn recycled felt into small, anthropomorphic foods and the animals who love to eat them. Stacey will be spending time in the Maker Shed and will also appear on the Craft Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Five Dangerous Things Your Kids Should Do
Gever Tulley will talk about the Tinkering School and the five dangerous things you should let your kids do.

 

Flaming Lotus Girls
The Flaming Lotus Girls are a San Francisco-based group of female and male artists collaborating all year round to create exceptional fire art and provide a resource for learning metalworking and other essential shop skills. Their installations incorporate flame effects and enticing design on a gargantuan scale and are beloved by audiences worldwide.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Flaming Zen Garden
The Flaming Zen Garden is an interactive art piece which makes the participants the artist. When a participant draws a pattern into the sand, the flame follows the pattern. This piece has no moving parts and has a flame of 1/4" high. It is quiet, contemplative and always a favorite. It can be accessed by people of all ages, from 4 to 104.

 

Flick-to-Flick
Flipbooks are fun. The Flick-to-Flick (F2F) software quickly puts a personalized video flipbook in your hand. F2F grabs short video clips, or flicks, then formats and prints video frames as flipbook pages. Within minutes, you are flicking your own custom flipbook.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Folkiedokie Purposeful Repurpusing!
Imagine! Thoughtful, kooky, and wearable designs using recycled vintage buttons, garments, and found objects from flea markets all over the world for one-of-a-kind bracelets, jackets, sweaters, hats, mittens, and scarves. All this is made for you by a real live folksinger!

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Fossil Fool
Fossil Fool, the Bike Rapper, is the only MC who rocks the mike while he rides his bike. With his trusty sidekick, the Choprical Fish, a neon-encrusted pedal-powered party bike he built, he rolls up at sunset and creates spontaneous mobile parties.

 

FrankenBot Drum Triggers and Electric Tap Shoes Austin Giles
I build drum triggers out of piezo elements and create sculptures/ Electrified tap shoes with the drum triggers.

 

Frankenstein Prototyping
Learn to Make Prototypes for Pennies and More.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Frankentrike
This electric-assist cargotrike is your ecological urban workhorse. It hauls 1/4 ton comfortably over hilly terrain, usually only needing a 1x/day recharge. Cars WILL see you in this behemoth or they will suffer the consequences. Get exercise and get around in cool comfort. Reappearing in '08 with improved braking, shading, protective and noisemaking features.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Free Radio Berkeley
IRATE (International Radio Action Training, Education), provides transmitter kits, technical support and training. IRATE is also involved in national and international outreach and organizing efforts. Our transmitters and other related equipment are being used by popular liberation struggle movements in a number of countries.

Location:   Expo Green

 

From Logs to Lumber to Deluxe Chicken Coop
A demonstration of salvaged tree milling with a portable bandsaw mill. Fallen cypress trees will come to the Maker Faire as logs, be milled into lumber, and built into a deluxe chicken coop.

 

Functional Dissection: Wind-up Frogs
Get involved in Functional Dissection, one of the core features of Ambidextrous Magazine, which uncovers the functional beauty and mechanical elegance of products in our lives. Engage in an on-going participatory Functional Dissection with wind-up toy frogs, to learn how to take them apart without destroying them.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Furoshiki Wraps
Originating from Japanese culture where it promotes caring for the environment and reducing waste, furoshiki is the eco-friendly wrapping cloth. Using techniques similar to origami, it can be used for gift wrapping, grocery shopping, or simply as decor. Choose from a wide variety of sizes and designs to complement your lifestyle. Why furoshiki? It is reusable and multipurpose. Each year billions of plastic bags end up as litter; reusable bags, such as furoshiki, can help reduce the impact to our environment. Its versatility allows you to wrap almost anything regardless of its shape or size.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Gambling Machine
Combining oak wood, a quadrilla marble run, and a mindspring invention kit, that is my gambling machine. The idea was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, when visiting this old mining and gambling town.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Garbage Art by DumpsterDiversAnonymous
DDA is an informal group of artists and crafters that use recycled and reclaimed materials for our art. We would like to encourage new and experienced artists and crafters to find creative uses for materials diverted from the waste stream, such as trash art collages, microfilm basketry, and spun audiotape fiber-arts. We will be providing some hands-on crafts such as garbage collage mailart postcards and recycled paper zine-making.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Gasifier Experimenters Kit/Escape from Berkeley
The Gasifier Experimenters Kit is a "lego system" to help you get started in the biomass thermal conversion art. The kit allows one to easily set up and compare various architectures of gasifiers and pyrolysis units, with a produced gas that can be used for heating, electrical power or transport purposes. Don't wait for Exxon/Mobil to solve the problem. You can do it yourself with the "trash" you have laying around your house, yard, or farm. Escape from Berkeley (by any non-petroleum means necessary) is an open road race from Berkeley to Las Vegas of hacked alt powered vehicles, using only fuels scavenged along the route. Half Darpa Grand Challenge, half art car parade. Building workshops this spring and summer at The Shipyard/ALL Power Labs. The race will be mid-October 2008.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Gerard's Paella
Chef Gerard Nebesky returns to Maker Faire to create authentic Spanish Paella for Makers on Maker Day. Using fresh and local ingredients he takes his kitchen with him: paella pans and propane burners, cutting boards and knives, coolers and work tables. He always cooks his paella outdoors, rain or shine. His paella has become a Maker Faire tradition.

 

Get Soapy
Learn to make your own bars of soap using a glycerin base that you can easily melt and pour.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Giant Squid Nemo Gould
A giant metal mechanical squid.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Glass Flamework with a Portable Setup
Flameworking, lampworking, or torchworking glass is a an affordable and portable practice for anyone to try hot glass sculpture on a small scale. It's like drawing mid-air with molten glass!

Location:   Outdoors

 

Glowing Bacteria Project
A glass panel filled with living bio-luminescent bacteria will be on display. Visitors will be able to play with making swirling patterns of bacterial light.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Gowns Ezra Buchla
From the ashes of West Coast spazz combo the Mae Shi and legendary woodworking noiseniks Amps for Christ has emerged a Frankenstein assembly of minimal percussion, a cappella harmonizing, and raw folk melodies christened Gowns. Erika Anderson and Ezra Buchla have married personal, intelligent lyrics and homemade bent electronics to create remarkably haunting drone-pop masterpieces. Their whispered vocals mingle with hushed instrumentation, only to collide, explode, and slowly burn a hole in your frontal lobe by the night's end. - flavorpill

 

Greathouse Labs
Greathouse Labs Fire machines, Robots, Mechanical oddities Animatronics, and electrical vehicles.

 

Green Zebra
Green Zebra helps you discover green shops and services, support your community, and preserve the planet. It contains thousands of dollars in savings from environmentally conscious, community oriented local businesses. Educational articles answer your questions about living sustainably in the Bay Area, and present action steps for a greener tomorrow.

 

Greeting Cards with Recycled Materials
Learn how to turn your paper trash into beautiful, handmade masterpieces! Greeting cards that wow your friends and help the environment.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

GRIDBEAM Phil Jergenson
Grid Beam is a reusable structural system that allows you to dream up and build complex projects quickly.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Grow Your Own Mushrooms Far West Fungi
Grow organic exotic mushrooms in your home- Choose to grow Tree Oyster or Shiitake mushrooms on preactivated sawdust substrate blocks. Easy to follow instructions, with mushroom production in 10-14 days.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Guerilla Pattern Drafting Autumn Wiggins
Make your handmade accessory dreams come true! Learn tricks and techniques for sewing accurate representations of your own ideas.

 

Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers
Learn how to make microcontrollers do what you want by actually making fun projects at the Faire. Blink lights, hack your brain, play video games, turn off TVs in public places -- microcontrollers can do it all. This is for all skill and experience levels. You can even learn to solder!

Location:   Fiesta Blue  Maker Shed

 

Handcrafted Herbals
Herbal body products: bath salts, oils, salves, powders, bath teas, salt scrubs Herbal culinary products: herbal salts, sugars, vinegars, cooking oils, and herbes de provence Everything is organic.

Location:   Makers Market

 

HatManDo Offline Multiplayer Games William Nye
In the HatManDo ("Hat-Man-Due") series of interactive games, multiple players -- say two to four teams of four -- play by walking around in close proximity in a medium-sized room area, while being tracked by an overhead camera. Before entering the play area, kids may have their photo taken, or they may draw a small image, either of which is used as their on-screen player icon.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Heads On Fire::Fab Lab Heads On Fire
Fab Labs are a global network of design and fabrication laboratories, installed as a resource for community-based innovation. They combine CNC milling machines, specialized software, and the ability to make and program electronics in order to ease production of imagined objects and devices by anyone. We want to guide Makers in using lab; showcase projects from labs around the world.

Location:   Work Shop

 

Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo
Cyclecide has embraced the bicycle as a medium to express our interest in mechanical innovation, kinetic art, and performance. By salvaging bicycles for creative re-use we have produced a fleet of double-decker tall bikes, choppers, tandems, swing bikes, reverse bikes, and others too bizarre to name. The Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo is a circus style show that highlights these monstrous alter-cycles with stupefying stunts. Our pedal-powered carnival midway of rides and attractions demonstrate the possibilities of human powered fun and engineering.

 

Heirloom Technology
The author of MAKE's Heirloom Technology column will show some of his fascinating projects, including the hydrothopter, yurt, cozy boat, and marshallese outrigger assembly.

Location:   Outdoors  under a tree

 

Help Make the Boggle and Sneak Videobook!
Help make the videobook of my novel "Boggle and Sneak" by visiting my time machine. In the (CC-licensed) novel, inventor Trolls travel to my family's house in jury-rigged vehicles and subject us to Rube Goldberg practical jokes. Stop by and film a page or two!

Location:   Expo Red

 

Herbie the MouseBot Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build Herbie the Mousebot. Kits will be available for sale, and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help.

 

Hexagons Jeremy Smith
I'll show construction kits for Platonic solids. Using a design printed on a single sheet of paper or card, you can turn the design into an intriguing 3D model of a Platonic solid. Included are popup dodecahedron calendar, tetrahedron pyramid puzzle, and cube of rotating cubes.

Location:   Expo Red

 

High Definition 3D Camcorder Lorin Thwaits
I mounted two high definition camcorders on a rigid aluminum plate. After processing recorded footage and playing it back while looking through LCD shutter glasses, the result is "amazingly" realistic 3D video. It's like looking through a window into the live scene itself. You have to see it to believe it.

Location:   Expo Green

 

High Speed Flash Photography Kit
As seen in MAKE Vol 4. Take "impossible" pictures, leaving everyone wondering "How did you do that?" Capture high-speed events -- A splash. Popping balloons. Breaking glass. Use your imagination!

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Hiller Aviation Museum Bede BD-5 Homebuilt Aircraft
The Hiller Aviation Museum presents the unique BD-5 aircraft, a small, single-seat homebuilt kit aircraft created by US aircraft designer Jim Bede. The BD-5 has a small fuselage holding its semi-reclined pilot under a large canopy, with the engine installed in a compartment in the middle of the fuselage, and a propeller in the rear.

Location:   The Hangar

 

Hologlyphics
Hologlyphics combines elements of holography, music, video synthesis, visionary film, sculpture and improvisation to create a unique new artform. These moving spatial visuals are seen in full 3D without glasses, intertwined with music and spatial sound. Although not the same technical process as holography, the visual result is the same.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Home Built Bicycles
Think outside the diamond and be inspired to take some easy steps to build your own unique bicycles.

 

Home Chemistry Experiments
The author of "Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments" performs a series of experiments right out of the pages of the book.

 

HomeBrewed Robots!
A variety of electro-mechanical creatures including "Springy Thingy," a Burningman Artbot, and his faithful cybernetic companion, "Rusty." "Homer the HomeBrewed Humanoid" performing Kung-Fu-Fighting. The "LosiBot," an autonomous radio-controlled car. "Wirey," AKA My Little Blue Robot "Wired". "SnoopBot," a hacked puppet. And the PROTOBot Army: We will settle for nothing less then total world domination.

Location:   Robo Games

 

Homemade Hydroponics
Two simple yet effective hydroponic systems. One is an ebb and flow system made from a storage tub, PVC pipe, and PVC fence post, used for growing tomatoes. The other is a lettuce raft, constructed from a storage tub, foam sheet, recycled cups, and an aquarium pump. Also overclocked fluorescent lighting.

Location:   Makers Market  near Techne group

 

Honda S90 EV Conversion
My 13 yr. old son and I are converting an old 1967 Honda S90 (90cc) motorcycle into a state-of-the-art plug-in electric vehicle. The design parameters are to not exceed the donor vehicle's original weight, 190lb. It should match or exceed the original power, 8hp, and be able to go at least 50mph for a minimum of 25 miles with 110Vac plug-in recharging. The mission, to provide education, in town efficient transport, and of course, FUN.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Hopscotch Scotch Ale Cheddar Cheese
Gold medal winning cheese and beer makers come together to create a gold medal winning cheese, Hopscotch Cheddar Cheese. Hopscotch is soaked in an award-winning dark Scotch Ale from Devil's Canyon Brewing Company in Belmont, California. A great cheese alone, but it's also wonderful melted on pizza, burgers, etc.

 

How to Make a Mashup and Save the World
Can a mashup save the world. NetSquared thinks so. We're holding a competition (with $100,000 to be shared among the winners) to encourage nonprofits to find ways to create and use Web mashups to advance their missions. We'll show you how to create compelling mashups that can help you advance your cause (and just maybe save the world).

Location:   Expo Orange

 

How to Make a Million! (of a Thing)
We are responsible for... Tens of thousands of alive art interactions Millions of renewed and reused perfect products Hundreds of dreams released into reality An idea that is nurtured and loved produces investments in millions

Location:   Expo Green

 

How to Make Your Own Shoes...the Easy Way!
A live demonstration showing how you can make your own shoes by hacking into existing ones.

 

Howtoons Saul Griffith + Nick Dragotta
Part comic strip and part science experiment, Howtoons shows kids how to find fun new uses for household items like soda bottles, duct tape, and mop buckets. Authors Saul Griffith and Nick Dragotta will be there with demos and hands-on projects to prove that kids can make almost anything!

Location:   Expo Red

 

Howtoons Saul Griffith + Nick Dragotta
Authors Saul Griffith and Nick Dragotta talk about their popular Howtoons--art comic strip and part science experiment--that shows kids how to find fun new uses for household items.

 

Huge Tesla Coils and Tower Electronique
Three huge Tesla Coils with lots of electricity and a Tower Electronique, a musical instrument that plays in the air. Also, flying balls machine, solar energy musical machines, and much more.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Human-powered Bike Music Stage
The Rock the Bike crew put on human-powered concerts using bicycle-based music systems. Audience members pedal power the audio system for performances by Fossil Fool, the Bike Rapper, and sustainable Rock N' Rollers SHAKE YOUR PEACE!, among others.

 

Hydraulic Flight Simulator
The Hydraulic Flight Simulator is a tabletop device that allows students of aviation to see in real-time the dynamic relationship between power and pitch. It show how energy is transferred from the engine to the plane as airspeed, how airspeed is turned into altitude and how altitude can be exchanged for airspeed. To do this, the Hydraulic Flight Simulator uses the medium of water to represent the energy present when an airplane is in flight. The Hydraulic Flight Simulator was created to behave realistically, accounting for the loss of energy from drag, the effect of gravity, the loss of lifting ability due to density altitude, induced drag at high angles of attack and the complete loss of lift due a stall. The Simulator can be used to demonstrate cruise, terminal velocity, service ceiling, slow flight, stall and stall recovery, decent, "dead-stick" decent and landing. Instructional topics include discussion of potential energy (fuel supply and altitude) and kinetic energy (air speed) and the four forces acting on an airplane in flight; thrust and drag, lift and gravity. Featured in MAKE (12): <a href="http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol12/?pg=154&pm=2&u1=friend">http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol12/?pg=154&pm=2&u1=friend </a>

Location:   The Hangar

 

I.T.
40 ft tall and weighing just over 12k lbs, I.T. is a giant three-legged invader designed to support up to 20 people inside of its rotating head when its hoop ladder is lowered. It is, however, a one-way trip.

Location:   Outdoors

 

ibog
A mobile personal flush composting toilet that turns raw sewage into a beautiful wetland garden. Also check out the urine recycling garden.

Location:   Makers Market  Near Techne group

 

IEEE SCV Section
IEEE's Santa Clara Valley Section is distributing information about IEEE and local IEEE activities.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Imagination Incredible Machine
Use Windows Mobile devices to find components of a virtual Rube Goldberg machine located across the fairgrounds. Created by Imagination Computer Services.

 

Infrared Thermography
Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) presents Infrared Thermography that provides an imaging and measurement camera and LCD that can "see" and "measure" the heat of an object. This technology is used in medical research and industry applications.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Infrared Vacuum Dehydrator -- "Raw Oven"
Baking and frying food produce dangerous chemical byproducts, and prompt nutritionists to have us eat steamed or raw. Water boils in a vacuum at room temperature, and infrared heats efficiently. We combine both to make chips, crackers, breads, etc. that people truly love, in a healthy, low temperature way.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Innovation in Beekeeping
Bees, beekeeping, beehive design. Learn the how-tos and tips from a beekeeping innovator whose methods include maintaining bee colonies by relying on the natural strength of local strains of bees; by completely eliminating the need for antibiotics or chemical compounds for pest and disease control; and through techniques that allow beekeepers to be self-sufficient practitioners.

 

Instructables.com
Come meet the staff and play with our laser cutter, giant homemade Lite-Brite, bicycle-wheel kinetic sculpture, mouse mouse, and other awesome projects! Learn how to submit your own! Stop by to laser-etch your cell phone, visit, and pick up some free Instructables Robot stickers!

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote
Presentation of two interactive projects using the Nintendo Wii remote.

 

Interactive Furniture
I build pieces of furniture that are designed to be interactive and/or to provide a useful function. For example, an end table that is also a refrigerator, a coffee table that has a fluid-filled lazy susan, speaker stands that are aquariums and provide a light show sync'd to the music.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

International Harvester Collectors
IH Collectors has chapters throughout the world including California that restore and preserve the legacy of International Harvester Company and the historic McCormick family.

 

iPhone Hacking Lab
Your iPhone has more features than you think. Come to the iPhone Hacking Lab to see everything your iPhone can do. We'll have tutorials on jailbreaking and SIM-unlocking. The iPhone Hacking Lab will be available in the Maker Shed and don't miss the tutorial on the Maker Main Stage in Fiesta.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Ira Marlowe's BRAINY TUNES Ira Marlowe
Ira Marlowe, founder of Brainy Tunes and winner of the coveted Parent's Choice Award, performs smart, funny, memorable childrens' songs-- written to delight parents as much as their kids. Titles such as "Crabwalk", "Haunting School" and "Kangaroo" encourage kids' active involvement through vocalization, dance and movement.

 

iStuff Mobile Rafael Ballagas
iStuff Mobile is a rapid prototyping framework that accelerates the creation of low-fidelity functional prototypes of physical user interfaces for mobile phones. Quartz Composer, a visual programming environment from Apple, is used to add logic to the prototype.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Jack Sparx and his Electric Toys
Electricity you can see and feel will thrill those that come visit me! Small and medium Tesla coils, a large Van de Graff gnerator that will shock you if you like. Learn how a Jacob's Ladder is built and see one displayed. If you enjoy lightning storms, you'll have fun as we play with my high voltage toys!

Location:   Dark Room

 

Jake von Slatt: The Steampunk Workshop
An outdoor sitting room of retro-futuristic/Victorian curiosities and technical wonders, hosted by Jake Von Slatt, Datamancer, Libby Buloff and Magpie Killjoy, Molly "Porkchanks" Friedrich, and Meredith Scheff. Throughout the two days of the Faire, Jake von Slatt and Datamancer will be in the Contraptor Lounge double teaming the construction of a special edition 2008 Bay Area Maker Faire Steampunk Keyboard that will be raffled off or given as a door prize (to be determined).

Location:   Outdoors

 

Jam Making with cmbsweets! Carolina Braunschweig
Start with a basket of fruit. Add a drop of sugar, a squeeze of lemon and a whole gallon of love. Then set it to boil. The result? Happiness in a jar. cmbsweets is a San Francisco-based jam-maker celebrating only-in-California fruits and flavors: apricot-habanero, olallieberry, blood orange...

Location:   Makers Market

 

Japanese Storycard Theater
Authors Hazuki Kataoka and David Battino perform short <i>kamishibai</i> dramas from their Storycard Theater series, winner of the 2004 Dr. Toy Award for Top Ten Creative Products. Kamishibai (literally "paper theater") was a popular Japanese street-performance format in the days before TV. For kids of all ages.

 

Jewelry from Terra Nova High School
Jewelry made by high school students. Items include recyled earrings made from demo lens from glasses and faux dichotic pendant and pins.

Location:   Craft Zone

 

Jewelry Making Techniques Plus Dee Rouse Huth
Learn several techniques of making jewelry including casting, fabrication, stone setting, precious metal clay, cloisonne, filagree, engraving, gemstone carving and metal embossing and forging and much much more—you can do it!

Location:   Craft Zone

 

JL-Exotics
A selection of dart frogs and related supplies.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Jon Sarriugarte’s Boiler Bar Theater Presents
While enjoying the warmth of our Boiler Bar fire and the comfort of a drink you can take in the sights of exotic belly dancers, fire performers, and readings from the biggest little stage at the “Boiler Bar Theater.”

 

Joy Slippers
Wouldn't it be cool to draw with your feet? Well now you can with the Joy Slipper. The four homemade pressure sensors are embedded in the soles of these slippers that sense weight being shifted between the toes and heels of each foot. This information is fed into a computer where it translates to drawing directions, making the wearer of the Joy Slippers able to draw with their feet.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Judy: My Dinner with Android
Since the dawn of the computer age, people have argued about whether computers can ever be intelligent. But has anyone tried simply asking one? Intrepid researcher Tom Sgouros built a robot in his basement and after literally weeks of lessons in phonetics, elocution and the elements of logic, he and Judy present their findings here.

 

Jug Hero
We took a couple of old beer jugs, wired them up to a computer and created a new video game: Jug Hero! Just like Guitar Hero, except you're the star of a jug band.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Justin Gray's Fire Sculpture Robots and Electric Motorcycles
This year Justin Gray is bringing two fire sculpture robots and three lithium battery powered electric motorcycles!

 

Katie's Fiber Light Pipe
I’m building a modified light pipe using a sun-tracking parabolic reflector and mounted mirror that focuses light into optical fibers. These fibers will be coupled to 1/4”-thick acrylic pane. Light is released from an acrylic pane--effectively a waveguide--via scratches on the surface.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Kepler's Orrery
Kepler's Orrery is an interactive gravity simulator that composes & plays generative music while visually demonstrating physics equations. Each simulation starts with a "galaxy" of bodies that attract each other, move, and swirl around under the influence of their mutual gravity. When the bodies collide, they make music. Each one is assigned a melody and an instrument and plays its next note at each collision. You can watch the simulation projected on the wall, or you can change the system using its interactive kiosk: experminent with physics constants; see the force field; change the mass or position of the bodies to see how the initial conditions affect the outcome.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Kid Beyond
Looping his voice live onstage, Kid Beyond layers his soulful lyrics over his own beatboxing and vocal instrumentation -- creating an astounding brew of pop electronica. Kid B has shared the stage with Keane, Imogen Heap, Lyrics Born, Buckethead, String Cheese Incident, Spearhead, Widespread Panic, Amon Tobin, KRS-One, Sage Francis, Particle, and many more.

 

Kite Aerial Photography
The Bay Area hosts a particularly active community of kite aerial photographers. Local KAP artists will demonstrate several approaches to controlling an aerial camera including inexpensive robotic cradles, radio-controlled apparatus, and specialty panoramic rigs.

 

Kite Aerial Photography Collective
The Bay Area hosts a particularly active community of kite aerial photographers. This booth will feature KAP artists Cris Benton, Elaine & Don Dvorak, Ricardo Ferreira, Scott Haefner, Brooks Leffler, and Ben Peoples in a discussion of images, technique, and scratch-built equipment

Location:   The Hangar  near Techne group; and near a pole to hang kites on

 

Krane with a K Chris McMullen
Krane with a K is an 8-foot tall sculpture equipped with four small winches as points of control, connected by rope to one hook. Four participants use the winches to try and pick up and stack five blocks which rest inside the frame. An invitation for one to test their skills.

Location:   Outdoors

 

KUKIS KUKAS Hand-Decorated Cookies
Delicious hand-decorated cookies, elaborated with the finest ingredients.

Location:   Makers Market

 

La Legion Fantastique Peter Overstreet
We are a Jules Verne re-enactment society. Our show involves the creation of various artifacts from Jules Verne's works.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Laser Harp
Built using the Arduino controller, the laser harp is a musical instrument and performance piece. See <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLVXmsbVwUs">a video of Stephen's performance.</a>

Location:   Dark Room

 

Laser Looms—Crystal and Cardboard Travis Meinolf
I'll bring a selection of clear acrylic and folding cardboard looms for people to weave cloth with, and maybe take home!

Location:   Outdoors

 

LaserFinger
LaserFinger is a project of the Palo Alto High School Robotics/InvenTeam. Its aim is to create an affordable assistive technology while engaging students across the Bay Area.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Learning Lab
Ongoing self-paced workshops –- no experience necessary! Pull up a chair and learn the basics of programming, web design, mashup, and game creation.

 

Leather Masks
I sculpt masks out of leather - I use water, a box cutter, a cow horn, and my fingers mostly. After the leather dries, I paint and wax them. They are also nice unpainted. I also make horns (like the polymer clay ones only out of leather) in this way.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

LED Art, Art Bikes & Instructables
Monkeylectric LLC & Synoptic Labs present LED art for bikes, home, and around town. Also featuring Art Bikes and many Instructables DIY projects for show-n-tell-n-try, including the color make-over booth, ultimate headlight, jar 'o fireflies, and polygon lampshade building kit.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

LED Camera Light Kit
Learn how to build this kit that brightens up video you shoot indoors with your digital camera.

 

LED Hula Hoop Michael Nuzzi
The LED Hula Hoop is a fun product used by professional performers, dancers, and anyone interested in having fun making cool streams of color in the dark. They can be seen at festivals like Burning Man, and can sometimes cost as much as $300. But you can make one yourself for a lot less. Instructions can be found on Craft Magazine Vol 6. But we will explore a simpler way to make an even better LED hoop for both adults and kids using minimal tools.

Location:   Dark Room

 

LED Photo Booth
Webcam snapshots displayed on a matrix of LED signs.

 

LEGOJEEP Kevin Mathieu
The LEGOJEEP is one of the few true interactive art cars. The exterior is covered in LEGO sheets allowing LEGO on top to be moved into different patterns, shaped into structures, and messages to be created by any passerby. This reshaping of the environment leads the LEGO player, hopefully, to reassess the norms of what is possible in one's environment. This art car introduces a sense of play and induces conversation among builders as LEGO are shared and traded among the makers.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Leland Robotics Team
The Leland Robotics Team competes in the FIRST competition. In 6 weeks, students design, build and test a robot worthy of attending the Silicon Valley Regional. Students apply their knowledge in math and science in a teamwork environment to create a technological marvel - all by high school students.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Lemon Lime Lights
Eastbanian junkyard cabaret.

 

Lepidodgera
Lepidodgera is a 37-foot-tall steel butterfly perched atop a Dodge van. The 6000 square-foot wings articulate by hydraulic actuation and are brilliantly illuminated at night. A novel on-board gasifier converts biomass into gaseous fuel for the Dodge's engine.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Letterpress & Book Making with SF Center for the Book
You'll be able to pull your own letterpress print from a handset type and learn to make two different kinds of books. In addition you'll find out more about classes, exhibitions and studio rentals at the SF Center for the book, where the book of arts happens every day!

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Life Size Mousetrap
The LIFE SIZE MOUSETRAP is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive KINETIC SCULPTURE set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a VAUDEVILLIAN style show, original MUSICAL SCORE by The one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice CAN-CAN DANCERS, Clown workers, acrobatic HI JINKS, and other SPECTACULAR SCENES dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden FUN!

Location:   Makers Market

 

Lifelong Furniture Simply Made from Naturally Beautiful Recycled Stuff William Callahan
I create furniture kits that empower everyday people to design and build their very own lifelong furniture using recycled materials (wood, stone, and glass). The kits include recycled steel joinery and fasteners. I will demonstrate to adults and kids how to build furniture by hand and without power tools.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Lift Assist Miguel Valenzuela
I developed a toilet seat lift for disabled individuals that is made out of PVC and runs off the water pressure from ones house.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Light Doodles
Light doodles are created by capturing light trails with a digital camera and long exposure. We demonstrate the process, then capture participant's drawings and display them on a monitor. The drawings can be uploaded to Flickr for later viewing and downloading. Information is provided on camera settings, creating animations, and building LED light pens.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Lightning Laboratory Prototype Greg Leyh
An experimental twin-tower system that generates large-scale artificial lightning.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Lil Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum
Back by popular demand, the Lil' Ju Ju is a modified 1947 Spartan Manor Travel Trailer with a strengthened chassis, hydraulic auto leveling legs, and enough batteries/inverter to power a Jukebox and 6 pinball machines. A true mobile pinball arcade on wheels, featuring outer space themed pinball electromechanical machines.

Location:   Robo Games

 

LinuxAstronomy.org Eugene Clement
LinuxAstronomy is a collaboration between a group of volunteers, teenagers who need some guidance and some people from industry with an interest in astronomy. One current project that is being worked on is a remote controlled telescope. More information regarding this project and others being worked on can be found at http://www.linuxastronomy.org.

Location:   The Hangar

 

Lion Brand Yarn Unique Activities
Always wanted to learn how to knit? Now's your chance to get started, learn some tips from the experts, and experience the wonderful Lion Brand yarns.

 

Lion Brand Yarn Unique Activities
Always wanted to learn how to crochet? Now's your chance to get started, learn some tips from the experts, and experience the wonderful Lion Brand yarns.

 

LOOP!STATION
Live looping duo performance. One woman, one man, one voice, one cello, multiple layered "loops" hand-tooled and shaped into lovely, cascading, provocative orchestral compositions with an immediate soul-rocking palpability.

 

Lost in Space Experience
Makers can relive the Lost in Space experience with a working ROBOT, the Jupiter II computer, a balloon breaking Laser Pistol and Rocket Belt simulator that can zoom around the Jupiter II's crash site. All items are custom made and hand crafted to the specifications of the original TV show.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Loud Objects
Agog and agaggle! The Loud Objects set sail for a feral reimagination of circuit bending. Loftily wielding soldering irons against a ramshackle overhead projector, these heroic lads from New York City (Tristan Perich the composer, Kunal Gupta the programmer, and Katie Shima the architect) wire up live musical circuits and gerrymander lo-fi electronic noise. The first few minutes are characterized by bleak silence as the loud objects swiftly assemble an initial circuit; thereafter a lush and percussive poetry overwhelms the arena as the trio heroically hacks microchips into a beastly swarm of 1-bit noise. These maneuverings are projected physically from the smokiness, hulking beyond the performers, gargantuan spectres stripped from the pillars of antiquated technology to their lurid and noble spirit. (Co-located in the Maker Shed with 1-Bit Music.)

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

LUNAR Society: Rocket Launch Pad Craig Saunders
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.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

MacGyver: The Making of a Cultural Icon Lee Zlotoff
The writer of MAKE's Makeshift feature was father to McGyver, who was based on his own father. Learn about the origins of the MacGyver series and why MacGyver has become such a cultural icon.

 

Madame Ovary & Co EGGSplore the Realms of Resourcery & Reuse Amelia K. Sefton
Madame Ovary EGGSplains ... (Primarily Performing - Puppets, StorySpinning); Resourcery & Trash Transformations (Daffy Demonstrations). Realms of Resourcery: Exhibits and Activities. Includes Traveling Trashformations Reuse Art Show and Trashique (Tres Chic) Boutique; Music Magic. Creative Reuse Activities. Make & Take (Wands, Wings & Wonderful Things). Dumpster Diva, Dori, More!

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Magical Urban Creatures
Magical urban creatures constructed from a combination of salvaged parts and custom fabricated components. Join me as I work on one of my creatures, the fallen rabbit spirit, and play with my series of magical urban creatures that will be on display.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Magnet Sculpture Kit Carl Morris
Experience the magic of rare earth magnets firsthand with this fun sculpture building kit.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Magnetoscope
Adjust the position of magnets above and below a puddle of ferrofluid which jumps up to form a dynamic spikey mass. This hands-on exhibit dramatically demonstrates the shape of magnetic fields and the macroscale properties of nanoscale materials-science. The internal hand-cranked mechanisms are illuminated and follow the designs of Leonardo da Vinci.

Location:   Expo Red

 

MAIZ
MAIZ is a cyber sonic robotic talisman. It is a hyper-folkloric object of reconnection, made of recycled machinery parts and controlled by a computer. MAIZ is a link between Aztec mythology and contemporary cyber technology. MAIZ is featured in the latest issue of MIT Leonardo as well as Music and Science magazine.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Make a Vibrobot
Learn how to make a twitchy, bug-like robot.

 

Make an LED Clock
Pick up one of the no-soldering-required LEDkit.biz LED clock kits in the Maker Shed and build it right at Maker Faire with help from the Maker Shed team.

 

Make an LED Clock (with the Maker)
Join Karl Papadantonakis, maker of the LEDkit.biz LED clock kit. Pick up one of these no-soldering-required kits in the Maker Shed and build it right at Maker Faire.

 

MAKE Articles by John Edgar Park
Come and check out the contraptions that John Edgar Park has built and written about in MAKE: The Hydraulic Espresso Tamper, LEGO Keychain Charger Station, RFID iConveyor, and a Make Controller secreted inside a hollowed-out book. John will also be joined by his friend and co-conspirator Usman Muzaffar to talk about the software he wrote on the RFID conveyor belt project

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Make Controller Kit MakingThings
The Make Controller is a easy to use, general purpose and open source controller that can be used to create new, fun interactive projects that incorporate physical and electronic devices.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Make Play Day
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.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Make Professional Quality Wiring Harnesses
Wiring harnesses are an essential and often overlooked part of any electrical system. On a car, a good wiring harness can make the difference between a weekend joyride and a long tow home. Building a quality wiring harness requires a couple inexpensive tools and the right techniques, as I will demonstrate.

Location:   Expo Green

 

MAKE Projects for Kids
Fun, easy-to-make projects everyone will love, from the pages of MAKE magazine.

 

Make the Future!
What could Maker Faire look like in 2018? And where is that future already here? Make the Future! shows exciting visions from the next decade of making and manufacturing, and connects the future to the prototypes already being built today. Come to see how you’ll be making the future.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Make Your Own Free Range Mini-Monsters
Learn how to whip up a goofy hand-sewn plush monster to love. It doesn't matter if this is your first ever sewing project or even if you consider yourself creativity-impaired, you can learn how to conjure a special friend, and have fun every step of the way.

 

Make Your Own Free-Range Mini-Monsters
Come to the Maker Shed where Moxie's Free-Range Mini-Monster kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you build them.

 

Make Your Own Free-Range Mini-Monsters (with the Maker)
Come and join Moxie, maker of the Hand-Sewn Free-Range Monsters. Free-Range Mini-Monster kits will be available for sale and you can build them right there.

 

Make Your Own Glass Beads
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.

 

Make-and-take Laser-cut Andon Robyn Orr
The traditional Japanese Andon (paper lantern) gets a modern maker update. Jump in our photo-booth, then stand back while a laser cutter renders you in perfect detail into an amazing cardboard lantern. Made from recycled materials, and consumption-optimized.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Maker Kits
MAKE's Phil Torrone and Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries talk about emerging opportunities for makers to create and sell their work.

 

Maker Magic Dan Weiss
To make magic, you have to MAKE magic. Come see MAKE author Dan Weiss perform magic tricks, talk about how they were made, and the tradition of making magic tricks in his family.

 

Maker Sessions
A selection from computer music technology projects.

 

Maker Shed Exhibits, Demos, and More
Come to the Maker Shed to meet the authors who write the books and the makers who make the kits. They will be in the Maker Shed all weekend, and we'll have plenty of cool stuff to buy!

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Making Jewelry
Learn how to make jewelry from the author of "Beadalicious."

 

Making Music with Arduino
Come learn how to make music with Arduino. Geared toward those getting started with the popular microcontroller, this demonstration will explore several possible methods to use for sound synthesis.

 

Man-made Lightning Vicki Johnson
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.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Marquetry Art
Marquetry is the art of creating decorative designs and pictures by skillfully utilizing the grain, figure and colors of thin veneers. We will display completed marquetry and will demonstrate the steps to create marquetry.

Location:   Work Shop

 

Marvin, the Anthropomorphic Babbage Concierge Milo Dodds
Meet Marvin. He's Steampunk. He's robotic, more or less, with pan/tilt articulation... the eyes are spot lights, the nose is a low lux video camera, there's (predictably) a speaker in his mouth, and those jowl-like little grille things are a microphone array. It's all controlled via wireless USB through a phidget interface, with motion and noise tracking algorithms, facial recognition, and a bunch of other geegaws and gimcracks. He can be scary to see in operation, which is kinda the point. Milo Dodds commissioned Kaden Harris to build Marvin as part of "a relatively minor component of a truly epic commission."

Location:   Expo Green

 

Mateo Granados Yucatan Tamales
Chef Mateo Granados has created a unique style of cooking, synthesizing European cooking techniques and sensibilities with local and Latin American ingredients to create a rustic yet refined cuisine. Mateo’s succulent Yucatán Tamales are based on his grandmother’s recipe, which he since has refined to perfection. Fresh, all-natural and steamed in banana leaves, vegetarian and pork Yucatán Tamales will be served at Maker Faire.

 

McPuzo & Trotsky
Heinrich McPuzo and Sid Trotsky are purveyors of satirical songs from the Roaring Twenties, such as "Warren G. Harding Is A Horse's Ass", and "You Wouldn't Know She Was Irish".

 

Mercedes Pens Art Car
The Mercedes Pens Art Car created by me, the Pen Guy, is covered inside and out in over 6000 pens. I got the idea to create an art car using something we all use, old pens of every kind. My goal is to inspire others through art and comedy to begin pursuing their dreams and visions for their life in fun, creative, and humorous way.

 

Meta — USA
Our self-balancing scooter was designed to go curb hoping and through the sand. It is exceedingly fast. We've even drag raced it against other scooters. The hardware is from an open source project that we worked long and hard on. Our scooter has lean steering using a flat titanium spring that we invented. You just push the arm in the direction you want to rotate. Our clone is also radio controlled!

Location:   Robo Games

 

Microfiche Tim Lillis
Microfiche is an instrumental four-piece from San Francisco who draw diagrams for your ears and mind. If you were to use the pinnacle of nineteenth-century signal processing technology to transpose the sounds of hope, despair, patterns, the lack of patterns, fear of mechanical men, and whale calls, you would almost have the sound of Microfiche. They have been playing together since the beginning of 2007, and are currently unsigned. Microfiche have an old microfiche reader - turned light-sensitive MIDI instrument and an interactive LED Graphic EQ backdrop to accompany and augment their sound.

 

Microsoft Makers
A variety of innovative makers demonstrate new uses for some of our programs and produts.

 

MiniPOV Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build the MiniPOV, a programmable persistence of vision device. Kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you.

 

Minthesizer
Working on a synthesizer in a mint tin. Inspiration was the recent stylophone blog. I read about analog synthesizers and became hooked. I will also have about 20 different circuits that I have built in mint tins

Location:   Expo Orange

 

MintyBoost Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build the MintyBoost, a DIY USB charger that runs off of 2 AA batteries and fits inside an Altoids tin. Kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you.

 

Mirador and Giant Tripod James Horecka
The "Mirador" is a tower with a viewing platform. It consists of struts fabricated from 1" EMT, arranged in a double-helix pattern through ever-decreasing hexagonal hoops. Also featured is the "Giant Tripod," used for shooting panorama photos over trees on site. Both are modular, demountable and portable.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Mobile Movie Drive-in Eric Kurland
In a mobile car-based projection booth, L.A.'s chapter of MobMov—"the Drive-in that Drives in"—presents an outdoor movie screening.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Mobile Typing Glove
The HandWriter is a wearable device that serves as a mobile keyboard and mouse. It is also an inexpensive Braille writer. Just plug it into any USB-enabled device and you can begin typing with one hand. The one-handed typing glove allows users to type free of a keyboard providing freedom of movement and freedom from repetitive stress injury. The one-handed device can be used with either the left or right hand. It is based on Dr. Douglas Engelbart's original chorded key set and uses a combination of finger presses to type the entire alphabet. The alphabet is as simple to learn as the Alphabet in American Sign Language.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Mod Your Maker's Notebook
A work area in the Maker's Shed, called the Maker's Notebook Mod Station, where folks who just bought the Notebook can "improve" it. Becky Stern and I will be doing ongoing demos showing how to add pockets, closures, marker ribbons, and various cool notebook tricks and hacks.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Moebius Omnibus
The Moebius Omnibus was a purpose-built mutant vehicle for Burningman 2005. It was designed and built from scratch to seat 12 people (plus one driver) and provide all of them a comfortable unobstructed view of the surroundings, which is safe and fun. It has underwent several design changes and is currently on it's 3rd revision. It is a vehicle like no other and employs a highly unusual control system and configuration.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Molecular Gastronomy
Informal talk and demo of spherification and other aspects of Molecular Gastronomy.

 

Momentum Magazine Amy Walker
An illustration and celebration of self-propelled people using "appropriate technology"- particularly focusing on the bicycle and its usefulness in improving our experience of our surroundings, our fitness, and our quality of life in North America. We propose to explore a brief history of bicycle experimentation in North America and the marriage of bicycles with other modes of mobile technology ie. smart phones.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Monkeylectric LED Art Bikes
In a never-before-seen fusion of kinetic and digital arts, Monkeylectric presents a unique night-time visual experience combining the pavement stylings of bmx flatland artist Pete Brandt with cutting edge digital light art by Dan Goldwater and Xander Hudson. In the hands of Pete Brandt an expertly wielded bicycle becomes a palette of stunning color imagery as thousands of precisely controlled LEDs light up the air.

 

monochrom's SCULPTURE MOBS: Training Camp
Counter culture? Art? Your average guy does not go to exhibitions, concerts nor does he get in touch with art and counter culture media. Counter culture and the art world are niche places. And even if people would go there they would consider what happens there to be ‘just art’. Art is the place where things might be reflected. But that amounts to nothing because it is not linked to everyday life. Art is a special task and a special place for special people. Many post-bourgeois artists were trying to bring the art back to the people ­ not as a handy service (as it is to the bourgeois elite art consumer) but as a form of irritation. They created many forms of street theatre and pranks. But even art hackers are often helpless against official "art in public space"! Oh, the horror! Those endless atrocities! All of them labeled "sculpture in public space"! Ah! Monstrous "public art installations" on roundabouts, on main streets, in shopping malls! It is time to reclaim the street art! It is time to create your own public art! Get your hammers! Get your welding equipment! It is time for SCULPTURE MOBS! monochrom offers free courses, in-depth training and invites people on a couple of guerrilla field trips.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Motorized Barcalounger Lyn Gomes
When complete, it will look like an ordinary 1970's era black vinyl recliner. The electric wheelchair concealed beneath will allow for the ultimate in laziness and nerd-geekiness combined!! Too lazy to get a beer from the fridge and your dog's too stupid to learn (or too smart to reward your lazy bum)? The motorized barcalounger will do just fine!

Location:   Expo Green

 

Movie FX Gary Barth
I live locally (in San Carlos) and I produce a line of Special Effects DVDs that are taught by Hollywood professionals. Each DVD is 3 hours long and has multiple lessons on various techniques including molding, casting, painting, teethmaking, sculpting, prop-making, makeup, and so on. Check out the movie prop decorations and live makeup demos as well!

Location:   Robo Games

 

Multi-Touch Table
We built a multi-touch table-top display for about $500 in materials. It uses infrared LEDs, a web cam and a sheet of acrylic. We have a multi-touch enabled music sequencer, plasma/lightning simulation, physics simulation and pong game.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Music Instrument Controllers with Fiber and Malleable Materials Adrian Freed
New materials like conductive thread, piezoresistive textiles and carbon fiber make it possible to build compelling new musical instrument controllers in minutes and hours without the carpentry skills traditional lutherie require. I will show you how to build these new instruments and invent your own.

Location:   Expo Green

 

My Brain Machine
Glasses to synchronize your brainwaves with a pre-programmed sequence, from wakefulness into deep meditation and back out into fabulousness, all along hallucinating wild patterns.

 

My Game Builder
All the tools needed to make a computer game (specialty: 2D actions and RPG games), all in your browser. Make a game in 10 minutes or as long as you have.

Location:   Expo Red

 

MyDummy
MyDummy is a mechanical boy on a tricycle made to look as realistic as possible. People who see "him" for the first time usually think there's a child riding a tricycle. Then they disconnect when they realize that it's just a machine. Uncanny valley strikes again!

Location:   Robo Games

 

Mystery Phones Greg MacLaurin
Disassemble old telephones and create a Ghost Phone, to listen in on a pre-recorded conversation; and a Party Line, for your very own private standalone phone system.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Needle Felting Kits Workshop
The Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you build these needle felting kits. Kits will be available for sale.

 

Needle Felting Kits Workshop (with the Maker)
Moxie will be on hand to help you build these needle felting kits. Kits will be available for sale.

 

Needle Felting Playground
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.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Neo-robotica Insectus 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.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Neon Tubebending Demonstration
Neon tubebending techniques will be demonstrated throughout the day, with a portable set of neon crossfires. Shawna Peterson runs a neon shop creating her own artwork and commercial signs. She likes to combine found objects, typically old signs, with new neon to create illuminated sculptures.

Location:   Work Shop

 

Nervous System Jesse Louis-Rosenberg and Jessica Rosenkrantz
Nervous System creates unusual jewelry from industrial materials with rapid prototyping methods. Our designs are generated through interactive, open source algorithms that users can play with on our website. People will be able to design their own pieces at our booth, then have them cut at the FabLab booth.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Neverwas Haul
Inspired by the works of Jules Verne, the Neverwas Haul is a self-propelled, 3-story Victorian house on wheels, and the home of the Traveling Academy of Unnatural Sciences, an intrepid group of explorers who are using steam-powered engines to circumnavigate the globe.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Nueva Middle School Art Program
Our workbench will demonstrate how the Nueva Middle school art program works with students to increase their artistic perception through the making and the understanding of mechanical and Interactive Art. The projects that are going to be on display were done throughout the school year. These projects vary from pinball machines, GO cars, robots, surprise boxes to interactive-interface video pieces.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

NYC Resistor Super Funtime Hacklab!
We're going to be showing off all kinds of fun projects that we've created over the last few months at the NYCResistor hacker space. There will be LED blinky projects; RepRap the open source 3D printer; Arduino projects a plenty; BarBot! the robot bartender; steam-powered widgets; Daisy the friendly open source MP3 player; Twithcie, the multipurpose plush robot (a new kit from MAKE Magazine!); incredible knitted and sewn monstrosities (kids LOVE them!); and much more! We will dedicate much of our space to hands on fun for visitors to the Faire.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Omega Recoil John Behrens
A group of Tesla Coil performers previously associated with Dr. Megavolt creates new and different styles of Tesla Coil based interactive art. Our centerpiece is a 9'30,000 Tesla Coil. We will interact with a suit and other Maker's projects. We will test your projects for you with the Coil.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Onyx Ashanti: Live Laptop Beatjazz Performance Onyx Ashanti
I am a beatjazz artist, which is a style of music i created that is equal parts live looping,laptop performance, post modern improvisation and sound design. I start with a wind controller and a virtual rack of synths and create complex arrangements that vary in type, tempo and style depending on my aritistic perspective.

 

Optical Acoustics
This is a set of MP3 players that have the LED outputs. The modulated light is received by a photo-diode amplifier and the players send messages that are transmitted to various stars through a spotlight. The receiver is in a small telescope.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Pandora's Trunk
Pandora's Trunk is a cooperative arts and design boutique and gallery located in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. At Maker Faire these artists will be making work live, demonstrating processes, and answering questions about their unique working situation, as well as showing off an array of completed works.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

PetBots! Christopher Myers
A robotic workshop for Kids! Learn about batteries, motors, and switches; creating several different types of mobile robots that spin, dance, and draw using recycled and reused electric components and cool laser cut acrylic chassis. PetBots can be built by anyone without prior experience. Also on show will be the Robot Ranch where you can drive the Nerf Gun Roomba and see how good your aim really is.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Photojojo DIY Photo Blocks
Show off your photos using beautiful photo blocks -- using any photos, linoleum blocks, and glue, and some sealer!

 

Photosynth Demo
Rendering the brilliant 3D world using ordinary 2D photos powered by Deep Zoom. Created by Microsoft Live Labs.

 

Physical Pixels
I make mosaics out of found objects. Dice, matches, M&M candy, spent bullet casings, color pencils, anything small and cheap enough. I write programs that calculate layouts based on image files. Lately I started using a CNC router to make drill-out mosaics--images that are literally made of holes.

Location:   The Hangar

 

PianoMotion
This is a small musical art vehicle (2' X 11') with electronic fly-by-wire steering. It features a piano keyboard and sound system built into the body of the vehicle. Fly-by-wire steering allows the driver to simultaneously steer the vehicle and play the piano with both hands. It has a 12-channel custom MIDI lighting system, modular body-frame "skateboard" design, novel LED lighting, and a clean air system to protect the electronics from dust.

 

Pick Up Sticks' Knit-to-Felt Kit workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to make these great kits. The Maker Shed team will be on hand to help, and kits will be available for sale.

 

Pinbowl Chaos Generator
A large polycarbonate dish 3 feet in diameter contains 4 bumpers, 3 Neon/Argon rings, and 1 to 3 pinballs. When activated, the bumpers begin energizing, sending balls careening and colliding with each other and triggering the gas tubes and creating a cacophony of light and sound. They eventually lose momentum, roll back down to the bottom, only to be sent on their way once again by the bumpers. This gives a glimpse of the chaos theory and Brownian motion, besides being a spectacle that is hard to take your eyes off.

Location:   Robo Games

 

Pipe Organ Forest
Pipe organ pipes, with pneumatic air, inside a forest of trees. I will record the pipes and alter the sound with Max MSP. The air may be created by a pump generated by a bicycle.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Plumb Yourself Off the Water Grid: Greywater and Composting Toilets
Want a bountiful garden irrigated from your greywater? Interested in a toilet that uses no water? Learn how to reduce dependence on the water grid with simple, low-tech, low-cost options of harvesting rainwater, reusing greywater, and having waterless composting toilets. Check out our life-size models and put together demo-systems yourself!

Location:   Makers Market  near Techne group

 

Plush You!
Come and join the author of Plush You! for a book signing in the Maker Shed.

 

Point Focus Solar
The general scope of the exhibit covers some description and contextual analysis of the solar concentrators. This includes power towers at Barstow, Wiezman Institutes prototype beamdown technology, ring arrays, compact linear freznal arrays from Australia, Kramer junctions parabolic trough plants, aspects of the reflective lens. Other technologically relevant threads will include windowed flux reaction chambers for making flux augmented fuels and detoxifying waste, space propulsion, space chemical materials processing, and space power systems in relation to terrestrial implementation.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Pong Watch
Learn how I built a wrist watch that plays pong; from the idea, to early prototypes, to design choices, and the final design. Also, I will have a preview of the next version, which plays Asteroids.

 

Popfly
Microsoft Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, web pages, and applications.

 

Pops! Icy Treats for Everyone Krystina Castella
A truly amazing feature of pops is they can be cast into any shape you can imagine. In this workshop you will learn how to make simple pop molds from everyday household items, such as glasses, cookie cutters, ice cube trays and even food packaging, from wax paper to plastic juice boxes. Or if you really want to get crafty, experiment with liquid silicone and make molds out of found objects, small toys or characters you sculpt from your imagination.

 

Portable Guerrilla-Gallery Adam Holm
The portable Guerrilla-Gallery is a space that can be rolled off the back of a truck and inflated to 400 sf of interior space in less than 10 minutes. The material of the project consists of used vinyl billboards, while all the fans are salvaged off scraped swamp coolers and grease fans.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Power Tool Drag Racing
Every year the very best and brightest take to their garages, the plumbing aisle at Home Depot, the tools section of OSH, and the empty lots behind their neighbors' trailers to build THOSE MACHINES WHO REIGN SUPREME! 75 feet of skillfully machined fiberboard Power Tool Drag Racing Track await the competitors on race day! BE AMAZED at the high-tech timing system that tracks Each and Every Vehicle. BE AMUSED at the charming antics of our well-known Power Tool Drag Race Announcers! BE APPALLED at the smell of RAW ADRENALINE and 20-W-50 in the air!

Location:   Outdoors

 

Precision Puzzlemaking with a Laser Cutter
These beautiful and ingenious wooden puzzles and puzzle boxes will confound and inspire you.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Prelinger Library
Visit the satellite location of the Prelinger Library and browse interesting old books and magazines that makers of previous generation have enjoyed.

 

Printed Bricks Rebecca Harvey
Reclaimed blue factory bricks. Hand field printed in batches of 28. Layered with enamels and oxides—after printing each brick is pulled away to stand alone. Unlike some of our other items, these are completely unreproducible—availability is by specific item number.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

ProdMod LED Camera Light Kit & LED Hula Hoop Kit Michael Nuzzi
The LED Hula Hoop is a fun product used by professional performers, dancers, and anyone interested in having fun making cool streams of color in the dark. They can be seen at festivals like Burning Man, and can sometimes cost as much as $300. But you can make one yourself for a lot less. Instructions can be found on Craft Magazine Vol 6. But we will explore a simpler way to make an even better LED hoop for both adults and kids using minimal tools. Michael will also appear on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Project Maestro
Minority Report-inspired user interface created using Silverlight created by Cynergy Labs.

 

Propane Fountain
The Propane Fountain combines propane, hydrogen, and water to produce the effects. There are no pumps. More than just fire burning on water, the flames change size, shape, texture, even color. Best of all, this piece is interactive. The audience has full control and can make the art do what they want.

 

Propane, It's a Gas! Fun and Fire with the Flaming Lotus Girls
Join the Flaming Lotus Girls for the ins and outs of making large scale Fire Art through their own unique blend of collaboration. They will discus the secrets behind their famous "Poofers," how to have fun and be safe with propane, and give a sneak peak of their latest project, Mutopia.

 

Purl Drums Corey Fogel
Purl Drums is an experiment intersecting my two favorite activities: drumming and knitting. The point of intersection is the implements. I try to keep each craft as authentic as possible, with few creative leanings towards either.

Location:   Craft Zone

 

Puzzlemation
Puzzlemation is a tiled display. Each tile is an 8x8 grid of LEDs with its own power from an microcontroller. The tiles are placed in a special tray, where patterns are loaded from the display via EEPROM or the network. Then the tiles can be reconfigured any way you please. Unlike most displays, you can scoop pixels up in your hand, like sand at the beach.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

PyroCardium
PyroCardium is an interactive fire sculpture that illuminates a person's heartbeat by computer-controlled ignition with a series of flames arranged along a helical metal sculpture. A stethoscope is placed on the participant’s chest, causing waves of flame to propagate along the helix in response to their heartbeat.

 

Que SeRaw SeRaw — Fresh Food To Go!
Que SeRaw SeRaw offers healthy fast food to go, ready to eat in pre-packaged containers. FRESH . GOURMET . ORGANIC . VEGAN . RAW – Salads, soups, pates, and desserts that you savour right down to the very last morsel. Come by our store in Burlingame!

 

Quickupcamper Jay Baldwin
The only RV that is stable, handles well, and gets 20 mpg @ 70 mph. It was a features of last year's Maker Faire as #224 in location outside West H-17

Location:   Outdoors

 

R2-D2 Astromech Droids
We're members of the R2 Builders Club. A loosely organize international group of Star Wars fans who love to build droids. We've been featured in MAKE Magazine, appeared at lots of events throughout the country, and we run droid building workshops and panels. We will be roaming around the event throughout the weekend with frequent stops back at our Rebel Base to charge our batteries. There we can answer questions on how easy it is to get started building your very own astromech droid.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Rabbit's Rum and Chris Warren Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Rabbit's Rum and Chris Warren collaborate in a live creation of orchestral electronica and ambient soundscapes at Maker Faire. Instrumentation will feature Chris Warren's feedback piano in interactions with live cello and laptop. About the performers: San Francisco orchestral electronica band RABBIT'S RUM ( http://www.rabbitsrum.com ) swings moods from tight electronic song forms to spacious harmonic ambient soundscapes recollecting Goldfrapp (Supernature), Massive Attack (Mezzanine), and Bjork (Vespertine). Rabbit's Rum features the vocals and cello work of conservatory classical musician gone renegade Kristina Forester and the sound design, beat craft, and custom code of SF underground alumn and polymath Noah Thorp (founder of audio think tank record label Listen Labs and the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group). The duos collaborations include work with the Capacitor dance troupe (Capacitor.org), composer and producer JMage, Arcade Fire & Tom Waits saxophonist Colin Stetson, Stanford Laptop Orchestra founder and composer Ge Wang, and many more. Rabbit's Rum innovates on and off the stage with custom built software and instruments from SuperCollider and Max/MSP to hacked Wii controllers and bent circuits. As the enigmatic duo sharpens the edge of culture, Rabbit's Rum enchants while breaking the rules. CHRIS WARREN (http://www.alloyelectric.com) is a Master's student at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University where his main interests are interaction design in new musical instruments and sound design. When not playing 8-string bass or coding VST plugins he can usually be found napping in public, snoring loudly. He is headed to San Diego this fall to begin his Ph.D. in Computer Music at UCSD.

 

Randy Sarafan Loves You. Randy Sarafan
Come meet Randy Sarafan in person. Marvel at the wonders upon which he has been working on for the past year. Or, just stand and gawk as things move, blink, play sounds and monitor your BAC. Fun times are guaranteed.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Re-inventing Building Blocks
Bug Labs is indicative of a trend affording new opportunities in manufacturing, and a new way to think with building blocks and prototype products that can lead to filling a variety of unserved niches.

 

Recycled Paper Bracelet Kit
Come to the Maker Shed and check out the Recycled Paper Bracelet Kit from Frucci Designs. The kit will be available for sale, and Fru of Frucci Designs will be on hand for Q&A.

 

Refoliation
Refoliation is a set of trees created from recycled and repurposed steel, with leaves made out of plastic bags collected from the streets of Beijing. Inspired by the garbage littering city streets and tree branches, volunteers in China have gathered enough plastic bags to create hundreds of leaves. In the Bay Area, scrapyard junk from car parts to old pipes came together to form the tree trunks and branches. This project was made possible by a grant from Burning Man.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Remaking recycled materials and old clothes into new Sonya Nimri
I will demonstrate at least 30 different ways to take articles of clothing commonly found in most women's closets (i.e. t-shirts, tank tops, socks, pantyhose, sweaters, maps) and household items and show how to remake them into new clothing styles and Halloween costumes. I've written a book called "Just for the Frill of It" on the subject but the clothes for this will not be all from the book. There will be a bunch of Halloween costumes, as well, that people can make themselves.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Renga Arts
A showcase of fun and useful items that can be made from old LPs. Live demonstrations will be given.

 

RepRap Self-Replicating 3D Printer Project
The RepRap project's goal is to build a self-replicating 3D printer. It uses a print head much like a motorized hot glue gun to build up new plastic parts for numerous daughter machines. We anticipate achieving self-replication quite soon.

Location:   Work Shop

 

Restored Pinball Machines
Come play some awesome pinball machines from the '80s and '90s! Fully restored, beautifully cleaned, Bally/Williams from the golden age of Solid State Pinball. Have questions about finding / restoring a machine? Need help with restoration? We'll be there to answer your questions! (There'll be some microcontroller action, too!)

Location:   Robo Games

 

Retro DVD Player and Wi-Fi Radio
Tired of the mundane look of modern electronics? Take control and transform modern day devices (Wi-Fii internet radio, DVD player, PC speakers, USB charger) into pieces straight out of the golden era.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Ride
Ride is a custom single rider helicopter with eight engines conceived & created by sculptor, Michael Cooper. It looks like more like a time machine invented by Dr. Seuss for George Jetson than anything you've seen in the air (or on land) recently.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

RoboActivity Kits & Bots Walt Perko
My goal is developing new technologies to bring the world of robotics to a younger more general consumer. RoboKeyboard, RoboActivity Kit Instructions, R2PV1 robot FPS/CTF gaming system. I have some prototypes for limited demonstrations.

Location:   Expo Red

 

RoboGames Presents: The ComBot Cup David Calkins , Simone Davalos
Robots range from 60 pounds all the way up to 340 pounds, and the action will blow you away. Regular people make these robots, they're not from companies. You could make one too! Both the ComBots Cup and Android fights are in prerp for RoboGames -- the world's largest robot competition -- June 13-15th in San Francisco.

Location:   Robo Games

 

Robots & Designers Living Together in Harmony
Ask us how affordable CNC production, design software, and off-the-shelf electronics can help bring your big ideas into the world! Talk tools, techniques, limitations, and ideas with several CNC-savvy designers to get your production questions answered.

Location:   Work Shop

 

Rocker Oysterfeller's
Rocker Oysterfeller's celebrates and supports Sonoma County farms, ranches and fishermen. Using local, seasonal and sustainably farmed foods and organic ingredients. Come taste some excellent barbecued Drakes Bay Oysters with Rockers famous BBQ sauce, garlic butter or Louisiana hot sauce. Also, raw oysters on the half shell will be served.

 

Rotating Amusement Device
LED spinning machine with two fast intersecting axes.

Location:   Expo Green

 

S/L Pegasus
Aiming to capture a speed record next year, this 23ft steamboat, originally built in '82, is undergoing constant revisions.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

San Francisco Flower & Garden Show
The largest garden show in California features 25 beautiful display gardens and 75 free seminars. March 18-22 at San Mateo Event Center.

 

San Francisco State University Student Textiles Guild
The students from the SF State Textiles classes would like to show you how to resist dye fabric using string, blocks of woods, and clamps. Pictures, videos, and actual samples will be on hand. Take away instructions and local suppliers will be shared. They will also show examples of embroidery and crochet art projects.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

San Mateo County RecycleWorks
Demonstrations of live worm bins and backyard composting bins, with information on recycling, integrated pest management (IPM), green building, and how to reuse common household items.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Savonius Wind Power Home Power Plant
This Wind Turbine is designed for generating electricity in environments that may not be suited or able to have a standard propeller type wind installation. I am currently making the unit self standing for portability to bring it to the Maker Faire.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Scharffen Berger Chocolate: Meet the Chocolate Maker
We are an artisan chocolate maker, sourcing the best cacao in the world to create the richest, most flavorful chocolate. Our attention to detail at every step of making chocolate -- from bean selection to blending, roasting and refining -- sets us apart from other chocolate brands. At Maker Faire, we plan to show people how they can make their own chocolate using our cacao nibs.

 

Scratch Foam Printmaking Susan Sullivan
Printmaking is fun for ALL ages using foam sheets to make a "printing plate". Draw on foam with a pencil, roll on inks, then press onto paper to make your print. Make multiple prints to take away and leave a print as part of the Visitors Print Display. (All materials provided & water-based inks used.)

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Seasonal Menus and Secret Dinners
An explication of local spring produce from the farmers' market with an overview of how I create seasonal multi-course vegetarian menus. A cooking demonstration and some information about underground restaurants.

 

SECRET EATING SOCIETY -- Offal Tacos
TACOS TACOS TACOS Come, eat like a luchador! Feed your crafty spirit with the tacos of champions. Or find our sexy wrestlers for a free hibiscus cooler coupon.

 

Sei Boku Bonsai Kai Display
Our display will include bonsai trees, trees in development, literature on bonsai and bonsai activities, and speciality tools used in bonsai. There will be a continuous demonstration of bonsai development.

 

Self-balancing Skateboard
A programmable/motorized Segway built upon a skateboard frame that balances on an inverted pendulum.

 

Self-making
How to optimize learning.

 

SETI@home Dan Werthimer
Are We Alone? Is Anybody Out There? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer will discuss the possibility of life in the universe, SETI@home, and how you can have the small but captivating possibility that your computer will detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.

 

Sew Subversive and Subversive Seamster
Come to the Maker Shed and meet the authors of these two subversive books.

 

Shadow Dome
Formerly known as Dreams of Electric Houses. Make shadow puppets or use some of ours and use them to amaze your friends and befuddle your enemies on our wall-to-wall shadow theater.

Location:   Dark Room

 

Shake Your Peace
A folk band based out of camping tent on the roof of a pink house in San Francisco's Mission District. The band aims to be more and more sustainable: touring on bicycles (without a support van) and using public transportation, powering its P.A. system with human/audience power via bicycle, planting a tree for each CD it makes, and more.

 

Shy Plant Project
A miniature, self-contained greenhouse is filled with "shy" plants. These plants intrigued Charles Darwin who studied their seismonastic movements (their ability to move rapidly in response to touch, electricity and heat.) Often marketed as 'novelty' plants that are fun for kids, they are still the subject of current research on their special method of movement. Visitors are invited to experience their movements first hand by gently touching them with a variety of implements, including their hands.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Slow Food Nation
Slow Food Nation is an event that aims to transform participants’ perception of food and engage them in building a sustainable food system. Taking place in San Francisco August 29-September 1, it will offer activities for all ages, including a marketplace, tastings, dinners, forums, workshops, films and a music festival.

 

Small Form Factor PCs
Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs is the only book available that shows you how to build small-form-factor PCs -- from kits and from scratch -- that are more interesting and more personalized than what a full-sized PC can give you. The authors will be on hand to demonstrate a few of the projects from their book, including the Gumstix-based Bluetooth LED sign, the Meshcube Wi-Fi extender, the OpenBlockS firewall, and the Zipit messenger turned into an SSH client.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Soft Circuit Embroidery
Becky will show an introductory tutorial for working with conductive thread to make a circuit on fabric. Using traditional embroidery techniques with modern electronic components, she will demo the creation of a simple soft switch circuit that will light up a sewn LED with a watch battery. Photos of an advanced example using a Lilypad Arduino are linked below.

 

Soft Electronics in Recycled Clothing Gretchen Elsner
How to make simple circuits and incorporate them into recycled clothing.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Solar Car Share Julian Darley
Julian Darley, founder of Post Carbon Institute, will discuss Peak Oil and its ramifications. Julian will introduce Post Carbon Institute's programs including Energy Farms Network, Solar Car Share, Relocalization Network, and Post Carbon Cities.

 

Solar Dyeing
Using solar energy to dye yarn, fibers and fabrics. This is not sunprinting, but using the solar energy to set dyes.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Solar Prius
We have developed a kit that allows the Toyota Prius and potentially its other Electric Hybrid cars to function on Solar Power!

Location:   Outdoors

 

Solar-powered Stirling Engine
I’m developing a Stirling-cycle heat engine that will operate on solar heat. In addition to demonstrating the engine, I will also show tools and methods to simulate and measure engine performance.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Solenoid City Jonathan Foote
A petite interactive kinetic artwork.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Sonic Pong V4.0 Andrew Milmoe
For many people Pong was the first video game they played. I took this into account when creating a sonic game platform for blind or visually impaired players. Its minimalist representation of table tennis could easily be represented with sonic "pixels."

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Spandex Graphs
"Imagine rubber graph paper", scientists have said for generations. Our Spandex graphs stretch a point, and exaggerate so much that you'd think they're politicians. Come experiment with your own ideas. Clever, cool, and funny ideas may be published in The Journal of Irreproducible Results, the science humor magazine.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Sparkle Kits Amy Parness
Sparkle Labs is releasing their new DIY Design Electronics Kit at Maker Faire! Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more. Once you master the basics, you’ll be ready to create your own doodads. Neato! Everything you need to get started is right inside, including nifty switches, buttons, diodes, capacitors, transistors and regulators. Sparkle Labs will also appear on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

SparkleLabs Easy Electronics Kit
Learn about Sparkle Labs new DIY Design Electronics Kit! Create games, toys and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more.

 

Sparky 2.0 Marque Cornblatt
Sparky was originally made from materials found while dumpster diving and at garage sales. Sparky 2.0 uses the MAKE controller board and Skype’s free video chat and is completely controllable via computer anywhere in the world. Autonomous Telepresence (or AT) is a term coined to describe the emerging field of research that combines remote sensing and telepresence, social networking, and human interaction. These elements together enable an entirely new and unique form of human/machine hybrid –- the video chat rover. Over the past few years, AT has emerged as a useful method for human interaction, and is already beginning to help connect people in hospitals, museums, corporations, and distance learning environments.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Spawn!
Costume build group for the Breakers to Bay Salmon Spawn.

 

Star Wars Crafts: Marble Magnets
Want to make an Admiral Ackbar shrine on your fridge? Feel like turning your locker over to the dark side? Now you can make one-of-a-kind cool Star Wars magnets by following the simple instructions provided below. Just gather up your favorite Star Wars images and get ready to have some crafty fun.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Steampunk
How can you be authentic to yourself and part of a (sub)culture? Through the lens of Steampunk, a meta-subculture that is currently at its tipping point of growth, we explore the inevitable question a subculture faces as it grows from disparate DIY roots. Who and what belongs? Can it transform permaculture? Geek comedian Heather Gold converses with computer and car modifier Jake von Slatt (http://steampunkworkshop.com/); Abney Park singer Captain Robert (http://www.abneypark.com/); and Steampunk magazine editor and wearable art creator + artist Libby Bulloff (http://www.exoskeletoncabaret.com).

Location:   Expo Green

 

SteamPunk Magazine
Want the low-down on steampunk? Talk to one of the editors at SteamPunk Magazine.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Steampunk Spectacular Group Table Libby Bulloff
Participant in the group space arranged for Jake von Slatt, Datamancer, and Steampunk Magazine to present our wares and talk to general passers-by about steampunk. I will be representing Steampunk Magazine with Magpie Killjoy and showing my artwork.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Steampunk Warrior Girl Pinup Painting to Raise $$ for EFF Suzanne Forbes
I'm a Berkeley fetish painter with a big new painting, "Defending the Electronic Frontier." It's a hot steampunk girl with a crossbow in front of a Difference Engine, surrounded by things like Jake Von Slatt's SteamFlatPanel and Datamancer's SteamLaptop, punchcards, spent bullets, a CDV of Ada Byron, etc. The painting is for sale and 50% of the sales price will be donated to the EFF. Prints are also for sale, with $10 per sale going to the EFF.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Stereoscopic Cameras and Displays
Come see the 3D imaging camera rigs, display devices, and stereoscopic imagery. We are also including live projected 3D video, the PSP/antique stereoscope, and video phantograms. In addition to this, we will be offering a workshop on how to take digital stereoscopic photos.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Street Musician John Walmsley
I play acoustic and electric guitar, violin and keyboards, write songs (folk/trance/electro/chill/grooves/experimental) and sing. I'm pretty good at improvising and vocal harmony -- a quick read so to speak. Interested in performing either solo or with other musicians at Maker Faire. I have several nifty Victorian / Steam Punk costumes and am part of the NeverWas Haul crew. Lemme know if I can be of service.

 

Streetbeats!
Streetbeats is an audio/visual musical feast performed by Drummer/percussionist "John F. King II." All of John's drumset and percussion instruments consist of discarded and second hand items such as cookware(pot&pans), #10 size foodservice cans, % gal. buckets, 30 gal. garbage cans, etc. All meticulously arranged in specific order that create melodic tones in line with harmonic scale. The show is hi-enrgy and fun. The music is an eclectic blend of World beats and rhythms ranging from Celtic to Afro-cuban to Jazz to American Indian to Polynesian, rock, hip-hop and more. John has become well known and developed a huge fan base as a street performer at the Ferry building on the Embacadero @ S.F.,CA

 

String Theory Autumn Wiggins
Can we save the planet by making things? Autumn shows how indie crafting can promote Cradle to Cradle practices.

 

Subjugator and Manipulatrix
My small crew and I would like to bring two large radio-controlled robots, the Subjugator and the Manipulatrix, as well as a mortar-style air cannon, and stage a series of small performances. For the pleasure of the machines and the audience alike, we would like to construct a purpose-built prop for these performances. The prop will interact gingerly with the robots until the last performance, at which point it will be devoured! The most exciting aspect, however, will be that the prop will be constructed atop a radio-controlled walking robotic base, that members of the audience will control! The air cannon will also be under audience control. (If our proposal is accepted, there is a good possibility that I would bring an entire second performance of a very different type. This is a short theatrical piece entitled AMORTEC, and is a collaboration between stilt performer Christina Sporrong and yet another robot of mine, the HD6LAW. A video of the only performance of AMORTEC yet staged can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXR4vYPbuZw† )

Location:   Outdoors

 

Superplexus 2008
Superplexus is a complex, 3-dimensional labyrinth that can be traced by a ball bearing. It is difficult to describe in words, and is not so easy to understand in picture form either. See the latest in Superplexus, including a giant form <a href="http://www.santarosa.edu/~mmcginni/myart/invention/superplexus/giant_superplexus/MakerFaire801.mov">popular at last year's Maker Faire</a>.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

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.

Location:   Craft Zone

 

SWARM
SWARM is a kinetic art work of semi-autonomous spherical robots ("Orbs"). Each robot has a shell 30 inches in diameter, with batteries, motors, audio system and color LED illumination inside. The SWARM is under the command of an on-board computer with wireless connectivity to other orbs and a central computer.

 

TCHO
TCHO is a new kind of chocolate company for a new generation of chocolate enthusiasts. Modern, innovative and fun, TCHO is dedicated to creating obsessively good dark chocolate and the best chocolate experience.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Team FredNet Is Going to the Moon
Team FredNet is going to the Moon! Team FredNet is a registered competitor for the Google Lunar X-Prize. We are busy planning and building prototypes of the spacecraft, lunar lander, and lunar rover we will use to compete for the $20 million dollar first prize. Come learn about our team, our plans, and drive our rover prototype at the Maker Faire!

Location:   The Hangar

 

Tech D.I.Y. for Moms and Kids
Tech D.I.Y. encourages mothers to learn about technology with their kids in ways that are simple and fun. The projects teach electronic crafts and have solid engineering lessons behind them.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Techne
Techne is a Greek word that describes both technology and craft, as well as the poetics of how things are made in the world. It is also a group of artists, environmentally focused technologies, and makers in an exhibit curated by Phillip Ross.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Technomadism and Transhuman Hacks for Duosport Motorcycles and Riders Ross Bochnek
I reconfigure consumer, industrial, and Milspec goods for multipurpose urban, touring, and trail motorcycle adventuring and Moblogging. I integrate rider and vehicular systems for modularity, wearability, and security. I am interested in communities for handier citizens, contrasting mass-produced and field-improvised solutions, and the bewildering inter-relations between litter, nature, and survival.

Location:   Expo Green

 

TechShop Jim Newton
Come to the TechShop area and try your hand at using some of the machines and equipment available at this local, membership-based workshop.

Location:   Work Shop

 

Textile and Beadwork Design for Glow Apparel Laura Cesari
Illuminate the darkness while looking fabulous! This workbench presents a discussion and demonstration of various techniques for incorporating glow effects into clothing and jewelry. Learn a simple 5-piece layered dress pattern that supports an ethereal luminous skirt, and beadwork techniques that add detail and radiance to glowing decorative elements.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

The Art of Motion Control -- Sisyphus
Bruce Shapiro has been playing with techno-junk (castoffs from the automation industry) since 1990. His smaller creations are used to teach kids the fundamentals of robotics in the classroom, while his larger kinetic sculptures can be found in science museums throughout the world.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

The Ballistic Cats
The Ballistic Cats are four rock n' rollers who just happen to be geeks (and former geeks) on the side. Come hear them play a tantalizing mix of blues, surf, and good old fashioned rockin' Americana.

 

The Bubblegum Sequencer Hannes Hesse and Andrew McDiarmid
The Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software. Finally, people can't claim anymore that electronic music isn't handmade.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

The CandyFab Project
The CandyFab Project is an open source effort to develop low-cost three-dimensional solid freeform fabrication technologies for culinary, educational, and artistic purposes. We will show progress towards designing a new CandyFab hardware reference platform, built primarily from off-the-shelf parts.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

The Cell Project from GalaxyGoo
We build 3D models of cells, organelle by organelle, out of colorful clay. Imagine how organelles fill the space and group together in a living cell. Once the clay dries, we slice the cell models into cross-sections. This is a hands-on activity.

Location:   Expo Red

 

The ChakraTron
Made of mostly recycled and repurposed materials, this crystal figure of enlightenment houses 124 MCU's and 360 rgb leds. Embedded touch sensors in the outraised palm control the patterns and seed the random number generator for a Magic 8 Ball-style fortune. An internet "karma relay" webcam allows the larger universe to influence the displayed fortune.

Location:   Dark Room

 

The Clock of the Long Now and The Rosetta Project
The Long Now Foundation works to foster long-term thinking. We are building an all mechanical, monument-scale clock to last 10,000 years. We have also developed a laser-etched disk containing 30,000 pages of linguistic data and text in over 1,000 languages in order to preserve linguistic diversity for the distant future.

 

The Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum will provide Maker Faire attendees with a preview to its much-anticipated exhibit opening in May, Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2. The Mountain View-based Museum is where computing history lives and is home to one of the largest international collections of computing artifacts in the world.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

The Crucible The Crucible
The Crucible's amazing "ERV" Educational Response Vehicle, or "Fire" Truck, will serve as a platform for demonstrating welding, torch cutting, blacksmithing, and glass flame working workshops.

Location:   Outdoors

 

The Devil-Ettes The Devil-Ettes
San Francisco's sweethearts The Devil-Ettes will perform and teach lost and forgotten go-go dance moves from the 1960's. Sassy, sultry, yet utterly All-American, The Devil-Ettes provide good clean fun for kids of all ages!

 

The DIY Bride: Quick & Easy Wedding Projects for Any Budget
Create a dream wedding on any budget with quick and easy projects from the DIY Bride. We'll showcase a simple decor project, some fun favor ideas, and demo a creative wedding invitation.

Location:   Maker Shed

 

The Electric Giraffe
Lindsay Lawlor created the giant robot Giraffe. The toy he used is the little Tamiya model giraffe that demonstrates a single motor walking system. Lindsay scaled up this tiny model 24 times to create a huge machine that people can ride and interact with. Each year the robot gains more and more computer power and intelligence, and is slowly coming to life!

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

The Evolution Control Committee presents The Wheel Of Mashup!
Spin the wheel and make your own new mashup!

 

The Guitar Zeros
We are a rock band that has repurposed the Guitar Hero video game controllers, turning them into playable, shredding axes, er, um, instruments. There are no physical modifications made to the guitars. The guitar and bass sounds are synthesized with our software, which is PC/Mac compatible and available for free download on our website. There are two of us controller players, one drummist and the other a vocalist. We are The Guitar Zeros, let's rock!

Location:   Expo Orange

 

The Guitar Zeros
We are a rock band that has repurposed the Guitar Hero video game controllers, turning them into playable, shredding axes-- er, um, instruments. There are no physical modifications made to the guitars - the guitar and bass sounds are synthesized with our software, which is PC/Mac compatible and available for free download on our website.

 

The Hydrogen Economy
The Hydrogen Economy is an interactive fire sculpture that produces hundreds of gently rising hydrogen bubbles. Participants ignite the bubbles using dragon-shaped torches. The experience of actually setting off small explosions in a safe and protected environment is breathtaking, one-of-a-kind, and surely never forgotten.

 

The Image of Computers in Popular Music
A talk (with examples) by monochrom, presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner. Bourgeois culture was paralyzed and finally overrun by modern technologies which broke through the traditional class barriers. It went into a panic and produced these very stupid technophobic manifestos and images e.g. of "the computer". Pop music discovered and explored the computer not only as a musical instrument but also as something to sing and reflect about in a less aversive way. In doing so it influenced the conception people had of computers. The public image of computers was shaped by groups such as Kraftwerk as well as through obscure Schlager songs such as France Gall's "Computer No. 3". Not only was that image influenced by high culture computer panic but also by naïve technomania, and so it delivered the very dialectics of the computer as a means of cultural technology in capitalist society.

 

The Incredible Marble Machine!
I am creating a rolling-ball sculpture with students at Baywood Learning Center. Teams of one to two kids will be responsible for building marble tracks within their own diorama-style box. I am constructing a frame that supports nine such boxes, connecting them together with a web of tubes, and has a crank-operated elevator to bring marbles to the top.

Location:   Expo Red

 

The Komegatone (and Various Other Works)
The komegatone is an analog synth built into a 1940's era. The leather bound carrying case is stained with paint and custom etched. I will also display my two custom MIDI controllers were people can interact with my display.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

The Lee Maverick Band
The Lee Maverick Band is a unique cow punk experience. I play an upright bass made from motorcycle parts. Our drummer has a theatrical set he made from all kinds of stuff and our singer is also a maker of sorts.

 

The Maltese Falcon
How the making of things (for me) has changed over the years. How it's changed what I do, and how what I do has changed it, as told through the story of my attempts to make myself a Maltese Falcon.

 

The MayBlue Bus Rachel Lane & Richard Paddock
We are converting a 1990 40ft. school bus into a home that runs off of renewable energy. The goal of this project is to empower ourselves using DIY methods to create a versatile home.

Location:   Outdoors

 

The Paper Airplane Guy
Learn how to make a great paper airplane from the Internationally award-winning paper airplane designer and author John Collins, the master. He will demonstrate an extraordinary collection of aircrafts. They flap their wings, circle back, flip over, and fly back upside down, and some can stay aloft indefinitely. The Paper Airplane Guy will be in the Maker Shed, but you can also catch him on the Maker Main Stage in Fiesta.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

The Passively Multiplayer Online Game Merci Victoria Grace
PMOG is a 204K Firefox extension; PMOG is play on the acronym MMOG, which stands for massively multiplayer online game. PMOG is unique in that the persistent environment of the game is the browser-based internet we all share. There are no shards; PMOG is radically massive and free to play.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

The Piano Liberado
The open piano, or piano liberated, is a form of material deconstruction of a musical instrument to actually get to a new type of music not based on the 12 tone scale. Once the hammers and mechanism are removed, what remains is the heart of the instrument, with powerful orchestrational capabilities.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

The Power of Prototypes
The Power of Prototypes is an exhibit of objects made by engineers, artists, museum designers, and furniture makers. These objects show how humbly complex ideas begin, and how makers of all backgrounds use prototyping to create.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

The Reaper Brent Ross
The reaper is a 12' tall fully animated robotic character that features 14 individual movements all controlled via a custom designed midi to parallel converter board.

Location:   Robo Games

 

The Red Lotus
Offering modern, authentic, southeast asian cusine to Maker Faire attendees. We will be featuring Roti (Indian flat bread) with Curry Dipping Sauce, Malaysian Satay, Steamed Potstickers, Basil Chicken and vegetarian Thai Basil Noodles with Asparagus and Tomatoes. Our restaurant is located in Portola Valley, CA

 

The Redwood Waves
Hand-powered mechanical waves.

Location:   Expo Green

 

The Sawdust Shop
The Sawdust Shop is a DIY woodshop where you can work on your own wood projects. We will be demonstrating a variety of woodworking tools and will have an interactive area where kids can make their own Ping Pong Shooter that was cut on the ShopBot CNC Router.

Location:   Work Shop

 

The Skull: Ongoing Re-use and Movies
A big damn 9 ft tall skull—made of toxic waste. Rolls around with eyes and teeth made out of flat panels. Has a projector mounted and at night will be showing classic movies on old tech: Plan9, Night of the Living Dead, The Last Man on Earth, and a bunch of old Flash Gordon serials, etc. In addition, the skull makes a dandy PA system and can be used remotely over the network (you can send txt to the skull and it will read it out in one of hundreds of artificial voices, or we can use a streaming audio system to emit mere human voices). The skull also has cameras so you can see the reactions of the passerby. It moves under its own power (not very well yet), playing the theme from Jaws.

Location:   Outdoors

 

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) is a large-scale, computer-mediated ensemble that explores cutting-edge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts - while radically transforming both. Founded in 2008 by director Ge Wang and students, faculty, and staff at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), this unique ensemble comprises more than 20 laptops, human performers, controllers, and custom multi-channel speaker arrays designed to provide each computer meta-instrument with its own identity and presence. The orchestra fuses a powerful sea of sound with the immediacy of human music-making, capturing the irreplaceable energy of a live ensemble performance as well as its sonic intimacy and grandeur. At the same time, it leverages the computer's precision, possibilities for new sounds, and potential for fantastical automation to provide a boundary-less sonic canvas on which to experiment with, create, and perform music. Offstage, the ensemble serves as a one-of-a-kind learning environment that explores music, computer science, composition, and live performance in a naturally interdisciplinary way. (http://slork.stanford.edu)

Location:   Expo Green

 

The Stribe
The Stribe is a touch-based music or video controller with no moving parts. It employs 8 touch-sensitive strips flanked by LED bar-graph displays. The controller is user-configurable, connects via standard USB, and is designed to be used with music interface software such as Max/MSP, Reaktor, and others. Via host software, the Stribe can control audio hardware and software via MIDI or OSC. The LED display can be computer controlled to respond to input from the sensors, or to independent software control, or both. The entire project is open source, meaning the circuits, firmware, and software are available on-line and are licensed under Creative Commons and GNU. Illustrated build instructions and a helpful Forum are also on-line. There is a small but growing community of Stribe developers who are building Stribes, and writing new firmware and software applications. The Stribe was inspired by Brian Crabtree's monome 40h project, and is an ideal companion to a monome button controller. <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/02/18/hands-on-interview-stribe-multi-touch-controller/">Here is an article about the Stribe from CreateDigitalMusic</a>.

Location:   Dark Room

 

The Tarantulas Jug Band Tarantulas Jug Band
The Tarantulas Jug Band is the official music-maker of Henry Coe State Park, playing good-time music from the 1920s to the 1950s for events at Coe throughout the year. The band’s musical repertoire spans Delta blues, field and work songs, ragtime, tin-pan-alley favorites and even old rockabilly standards. The songs are accompanied by homemade and antique string and percussion instruments played in jug band style. In the spirit of the Faire, we will be bringing materials to make kazoos and will be showcasing other home made instruments such as cigar box guitars. It should be a lot of fun with the audience playing along.

 

The Time Machine
Steam- and hand-powered kinetic metal sculpture.

Location:   Expo Green

 

The Ultimate Challenge for Makers
Is saving the planet the ultimate maker challenge?

 

The Village Blacksmith
Master Blacksmith Michel Olson, and Masterful Storyteller Christy Horne, are the husband and wife team who have history ringing in the ears of audiences all over the Western U.S. Their Stage Fort Smith is a Monster Truck to behold and when you add the fabulous storytelling with live anvil accompaniment they become edutainment for the entire family. Everything Michel bashes out is given away to audience members following every show.

Location:   Outdoors

 

The Visible Pinball (Electromechanical)
A vintage EM pinball machine from 1975 has been housed in a clear acrylic cabinet. It is completely functional down to the coin mechanisms that initiate game play. Even the playfield itself is clear so that the user is able to view all the components in action as they play the machine. Spectators will also see the relays actuating, solenoids, stepper switches, score motor, spinners, targets, bumpers and sling-shots in action. The head is clear displaying the score reels, lights, relays and switches in motion. The original artwork is visible although translucent, so you see through it also. This exhibit amazes visitors of all ages and stimulates interest in electro-mechanics.

Location:   Robo Games

 

Things I Learned from Knitting
The Yarn Harlot strikes again! Bestselling knitting author and humorist Stephanie Pearl-McPhee examines age-old aphorisms in light of knitting.

 

Tilt-A-Hurl
Free the popular carnival ride Tilt-A-Whirl from its confines of the county fair and release it to the world. This vehicle was constructed from the ground up to bring our favorite memories back.

Location:   Outdoors

 

TimeScience TimeWindow and Stop Motion Theater Tim Brown
It's play-time! Stop in at the Stop Motion Theater and be a part of a collaborative movie. Or take a timeout with our favorite pastime, the TimeWindow and make time fly with the TimeController -- experience a year in a minute, or push the button and turn the dial to go back in time and watch the Maker Faire unfold from the start.

Location:   Expo Green

 

Toolmonger
A large dinosaur assembled from parts made by schools, a Stanley nail driving small dinosaur assembly for kids, a demolition project, and woodworking area.

Location:   Work Shop

 

toonlet Dulceo
We make free online tools so that others can make their own comics, featuring characters of their own creation, in a matter of minutes.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Top Chef Season 4
Season 4 of Bravo's popular TV show, Top Chef, is in full swing and contestant Ryan Scott is here to take us behind-the-scenes and share his experiences and cooking tips.

 

Toy Boat Powered by Steam Pulse Jet
A toy boat made of aluminum, powered by a steam pulse-jet, with no moving parts. The steam is made by a small alcohol burner. It will run quietly in a pond with only 3 inches of water for 20 minutes between refueling. Display includes unique parent dies/tooling made of cast metal that melts in boiling water.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Toychestra
Toychestra is an all-women musical ensemble that plays toys. Some are actual instruments like toddler-sized pianos and xylophones and drums. Others just make great sounds, like the pink zoo train or Boo Megaphone or the acoustic, multi-sonic Activity Center. Each instrument is individually amplified with contact microphones and the collection is mixed live for a bigger electronic sound.

 

Trade A Favor
Trade A Favor gives you the power to do a favor for anyone and receive a favor in return. You decide what favors you trade, and you decide who sees your favors. Based in Pasadena, California, Trade A Favor is dedicated to helping people achieve their goals by sharing their talents.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Tribbles and Vibillows Rachel McConnell and Annie Shao
Incorporate a simple electronic circuit into a stuffed toy to make it purr and hum. A cell phone vibrator motor and some fake fur combine wonderfully in this hands-on workshop. Make a humming Tribble that activates when squeezed, or a Vibillow with a big friendly button.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Tricks of the Trade/Narwhal Creative Tim Lillis
Tricks of the Trade is a recurring HowTo comic strip in MAKE Magazine showing how to use everyday objects and tools to their full potential. The goal is to spread the Tricks that professionals use to benefit everyone, pro or not. Tricks of the Trade is written and illustrated by Tim Lillis, a frequent contributor to MAKE and CRAFT.

Location:   Expo Green

 

TripKnight
A live music experience. Part folk, part blues, part hip hop and all experimental. TripKnight is more than just a band. It is a community with members in multiple states with a history of good times from Black Rock City, to New York City and from North Carolina to Northern California.

 

Tube Time
The Nixie tube wall clock with chime, has several other small Nixie clocks, and some clocks constructed using vintage oscillograph cathode ray tubes! You will also see vintage oscillograph instruments, including one model dating to 1935. Learn how to make vintage-style paper capacitors out of cardboard toilet paper tubes

Location:   Expo Green

 

Twenty Seven Gears
Benjamin Cowden makes interactive mechanical sculptures that explore the ways people interact with each other and with the world around them. Meticulously fabricated movements contrast with apparently trivial processes to offer users a playful experience as well as an invitation to re-examine their activities and perceptions.

Location:   Expo Green

 

UCSC March Slugness!
The CMPE-118/L Introduction to Mechatronics class at UC Santa Cruz was tasked to build a robot that can throw pingpong balls into baskets illuminated by IR beacons. Teams of three built the robots which must run completely autonomously for each round of 2 minutes with no interference from builders.

Location:   Expo Green

 

UCSC-Slug Engineering
The University of California, Santa Cruz School of Engineering Senior Design Projects:

Location:   Expo Green

 

Unsigned
Homemade Xbox/Windows rhythm game created with XNA Game Studio 2.0.

 

Unwheeldy
Tandem recumbent fixie dicycle. Two 9-foot diameter bicycle wheels, 6 feet apart, with room for two riders in between. Differential drive - each rider pedals their own wheel, so must coordinate to maneuver. Home-made hubs, spokes, rims, frame, etc.

Location:   Outdoors

 

Urban Permaculture: Hands-on Seedballs
The Merritt College Permaculture Class will show you how to make seedballs. Ever notice how well weeds grow around here? Want to grow food like weeds? Learn how to use open pollinated seeds, clay, compost, and grow food or food for local wildlife (native seeds). Mix them all together and seedballs can become seedbombs of explosive fecundity!

Location:   Makers Market  near Techne group

 

uScope
This modified shop microscope is being developed in cooperation with PATH.org and Stanford to be used in rural health clinics for high resolution pathology work. It uses diffractive film and off-axis LED ring illumination to effectively replace, for $5, the much more costly kohler illumination used in top-of-the-line >$1000 microscopes such as shown here. This solar recharged, Li-ion powered fully working unit will be used to demonstrate Malaria and Tuberculosis detection in bllod and sputum smears, which is a pressing medical need in developing countries. We also are producing small scale UV-C and electrochlorinators (in partnership with MSR and MIOX corp) also for use in the developing for world water purification whci will also be shown at the booth

Location:   Expo Green

 

Vegan Food & Cooking Information
BAVeg is a San Francisco Bay Area non-profit supporting, building, and promoting the vegetarian and animal rights community. We host events every month to support new vegetarians or veg*ns new to the Bay Area, as well as animal advocacy and outreach events to educate the community on the benefits of a plant-based diet. FREE membership, and the Ultimate Guide to Vegetarian Living in the SF Bay Area.

 

VGKids Live Print
Make your own Maker Faire t-shirt! Roll up your sleeves and use our ready-to-print screens to embellish a t-shirt with our custom Maker Faire 2008 artwork. T-shirts will be provided for a $15 fee. Printing facilitated by professional screen printers VGKids.

Location:   Expo Orange

 

Video Puppetry
Video Puppetry is a new method for creating computer animations using simple craft supplies, a web cam, and a computer. It takes just a few minutes to go from story concept to a final rendered animation, and requires no skill or experience beyond that of children's playtime puppetry. Character motions are extracted from a video stream using real-time computer vision techniques.

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Voxhead
A mechanical vocal tract with tongue, lips and jaw for a robotic head to sing, babble and share attention.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Watershed Restoration Daniel McCormick

Location:   Expo Yellow

 

Weave Anything
Any object that can be displayed on a computer can be woven. This surprising fact is a consequence of the deep relationship between triaxial weaving and the triangle-faceted surfaces used in computer graphics. I will demonstrate by weaving some large models onsite. Also: hands-on play with unit weaving using both TWOGS and IQ's-- which can likewise weave anything!

Location:   Expo Green

 

What Happened to the Chemistry Set? Robert Thompson
The author of the "Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments" examines the decline of the chemistry set and explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab and conduct experiments in basic chemistry. You can find Robert in the Maker Shed, and he'll also be appearing on the Maker Main Stage as well as the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

Whimsical Wood Creations
Discover the fun of woodworking and what you can make with wood, basic tools, and your imagination. Watch chips fly and sawdust gather as woodturners, carvers, and woodworkers craft wooden creations ranging from whimsical caricatures to fine art.

 

Whirlygig Emoto Thomas Sepe
A steampunk inspired steam-electric hybrid motorcycle. Built on a highly modified chassis of a 1967 Tote Goat, the Whirlygig has a 15hp 24V electric motor, with a 100psi steam boiler on the back to run steam effects. Using mostly found objects or recycled materials, in addition to custom fabrication, the Whirlygig is a blast from your future past!

Location:   Outdoors

 

Whoopie Water Storage
Imagine you are a farmer in Myanmar. You irrigate your quarter acre plot using two metal watering cans, carried across your back. It takes you 6 hours just to make 140 round trips between your crops and water source, in 100 degree heat. InfiniCan is a simple $4, raised water storage device that uses 5 ft of energy potential to channel water through a hose and spout. To water your crops, you now carry just the spout. The impact? Your productivity and hence income increase by 25%, and your back is saved from carrying 4,000 lbs of water, each day, everyday.

 

Wii Remote Projects Johnny Lee
Two projects using the Nintendo Wii remote will be presented: 1) How to create a multi-touch interactive whiteboard for about $50. 2) How to perform head-tracking to create desktop virtual reality displays.

Location:   Fiesta Blue

 

Wiimote Controlled Car Racing
R/C car racing with Wiimotes! Created by SharpLogic

 

Wikimedia Foundation/Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation
What makes millions of people build an encyclopedia for free? How can you make Wikipedia better and contribute to the world of 'free knowledge?' Visit with the makers, the hackers, and the volunteers of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Within Reach Film Ryan Mlynarczyk
Made out of 100% reused and recycled materials and old bike parts, we have created a bike trailer with a 'sleep-in' pop-up tent, and solar panels to charge two hub wheel motors (with regenerative braking) and electronic devices. We plan to use this invention along with a tandem recumbent tricycle to tour around the United States to film a documentary about sustainable communities.

Location:   Makers Market

 

Woolpets Needle Felted Friends Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build Woolpets Needle Felted Friends with the Maker Shed team. Kits will be available for sale.

 

Woolpets Needle Felted Friends Workshop (with the Maker)
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build Woolpets Needle Felted Friends with Laurie Sharp, the maker of this kit. Kits will be available for sale.

 

Woolpets: Needle Felting Kits Laurie Sharp
Woolpets Needle Felting Kits are an easy and fun way to learn needle felting. The kits contain everything you will need to make a critter or two; wool roving, felting needles, and most importantly, detailed photo instructions for each step. Woolpets will be demonstrating needle felting at the Maker Shed.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

World's Biggest Pez Dispenser Gary Doss
We have built the World's Biggest Pez Dispenser, which is on display in our museum in Burlingame, California. In March 2007, it was accepted into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Location:   Expo Red

 

World's Largest Solderless Clock Karl Papadantonakis
The electronics in this 4-foot wide clock cost less than the lumber! Based on a popular kit, it has 192 LEDs, all powered by a single driver. Not one single LED or wire requires soldering; everything can be twisted with a pair of pliers. Karl will also appear on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed

 

WW II–Era Scale Infrared Combat Tank Models Rich Upton
Scratch-built and modified kit R/C tanks representing WW II era vehicles from 18' to 30" long in metal and plastic with accompanying scale buildings (1/16th scale). Can demonstrate infra-red battling (1/16th) and show prototypes and explain molding and casting processes in metal and resin using sample molds and parts.

Location:   Outdoors

 

xtel: Ubiquitous Content Platform
The xtel is a platform that covers everything from “interactive content” that has simple interactions between objects and peoples to much more complex interactive environments that create interactions over large spaces and with numerous objects. It also features functions to create links to web services.

Location:   Expo Red

 

Yacouba Diarra and the Spirit Gatherers
West African traditional and Afro-fusion music.

 

Zen Paintball Painting
You might be the next Jackson Pollock! Extreme Craft will help you make your own masterpiece with a paintball gun instead of a brush! We'll be using specially prepared ink paintballs to make sure your painting will last through the ages. Find your inner abstract expressionist.

Location:   Outdoors

 

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