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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

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

Bazaar Bizarre
72 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.