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Aaron Geman
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 |
Abney Park
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 |
Appearance(s)
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Saturday 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Adam Holm
Portable Guerrilla-Gallery
| Location: Outdoors |
Adam Savage
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.
Appearance(s)
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Sunday 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Maker Shed Author Signing Area
, Sunday 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM (after his talk on the Maker Main stage)
Adam Stolarz
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 |
Appearance(s)
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Sunday 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Adjowah Brodie
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 |
Adrian Freed
Music Instrument Controllers with Fiber and Malleable Materials
| Location: Expo Green |
Aharon Bourland
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 |
Alan Rorie
The Time Machine
Steam- and hand-powered kinetic metal sculpture.
| Location: Expo Green |
Alejandro Arambula
Leland Robotics Team
| Location: Expo Red |
Alexander Rose
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.
Alicia Parnell
Que SeRaw SeRaw — Fresh Food To Go!
Alison Chaiken
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.
Alison Simonian
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 |
Al Linke
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 |
Alyssa Thralls
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 |
Amal Aziz
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 |
Amanda Barile
Trade A Favor
| Location: Expo Orange |
AME ALERT
ALERT: Active Learning Environment with Robotic Tangibles
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 |
Amelia K. Sefton
Madame Ovary & Co EGGSplore the Realms of Resourcery & Reuse
| Location: Expo Orange |
Amit Gupta
Photojojo DIY Photo Blocks
Appearance(s)
Craft Demos
, Saturday 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Amy Cluck
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 |
Amy Critchett
TCHO
| Location: Makers Market |
Amy Portello
Chronicle Books: Food & Drink Booth
Appearance(s)
Maker Square Stage
, Saturday 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Demonstrations by authors Julia Myall, Tara Duggan and Jennifer Carden
Maker Square Stage
, Sunday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Demonstrations by authors Ruta Kahate and Jesse Cool
Amy Walker
Momentum Magazine
| Location: Expo Orange |
Andrew Blake
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 |
Andrew Filo
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 |
Andrew Konkol
LED Photo Booth
Webcam snapshots displayed on a matrix of LED signs.
Andrew Milmoe
Sonic Pong V4.0
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 |
Andrew Turley
Exploring New Ways to Interact with Computers
| Location: Expo Green |
Andy Krumholz
Escama Studio
Andy Lee
3D Printer
| Location: Expo Yellow |
Anne Vollen
Green Zebra
Anurupa Rao
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.
Ariel Churi
Sparkle Kits
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 |
Ariel Churi
Sparkle Kits
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 |
Ari Krupnik
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 |
Ashley Foster
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 |
Appearance(s)
Festival Stage
, Saturday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Fashion Show
Austin Giles
FrankenBot Drum Triggers and Electric Tap Shoes
Autumn Wiggins
String Theory
Can we save the planet by making things? Autumn shows how indie crafting can promote Cradle to Cradle practices.
Appearance(s)
Maker Made Stage (Expo)
, Saturday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Sunday 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Avish Bharwani
Combat robot "Beer Bash"
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.
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