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Jackie Ortega
Create Your Own Photo Flip Book
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.
Appearance(s)
Craft Demos
, Sunday 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Jacqueline Rosine
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 |
Jaime Zollars
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 |
Jake von Slatt
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 |
Jake Wasserman
Abstract Chess
| Location: Robo Games |
James Burgett
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 |
James Horecka
Mirador and Giant Tripod
| Location: Outdoors |
James Mallos
Weave Anything
| Location: Expo Green |
James Marks
VGKids Live Print
| Location: Expo Orange |
Jamie Chan
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 |
jane gerughty
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 |
Jason McLean
From Logs to Lumber to Deluxe Chicken Coop
Jason Ponggasam
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 |
Jason Tester
Make the Future!
| Location: Expo Green |
Jason Verlinde
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 |
Jay Baldwin
Quickupcamper
| Location: Outdoors |
Jay Walsh
Wikimedia Foundation/Wikipedia
| Location: Expo Red |
JB Andrews
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 |
Jed Berk
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 |
Jeffery Bass
Hiller Aviation Museum Bede BD-5 Homebuilt Aircraft
| Location: The Hangar |
Jeff Hayashida
Combat robot "CycloneBot"
Jeff Keyzer
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 |
Jeff Kotowski
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 |
Jeff Ray
Pipe Organ Forest
| Location: Expo Yellow |
Jeffrey McGrew + Jillian Northrup
Robots & Designers Living Together in Harmony
| Location: Work Shop |
Jenine Bressner
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 |
Jennifer Cooke
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 |
Jennifer Hardaway
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 |
Jennifer Pellecchia
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 |
Jennifer Syfu
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 |
Jeremy Mott
JL-Exotics
A selection of dart frogs and related supplies.
| Location: Expo Yellow |
Jeremy Smith
Hexagons
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 |
Jerrold Karmin
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.
Jesse Cool
CoolEatz Catering
Jesse Louis-Rosenberg
Nervous System
| Location: Expo Orange |
Jessica Bowman
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 |
Jessica Hobbs
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.
Appearance(s)
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Saturday 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Jessica Polka
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 |
Jessica Reeder
Refoliation
| Location: Expo Orange |
Ji Sun Lee
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 |
Jill Haefele
Bottled Plants
Grow your own futuristic plantlet on nutrient agar medium.
Jill Harrell
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 |
Jill Pillot
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
Jill Wilker
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 |
Jim Mason
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 |
Jimmy Ho
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 |
Jim Newton
TechShop
Come to the TechShop area and try your hand at using some of the machines and equipment available at this local, membership-based workshop.
| Location: Work Shop |
Jim Sweet
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 |
Jim Yeh
Combat robots "The Bully" and "Come to Mama"
Joanna Petrone
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 |
JoAnne Moody
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 |
Jodie Cruz
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 |
Jodi Kurland
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.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2007/12/craft_hamster_ornaments.html
| Location: Expo Orange |
Joe Perkins
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 |
Johannes Grenzfurthner
monochrom's SCULPTURE MOBS: Training Camp
| Location: Outdoors |
John-Michael Reed
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 |
John Behrens
Omega Recoil
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 |
John Chiara
Cityscape Photography
| Location: Expo Yellow |
John Collins
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 |
Appearance(s)
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Sunday 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Maker Shed Author Demo Area
, Sunday 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM (following his presentation on the Maker Main Stage)
John Dyer
Jack Sparx and his Electric Toys
| Location: Dark Room |
John Guy
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 |
John King II
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
Appearance(s)
Music Stage 3
, Sunday 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
John Maushammer
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.
Appearance(s)
MAKE Demos
, Sunday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Johnny Lee
Wii Remote Projects
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 |
John Park
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 |
Appearance(s)
MAKE Demos
, Saturday 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
MAKE Demos
, Sunday 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
John Peterson
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 |
John Sims
Greeting Cards with Recycled Materials
| Location: Expo Orange |
John Walmsley
Street Musician
John Woodson
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 |
Jonathan Foote
Solenoid City
A petite interactive kinetic artwork.
| Location: Expo Green |
Jon Sarriugarte + Kyrsten Mate
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 |
Jon Williams + John Barrowman
Animate Anything
We'll show you how to use simple controllers to animate anything for a holiday display or prop.
| Location: Robo Games |
Jon Zilber
How to Make a Mashup and Save the World
| Location: Expo Orange |
Josef Szuecs
Renga Arts
Joseph Bagdonas
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 |
Josh Boughey
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.
Here is an article about the Stribe from CreateDigitalMusic.
| Location: Dark Room |
Joshua Mehlman
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.
Joshua Minor
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 |
Joyce Williams
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.
Appearance(s)
Music Stage 1
, Sunday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Juliana Gallin
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.
Julian Darley
Solar Car Share
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.
Appearance(s)
Maker Made Stage (Expo)
, Sunday 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Justin Billings
Combat robots "Last Rites" and "The Mortician"
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.
Justin Gray
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!
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