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Sally Madsen
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.
Sandra Stewart
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 |
Sarah Hirneisen
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 |
Sasha Leitman & Michael St. Claire
CCRMA Musical Interactives
| Location: Expo Green |
Saul Griffith
Howtoons
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 |
Scatha Allison
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
Scott Brown
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 |
Scott Gasparian
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 |
Scott Kincaid
Combat robot "SJ"
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.
sean devereaux
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 |
Sebastien Bailard
RepRap Self-Replicating 3D Printer Project
| Location: Work Shop |
Segue Fischlin III
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 |
Serge Labesque
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.
Appearance(s)
Maker Square Stage
, Sunday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Shana Astrachan
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
Shannon O'Hare
Neverwas Haul
| Location: Outdoors |
Shawna Peterson
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 |
Shawn Meyer
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 |
Shona Campbell
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.
Sierra Yeh
Combat robots "The Bully" and "Come to Mama"
Simone Davalos
RoboGames Presents: The ComBot Cup
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 |
Appearance(s)
Robo Games
, Saturday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games
, Saturday 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Middleweight & Lightweight
Robo Games
, Saturday 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games
, Saturday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Lightweight
Robo Games
, Saturday 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Lightweight, Flyweight, Heavyweight
Robo Games
, Sunday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games
, Sunday 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Mediumweight & Lightweight
Robo Games
, Sunday 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Heavyweight
Robo Games
, Sunday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Lightweight
Robo Games
, Sunday 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Lightweight, Flyweight & Heavyweight
Simran Gleason
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 |
Sonya Nimri
Clothing Makeover
| Location: Expo Orange |
Spy Emerson
Dystopic Horizons Realty
| Location: Craft Zone |
Stacey Gordon
Finger Puppets Who Wish To Not Die
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 |
Appearance(s)
Craft Demos
, Sunday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Stan Shepard
Combat robots "The Big B" and "Original Sin"
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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.
Appearance(s)
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Saturday 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Maker Shed Author Signing Area
, Saturday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (following her presentation on the Maker Main Stage)
Stephen Dunifer
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 |
Stephen Felk
Combat robot "Plasma"
Stephen Hobley
Laser Harp
Built using the Arduino controller, the laser harp is a musical instrument and performance piece. See
a video of Stephen's performance.
| Location: Dark Room |
Appearance(s)
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta)
, Saturday 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Stephen Voltz
EepyBird
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.
Appearance(s)
Festival Stage
, Saturday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Diet Coke & Mentos Show
Maker Shed Author Signing Area
, Saturday 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM
Festival Stage
, Sunday 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Maker Shed Author Signing Area
, Sunday 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Stuart Breidenstein
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 |
Stuart Nafey
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 |
Susan Reno
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.
Susan Sullivan
Scratch Foam Printmaking
| Location: Expo Orange |
Suzanne Rachel Forbes
Steampunk Warrior Girl Pinup Painting to Raise $$ for EFF
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 |
Syuzi Pakhchyan
Fashioning Technology: DIY Intro into Smart Crafting
Location: Fiesta, next to the Maker Shed
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