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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.
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Build a Guitar
Learn how to make string instruments (mainly guitars) from kits. See sample kits, a finished guitar and some cool tools.
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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.
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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.
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Craft Con
Rachel Hospodar
Craft Con is a business development conference for the craft community.
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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>
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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!
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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!
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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!
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Frankenstein Prototyping
Learn to Make Prototypes for Pennies and More.
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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.
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How to Make a Mashup and Save the World
Can a mashup save the world. NetSquared thinks so. We're holding a competition (with $100,000 to be shared among the winners) to encourage nonprofits to find ways to create and use Web mashups to advance their missions. We'll show you how to create compelling mashups that can help you advance your cause (and just maybe save the world).
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Interactive Furniture
I build pieces of furniture that are designed to be interactive and/or to provide a useful function. For example, an end table that is also a refrigerator, a coffee table that has a fluid-filled lazy susan, speaker stands that are aquariums and provide a light show sync'd to the music.
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Joy Slippers
Wouldn't it be cool to draw with your feet? Well now you can with the Joy Slipper. The four homemade pressure sensors are embedded in the soles of these slippers that sense weight being shifted between the toes and heels of each foot. This information is fed into a computer where it translates to drawing directions, making the wearer of the Joy Slippers able to draw with their feet.
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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.
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Letterpress & Book Making with SF Center for the Book
You'll be able to pull your own letterpress print from a handset type and learn to make two different kinds of books. In addition you'll find out more about classes, exhibitions and studio rentals at the SF Center for the book, where the book of arts happens every day!
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Lifelong Furniture Simply Made from Naturally Beautiful Recycled Stuff
William Callahan
I create furniture kits that empower everyday people to design and build their very own lifelong furniture using recycled materials (wood, stone, and glass). The kits include recycled steel joinery and fasteners. I will demonstrate to adults and kids how to build furniture by hand and without power tools.
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Madame Ovary & Co EGGSplore the Realms of Resourcery & Reuse
Amelia K. Sefton
Madame Ovary EGGSplains ... (Primarily Performing - Puppets, StorySpinning); Resourcery & Trash Transformations (Daffy Demonstrations). Realms of Resourcery: Exhibits and Activities. Includes Traveling Trashformations Reuse Art Show and Trashique (Tres Chic) Boutique; Music Magic. Creative Reuse Activities. Make & Take (Wands, Wings & Wonderful Things). Dumpster Diva, Dori, More!
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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.
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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
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Momentum Magazine
Amy Walker
An illustration and celebration of self-propelled people using "appropriate technology"- particularly focusing on the bicycle and its usefulness in improving our experience of our surroundings, our fitness, and our quality of life in North America.
We propose to explore a brief history of bicycle experimentation in North America and the marriage of bicycles with other modes of mobile technology ie. smart phones.
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Nervous System
Jesse Louis-Rosenberg and Jessica Rosenkrantz
Nervous System creates unusual jewelry from industrial materials with rapid prototyping methods. Our designs are generated through interactive, open source algorithms that users can play with on our website. People will be able to design their own pieces at our booth, then have them cut at the FabLab booth.
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Nueva Middle School Art Program
Our workbench will demonstrate how the Nueva Middle school art program works with students to increase their artistic perception through the making and the understanding of mechanical and Interactive Art. The projects that are going to be on display were done throughout the school year. These projects vary from pinball machines, GO cars, robots, surprise boxes to interactive-interface video pieces.
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Pandora's Trunk
Pandora's Trunk is a cooperative arts and design boutique and gallery located in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. At Maker Faire these artists will be making work live, demonstrating processes, and answering questions about their unique working situation, as well as showing off an array of completed works.
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Printed Bricks
Rebecca Harvey
Reclaimed blue factory bricks. Hand field printed in batches of 28. Layered with enamels and oxides—after printing each brick is pulled away to stand alone. Unlike some of our other items, these are completely unreproducible—availability is by specific item number.
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Refoliation
Refoliation is a set of trees created from recycled and repurposed steel, with leaves made out of plastic bags collected from the streets of Beijing. Inspired by the garbage littering city streets and tree branches, volunteers in China have gathered enough plastic bags to create hundreds of leaves. In the Bay Area, scrapyard junk from car parts to old pipes came together to form the tree trunks and branches. This project was made possible by a grant from Burning Man.
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Remaking recycled materials and old clothes into new
Sonya Nimri
I will demonstrate at least 30 different ways to take articles of clothing commonly found in most women's closets (i.e. t-shirts, tank tops, socks, pantyhose, sweaters, maps) and household items and show how to remake them into new clothing styles and Halloween costumes. I've written a book called "Just for the Frill of It" on the subject but the clothes for this will not be all from the book. There will be a bunch of Halloween costumes, as well, that people can make themselves.
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San Francisco State University Student Textiles Guild
The students from the SF State Textiles classes would like to show you how to resist dye fabric using string, blocks of woods, and clamps. Pictures, videos, and actual samples will be on hand. Take away instructions and local suppliers will be shared. They will also show examples of embroidery and crochet art projects.
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Scratch Foam Printmaking
Susan Sullivan
Printmaking is fun for ALL ages using foam sheets to make a "printing plate". Draw on foam with a pencil, roll on inks, then press onto paper to make your print. Make multiple prints to take away and leave a print as part of the Visitors Print Display. (All materials provided & water-based inks used.)
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Soft Electronics in Recycled Clothing
Gretchen Elsner
How to make simple circuits and incorporate them into recycled clothing.
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Textile and Beadwork Design for Glow Apparel
Laura Cesari
Illuminate the darkness while looking fabulous! This workbench presents a discussion and demonstration of various techniques for incorporating glow effects into clothing and jewelry. Learn a simple 5-piece layered dress pattern that supports an ethereal luminous skirt, and beadwork techniques that add detail and radiance to glowing decorative elements.
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The Bubblegum Sequencer
Hannes Hesse and Andrew McDiarmid
The Bubblegum Sequencer is a physical step sequencer that lets you create drumloops by arranging colored balls on a tangible surface. It generates MIDI events and can be used as an input device to control audio hardware and software. Finally, people can't claim anymore that electronic music isn't handmade.
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The Guitar Zeros
We are a rock band that has repurposed the Guitar Hero video game controllers, turning them into playable, shredding axes, er, um, instruments.
There are no physical modifications made to the guitars. The guitar and bass sounds are synthesized with our software, which is PC/Mac compatible and available for free download on our website.
There are two of us controller players, one drummist and the other a vocalist. We are The Guitar Zeros, let's rock!
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The Piano Liberado
The open piano, or piano liberated, is a form of material deconstruction of a musical instrument to actually get to a new type of music not based on the 12 tone scale. Once the hammers and mechanism are removed, what remains is the heart of the instrument, with powerful orchestrational capabilities.
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Trade A Favor
Trade A Favor gives you the power to do a favor for anyone and receive a favor in return. You decide what favors you trade, and you decide who sees your favors. Based in Pasadena, California, Trade A Favor is dedicated to helping people achieve their goals by sharing their talents.
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VGKids Live Print
Make your own Maker Faire t-shirt! Roll up your sleeves and use our ready-to-print screens to embellish a t-shirt with our custom Maker Faire 2008 artwork. T-shirts will be provided for a $15 fee. Printing facilitated by professional screen printers VGKids.
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