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3D Printer
A home made 3D printer which prints plastic models from computer file. Based loosely off of the Reprap project.
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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.
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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.
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Chronic Revelator
A cement mixer as time machine, filled with sand and water, slowly grinding 35mm cameras into river stones.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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IEEE SCV Section
IEEE's Santa Clara Valley Section is distributing information about IEEE and local IEEE activities.
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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.
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Instructables.com
Come meet the staff and play with our laser cutter, giant homemade Lite-Brite, bicycle-wheel kinetic sculpture, mouse mouse, and other awesome projects! Learn how to submit your own!
Stop by to laser-etch your cell phone, visit, and pick up some free Instructables Robot stickers!
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JL-Exotics
A selection of dart frogs and related supplies.
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Jug Hero
We took a couple of old beer jugs, wired them up to a computer and created a new video game: Jug Hero! Just like Guitar Hero, except you're the star of a jug band.
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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.
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LED Art, Art Bikes & Instructables
Monkeylectric LLC & Synoptic Labs present LED art for bikes, home, and around town. Also featuring Art Bikes and many Instructables DIY projects for show-n-tell-n-try, including the color make-over booth, ultimate headlight, jar 'o fireflies, and polygon lampshade building kit.
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Lightning Laboratory Prototype
Greg Leyh
An experimental twin-tower system that generates large-scale artificial lightning.
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Mobile Typing Glove
The HandWriter is a wearable device that serves as a mobile keyboard and mouse. It is also an inexpensive Braille writer. Just plug it into any USB-enabled device and you can begin typing with one hand.
The one-handed typing glove allows users to type free of a keyboard providing freedom of movement and freedom from repetitive stress injury. The one-handed device can be used with either the left or right hand.
It is based on Dr. Douglas Engelbart's original chorded key set and uses a combination of finger presses to type the entire alphabet. The alphabet is as simple to learn as the Alphabet in American Sign Language.
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Mystery Phones
Greg MacLaurin
Disassemble old telephones and create a Ghost Phone, to listen in on a pre-recorded conversation; and a Party Line, for your very own private standalone phone system.
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Neo-robotica Insectus
Tony Pratkanis
Buzz by to see robots based on the logic of social insects: fire-fighting robots, six-legged ant-like walking robots, and a robotic honeybee blimp.
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Pipe Organ Forest
Pipe organ pipes, with pneumatic air, inside a forest of trees. I will record the pipes and alter the sound with Max MSP. The air may be created by a pump generated by a bicycle.
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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.
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Randy Sarafan Loves You.
Randy Sarafan
Come meet Randy Sarafan in person. Marvel at the wonders upon which he has been working on for the past year. Or, just stand and gawk as things move, blink, play sounds and monitor your BAC. Fun times are guaranteed.
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S/L Pegasus
Aiming to capture a speed record next year, this 23ft steamboat, originally built in '82, is undergoing constant revisions.
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Shy Plant Project
A miniature, self-contained greenhouse is filled with "shy" plants. These plants intrigued Charles Darwin who studied their seismonastic movements (their ability to move rapidly in response to touch, electricity and heat.) Often marketed as 'novelty' plants that are fun for kids, they are still the subject of current research on their special method of movement. Visitors are invited to experience their movements first hand by gently touching them with a variety of implements, including their hands.
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Spandex Graphs
"Imagine rubber graph paper", scientists have said for generations. Our Spandex graphs stretch a point, and exaggerate so much that you'd think they're politicians. Come experiment with your own ideas. Clever, cool, and funny ideas may be published in The Journal of Irreproducible Results, the science humor magazine.
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Superplexus 2008
Superplexus is a complex, 3-dimensional labyrinth that can be traced by a ball bearing. It is difficult to describe in words, and is not so easy to understand in picture form either. See the latest in Superplexus, including a giant form <a href="http://www.santarosa.edu/~mmcginni/myart/invention/superplexus/giant_superplexus/MakerFaire801.mov">popular at last year's Maker Faire</a>.
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Techne
Techne is a Greek word that describes both technology and craft, as well as the poetics of how things are made in the world. It is also a group of artists, environmentally focused technologies, and makers in an exhibit curated by Phillip Ross.
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The CandyFab Project
The CandyFab Project is an open source effort to develop low-cost three-dimensional solid freeform fabrication technologies for culinary, educational, and artistic purposes. We will show progress towards designing a new CandyFab hardware reference platform, built primarily from off-the-shelf parts.
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The Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum will provide Maker Faire attendees with a preview to its much-anticipated exhibit opening in May, Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 2. The Mountain View-based Museum is where computing history lives and is home to one of the largest international collections of computing artifacts in the world.
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The Electric Giraffe
Lindsay Lawlor created the giant robot Giraffe. The toy he used is the little Tamiya model giraffe that demonstrates a single motor walking system. Lindsay scaled up this tiny model 24 times to create a huge machine that people can ride and interact with. Each year the robot gains more and more computer power and intelligence, and is slowly coming to life!
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The Komegatone (and Various Other Works)
The komegatone is an analog synth built into a 1940's era. The leather bound carrying case is stained with paint and custom etched. I will also display my two custom MIDI controllers were people can interact with my display.
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The Power of Prototypes
The Power of Prototypes is an exhibit of objects made by engineers, artists, museum designers, and furniture makers. These objects show how humbly complex ideas begin, and how makers of all backgrounds use prototyping to create.
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toonlet
Dulceo
We make free online tools so that others can make their own comics, featuring characters of their own creation, in a matter of minutes.
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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.
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Video Puppetry
Video Puppetry is a new method for creating computer animations using simple craft supplies, a web cam, and a computer. It takes just a few minutes to go from story concept to a final rendered animation, and requires no skill or experience beyond that of children's playtime puppetry. Character motions are extracted from a video stream using real-time computer vision techniques.
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Watershed Restoration
Daniel McCormick
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