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"Crude Awakening" Welding Workshops
Dan Das Mann + Karen Cusolito–Das Womann
Step right up and get your bead on! We will be hosting welding workshops throughout Saturday and Sunday, from 10am 'til 6pm. We will provide gloves, welding hood, instruction, and materials so you can have a go at making your own sculpture. Note: long hair will need to be tied back, no fringie-frayed jeans or open shoes are allowed due to safety issues.
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2πr
Interpretive Arson
2πr: A blisteringly interactive large-scale fire toy that translates anyone's movement into fire. A central stage lined with proximity sensors is surrounded by an outer ring of flame effects, creating huge bursts of flame when a dancer moves onstage.
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56 Ford F100 Biodiesel
Installed a 2-cycle Detroit Diesel engine from a Navy boat into my 1956 Ford truck. I run it on Biodiesel. It gets over 20 mpg. Truck signals a LED lights that I control with a simple 8051 circuit that I threw together. I have been driving the truck for the past 2 years.
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Abney Park Exhibit
Here is where you will find CD's and T-shirts, and other gear associated with Abney Park.
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Acme Muffineering
Acme Muffineering presents Kinetic Pastry Science Mobile Muffins.
Discover the recipe for a full batch of 1:18 scale mobile muffins. Delicious scratch-built, electric-powered, highly maneuverable, and capable of 18mph+!
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Amateur Radio: Getting On the Air
Demonstration of amateur radio station, with radios, antennas, and related gear; use local repeaters to communicate; learn how to get your FCC license; see how to set up a mobile station you can use anywhere; volunteer for emergency communication in emergencies.
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Axis vs. Allies: Model Warship Battle
Rob Wood
Watch 6-foot-long robotic warships duel to the death in a specially built 30’ x 60’ “pond” at this year’s Faire. Sophisticated DIY robotics and guns fire CO2-powered steel balls. Safe for the whole family. Hands-on exhibits and technology demonstrations provided by the Western Warship Combat Club (WWCC) of San Jose, California.
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Camp Rehab Chevy
Join us as we restore this 1948 Chevy back to her former glory and put her back on the road. All tools supplied.
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CerviScope
The cerviScope is a portable colposcope. This is a medical device designed for use in low-resource settings based on requirements taken from gynecologists around the world. The cerviScope detects HPV lesions on the cervix with the goal of preventing cervical cancer for women in the developing world.
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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.
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Courtroom Artist Makes Live Drawings of Makers as They Work!
Suzanne Forbes
I used to be a courtroom artist and I make awesome drawings of creative people as they do things and then put them on Flickr for the enjoyment of all! It's like Toulouse Lautrec with Creative Commons :)
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Electric Bicycle Technology, Design, and Building
Demonstration of 3 different home-made electric bicycles and the technology and engineering that makes them work, plus details of how to build them.
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Electric Western: Handbuilt Instruments of the High Mojave
Lorin Edwin Parker
Unique and expressive electronic instruments in many forms: vacuum tube theremins, steam-powered synthesizers, singing robot heads, spark gaps, telegraphs, and electrosparklaviers--constructed from recycled, often antique, parts. These instruments connect futuristic synthesis with the western American past.
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elliptiGO Glide Bike
PT Motion Works
The elliptiGO is a new kind of bicycle that is a cross between an elliptical trainer and a bicycle. We displayed the elliptiGO in public for the first time at the Stanford Cool Products Expo.
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Flaming Lotus Girls
The Flaming Lotus Girls are a San Francisco-based group of female and male artists collaborating all year round to create exceptional fire art and provide a resource for learning metalworking and other essential shop skills. Their installations incorporate flame effects and enticing design on a gargantuan scale and are beloved by audiences worldwide.
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Garbage Art by DumpsterDiversAnonymous
DDA is an informal group of artists and crafters that use recycled and reclaimed materials for our art. We would like to encourage new and experienced artists and crafters to find creative uses for materials diverted from the waste stream, such as trash art collages, microfilm basketry, and spun audiotape fiber-arts. We will be providing some hands-on crafts such as garbage collage mailart postcards and recycled paper zine-making.
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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.
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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!
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GRIDBEAM
Phil Jergenson
Grid Beam is a reusable structural system that allows you to dream up and build complex projects quickly.
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Heirloom Technology
The author of MAKE's Heirloom Technology column will show some of his fascinating projects, including the hydrothopter, yurt, cozy boat, and marshallese outrigger assembly.
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I.T.
40 ft tall and weighing just over 12k lbs, I.T. is a giant three-legged invader designed to support up to 20 people inside of its rotating head when its hoop ladder is lowered. It is, however, a one-way trip.
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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).
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Katie's Fiber Light Pipe
I’m building a modified light pipe using a sun-tracking parabolic reflector and mounted mirror that focuses light into optical fibers. These fibers will be coupled to 1/4”-thick acrylic pane. Light is released from an acrylic pane--effectively a waveguide--via scratches on the surface.
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Krane with a K
Chris McMullen
Krane with a K is an 8-foot tall sculpture equipped with four small winches as points of control, connected by rope to one hook. Four participants use the winches to try and pick up and stack five blocks which rest inside the frame. An invitation for one to test their skills.
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La Legion Fantastique
Peter Overstreet
We are a Jules Verne re-enactment society. Our show involves the creation of various artifacts from Jules Verne's works.
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Laser Looms—Crystal and Cardboard
Travis Meinolf
I'll bring a selection of clear acrylic and folding cardboard looms for people to weave cloth with, and maybe take home!
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LEGOJEEP
Kevin Mathieu
The LEGOJEEP is one of the few true interactive art cars. The exterior is covered in LEGO sheets allowing LEGO on top to be moved into different patterns, shaped into structures, and messages to be created by any passerby. This reshaping of the environment leads the LEGO player, hopefully, to reassess the norms of what is possible in one's environment. This art car introduces a sense of play and induces conversation among builders as LEGO are shared and traded among the makers.
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Lepidodgera
Lepidodgera is a 37-foot-tall steel butterfly perched atop a Dodge van. The 6000 square-foot wings articulate by hydraulic actuation and are brilliantly illuminated at night. A novel on-board gasifier converts biomass into gaseous fuel for the Dodge's engine.
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Mirador and Giant Tripod
James Horecka
The "Mirador" is a tower with a viewing platform. It consists of struts fabricated from 1" EMT, arranged in a double-helix pattern through ever-decreasing hexagonal hoops. Also featured is the "Giant Tripod," used for shooting panorama photos over trees on site. Both are modular, demountable and portable.
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Mobile Movie Drive-in
Eric Kurland
In a mobile car-based projection booth, L.A.'s chapter of MobMov—"the Drive-in that Drives in"—presents an outdoor movie screening.
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Moebius Omnibus
The Moebius Omnibus was a purpose-built mutant vehicle for Burningman 2005. It was designed and built from scratch to seat 12 people (plus one driver) and provide all of them a comfortable unobstructed view of the surroundings, which is safe and fun. It has underwent several design changes and is currently on it's 3rd revision. It is a vehicle like no other and employs a highly unusual control system and configuration.
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monochrom's SCULPTURE MOBS: Training Camp
Counter culture? Art? Your average guy does not go to exhibitions, concerts nor does he get in touch with art and counter culture media. Counter culture and the art world are niche places. And even if people would go there they would consider what happens there to be ‘just art’. Art is the place where things might be reflected. But that amounts to nothing because it is not linked to everyday life. Art is a special task and a special place for special people. Many post-bourgeois artists were trying to bring the art back to the people not as a handy service (as it is to the bourgeois elite art consumer) but as a form of irritation. They created many forms of street theatre and pranks. But even art hackers are often helpless against official "art in public space"! Oh, the horror! Those endless atrocities! All of them labeled "sculpture in public space"! Ah! Monstrous "public art installations" on roundabouts, on main streets, in shopping malls!
It is time to reclaim the street art! It is time to create your own public art! Get your hammers! Get your welding equipment!
It is time for SCULPTURE MOBS!
monochrom offers free courses, in-depth training and invites people on a couple of guerrilla field trips.
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Neverwas Haul
Inspired by the works of Jules Verne, the Neverwas Haul is a self-propelled, 3-story Victorian house on wheels, and the home of the Traveling Academy of Unnatural Sciences, an intrepid group of explorers who are using steam-powered engines to circumnavigate the globe.
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Omega Recoil
John Behrens
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.
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Portable Guerrilla-Gallery
Adam Holm
The portable Guerrilla-Gallery is a space that can be rolled off the back of a truck and inflated to 400 sf of interior space in less than 10 minutes. The material of the project consists of used vinyl billboards, while all the fans are salvaged off scraped swamp coolers and grease fans.
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Power Tool Drag Racing
Every year the very best and brightest take to their garages, the plumbing aisle at Home Depot, the tools section of OSH, and the empty lots behind their neighbors' trailers to build THOSE MACHINES WHO REIGN SUPREME! 75 feet of skillfully machined fiberboard Power Tool Drag Racing Track await the competitors on race day! BE AMAZED at the high-tech timing system that tracks Each and Every Vehicle. BE AMUSED at the charming antics of our well-known Power Tool Drag Race Announcers! BE APPALLED at the smell of RAW ADRENALINE and 20-W-50 in the air!
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Quickupcamper
Jay Baldwin
The only RV that is stable, handles well, and gets 20 mpg @ 70 mph. It was a features of last year's Maker Faire as #224 in location outside West H-17
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Solar Prius
We have developed a kit that allows the Toyota Prius and potentially its other Electric Hybrid cars to function on Solar Power!
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SteamPunk Magazine
Want the low-down on steampunk? Talk to one of the editors at SteamPunk Magazine.
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Steampunk Spectacular Group Table
Libby Bulloff
Participant in the group space arranged for Jake von Slatt, Datamancer, and Steampunk Magazine to present our wares and talk to general passers-by about steampunk. I will be representing Steampunk Magazine with Magpie Killjoy and showing my artwork.
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Steampunk Warrior Girl Pinup Painting to Raise $$ for EFF
Suzanne Forbes
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.
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Subjugator and Manipulatrix
My small crew and I would like to bring two large radio-controlled robots, the Subjugator and the Manipulatrix, as well as a mortar-style air cannon, and stage a series of small performances. For the pleasure of the machines and the audience alike, we would like to construct a purpose-built prop for these performances. The prop will interact gingerly with the robots until the last performance, at which point it will be devoured! The most exciting aspect, however, will be that the prop will be constructed atop a radio-controlled walking robotic base, that members of the audience will control! The air cannon will also be under audience control.
(If our proposal is accepted, there is a good possibility that I would bring an entire second performance of a very different type. This is a short theatrical piece entitled AMORTEC, and is a collaboration between stilt performer Christina Sporrong and yet another robot of mine, the HD6LAW. A video of the only performance of AMORTEC yet staged can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXR4vYPbuZw† )
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The Crucible
The Crucible
The Crucible's amazing "ERV" Educational Response Vehicle, or "Fire" Truck, will serve as a platform for demonstrating welding, torch cutting, blacksmithing, and glass flame working workshops.
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The MayBlue Bus
Rachel Lane & Richard Paddock
We are converting a 1990 40ft. school bus into a home that runs off of renewable energy. The goal of this project is to empower ourselves using DIY methods to create a versatile home.
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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.
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The Village Blacksmith
Master Blacksmith Michel Olson, and Masterful Storyteller Christy Horne, are the husband and wife team who have history ringing in the ears of audiences all over the Western U.S. Their Stage Fort Smith is a Monster Truck to behold and when you add the fabulous storytelling with live anvil accompaniment they become edutainment for the entire family. Everything Michel bashes out is given away to audience members following every show.
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Tilt-A-Hurl
Free the popular carnival ride Tilt-A-Whirl from its confines of the county fair and release it to the world. This vehicle was constructed from the ground up to bring our favorite memories back.
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Unwheeldy
Tandem recumbent fixie dicycle. Two 9-foot diameter bicycle wheels, 6 feet apart, with room for two riders in between. Differential drive - each rider pedals their own wheel, so must coordinate to maneuver. Home-made hubs, spokes, rims, frame, etc.
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Whirlygig Emoto
Thomas Sepe
A steampunk inspired steam-electric hybrid motorcycle. Built on a highly modified chassis of a 1967 Tote Goat, the Whirlygig has a 15hp 24V electric motor, with a 100psi steam boiler on the back to run steam effects. Using mostly found objects or recycled materials, in addition to custom fabrication, the Whirlygig is a blast from your future past!
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WW II–Era Scale Infrared Combat Tank Models
Rich Upton
Scratch-built and modified kit R/C tanks representing WW II era vehicles from 18' to 30" long in metal and plastic with accompanying scale buildings (1/16th scale). Can demonstrate infra-red battling (1/16th) and show prototypes and explain molding and casting processes in metal and resin using sample molds and parts.
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Zen Paintball Painting
You might be the next Jackson Pollock! Extreme Craft will help you make your own masterpiece with a paintball gun instead of a brush! We'll be using specially prepared ink paintballs to make sure your painting will last through the ages. Find your inner abstract expressionist.
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