Maker Faire

Mystery Phones   Greg MacLaurin
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.

Eccentric Maker   Kaden Harris
Kaden Harris
Scrap Fu 101, Beginning Binning, Happenstance Reutilization and Industrial Design, and the role of The Great Cosmic Random in Improvisational Fabrication.

Re-inventing Building Blocks   Peter Semmelhack
Peter Semmelhack
Bug Labs is indicative of a trend affording new opportunities in manufacturing, and a new way to think with building blocks and prototype products that can lead to filling a variety of unserved niches.

My Brain Machine   Mitch Altman
Mitch Altman
Glasses to synchronize your brainwaves with a pre-programmed sequence, from wakefulness into deep meditation and back out into fabulousness, all along hallucinating wild patterns.

String Theory   Autumn Wiggins
Autumn Wiggins
Can we save the planet by making things? Autumn shows how indie crafting can promote Cradle to Cradle practices.

Maker Kits   Limor Fried , Phillip Torrone
Limor Fried , Phillip Torrone
MAKE's Phil Torrone and Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries talk about emerging opportunities for makers to create and sell their work.

Chumby   Bunnie Huang
Bunnie Huang
Hardware hacker Bunny Huang talks about Chumby, his low-cost, wifi-enabled information delivery device.

Creating Sustainable Spaces Where Anything Goes   Umberto Crenca
Umberto Crenca
AS220, a non-profit, unjuried, and uncensored arts center in Providence, RI, has been growing since 1985. Despite the complexity of growing such a space, AS220 has thrived and become a model for organizations looking to create sustainable spaces. Bert Crenca, the Founder and Artistic Director of AS220, tells the story.

Rabbit's Rum and Chris Warren   Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Rabbit's Rum and Chris Warren collaborate in a live creation of orchestral electronica and ambient soundscapes at Maker Faire. Instrumentation will feature Chris Warren's feedback piano in interactions with live cello and laptop. About the performers: San Francisco orchestral electronica band RABBIT'S RUM ( http://www.rabbitsrum.com ) swings moods from tight electronic song forms to spacious harmonic ambient soundscapes recollecting Goldfrapp (Supernature), Massive Attack (Mezzanine), and Bjork (Vespertine). Rabbit's Rum features the vocals and cello work of conservatory classical musician gone renegade Kristina Forester and the sound design, beat craft, and custom code of SF underground alumn and polymath Noah Thorp (founder of audio think tank record label Listen Labs and the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group). The duos collaborations include work with the Capacitor dance troupe (Capacitor.org), composer and producer JMage, Arcade Fire & Tom Waits saxophonist Colin Stetson, Stanford Laptop Orchestra founder and composer Ge Wang, and many more. Rabbit's Rum innovates on and off the stage with custom built software and instruments from SuperCollider and Max/MSP to hacked Wii controllers and bent circuits. As the enigmatic duo sharpens the edge of culture, Rabbit's Rum enchants while breaking the rules. CHRIS WARREN (http://www.alloyelectric.com) is a Master's student at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University where his main interests are interaction design in new musical instruments and sound design. When not playing 8-string bass or coding VST plugins he can usually be found napping in public, snoring loudly. He is headed to San Diego this fall to begin his Ph.D. in Computer Music at UCSD.

Maker Sessions   Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
A selection from computer music technology projects.

Steampunk   Heather Gold
Heather Gold
How can you be authentic to yourself and part of a (sub)culture? Through the lens of Steampunk, a meta-subculture that is currently at its tipping point of growth, we explore the inevitable question a subculture faces as it grows from disparate DIY roots. Who and what belongs? Can it transform permaculture? Geek comedian Heather Gold converses with computer and car modifier Jake von Slatt (http://steampunkworkshop.com/); Abney Park singer Captain Robert (http://www.abneypark.com/); and Steampunk magazine editor and wearable art creator + artist Libby Bulloff (http://www.exoskeletoncabaret.com).

Crafty Chica: Squeezing a Dollar from a Dime: How to Make the Most of What You Have   Kathy Cano-Murillo
Kathy Cano-Murillo
This presentation is about defining what makes you special and then how to work it the best you can!

Alcohol Can Be a Gas   David Blume
David Blume
A fast-paced introduction to making moonshine to power your vehicle, garden equipment, or even cooking and heating. Will show how to produce alcohol fuel for about 30 cents per gallon. Powerpoint visuals of equipment how-to's adapting other stuff to work as distilleries or vehicle conversion devices.

Solar Car Share   Julian Darley
Julian Darley
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.

Self-making   Gary Wolf
Gary Wolf
How to optimize learning.

DIY Drones   Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson
Wired Magazine editor describes his own projects in building unmanned aerial vehicles.

"How to make a Million! (of a thing)"   Instinct Engineering
Instinct Engineering
Examples from the international portfolio of Corbett Griffith illustrating the intersection and interactions between Art, Design, and Engineering.

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)   Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) is a large-scale, computer-mediated ensemble that explores cutting-edge technology in combination with conventional musical contexts - while radically transforming both. Founded in 2008 by director Ge Wang and students, faculty, and staff at Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), this unique ensemble comprises more than 20 laptops, human performers, controllers, and custom multi-channel speaker arrays designed to provide each computer meta-instrument with its own identity and presence. The orchestra fuses a powerful sea of sound with the immediacy of human music-making, capturing the irreplaceable energy of a live ensemble performance as well as its sonic intimacy and grandeur. At the same time, it leverages the computer's precision, possibilities for new sounds, and potential for fantastical automation to provide a boundary-less sonic canvas on which to experiment with, create, and perform music. Offstage, the ensemble serves as a one-of-a-kind learning environment that explores music, computer science, composition, and live performance in a naturally interdisciplinary way. (http://slork.stanford.edu)

Maker Sessions   Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
A selection from computer music technology projects.

Loud Objects   Katie Shima , Kunal Gupta , Tristan Perich
Katie Shima , Kunal Gupta , Tristan Perich
Agog and agaggle! The Loud Objects set sail for a feral reimagination of circuit bending. Loftily wielding soldering irons against a ramshackle overhead projector, these heroic lads from New York City (Tristan Perich the composer, Kunal Gupta the programmer, and Katie Shima the architect) wire up live musical circuits and gerrymander lo-fi electronic noise. The first few minutes are characterized by bleak silence as the loud objects swiftly assemble an initial circuit; thereafter a lush and percussive poetry overwhelms the arena as the trio heroically hacks microchips into a beastly swarm of 1-bit noise. These maneuverings are projected physically from the smokiness, hulking beyond the performers, gargantuan spectres stripped from the pillars of antiquated technology to their lurid and noble spirit. (Co-located in the Maker Shed with 1-Bit Music.)

DIY Relationships   Heather Gold
Heather Gold
How does being in a relationship help you collaborate? Do problem-solving approaches cross over from projects to life? Relationship hacks and MAKE/CRAFT stories from couples who make stuff (and more) together. Geek comedian Heather conversates with Jillian Northrup and Jeffrey McGre (becausewecan.org) and Christy Canida + Eric Wilhelm (instructables.com).