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

 

10 Years ROBOEXOTICA
Does this robot know how you need your Martini? Yes it does! Presenting the MindReadingMartiniMaker and other award-winning cocktail-robots, the founders of ROBOEXOTICA, the world's leading festival on the matter, announce the american franchise of the cocktail-robotic plot to achieve world-domination. Meet them in the Robogames pavilion.

Location:   Robo Games   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

21st Century Woodworking Tools
The founder of ShopBot tells how his company was an outgrowth of his passion for building wooden boats and that led him to create an affordable, capable CNC machine for the rest of us.

 

3 Quick Projects
Come and check out three quick projects you can do yourself... right out of Make Labs!

 

3D Animation Zoetrope
A 3 dimensional animation device was made based on a Zoetrope "stop motion" design. A 12" diameter turntable was built from simple parts and made to spin at 60 rpm. Multiple identical lego men were attached to the top of the turntable,each one with a slight change in position as if running and spaced equally around the turntable. A short duration variable speed LED strobe was designed and used to "stop" the motion of the LEGO men as they spin. The result is a visible 3D animation effect.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

3D Printer
A home made 3D printer which prints plastic models from computer file. Based loosely off of the Reprap project.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

914 PC-BOT
It's a PC and it's a Robot! IT’S THE ULTIMATE DEVELOPER’S MACHINE. The 914 PC-BOT is the first general service robot designed for digital life in the home, at work, at school, and at play. Created by White Box Robotics.

 

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+!

Location:   Outdoors   

 

AeroPAC High Power Experimental Rocketry
We will have on display several different large rockets as examples of what can be done with this hobby. We will also have construction materials, propellant, motors, etc., on display as well as multiple videos and hand outs. Depending on space we may demonstrate a mid power rocket motor being ignited in the parking lot in a safe stand.

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

Alcohol Can Be a Gas 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.

 

ALERT: Active Learning Environment with Robotic Tangibles AME ALERT
ALERT uses computer vision fiducial markers placed in an environment to communicate instructions to iRobots, allowing participants to create meaningful environments for robots and engage in competitive and collaborative interactions with the system. We will provide specific technical details allowing participants to learn to use these techniques for their projects

Location:   Expo Red   

 

Alternative "Mutant" Vehicles
Three vehicles built for fun and to illustrate structural engineering and alternative energy usage (electric and solar vs. gas), and have been "mutant" vehicles at Burning Man. The Solar Trike is a 3-wheeled personal vehicle that appeared in the 2007 Bay Area Maker Faire, Hourglass is an electric powered structure, stands 16' tall and has a 16 x 16 x16 triangular footprint. Driver-operated from mid level. Shaped like an hour glass out of metal conduit tubing. Skychair is pyramidic in shape, has a suspended canvas sling chair, is electric powered and also built from metal tubing conduits.

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Animate Anything
We'll show you how to use simple controllers to animate anything for a holiday display or prop.

Location:   Robo Games   

 

Applied Kinetic Arts
A group showing of like-minded kinetic sculptors, makers all, who turn scrap and ideas into amazing devices and art.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Arduino Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build interesting projects with Arduino. Kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you.

 

ArtCar Fest
The largest exhibition of art cars on the West Coast, ArtCar Fest is the only event in the world devoted exclusively to ArtCars. A sampling of these cars will be at the Faire.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Avian Motors X-Cycle
The X-Cycle is a ground up electric vehicle design optimized for minimum power usage and maximum fun! It is a three wheel reverse trike, with power to the rear wheel and steering from the front.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Babbage's Difference Engine Computer History Museum
Learn about the Victorian inventor Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine No. 2, which goes on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

 

Backpackless Bicycle Bite-valve Hydration System
I've designed and constructed a bite-valve hydration system that uses a recycled soda bottle as the water container rather than a backpack. The key component is a purpose-made Delrin stopper on which is mounted a check valve that holds the bottle near atmospheric pressure.

 

BallFrog FIRST Robotics Team 100
"BallFrog" is Team 100's (Woodside/Carlmont Robotics Team) robot created for the 2008 FIRST Robotics Competition. This robot led the winning alliance at the Silicon Valley Regional and won the Motorola Quality Award at two separate regionals. Each year through FIRST, Team 100 members have a fascinating real-world engineering experience.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Projects
Computer music technology projects including:

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Bleep Labs
Bleep Labs produces hand made, electronic music toys with personality. Our main product, the Thingamagoop, is a light-controlled synthesizer that produces a wide range of sounds using a simple interface. We are also releasing a kit version as well as digital toy designed with fellow makers, Loud Objects.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Blinkybug Workshop
Learn how to make these interesting insects with LEDs, batteries, and pipecleaners. Ken will also be appearing on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

BlinkyBugs and More LED Projects
Learn how to make these interesting insects with LEDs, batteries, and pipecleaners.

 

BlinkyBugs Hands-On Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and make one of Ken Murphy's BlinkyBugs. Kits will be available for sale, and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help.

 

BlinkyBugs Hands-On Workshop (with the Maker)
Come to the Maker Shed and make BlinkyBugs with their creator, Ken Murphy. Kits will be available for sale,

 

Blubber Bot Robotic Inflatable Blimps
Come by the Maker Shed and check out the Blimp Kits that you can build yourself!

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

Bob's Electric Vehicle Corral
A robotic man in the likeness of the Governator himself pulls a chariot on solar power alone. A sport motorcycle with serious acceleration: for display only.

 

Boiler Bar and Theater
We took inspiration from the 1920s oil rush to create the Boiler Bar and Boiler Bar Theater. The bar is riveted top to bottom and topped with a fire show that, for a tip, will get you an 8 foot fire ball from the bar tender. I have created Zen Fire Gardens that will amaze a sober patron and wow the eyes. While enjoying the warmth of our fire and the comfort of a drink you can take in the sights of exotic belly dancers, fire performers, and readings from the biggest little stage at the “Boiler Bar Theater.”

Location:   Boiler Bar Stage   

 

Brain Machine Workshop
Buy a Brain Machine in the Maker Shed and build it right there. The Maker Shed team will be on hand to help.

 

Breathalyzer Genie Christopher Palmer
Christopher Palmer's kinetic sculptures include Breathalyzer Genie and Breathing Trouble.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Build a Whole LED Clock on Just 6 Wires!
Learn the LED multiplexing technique used in the clocks from LEDkit.biz and find out why LEDkit.biz Clocks Only Need 6 wires.

 

Build an LED Hula Hoop
Come to the Maker Shed and build the LED Hula Hoop kit. The Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you build it and kits will be available for sale.

 

Build an LED Hula Hoop (with the Maker)
Come to the Maker Shed and join Michael Nuzzi, maker of the LED Hula Hoop kit. Michael will be on hand to help you build it and kits will be available for sale.

 

Build the LED Camera Light Kit
Come and build one of Michael Nuzzi's LED Camera Light Kit. Kits will be available for purchase in the Maker Shed and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you make them.

 

Build the LED Camera Light Kit (with the Maker)
Join Michael Nuzzi, the Maker of the LED Camera Light Kit, in the Maker Shed workshop, and build your own. Kits will be available for purchase in the Maker Shed.

 

Build Your Own Vacuum Forming Machine
With a shop vac and other common supplies found at any hardware store you can build a simple Vacuum Forming Machine for under $300! Displays and demonstrations include; Mold making, costume building, Theatrical Armor fabrication and Prop making.

Location:   Work Shop   

 

CalCars Felix Kramer
CalCars is an enabling organization that seeks to accelerate the adoption of PHEVs. We achieve these goals through advocacy and education as well as through demonstrating technology projects. CalCars itself is a hybrid non-profit organization in that it is comprised of entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers. Our projects tackle national security, jobs and global warming -- at the same time. We are always seeking volunteers to work with us.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

CCRMA Musical Interactives Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University
See new sonic interactions that have been developed using tools--such as low-cost hardware prototyping kits and a customized open source Linux software distribution--from Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Charley Chinese Christian Schools
Chinese Christian Schools would like to exhibit the robot the high-school students built for their FIRST Robotics competition. It is a double-forklift robot that can pick up and lever a 10 pound ball.

 

Chronic Revelator
A cement mixer as time machine, filled with sand and water, slowly grinding 35mm cameras into river stones.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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

 

Combat robot "Beer Bash" Avish Bharwani , Bruce White , Joshua Mehlman , Rebecca Sutton , Susan Reno
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.

 

Combat robot "CycloneBot" Eliot Barker , Gary Mathiesen , Jeff Hayashida , Mark Demers , Michael Worry , Mohan Gurunathan , Robert Frankovich , Tim Bayne

 

Combat robot "Plasma" Stephen Felk

 

Combat robot "SJ" Ken Stevens , Richard Van Noy , Robert Stellhorn , Scott Kincaid
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.

 

Combat robot "Vlad The Impaler II"

 

Combat robots "Last Rites" and "The Mortician" David Gustavson , Justin Billings , Laurie Stratton , Ray Billings
Team Hardcore's specialty is combat robots with very high kinetic energy spinning weapons. Our two entries are The Mortician, which is a 120 pound Middleweight, and Last Rites, which is a 220 pound Heavyweight.

 

Combat robots "Pipe Wench" and "Sewer Snake" Matt Maxham , Wendy Maxham
Sewer Snake is the #1 ranked Heavyweight robot of all time (32 wins, 7 losses). It is the reigning ComBots Cup champion, and the RoboGames international champion.

 

Combat robots "The Big B" and "Original Sin" Christina Gin , Dave Needle , Gary Gin , Stan Shepard

 

Combat robots "The Bully" and "Come to Mama" Buffy Yeh , Forrest Yeh , Jim Yeh

 

ComBots Fighting Androids Dan Albert , David Calkins
They've re-made the HiTech androids to be work off hacked Playstation controllers to use the Zigbee wireless module. They've reprogrammed the robots to be used in kick-boxing, soccer, and acrobatics.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Computerized Etch A Sketch
Etch A Sketch toys are notorious for their difficult user interface. This project enables one to draw on an Etch A Sketch using a mouse, joystick, or GUI. Save drawings, edit them, replay them later. Render fractals autonomously. When finished, the whole machine flips over and shakes itself clear.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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.

 

Craft Con Rachel Hospodar
Craft Con is a business development conference for the craft community.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

Crayon Physics Deluxe
Simulated physics from free-hand drawing on Tablet PCs created by Crayon Physics Deluxe.

 

Crystal Focus LED "lightsaber" Project Matthew Carauddo
The most amazing and dynamic sound & light driver board you'll ever see. Made specifically for "LED saber props," in the spirit of the "Star Wars" films by Lucasfilm. (No affiliation or association with Lucasfilm, LTD or Lucasarts.)

Location:   Dark Room   

 

Curiously Bright LED & Audio Extravaganza!
Darker Technologies and Macetech combine forces this year to bring a variety of original projects including LED grow lights, simple RGB pixel elements, a giant RGB array nearly five feet tall, an Altoids tin-based high quality stereo component system, and more!

Location:   Dark Room   

 

Digital Foosball
Augmented Foosball game with electronic scoring, instant replay, statistics, etc., created by Clarity Consulting.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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

 

DIY Relationships
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).

 

Dry-erase XY Board
Mechanical drawing device that paints via X-Y coordinates over a whiteboard programmatically controlled with a computer.

 

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

 

Educational Robotics
Robotic demonstrations and video highlights for two youth robotic competitions. First LEGO League, youth in 5th through 8th grades and first Tech Challenge, youth in 7th to 12th grades.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

EepyBird Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz
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.

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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!

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Engineers Without Borders: Appropriate Technology Pavilion
The Appropriate Technology Design Team is a group of Bay Area engineering professionals developing appropriate and sustainable design solutions for organizations working in disadvantaged communities. We strive to empower communities to help themselves by providing tools that facilitate economic development and provide basic needs, local education, training and entrepreneurial opportunities.

 

Experimental Aircraft Assocation
We build our own airplanes from plans and kits. We are interested in all kinds of things related to building and operating recreational aircraft. Our organization exists to support all areas of personal aviation—everything from 55 mph ultralights to 350 mph carbon fiber turbine-powered high-altitude screamers.

Location:   The Hangar   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Exploratorium
Meet the makers from the Exploratorium! Scientists, artists, and tinkerers of every stripe will lead activities, share exhibits, and show their work.

 

Exploring New Ways to Interact with Computers
I will demonstrate input (game controllers, cameras, microcontrollers) and output (sound, custom circuits) methods that can form non-traditional user interfaces. I will also show how to use things like PyGame, Pd, OSC and MIDI to quickly build these interfaces. Examples will be shown. Bring a controller, learn to use it!

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Fashioning Technology: DIY Intro into Smart Crafting
Ready to take your craft projects to the next level? Learn how to blend traditional sewing and assembly techniques with new conductive and smart materials and electronics to create accessories, housewares, and toys that light up, shift-patterns, make sounds, or do even more.

 

Fashioning Technology: DIY Style
Live demonstration on how to use "smart" materials from the author of "Fashioning Technology," releasing July 2008 from O'Reilly Media.

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Frankenstein Prototyping
Learn to Make Prototypes for Pennies and More.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

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   

 

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   

 

From Logs to Lumber to Deluxe Chicken Coop
A demonstration of salvaged tree milling with a portable bandsaw mill. Fallen cypress trees will come to the Maker Faire as logs, be milled into lumber, and built into a deluxe chicken coop.

 

Functional Dissection: Wind-up Frogs
Get involved in Functional Dissection, one of the core features of Ambidextrous Magazine, which uncovers the functional beauty and mechanical elegance of products in our lives. Engage in an on-going participatory Functional Dissection with wind-up toy frogs, to learn how to take them apart without destroying them.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Greathouse Labs
Greathouse Labs Fire machines, Robots, Mechanical oddities Animatronics, and electrical vehicles.

 

GRIDBEAM Phil Jergenson
Grid Beam is a reusable structural system that allows you to dream up and build complex projects quickly.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Hacking Cool Things with Microcontrollers
Learn how to make microcontrollers do what you want by actually making fun projects at the Faire. Blink lights, hack your brain, play video games, turn off TVs in public places -- microcontrollers can do it all. This is for all skill and experience levels. You can even learn to solder!

Location:   Fiesta Blue  Maker Shed   

 

Heads On Fire::Fab Lab Heads On Fire
Fab Labs are a global network of design and fabrication laboratories, installed as a resource for community-based innovation. They combine CNC milling machines, specialized software, and the ability to make and program electronics in order to ease production of imagined objects and devices by anyone. We want to guide Makers in using lab; showcase projects from labs around the world.

Location:   Work Shop   

 

Heavy Pedal Cyclecide Bike Rodeo
Cyclecide has embraced the bicycle as a medium to express our interest in mechanical innovation, kinetic art, and performance. By salvaging bicycles for creative re-use we have produced a fleet of double-decker tall bikes, choppers, tandems, swing bikes, reverse bikes, and others too bizarre to name. The Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo is a circus style show that highlights these monstrous alter-cycles with stupefying stunts. Our pedal-powered carnival midway of rides and attractions demonstrate the possibilities of human powered fun and engineering.

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors  under a tree   

 

Help Make the Boggle and Sneak Videobook!
Help make the videobook of my novel "Boggle and Sneak" by visiting my time machine. In the (CC-licensed) novel, inventor Trolls travel to my family's house in jury-rigged vehicles and subject us to Rube Goldberg practical jokes. Stop by and film a page or two!

Location:   Expo Red   

 

Herbie the MouseBot Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build Herbie the Mousebot. Kits will be available for sale, and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help.

 

High Definition 3D Camcorder Lorin Thwaits
I mounted two high definition camcorders on a rigid aluminum plate. After processing recorded footage and playing it back while looking through LCD shutter glasses, the result is "amazingly" realistic 3D video. It's like looking through a window into the live scene itself. You have to see it to believe it.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Hiller Aviation Museum Bede BD-5 Homebuilt Aircraft
The Hiller Aviation Museum presents the unique BD-5 aircraft, a small, single-seat homebuilt kit aircraft created by US aircraft designer Jim Bede. The BD-5 has a small fuselage holding its semi-reclined pilot under a large canopy, with the engine installed in a compartment in the middle of the fuselage, and a propeller in the rear.

Location:   The Hangar   

 

Hologlyphics
Hologlyphics combines elements of holography, music, video synthesis, visionary film, sculpture and improvisation to create a unique new artform. These moving spatial visuals are seen in full 3D without glasses, intertwined with music and spatial sound. Although not the same technical process as holography, the visual result is the same.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

Home Built Bicycles
Think outside the diamond and be inspired to take some easy steps to build your own unique bicycles.

 

HomeBrewed Robots!
A variety of electro-mechanical creatures including "Springy Thingy," a Burningman Artbot, and his faithful cybernetic companion, "Rusty." "Homer the HomeBrewed Humanoid" performing Kung-Fu-Fighting. The "LosiBot," an autonomous radio-controlled car. "Wirey," AKA My Little Blue Robot "Wired". "SnoopBot," a hacked puppet. And the PROTOBot Army: We will settle for nothing less then total world domination.

Location:   Robo Games   

 

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   

 

Honda S90 EV Conversion
My 13 yr. old son and I are converting an old 1967 Honda S90 (90cc) motorcycle into a state-of-the-art plug-in electric vehicle. The design parameters are to not exceed the donor vehicle's original weight, 190lb. It should match or exceed the original power, 8hp, and be able to go at least 50mph for a minimum of 25 miles with 110Vac plug-in recharging. The mission, to provide education, in town efficient transport, and of course, FUN.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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).

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

How to Make a Million! (of a Thing)
We are responsible for... Tens of thousands of alive art interactions Millions of renewed and reused perfect products Hundreds of dreams released into reality An idea that is nurtured and loved produces investments in millions

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Howtoons Saul Griffith + Nick Dragotta
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   

 

Howtoons Saul Griffith + Nick Dragotta
Authors Saul Griffith and Nick Dragotta talk about their popular Howtoons--art comic strip and part science experiment--that shows kids how to find fun new uses for household items.

 

Huge Tesla Coils and Tower Electronique
Three huge Tesla Coils with lots of electricity and a Tower Electronique, a musical instrument that plays in the air. Also, flying balls machine, solar energy musical machines, and much more.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

Human-powered Bike Music Stage
The Rock the Bike crew put on human-powered concerts using bicycle-based music systems. Audience members pedal power the audio system for performances by Fossil Fool, the Bike Rapper, and sustainable Rock N' Rollers SHAKE YOUR PEACE!, among others.

 

IEEE SCV Section
IEEE's Santa Clara Valley Section is distributing information about IEEE and local IEEE activities.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Imagination Incredible Machine
Use Windows Mobile devices to find components of a virtual Rube Goldberg machine located across the fairgrounds. Created by Imagination Computer Services.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Infrared Vacuum Dehydrator -- "Raw Oven"
Baking and frying food produce dangerous chemical byproducts, and prompt nutritionists to have us eat steamed or raw. Water boils in a vacuum at room temperature, and infrared heats efficiently. We combine both to make chips, crackers, breads, etc. that people truly love, in a healthy, low temperature way.

Location:   Makers Market   

 

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!

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote
Presentation of two interactive projects using the Nintendo Wii remote.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

International Harvester Collectors
IH Collectors has chapters throughout the world including California that restore and preserve the legacy of International Harvester Company and the historic McCormick family.

 

iPhone Hacking Lab
Your iPhone has more features than you think. Come to the iPhone Hacking Lab to see everything your iPhone can do. We'll have tutorials on jailbreaking and SIM-unlocking. The iPhone Hacking Lab will be available in the Maker Shed and don't miss the tutorial on the Maker Main Stage in Fiesta.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

iStuff Mobile Rafael Ballagas
iStuff Mobile is a rapid prototyping framework that accelerates the creation of low-fidelity functional prototypes of physical user interfaces for mobile phones. Quartz Composer, a visual programming environment from Apple, is used to add logic to the prototype.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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).

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Jon Sarriugarte’s Boiler Bar Theater Presents
While enjoying the warmth of our Boiler Bar fire and the comfort of a drink you can take in the sights of exotic belly dancers, fire performers, and readings from the biggest little stage at the “Boiler Bar Theater.”

 

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.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

Judy: My Dinner with Android
Since the dawn of the computer age, people have argued about whether computers can ever be intelligent. But has anyone tried simply asking one? Intrepid researcher Tom Sgouros built a robot in his basement and after literally weeks of lessons in phonetics, elocution and the elements of logic, he and Judy present their findings here.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Justin Gray's Fire Sculpture Robots and Electric Motorcycles
This year Justin Gray is bringing two fire sculpture robots and three lithium battery powered electric motorcycles!

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Laser Harp
Built using the Arduino controller, the laser harp is a musical instrument and performance piece. See <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLVXmsbVwUs">a video of Stephen's performance.</a>

Location:   Dark Room   

 

LaserFinger
LaserFinger is a project of the Palo Alto High School Robotics/InvenTeam. Its aim is to create an affordable assistive technology while engaging students across the Bay Area.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Learning Lab
Ongoing self-paced workshops –- no experience necessary! Pull up a chair and learn the basics of programming, web design, mashup, and game creation.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

LED Camera Light Kit
Learn how to build this kit that brightens up video you shoot indoors with your digital camera.

 

LED Hula Hoop Michael Nuzzi
The LED Hula Hoop is a fun product used by professional performers, dancers, and anyone interested in having fun making cool streams of color in the dark. They can be seen at festivals like Burning Man, and can sometimes cost as much as $300. But you can make one yourself for a lot less. Instructions can be found on Craft Magazine Vol 6. But we will explore a simpler way to make an even better LED hoop for both adults and kids using minimal tools.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

LED Photo Booth
Webcam snapshots displayed on a matrix of LED signs.

 

Leland Robotics Team
The Leland Robotics Team competes in the FIRST competition. In 6 weeks, students design, build and test a robot worthy of attending the Silicon Valley Regional. Students apply their knowledge in math and science in a teamwork environment to create a technological marvel - all by high school students.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Lift Assist Miguel Valenzuela
I developed a toilet seat lift for disabled individuals that is made out of PVC and runs off the water pressure from ones house.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Lightning Laboratory Prototype Greg Leyh
An experimental twin-tower system that generates large-scale artificial lightning.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Lil Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum
Back by popular demand, the Lil' Ju Ju is a modified 1947 Spartan Manor Travel Trailer with a strengthened chassis, hydraulic auto leveling legs, and enough batteries/inverter to power a Jukebox and 6 pinball machines. A true mobile pinball arcade on wheels, featuring outer space themed pinball electromechanical machines.

Location:   Robo Games   

 

LinuxAstronomy.org Eugene Clement
LinuxAstronomy is a collaboration between a group of volunteers, teenagers who need some guidance and some people from industry with an interest in astronomy. One current project that is being worked on is a remote controlled telescope. More information regarding this project and others being worked on can be found at http://www.linuxastronomy.org.

Location:   The Hangar   

 

Lost in Space Experience
Makers can relive the Lost in Space experience with a working ROBOT, the Jupiter II computer, a balloon breaking Laser Pistol and Rocket Belt simulator that can zoom around the Jupiter II's crash site. All items are custom made and hand crafted to the specifications of the original TV show.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

LUNAR Society: Rocket Launch Pad Craig Saunders
Be a rocket scientist! Build and fly a rocket with LUNAR, the Livermore Unit of the National Association of Rocketry, the nation's largest model rocket club.

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

Magnetoscope
Adjust the position of magnets above and below a puddle of ferrofluid which jumps up to form a dynamic spikey mass. This hands-on exhibit dramatically demonstrates the shape of magnetic fields and the macroscale properties of nanoscale materials-science. The internal hand-cranked mechanisms are illuminated and follow the designs of Leonardo da Vinci.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

Make a Vibrobot
Learn how to make a twitchy, bug-like robot.

 

Make an LED Clock
Pick up one of the no-soldering-required LEDkit.biz LED clock kits in the Maker Shed and build it right at Maker Faire with help from the Maker Shed team.

 

Make an LED Clock (with the Maker)
Join Karl Papadantonakis, maker of the LEDkit.biz LED clock kit. Pick up one of these no-soldering-required kits in the Maker Shed and build it right at Maker Faire.

 

MAKE Articles by John Edgar Park
Come and check out the contraptions that John Edgar Park has built and written about in MAKE: The Hydraulic Espresso Tamper, LEGO Keychain Charger Station, RFID iConveyor, and a Make Controller secreted inside a hollowed-out book. John will also be joined by his friend and co-conspirator Usman Muzaffar to talk about the software he wrote on the RFID conveyor belt project

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

Make Controller Kit MakingThings
The Make Controller is a easy to use, general purpose and open source controller that can be used to create new, fun interactive projects that incorporate physical and electronic devices.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

Make Play Day
A treasure trove of electronics, construction materials, and expert assistance has all you need to turn a creative doodle in your noodle into something physical. Drop in or stay all day.

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

Make Professional Quality Wiring Harnesses
Wiring harnesses are an essential and often overlooked part of any electrical system. On a car, a good wiring harness can make the difference between a weekend joyride and a long tow home. Building a quality wiring harness requires a couple inexpensive tools and the right techniques, as I will demonstrate.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

MAKE Projects for Kids
Fun, easy-to-make projects everyone will love, from the pages of MAKE magazine.

 

Make the Future!
What could Maker Faire look like in 2018? And where is that future already here? Make the Future! shows exciting visions from the next decade of making and manufacturing, and connects the future to the prototypes already being built today. Come to see how you’ll be making the future.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Make-and-take Laser-cut Andon Robyn Orr
The traditional Japanese Andon (paper lantern) gets a modern maker update. Jump in our photo-booth, then stand back while a laser cutter renders you in perfect detail into an amazing cardboard lantern. Made from recycled materials, and consumption-optimized.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

Maker Sessions
A selection from computer music technology projects.

 

Maker Shed Exhibits, Demos, and More
Come to the Maker Shed to meet the authors who write the books and the makers who make the kits. They will be in the Maker Shed all weekend, and we'll have plenty of cool stuff to buy!

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

Making Music with Arduino
Come learn how to make music with Arduino. Geared toward those getting started with the popular microcontroller, this demonstration will explore several possible methods to use for sound synthesis.

 

Man-made Lightning Vicki Johnson
This 5-foot-tall Tesla Coil generates dazzling, long, electrical arcs while also revealing basic physics principles with the Jacob's Ladder, Faraday's Cage, and grounding.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

Meta — USA
Our self-balancing scooter was designed to go curb hoping and through the sand. It is exceedingly fast. We've even drag raced it against other scooters. The hardware is from an open source project that we worked long and hard on. Our scooter has lean steering using a flat titanium spring that we invented. You just push the arm in the direction you want to rotate. Our clone is also radio controlled!

Location:   Robo Games   

 

Microfiche Tim Lillis
Microfiche is an instrumental four-piece from San Francisco who draw diagrams for your ears and mind. If you were to use the pinnacle of nineteenth-century signal processing technology to transpose the sounds of hope, despair, patterns, the lack of patterns, fear of mechanical men, and whale calls, you would almost have the sound of Microfiche. They have been playing together since the beginning of 2007, and are currently unsigned. Microfiche have an old microfiche reader - turned light-sensitive MIDI instrument and an interactive LED Graphic EQ backdrop to accompany and augment their sound.

 

Microsoft Makers
A variety of innovative makers demonstrate new uses for some of our programs and produts.

 

MiniPOV Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build the MiniPOV, a programmable persistence of vision device. Kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you.

 

MintyBoost Workshop
Come to the Maker Shed and learn how to build the MintyBoost, a DIY USB charger that runs off of 2 AA batteries and fits inside an Altoids tin. Kits will be available for sale and the Maker Shed team will be on hand to help you.

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Monkeylectric LED Art Bikes
In a never-before-seen fusion of kinetic and digital arts, Monkeylectric presents a unique night-time visual experience combining the pavement stylings of bmx flatland artist Pete Brandt with cutting edge digital light art by Dan Goldwater and Xander Hudson. In the hands of Pete Brandt an expertly wielded bicycle becomes a palette of stunning color imagery as thousands of precisely controlled LEDs light up the air.

 

Motorized Barcalounger Lyn Gomes
When complete, it will look like an ordinary 1970's era black vinyl recliner. The electric wheelchair concealed beneath will allow for the ultimate in laziness and nerd-geekiness combined!! Too lazy to get a beer from the fridge and your dog's too stupid to learn (or too smart to reward your lazy bum)? The motorized barcalounger will do just fine!

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Multi-Touch Table
We built a multi-touch table-top display for about $500 in materials. It uses infrared LEDs, a web cam and a sheet of acrylic. We have a multi-touch enabled music sequencer, plasma/lightning simulation, physics simulation and pong game.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

My Brain Machine
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.

 

My Game Builder
All the tools needed to make a computer game (specialty: 2D actions and RPG games), all in your browser. Make a game in 10 minutes or as long as you have.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

MyDummy
MyDummy is a mechanical boy on a tricycle made to look as realistic as possible. People who see "him" for the first time usually think there's a child riding a tricycle. Then they disconnect when they realize that it's just a machine. Uncanny valley strikes again!

Location:   Robo Games   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

NYC Resistor Super Funtime Hacklab!
We're going to be showing off all kinds of fun projects that we've created over the last few months at the NYCResistor hacker space. There will be LED blinky projects; RepRap the open source 3D printer; Arduino projects a plenty; BarBot! the robot bartender; steam-powered widgets; Daisy the friendly open source MP3 player; Twithcie, the multipurpose plush robot (a new kit from MAKE Magazine!); incredible knitted and sewn monstrosities (kids LOVE them!); and much more! We will dedicate much of our space to hands on fun for visitors to the Faire.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Optical Acoustics
This is a set of MP3 players that have the LED outputs. The modulated light is received by a photo-diode amplifier and the players send messages that are transmitted to various stars through a spotlight. The receiver is in a small telescope.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

PetBots! Christopher Myers
A robotic workshop for Kids! Learn about batteries, motors, and switches; creating several different types of mobile robots that spin, dance, and draw using recycled and reused electric components and cool laser cut acrylic chassis. PetBots can be built by anyone without prior experience. Also on show will be the Robot Ranch where you can drive the Nerf Gun Roomba and see how good your aim really is.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

Photosynth Demo
Rendering the brilliant 3D world using ordinary 2D photos powered by Deep Zoom. Created by Microsoft Live Labs.

 

Physical Pixels
I make mosaics out of found objects. Dice, matches, M&M candy, spent bullet casings, color pencils, anything small and cheap enough. I write programs that calculate layouts based on image files. Lately I started using a CNC router to make drill-out mosaics--images that are literally made of holes.

Location:   The Hangar   

 

PianoMotion
This is a small musical art vehicle (2' X 11') with electronic fly-by-wire steering. It features a piano keyboard and sound system built into the body of the vehicle. Fly-by-wire steering allows the driver to simultaneously steer the vehicle and play the piano with both hands. It has a 12-channel custom MIDI lighting system, modular body-frame "skateboard" design, novel LED lighting, and a clean air system to protect the electronics from dust.

 

Pinbowl Chaos Generator
A large polycarbonate dish 3 feet in diameter contains 4 bumpers, 3 Neon/Argon rings, and 1 to 3 pinballs. When activated, the bumpers begin energizing, sending balls careening and colliding with each other and triggering the gas tubes and creating a cacophony of light and sound. They eventually lose momentum, roll back down to the bottom, only to be sent on their way once again by the bumpers. This gives a glimpse of the chaos theory and Brownian motion, besides being a spectacle that is hard to take your eyes off.

Location:   Robo Games   

 

Point Focus Solar
The general scope of the exhibit covers some description and contextual analysis of the solar concentrators. This includes power towers at Barstow, Wiezman Institutes prototype beamdown technology, ring arrays, compact linear freznal arrays from Australia, Kramer junctions parabolic trough plants, aspects of the reflective lens. Other technologically relevant threads will include windowed flux reaction chambers for making flux augmented fuels and detoxifying waste, space propulsion, space chemical materials processing, and space power systems in relation to terrestrial implementation.

Location:   Makers Market   

 

Pong Watch
Learn how I built a wrist watch that plays pong; from the idea, to early prototypes, to design choices, and the final design. Also, I will have a preview of the next version, which plays Asteroids.

 

Popfly
Microsoft Popfly is the fun, easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, games, web pages, and applications.

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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!

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Precision Puzzlemaking with a Laser Cutter
These beautiful and ingenious wooden puzzles and puzzle boxes will confound and inspire you.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

ProdMod LED Camera Light Kit & LED Hula Hoop Kit Michael Nuzzi
The LED Hula Hoop is a fun product used by professional performers, dancers, and anyone interested in having fun making cool streams of color in the dark. They can be seen at festivals like Burning Man, and can sometimes cost as much as $300. But you can make one yourself for a lot less. Instructions can be found on Craft Magazine Vol 6. But we will explore a simpler way to make an even better LED hoop for both adults and kids using minimal tools. Michael will also appear on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

Project Maestro
Minority Report-inspired user interface created using Silverlight created by Cynergy Labs.

 

Propane, It's a Gas! Fun and Fire with the Flaming Lotus Girls
Join the Flaming Lotus Girls for the ins and outs of making large scale Fire Art through their own unique blend of collaboration. They will discus the secrets behind their famous "Poofers," how to have fun and be safe with propane, and give a sneak peak of their latest project, Mutopia.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

PyroCardium
PyroCardium is an interactive fire sculpture that illuminates a person's heartbeat by computer-controlled ignition with a series of flames arranged along a helical metal sculpture. A stethoscope is placed on the participant’s chest, causing waves of flame to propagate along the helix in response to their heartbeat.

 

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

Location:   Outdoors   

 

R2-D2 Astromech Droids
We're members of the R2 Builders Club. A loosely organize international group of Star Wars fans who love to build droids. We've been featured in MAKE Magazine, appeared at lots of events throughout the country, and we run droid building workshops and panels. We will be roaming around the event throughout the weekend with frequent stops back at our Rebel Base to charge our batteries. There we can answer questions on how easy it is to get started building your very own astromech droid.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Re-inventing Building Blocks
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.

 

RepRap Self-Replicating 3D Printer Project
The RepRap project's goal is to build a self-replicating 3D printer. It uses a print head much like a motorized hot glue gun to build up new plastic parts for numerous daughter machines. We anticipate achieving self-replication quite soon.

Location:   Work Shop   

 

Restored Pinball Machines
Come play some awesome pinball machines from the '80s and '90s! Fully restored, beautifully cleaned, Bally/Williams from the golden age of Solid State Pinball. Have questions about finding / restoring a machine? Need help with restoration? We'll be there to answer your questions! (There'll be some microcontroller action, too!)

Location:   Robo Games   

 

Ride
Ride is a custom single rider helicopter with eight engines conceived & created by sculptor, Michael Cooper. It looks like more like a time machine invented by Dr. Seuss for George Jetson than anything you've seen in the air (or on land) recently.

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

RoboActivity Kits & Bots Walt Perko
My goal is developing new technologies to bring the world of robotics to a younger more general consumer. RoboKeyboard, RoboActivity Kit Instructions, R2PV1 robot FPS/CTF gaming system. I have some prototypes for limited demonstrations.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

RoboGames Presents: The ComBot Cup David Calkins , Simone Davalos
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   

 

Robots & Designers Living Together in Harmony
Ask us how affordable CNC production, design software, and off-the-shelf electronics can help bring your big ideas into the world! Talk tools, techniques, limitations, and ideas with several CNC-savvy designers to get your production questions answered.

Location:   Work Shop   

 

Rotating Amusement Device
LED spinning machine with two fast intersecting axes.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

S/L Pegasus
Aiming to capture a speed record next year, this 23ft steamboat, originally built in '82, is undergoing constant revisions.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Self-balancing Skateboard
A programmable/motorized Segway built upon a skateboard frame that balances on an inverted pendulum.

 

Small Form Factor PCs
Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs is the only book available that shows you how to build small-form-factor PCs -- from kits and from scratch -- that are more interesting and more personalized than what a full-sized PC can give you. The authors will be on hand to demonstrate a few of the projects from their book, including the Gumstix-based Bluetooth LED sign, the Meshcube Wi-Fi extender, the OpenBlockS firewall, and the Zipit messenger turned into an SSH client.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

Soft Circuit Embroidery
Becky will show an introductory tutorial for working with conductive thread to make a circuit on fabric. Using traditional embroidery techniques with modern electronic components, she will demo the creation of a simple soft switch circuit that will light up a sewn LED with a watch battery. Photos of an advanced example using a Lilypad Arduino are linked below.

 

Soft Electronics in Recycled Clothing Gretchen Elsner
How to make simple circuits and incorporate them into recycled clothing.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

Solar-powered Stirling Engine
I’m developing a Stirling-cycle heat engine that will operate on solar heat. In addition to demonstrating the engine, I will also show tools and methods to simulate and measure engine performance.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Solenoid City Jonathan Foote
A petite interactive kinetic artwork.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Sparkle Kits Amy Parness
Sparkle Labs is releasing their new DIY Design Electronics Kit at Maker Faire! Harness the power of the electron! Create games, toys and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more. Once you master the basics, you’ll be ready to create your own doodads. Neato! Everything you need to get started is right inside, including nifty switches, buttons, diodes, capacitors, transistors and regulators. Sparkle Labs will also appear on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

SparkleLabs Easy Electronics Kit
Learn about Sparkle Labs new DIY Design Electronics Kit! Create games, toys and contraptions with these fundamental components. Follow the easy instructions to make a light detector, LED flasher, noisemaker and more.

 

Sparky 2.0 Marque Cornblatt
Sparky was originally made from materials found while dumpster diving and at garage sales. Sparky 2.0 uses the MAKE controller board and Skype’s free video chat and is completely controllable via computer anywhere in the world. Autonomous Telepresence (or AT) is a term coined to describe the emerging field of research that combines remote sensing and telepresence, social networking, and human interaction. These elements together enable an entirely new and unique form of human/machine hybrid –- the video chat rover. Over the past few years, AT has emerged as a useful method for human interaction, and is already beginning to help connect people in hospitals, museums, corporations, and distance learning environments.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Steampunk
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).

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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† )

Location:   Outdoors   

 

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>.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

SWARM
SWARM is a kinetic art work of semi-autonomous spherical robots ("Orbs"). Each robot has a shell 30 inches in diameter, with batteries, motors, audio system and color LED illumination inside. The SWARM is under the command of an on-board computer with wireless connectivity to other orbs and a central computer.

 

TCHO
TCHO is a new kind of chocolate company for a new generation of chocolate enthusiasts. Modern, innovative and fun, TCHO is dedicated to creating obsessively good dark chocolate and the best chocolate experience.

Location:   Makers Market   

 

Team FredNet Is Going to the Moon
Team FredNet is going to the Moon! Team FredNet is a registered competitor for the Google Lunar X-Prize. We are busy planning and building prototypes of the spacecraft, lunar lander, and lunar rover we will use to compete for the $20 million dollar first prize. Come learn about our team, our plans, and drive our rover prototype at the Maker Faire!

Location:   The Hangar   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Technomadism and Transhuman Hacks for Duosport Motorcycles and Riders Ross Bochnek
I reconfigure consumer, industrial, and Milspec goods for multipurpose urban, touring, and trail motorcycle adventuring and Moblogging. I integrate rider and vehicular systems for modularity, wearability, and security. I am interested in communities for handier citizens, contrasting mass-produced and field-improvised solutions, and the bewildering inter-relations between litter, nature, and survival.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

TechShop Jim Newton
Come to the TechShop area and try your hand at using some of the machines and equipment available at this local, membership-based workshop.

Location:   Work Shop   

 

The Art of Motion Control -- Sisyphus
Bruce Shapiro has been playing with techno-junk (castoffs from the automation industry) since 1990. His smaller creations are used to teach kids the fundamentals of robotics in the classroom, while his larger kinetic sculptures can be found in science museums throughout the world.

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

The Clock of the Long Now and The Rosetta Project
The Long Now Foundation works to foster long-term thinking. We are building an all mechanical, monument-scale clock to last 10,000 years. We have also developed a laser-etched disk containing 30,000 pages of linguistic data and text in over 1,000 languages in order to preserve linguistic diversity for the distant future.

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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!

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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!

Location:   Expo Orange   

 

The Hydrogen Economy
The Hydrogen Economy is an interactive fire sculpture that produces hundreds of gently rising hydrogen bubbles. Participants ignite the bubbles using dragon-shaped torches. The experience of actually setting off small explosions in a safe and protected environment is breathtaking, one-of-a-kind, and surely never forgotten.

 

The Image of Computers in Popular Music
A talk (with examples) by monochrom, presented by Johannes Grenzfurthner. Bourgeois culture was paralyzed and finally overrun by modern technologies which broke through the traditional class barriers. It went into a panic and produced these very stupid technophobic manifestos and images e.g. of "the computer". Pop music discovered and explored the computer not only as a musical instrument but also as something to sing and reflect about in a less aversive way. In doing so it influenced the conception people had of computers. The public image of computers was shaped by groups such as Kraftwerk as well as through obscure Schlager songs such as France Gall's "Computer No. 3". Not only was that image influenced by high culture computer panic but also by naïve technomania, and so it delivered the very dialectics of the computer as a means of cultural technology in capitalist society.

 

The Incredible Marble Machine!
I am creating a rolling-ball sculpture with students at Baywood Learning Center. Teams of one to two kids will be responsible for building marble tracks within their own diorama-style box. I am constructing a frame that supports nine such boxes, connecting them together with a web of tubes, and has a crank-operated elevator to bring marbles to the top.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

The Paper Airplane Guy
Learn how to make a great paper airplane from the Internationally award-winning paper airplane designer and author John Collins, the master. He will demonstrate an extraordinary collection of aircrafts. They flap their wings, circle back, flip over, and fly back upside down, and some can stay aloft indefinitely. The Paper Airplane Guy will be in the Maker Shed, but you can also catch him on the Maker Main Stage in Fiesta.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

The Reaper Brent Ross
The reaper is a 12' tall fully animated robotic character that features 14 individual movements all controlled via a custom designed midi to parallel converter board.

Location:   Robo Games   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

The Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) 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)

Location:   Expo Green   

 

The Stribe
The Stribe is a touch-based music or video controller with no moving parts. It employs 8 touch-sensitive strips flanked by LED bar-graph displays. The controller is user-configurable, connects via standard USB, and is designed to be used with music interface software such as Max/MSP, Reaktor, and others. Via host software, the Stribe can control audio hardware and software via MIDI or OSC. The LED display can be computer controlled to respond to input from the sensors, or to independent software control, or both. The entire project is open source, meaning the circuits, firmware, and software are available on-line and are licensed under Creative Commons and GNU. Illustrated build instructions and a helpful Forum are also on-line. There is a small but growing community of Stribe developers who are building Stribes, and writing new firmware and software applications. The Stribe was inspired by Brian Crabtree's monome 40h project, and is an ideal companion to a monome button controller. <a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/02/18/hands-on-interview-stribe-multi-touch-controller/">Here is an article about the Stribe from CreateDigitalMusic</a>.

Location:   Dark Room   

 

The Time Machine
Steam- and hand-powered kinetic metal sculpture.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

The Visible Pinball (Electromechanical)
A vintage EM pinball machine from 1975 has been housed in a clear acrylic cabinet. It is completely functional down to the coin mechanisms that initiate game play. Even the playfield itself is clear so that the user is able to view all the components in action as they play the machine. Spectators will also see the relays actuating, solenoids, stepper switches, score motor, spinners, targets, bumpers and sling-shots in action. The head is clear displaying the score reels, lights, relays and switches in motion. The original artwork is visible although translucent, so you see through it also. This exhibit amazes visitors of all ages and stimulates interest in electro-mechanics.

Location:   Robo Games   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Toolmonger
A large dinosaur assembled from parts made by schools, a Stanley nail driving small dinosaur assembly for kids, a demolition project, and woodworking area.

Location:   Work Shop   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Tricks of the Trade/Narwhal Creative Tim Lillis
Tricks of the Trade is a recurring HowTo comic strip in MAKE Magazine showing how to use everyday objects and tools to their full potential. The goal is to spread the Tricks that professionals use to benefit everyone, pro or not. Tricks of the Trade is written and illustrated by Tim Lillis, a frequent contributor to MAKE and CRAFT.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Tube Time
The Nixie tube wall clock with chime, has several other small Nixie clocks, and some clocks constructed using vintage oscillograph cathode ray tubes! You will also see vintage oscillograph instruments, including one model dating to 1935. Learn how to make vintage-style paper capacitors out of cardboard toilet paper tubes

Location:   Expo Green   

 

UCSC March Slugness!
The CMPE-118/L Introduction to Mechatronics class at UC Santa Cruz was tasked to build a robot that can throw pingpong balls into baskets illuminated by IR beacons. Teams of three built the robots which must run completely autonomously for each round of 2 minutes with no interference from builders.

Location:   Expo Green   

 

UCSC-Slug Engineering
The University of California, Santa Cruz School of Engineering Senior Design Projects:

Location:   Expo Green   

 

Unsigned
Homemade Xbox/Windows rhythm game created with XNA Game Studio 2.0.

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

uScope
This modified shop microscope is being developed in cooperation with PATH.org and Stanford to be used in rural health clinics for high resolution pathology work. It uses diffractive film and off-axis LED ring illumination to effectively replace, for $5, the much more costly kohler illumination used in top-of-the-line >$1000 microscopes such as shown here. This solar recharged, Li-ion powered fully working unit will be used to demonstrate Malaria and Tuberculosis detection in bllod and sputum smears, which is a pressing medical need in developing countries. We also are producing small scale UV-C and electrochlorinators (in partnership with MSR and MIOX corp) also for use in the developing for world water purification whci will also be shown at the booth

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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.

Location:   Expo Yellow   

 

Voxhead
A mechanical vocal tract with tongue, lips and jaw for a robotic head to sing, babble and share attention.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

Weave Anything
Any object that can be displayed on a computer can be woven. This surprising fact is a consequence of the deep relationship between triaxial weaving and the triangle-faceted surfaces used in computer graphics. I will demonstrate by weaving some large models onsite. Also: hands-on play with unit weaving using both TWOGS and IQ's-- which can likewise weave anything!

Location:   Expo Green   

 

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!

Location:   Outdoors   

 

Whoopie Water Storage
Imagine you are a farmer in Myanmar. You irrigate your quarter acre plot using two metal watering cans, carried across your back. It takes you 6 hours just to make 140 round trips between your crops and water source, in 100 degree heat. InfiniCan is a simple $4, raised water storage device that uses 5 ft of energy potential to channel water through a hose and spout. To water your crops, you now carry just the spout. The impact? Your productivity and hence income increase by 25%, and your back is saved from carrying 4,000 lbs of water, each day, everyday.

 

Wii Remote Projects Johnny Lee
Two projects using the Nintendo Wii remote will be presented: 1) How to create a multi-touch interactive whiteboard for about $50. 2) How to perform head-tracking to create desktop virtual reality displays.

Location:   Fiesta Blue   

 

Wiimote Controlled Car Racing
R/C car racing with Wiimotes! Created by SharpLogic

 

Wikimedia Foundation/Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation
What makes millions of people build an encyclopedia for free? How can you make Wikipedia better and contribute to the world of 'free knowledge?' Visit with the makers, the hackers, and the volunteers of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikipedia.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

Within Reach Film Ryan Mlynarczyk
Made out of 100% reused and recycled materials and old bike parts, we have created a bike trailer with a 'sleep-in' pop-up tent, and solar panels to charge two hub wheel motors (with regenerative braking) and electronic devices. We plan to use this invention along with a tandem recumbent tricycle to tour around the United States to film a documentary about sustainable communities.

Location:   Makers Market   

 

World's Biggest Pez Dispenser Gary Doss
We have built the World's Biggest Pez Dispenser, which is on display in our museum in Burlingame, California. In March 2007, it was accepted into the Guinness Book of World Records.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

World's Largest Solderless Clock Karl Papadantonakis
The electronics in this 4-foot wide clock cost less than the lumber! Based on a popular kit, it has 192 LEDs, all powered by a single driver. Not one single LED or wire requires soldering; everything can be twisted with a pair of pliers. Karl will also appear on the Make Demo stage.

Location:   Maker Shed  Maker Shed   

 

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.

Location:   Outdoors   

 

xtel: Ubiquitous Content Platform
The xtel is a platform that covers everything from “interactive content” that has simple interactions between objects and peoples to much more complex interactive environments that create interactions over large spaces and with numerous objects. It also features functions to create links to web services.

Location:   Expo Red   

 

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