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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.
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.
Bottled Plants
Grow your own futuristic plantlet on nutrient agar medium.
Busycle
The Busycle creates press and a huge sensation everywhere it goes. Mayors and luminaries from Boston to San Francisco have driven and/or ridden it. It has been featured in the media across the globe.
Clothing Makeover
Sonya Nimri
A reinvention of commonly found closet dwellers. Sprucing up old garb with inventive alterations and additions. Also, a how-to on making Halloween Costumes out of household items.
| Location: Expo Orange |
Cooking with the Sun
Cook using a Solar Sport Oven from solarovens.org. Half hour discussion and demonstration of the oven and recipes from sunskysoil.blogspot.com.
CoolEatz Catering
CoolEatz Catering makes a difference by using food and wine raised, harvested, and produced sustainably and regionally. We support and use as many organic ingredients as possible. Our food is local, organic, seasonal, sustainable, and ultimately delicious.
Craft Con
Rachel Hospodar
Craft Con is a business development conference for the craft community.
| Location: Expo Orange |
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 |
D-I-Y @ Home & Work: Cohousing, Coworking, EcoVillages, Neighborhoods
Raines Cohen
Share your vision of community at home or at work by writing on the bike-towed mobile mini-trailer's whiteboard sides or recording your video reactions to other green community visions. Make connections -- you have the power and support you need to reshape where you live and work.
| Location: Makers Market |
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company, located in the heart of the San Francisco bay area peninsula, produces award winning, hand-crafted beers centered on the most premium ingredients. Brewed in Belmont, and delivered to over 100 taps on the peninsula. Please support local businesses and enjoy our premium beers.
| Location: Makers Market |
Eccentric Maker
Scrap Fu 101, Beginning Binning, Happenstance Reutilization and Industrial Design, and the role of The Great Cosmic Random in Improvisational Fabrication.
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 |
Felt Faux Fruit
Needle felting is the kind of craft that has to be seen to be believed. With the swift action of the felting needle, wool goes from fluffy roving to dense sculpture. This demo will showcase the techniques used to make the felt fruit from the cover of Craft.
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.
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 |
Green Zebra
Green Zebra helps you discover green shops and services, support your community, and preserve the planet. It contains thousands of dollars in savings from environmentally conscious, community oriented local businesses. Educational articles answer your questions about living sustainably in the Bay Area, and present action steps for a greener tomorrow.
GRIDBEAM
Phil Jergenson
Grid Beam is a reusable structural system that allows you to dream up and build complex projects quickly.
| Location: Outdoors |
Handcrafted Herbals
Herbal body products: bath salts, oils, salves, powders, bath teas, salt scrubs
Herbal culinary products: herbal salts, sugars, vinegars, cooking oils, and herbes de provence
Everything is organic.
| Location: Makers Market |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Laser Looms—Crystal and Cardboard
Travis Meinolf
I'll bring a selection of clear acrylic and folding cardboard looms for people to weave cloth with, and maybe take home!
| Location: Outdoors |
Lifelong Furniture Simply Made from Naturally Beautiful Recycled Stuff
William Callahan
I create furniture kits that empower everyday people to design and build their very own lifelong furniture using recycled materials (wood, stone, and glass). The kits include recycled steel joinery and fasteners. I will demonstrate to adults and kids how to build furniture by hand and without power tools.
| Location: Expo Orange |
Madame Ovary & Co EGGSplore the Realms of Resourcery & Reuse
Amelia K. Sefton
Madame Ovary EGGSplains ... (Primarily Performing - Puppets, StorySpinning); Resourcery & Trash Transformations (Daffy Demonstrations). Realms of Resourcery: Exhibits and Activities. Includes Traveling Trashformations Reuse Art Show and Trashique (Tres Chic) Boutique; Music Magic. Creative Reuse Activities. Make & Take (Wands, Wings & Wonderful Things). Dumpster Diva, Dori, More!
| Location: Expo Orange |
Momentum Magazine
Amy Walker
An illustration and celebration of self-propelled people using "appropriate technology"- particularly focusing on the bicycle and its usefulness in improving our experience of our surroundings, our fitness, and our quality of life in North America.
We propose to explore a brief history of bicycle experimentation in North America and the marriage of bicycles with other modes of mobile technology ie. smart phones.
| Location: Expo Orange |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Recycled Paper Bracelet Kit
Come to the Maker Shed and check out the Recycled Paper Bracelet Kit from Frucci Designs. The kit will be available for sale, and Fru of Frucci Designs will be on hand for Q&A.
Refoliation
Refoliation is a set of trees created from recycled and repurposed steel, with leaves made out of plastic bags collected from the streets of Beijing. Inspired by the garbage littering city streets and tree branches, volunteers in China have gathered enough plastic bags to create hundreds of leaves. In the Bay Area, scrapyard junk from car parts to old pipes came together to form the tree trunks and branches. This project was made possible by a grant from Burning Man.
| Location: Expo Orange |
Remaking recycled materials and old clothes into new
Sonya Nimri
I will demonstrate at least 30 different ways to take articles of clothing commonly found in most women's closets (i.e. t-shirts, tank tops, socks, pantyhose, sweaters, maps) and household items and show how to remake them into new clothing styles and Halloween costumes. I've written a book called "Just for the Frill of It" on the subject but the clothes for this will not be all from the book. There will be a bunch of Halloween costumes, as well, that people can make themselves.
| Location: Expo Orange |
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 |
San Francisco Flower & Garden Show
The largest garden show in California features 25 beautiful display gardens and 75 free seminars. March 18-22 at San Mateo Event Center.
San Mateo County RecycleWorks
Demonstrations of live worm bins and backyard composting bins, with information on recycling, integrated pest management (IPM), green building, and how to reuse common household items.
| Location: Makers Market |
Savonius Wind Power Home Power Plant
This Wind Turbine is designed for generating electricity in environments that may not be suited or able to have a standard propeller type wind installation. I am currently making the unit self standing for portability to bring it to the Maker Faire.
| Location: Makers Market |
Solar Car Share
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.
Solar Dyeing
Using solar energy to dye yarn, fibers and fabrics. This is not sunprinting, but using the solar energy to set dyes.
| Location: Makers Market |
Solar Prius
We have developed a kit that allows the Toyota Prius and potentially its other Electric Hybrid cars to function on Solar Power!
| Location: Outdoors |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
The MayBlue Bus
Rachel Lane & Richard Paddock
We are converting a 1990 40ft. school bus into a home that runs off of renewable energy. The goal of this project is to empower ourselves using DIY methods to create a versatile home.
| Location: Outdoors |
Trade A Favor
Trade A Favor gives you the power to do a favor for anyone and receive a favor in return. You decide what favors you trade, and you decide who sees your favors. Based in Pasadena, California, Trade A Favor is dedicated to helping people achieve their goals by sharing their talents.
| Location: Expo Orange |
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 |
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 |
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