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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009: Education Day
For this year's Education Day on the morning of Friday, May 29, 2009, over 600 students, teachers, and chaperones from 11 schools will attend a special field trip to preview Maker Faire as it is being set up and to meet a handful of Makers before the big weekend.
Makers who will be there:
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2010 Call for Rube Goldberg Machines! We're partnering with the Rube Goldberg Foundation to bring a new, all-ages machine contest in 2010. Get rules and instructions here! |
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Amateur Radio: Getting on the Air Demonstration of amateur radio station, with radios, antennas, and related gear; use local repeaters to communicate; how to get your FCC license; how to set up a mobile station to use anywhere; volunteer for emergency communication in emergencies. |
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B. Coole Designs I am a textile artist, working in historic, fantasy, and contemporary textile. I create costumes, especially Steam Punk. I also sell patterns, findings, and other bits for people that do their own costumes. I do machine embroidery of original, historic, and reproduction designs. Each piece is my own |
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Betty Biodiesel's Big Red Eco Bus In 2005, I started the journey of purchasing a 40' tour bus with the idea in mind of converting it into an eco tour bus. Three years later, countless hours of planning, designing, funding and building, it is complete. I have used as many recycled products (tile), eco friendly (bamboo flooring), etc. |
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Burning At The Seams! - Cool Finishing Technique I will teach a finishing technique that hems via flame. |
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DIY Magic Mirror Take that extra PC you have lying around and turn it into an Interactive Magic Mirror. Features: * Responds to Proximity, Touch, and On/Off sensors * Weather Forecast, Stock Performance, and X-10 Lighting Control * Princess, Pirate, and Halloween modes |
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DNA Spirit This exhibit will demonstrate a variety of ways to use hands-on model building to understand and appreciate the beauty of the DNA double helix structure, which encodes the complete genetic makeup of an individual. All models can be built in a short period of time using LEGO, knitting tools and cardb |
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Envirokids: Make a Difference! Green arts and crafts by kids and for the earth! The Earth Camp Collective is a nonprofit children's camp that teaches sustainabile living skills and offers fun ways to touch the earth, lightly and positively. We create seed balls, solar ovens, dream pillows with herbs, and more - all made by kids a |
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Feeding your Family from Seed to Table to Soil With three simple acts, we will show you how to: garden, cook and compost. We will demonstrate affordable, easy, and fun tips for involving small to tall in feeding your household from the garden. |
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FIRST LEGO League - Youth Robotics Learn and watch LEGO Mindstorms robots built by local youth. The autonomous robots will solve this year's FIRST LEGO League Game Challenge called, "Climate Connections" |
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FIRST Tech Challenge -- Youth Robotics Learn and watch Tetrix robots built by local youths. The robots will solve this year's FIRST Tech Challenge Game, called "FACE OFF!" Demo robots will be available for you to try! |
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Flying Magnets Make Flying Magnetic Kinetic sculptures by hacking regular soliniods and rotary electromagnet. Plans and parts will be available to build a simple model that demonstrates Newton's Law of Conservation of energy. |
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GalaxyGoo's Cell Project In the Clay Cell activity, participants build 3-d models of cells, organelle by organelle. Once the clay dries, the cells are sliced and the resulting cross-sections are examined. It's a great hands-on activity for the whole family. |
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Gyrobike Gyrowheel, a revolutionary device that adds stability and balance to bicycles for riders of all ages. Here’s the scoop: The Gyrowheel “senses” unbalanced biking and re-centers the bike underneath the rider’s weight at the point when tipping starts to occur. The force created by the Gyrowheel creates high stability at very slow speeds, whether riding straight or turning. |
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Hack Cool Things with Microcontrollers! Anyone can learn how to make cool things with microcontrollers! Even if you've never sewn a button, you can actually make a fun, intriguing project 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 sk |
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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. |
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How To Make Compressed Air Rockets Blow your friends away as you send this 25-cent rocket hundreds of feet in the air. You can build this easy launcher and rocket with common items in an afternoon. As seen in MAKE, Volume 15! |
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Human-Powered Ultracapacitor LED Light In places where there is no electrical grid, this system can supply enough energy (at 120 volts) to light a room, power a laptop computer or run a radio. Because the ultra capacitors can withstand hundreds of thousands of charge/discharge cycles, they will rarely have to be replaced. |
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Inventaholic Prototype Playground Come to the Prototype Playground and be a guinea pig! Play with actual prototypes and fun craft tools too. Try the Award Winning ColorCutter, the new DoodleCutter, BongoCargo (The Drum Driven RC Car) and more. See how ideas become Prototypes and then ultimately products. Learn the process of inventing from Inventaholic Award Winning Designer Perry Kaye. And discover how you too can begin making your own persnickety mechanisms. |
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ISKME's Sun Curve Design Challenge Innovative green design meets K-12 learning: Paul Giacomantonio's Sun Curve is a sculptural experimental laboratory, combining hydroponic agriculture, aquaculture, and solar energy in a self-contained system. ISKME, OERCommons' creator, is launching an open-source curriculum challenge to recast teac |
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Learningtech Summer Technology Workshops Workshops include Classroom Technology Officers (CTO), Build a Computer, Program a Robot and Make a Music Video. |
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Life Size Mousetrap The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Stra |
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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. |
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Make Your Own Glass Beads Learn the secrets of the Venetian Masters! With common equipment you can make your own glass beads, buttons and dishes. Come see how it's done, live, before your very eyes! |
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Making Equipment for the High School Physics Lab You can't buy a bed of nails or a Ping Pong ball gun from an equipment supply house. Learn how to make some cool science toys and how to take online instructions and make them into equipment you will use. |
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Marble Madness Marble Madness is a giant vertical marble maze created by 26 8th grade students from Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. Each student crafted their own 1' x 1' mini marble maze and then we attached them to a wooden base and vertical structure so that each maze would feed into the next. |
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NeedleArts Stitching Zone Join the stitching revolution! Learn the basics of knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, needlepoint, or embroidery. Projects for the entire family! |
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Physical Design Co Mass Customized Design and Fabrication for Architectural Scale Structures. We provide consumers with easy-to-use online tools that engage them in the design and manufacturing process and enables them to become the producers of their own architectural-scale designs. Through our web platform, anyone can upload and transform their own digital design – any inhabitable accessory structure, from a doghouse to a backyard art studio - into a customized kit of interlocking parts that are locally manufactured and that can be easily assembled by the user. |
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Potato Gatling Gun This is an autofiring multi-barrel version of the popular PVC potato cannon from the book "Backyard Ballistics". It is capable of launching 6 potatoes approximately 400ft. |
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R2-D2 Astromech Droids We're members of the R2 Builders Club. A loosely organized international group of Star Wars fans who love to build droids. We've been featured in MAKE Magazine and we run droid building workshops. We'll be roaming around the event throughout the weekend with frequent stops back at our Rebel Base |
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Ricochet Wearable Art A unique line of one-of-a-kind wearable art for children and women made from recycled materials. |
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Rumble Robots with Arduino I hack these Rumble Robot toys and set them up to be controlled with an Arduino Microcontroller. I add Parallax ultrasonic sensors and microswitches as sensors so it can "see". I will allow visitors to type in and upload code from a laptop to the Arduino and see the results as the bot drives around |
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Sea Perch The Sea Perch is a simple remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) made from PVC pipe and other inexpensive, easily available materials. The Sea Perch Program trains educators around the world to build Sea Perch and use them as an interactive platform to ignite student's enthusiasm for science, te |
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SF Bay Area Amateur Radio Amateur Radio (or ham radio) provides the broadest, most powerful wireless communications capability available to any citizen anywhere in the world. |
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Shadow Puppet Fantasy The ancient art of Shadow Puppetry enchants young and old, whether puppeteer or observer. Experience this magical art form as you assemble a wildly expressive puppet from simple found and upcycled materials. Learn technical secrets that bring storytelling alive using your puppet, a light, and simp |
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Sound Arts An overview of the different forms of sound arts, from DIY pedal building to hands on learning demos, even with a few high-tech performances from some of our collaborators. Our main project leader will be Brian Schmierer, co-owner of Sound Arts studios. He will be demonstrating how to build your own |
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The Electric Giraffe A huge robot giraffe that is an ever changing project, growing, changing, adapting to new technologies and sponsorships. The giraffe is "Grazing on the Frontiers of Technology" and hopes to offer something new to see, hear and feel each year. |
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The Evolution Control Committee presents The Wheel Of Mashup Spin the wheel, make a mashup! The Evolution Control Committee wasn't content to merely get credit for making the first mashup in 1993 – they've been cutting and pasting their way through music ever since. Now, you can too! Come to our show and spin the Wheel of Mashup – two wheels actually; one lands on the music, one on the vocals. The two are mashed up on the spot thanks to The ECC's Vidimasher 3000, a video control screen hacked from Nintendo Wii controllers. Faster than a DJ, cooler than a laptop show, this is the short-attention span dance party you've been waiting for! |
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The Fool's Board: Social Game System Kipp Bradford and Brian Jepson have developed a Socialbomb-inspired wearable game. The Fool's Board is designed to be a flexible platform for social gaming. It's got: * ATMega168 running the Arduino bootloader * An XBee for 802.15.4 wireless communications * Some push buttons * An 8 |
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The Nueva School Interactive and Space Art program The Nueva School will be displaying and demonstrating the interactive and space art projects that 7th and 8th graders made during the course of the year, including interactive candy dispensers, an interactive trashcan, robotic animals, mechanical pinball machines, spaceships, rockets, and space hous |
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The Ultimate Crunch Recycling, at its best. Hands-on, interactive event, encourages individuals to work in their own geographic region (city, school, community). I demonstrate how to build your own equipment and provide DIY plans. This is a masters, green-jacket eco-game. Play for fun, or go for gold. It’s tournament time!! |
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When Creativity Knocks A mother-daughter team: a baby-boomer and a millennium baby…host this new innovative online broadcast how –to show that features craft projects submitted by real home viewers. The fun begins when host (daughter) Megan Araujo and expert designer (mom) Ana Araujo, pull up in their 1964 Airstream Trailer (WCK Craft Studio On Wheels) to make projects side-by-side with real-life viewers. The lively interaction provides the show’s realism, and high quality, easy-to-learn projects provide the substance. We are dedicated to bringing crafters of all interests and ages a friendly and informative forum; a place to learn new techniques, share ideas, and make friends. |
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Walt Disney Imagineers
An Education Day exclusive Did you know, Disneyland is celebrating 50 years of the Matterhorn ride this year? Members of Disney Imagineering's Blue Sky Studio Group will lead amusement-park design workshops with some (but not all, sorry!) of the students. They'll also have some examples of their design process for all Education Day attendees to see.
Basic Lighting 101 with SF School of Digital Filmmaking
Learn the art and craft of indie filmmaking from instructors at the only film school offering hands-on film classes and real-world feature film production experience, the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking. Students will get mini-demos on cameras and light, and some screen time!
LEGO Building Tips
Jim Olson of the BayLUG/BayLTC LEGO train club will talk about building with LEGO building bricks, explaining the building details of BayLUG's display, and the engineering that goes into some of the more complicated things, including the trains.
TradeMark Gunderson & VidiMasher 3000
TradeMark, listed above, will be sharing his VidiMasher 3000 with students.
