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The ChakraTron
The ChakraTron. An illuminated interactive kinetic fortune telling sculpture by Scott Gasparian. Using recycled sewing machines, broken glass, microcontrollers and LEDs, this classically styled figure can answer all your questions!
| Location: Expo Hall |
Tinker Your Way Out Of This!
Using common everyday items and salvaged bits, can you build something that will help you extract the loot from each of five successively more difficult traps? We provide the tools and materials, you provide the brains. See how quickly you can extricate your prize. Ages 5-10.
| Location: Expo Hall 100 |
A Schmahl Science Workshop
Free Schmahl Science hands-on workshops amaze and inspire youngsters to love and get involved in science. Both the Schmahl Science BioMobileLab and SciVan will be on hand to host hundreds of future scientists.
| Location: Expo Hall 101 & 102 |
The Clock of the Long Now
Long Now's 10,000 Year Clock is a monument to long-term thinking. See one of the first full-sized component prototypes of the Clock: an 8-foot diameter Geneva wheel mechanism that is part of the bell ringing system.
| Location: Expo Hall 104 |
The Enchanted Classroom
Automated technology for home and school:
Teachers and parents are overloaded.
This project looks at the most effective teachers and adapts their strategies into child friendly objects, such a teddy bears. We use easily available technology.
Children love the learning tools, and teachers and parents are pleased with the outstanding academic progress.
| Location: Expo Hall 105 |
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 houses.
| Location: Expo Hall 106 |
Intel Computer Clubhouse Network
Our booth features different aspects of what the Clubhouses offer. This includes LEGO robotics and other interactive, hands-on projects.
| Location: Expo Hall 107 |
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 cardboard.
| Location: Expo Hall 108 |
Home Chip Lab
Many have considered making transistors or solar cells at home either too complicated or expensive, but this didn't stop Jeri Ellsworth. She spent 3 years researching and working with mentors who pioneered silicon process in the 70's and devised a way that anyone can do this with safe over the counter chemicals and an inexpensive table top pottery kiln.
| Location: Expo Hall 109 |
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.
| Location: Expo Hall 110 |
Robotic Bagpipe Chanter
A Scottish bagpipe chanter gets computerized, resulting in a unique robotic instrument. Air pressure is created using three bicycle pumps, notes are played using eight electromagnetic fingers. The controlling computer can play anything from "Highland Cathedral" to "Star Wars".
| Location: Expo Hall 111 |
Open Air Vortex Generator
This project creates and demonstrates a naturally-generated vortex structure using stage fog as a tracer element to show the several forms and behaviors natural vortecies generated in OPEN AIR can be encouraged to manifest. It is created without fans or pumps, with just one moving part.
| Location: Expo Hall 112 |
labs.MOTO.com
Android Action + DIY WattCam + Scaleable Multi-Touch + more
Android Action:
The folks at labs.moto.com have been tinkering with Google's Android, pushing it beyond the phone, booting E-Ink displays and such. Come witness MOTO's latest Android antic!
DIY WattCam:
Rise above the murky waters of pre-smart grid confusion and track the ups and downs of your home's electricity/gas/water consumption with a pure and simple webcam to Flickr Feed. Plot the numbers and finally: a comprehensive view on your household's energy consumption.
Scaleable Multi-Touch Prototype:
THIN and LARGE capacative touch feels... mmmmmm... great!
| Location: Expo Hall 113 |
Applied Science Research
James Dann
We are a high school in Menlo Park. Students will display their projects from my Applied Science Research class.
There are about 10 in total and include a Wave energy device, a regenerative braking project on a bicycle, a hover craft, maglev model train with self propulsion system, art with Ferro-fluid, high speed photography (using Make Magazine design), Moon orbit measurement device, ...
| Location: Expo Hall 114 |
Mendocino Solar Motor
This solar motor has a magnetic levitation system for ultra-low friction, and is easily driven by ambient room light.
The solar cells provide both the power and the commutator function.
| Location: Expo Hall 115 |
RTTTL Calliope "Calliopus Minimus"
Stamp controlled programmable one octave calliope plays ringtone text
files; Ed says, "So simple that even I could figure out how to build it!" A short video of Calliopus Minimus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKG3MYgIeMc&feature=channel_page
| Location: Expo Hall 116 |
SPACE:1967 Welcome Back!
Team Filo's efforts to explore and celebrate the Digital Space Race through the restoration of the control panel for the Discovery Center's Gemini capsule, development of a Gemini Simulator, information Kisok, and Gemini Jetpack Simulator. Also our ongoing Lost In Space Robot project will be displayed.
| Location: Expo Hall 117 |
Chess playing robot arm
A homemade system comprised of a sensory chess board, a robot arm, and an open-source chess engine (GNUChess) to create a robot arm that plays chess.
| Location: Expo Hall 118 |
Lightning Laboratory Prototype
An experimental twin-tower system that generates large-scale artificial lightning.
| Location: Expo Hall 119 |
Wii Loop Machine
Yann Seznec
Creative music and performance software for the Nintendo Wii! Ranging from a fun synthesizer to a real-time video mixer to "Exercise Magic" - a system for following an exercise video and making crazy visuals as you go along. Accessible interactive projects using everyone’s favorite games controller.
| Location: Expo Hall 121 |
Learningtech Summer Technology Workshops
Workshops include Classroom Technology Officers (CTO), Build a Computer, Program a Robot and Make a Music Video.
| Location: Expo Hall 122 |
How Fast Does Time Fly?
Time sure flies when we’re having fun. Time sure drags when we’re bored. But by just how much? Without consulting your own timepiece, can you tell which of our cuckoo clocks runs at the “right” rate? Which one seems right when you’re having fun? Which one seems right when you’re bored?
| Location: Expo Hall 123 |
Engineers Without Borders
We strive to empower communities by providing tools that facilitate local economic development and provide basic needs, local education, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Current projects include: a Wind Turbine in Guatemala, a Rock Crusher for BioSand Filters in the Philippines, a Hippo Roller for water transport in South Africa, a Solar Water Distiller in India, a Farming Trellis in Afghanistan, and a Composting Toilet in Belize.
| Location: Expo Hall 124 |
Catapult Design
The majority of our world's population lacks access to life's basic needs. We develop and implement human-centered products to help them thrive.
| Location: Expo Hall 125 |
littleBits
littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.
| Location: Expo Hall 126 |
Digital Light Art
Revolutionary digital light art featuring our new full-color video display - the world's most advanced rotating wheel display system. Also new digital light art for bikes, light painting, and hackable systems for the hobbyist. Showing every 2 hours - 3D Video on a spinning bicycle wheel. This amazing demonstration - never seen before - highlights our state of the art Persistence Of Vision technology. We'll hand out the 3D glasses for this 3-5 minute demonstration.
| Location: Expo Hall 128 |
Nove Bit
Nove Bit is an interactive 3 x 3 matrix that allows users to record sequences of light and save them as 9 bit memories. Nove Bit addresses human to computer interaction by allowing the user to physically input the memory as 9 bits, as opposed to the traditional 8 bit computer memory. Nove Bit also touches on the notion of a personal memory by recording a users’ thoughts in time and replaying them as a pattern of lights. The visual memories are stored as 9 bits, represented by a corresponding button. Compared to 8 bits, 9 bits also allows for a visually even distribution of the memory as a square. The “Nove”, which means nine in Italian, also references the Arduino Duemilnove, one of the two micro-controllers that control the unit.
The programming mode is entered as soon as the user presses any button. The user can program light sequences by simply pressing buttons in the desired pattern. Patterns are recorded after several seconds of inactivity from the user. The patterns are replayed by fading the leds on and off inside the translucent white buttons. The buttons are placed in a wooden facade, while the square, white plexi-glass case forms the base and houses the Arduino and the TLC 5940 micro-controllers. The unit is powered by a wall adapter and can easily fit on a desk, nightstand or other flat surface with limited space.
| Location: Expo Hall 130 |
eTextile | Weaving with Conductive Thread
Use a loom to weave conductive thread into fabric based circuitry. Explore various methods of weaving that incorporate conductive thread and electronics to make your own eTextiles.
| Location: Expo Hall 131 |
The Speed Vest
The Speed Vest is a bicycle safety device and advocacy tool that displays the wearer’s current speed on their back in easy-to-read lighted numerals. It improves rider visibility and legitimizes bicycles on the roadway as a fun and efficient way to get around.
| Location: Expo Hall 132 |
Topobo
What is it like to sculpt with motion? Topobo is the world's first construction toy with kinetic memory, the ability to record and playback physical motion. Snap together Passive (static) and Active (motorized) pieces into a creation, and with a press of a button and a flick of your wrist, you can teach your creation how to dance or walk. The same way you can learn how buildings stand by stacking up blocks, you can discover how animals walk by playing with Topobo.
| Location: Expo Hall 133 |
MIT Media Lab Makers
Students and researchers will bring and demo their latest prototypes, hacks, etc. such as:
LilyPad Arduino, Drawdio, Sprout i/o, Homebrew RFID,
TV-B-Ours, Pimp My Arm, VAMP, etc.
-Play with toys, exchange ideas, try new hardware.
-Talk to us about what it's like to be a student, professor,
collaborator, sponsor etc.
| Location: Expo Hall 134 |
macetech
macetech will be displaying various interactive projects based on our new LED and Arduino products.
| Location: Expo Hall 135 |
Rapid Prototyping of Rapid Prototyping Machines
Makers are increasingly building their own rapid prototyping tools. Unfortunately, the time investment and barriers to entry can be daunting. This exhibit demonstrates methods to ease development, using four working machines as examples: a desktop PCB miller, a plaster xyz cell, a foam-core 3D printer, and a parametrically designed xy stage.
1) A sub-$200 PCB milling machine is the test-bed for using internet protocol as a medium for distributed machine control.
2) Another machine is parametrically designed from engineering formulas and uses a spreadsheet to automatically generate a customized McMaster-Carr order.
3) A third machine is cast out of plaster using laser-cut molds. This has the potential to expand on the parametric design principles and uses an earth-friendly structure.
4) Finally, I've made a 3D printer for less than $100 which can be made at home in around 12 hours. This machine explores the lower boundary conditions of functionality.
| Location: Expo Hall 136 |
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.
| Location: Expo Hall 137 |
Bay Area LEGO Users Group
The Bay Area LEGO Users Group presents a large model train layout made entirely of LEGO, as well as a variety of other creations made by our members.
| Location: Expo Hall 139 |
BeatBoxxx
BeatBoxxx is an interactive beat creator and recorder that allows using gesture based beat selection input. Users can choose to either perform live or record a sample and endlessly loop it. Through encouraging users to create their own enclosure from readily available items such as shoeboxes, BeatBoxxx aims to be a simple, affordable, and extremely customizable kit that will hopefully inspire a large amount of creative and practical implementations.
| Location: Expo Hall 141 |
The Shy Turtle
The Shy Turtle is intended to be used by a young toddler – ages 1-3. It is an interactive plush toy that uses the Arduino to output movement. The Shy Turtle is an educational tool intended to teach children how to be kind to animals and respectful of emotions. The turtle acts as an impetus for parents to talk to their children about emotions – both the turtle’s emotions (in this case “fear”), the child’s emotions, and the emotions of the people around them.
| Location: Expo Hall 142 |
e pur se muove (and yet it moves)
Pacifica Computer Pros
We make kinetic art pieces. Reusing computer parts along with wire and various motors create constructions that evoke impressions of flowers, butterflies, or random mechanical art pieces. Working with kids we have simulated constructions of amusement parks, Calder style figures and mobiles, trebuchets and catapults, clay and mechanical animation to name a few.
| Location: Expo Hall 146 |
WALL·E Builders
We're the WALL-E Builders -- an online group dedicated to building all the robots from Disney-Pixar's hit movie WALL-E. We provide construction methods, blueprints, and helpful forums discussing how to build Pixar's bots. There are no membership fees, the only requirement having an interest in building your very own Wall-E.
| Location: Expo Hall 147 |
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 to charge our batteries and answer questions.
| Location: Expo Hall 147 |
Lil' Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum
The Lil' Ju Ju is part of the Pacific Pinball Museum's pinball educational outreach program. We modified a 1947 Spartan Manor Travel trailer with a reinforced frame, four point hydraulic legs, an electronic self leveling controller, on board batteries and 2500 watt inverter system all for the purpose of bringing the pinball experience anywhere we need to. Housing 6 vintage pinball machines and a mini Jukebox it is a rolling testament to American ingenuity and cultural icons. Always a crowd pleaser, this will be the Lil Ju Ju's third trip to the Faire.
| Location: Expo Hall 149 |
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: Expo Hall 149 |
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: Expo Hall 149 |
Augmented Reality for Cheapskates
A 3-D head-mounted augmented-reality display made from an iPhone, two $3 lenses, a bit of plastic from an Ikea frame, and some foamcore to hold it all together. Total cost: under $10. Plus an iPhone.
| Location: Expo Hall 161 |
Free Radio Berkeley
Free Radio Berkeley is an ongoing project to reclaim the broadcast airwaves with low cost DIY FM and TV broadcast transmitter kits, antennas and related items. Training programs and technical support are also offered for the development of community radio stations on an international basis.
| Location: Expo Hall 162 |
3d Printer
Learn how to turn your projects into reality using the latest in digital fabrication technology.
| Location: Expo Hall 163 |
The Paper Airplane Guy
A collection of crazy airplanes. Demonstration and instruction for the fine art of paper airplane making.
| Location: Expo Hall 164 |
Make Controller Kit
The Make Controller is a powerful and easy-to-use general purpose programmable controller. It offers Ethernet, USB and a variety of extra goodies to connect to and work with to just about anything your project might include!
| Location: Expo Hall 165 |
DIY Wireless Internet Radio Receiver
This homebrew internet streaming radio receiver is based on a hacked Asus WL-520gU wireless router and an ATmega168 microcontroller.
| Location: Expo Hall 166 |
Hopeandfearometer
The Hopeandfearometer is a video voting kiosk which asks two questions: "What makes you glow?" and "What dangers do you delight in?" Two computers record participants' hopes and fears for the future. The collected recordings are played back in a cacophonous medley of random hopes and fears.
| Location: Expo Hall 167 |
Soda Bottle Wave
The Soda Bottle Wave is a monumental mechanical mobile using hundreds of recycled two-liter soda bottles. Ten feet in diameter, and twenty feet high, the linked matrix of soda bottles undulates fluidly, driven by an overhead structure containing an electric motor and lots of string.
| Location: Expo Hall 169 |
Applied Kinetic Arts
A gallery of kinetic and electronic arts. Artists include Nemo Gould, Reuben Margolin, Christopher Palmer, Carl Pisaturo, Kal Spelletich, Matt Heckert, Alan Rorie, Jonathan Foote, Mark Galt, Benjamin Cowden, Aaron Geman, and Shemoel Recalde.
| Location: Expo Hall 169 |
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, technology, and engineering.
| Location: Expo Hall 170 |
The Exploratorium @ Maker Faire
Meet the makers from the Exploratorium! Scientists, artists, and tinkerers of every stripe will lead activities, share exhibits, and show their work. There are a great variety of things you can make and do. Activities will change throughout the day, so plan to make frequent stops at the booth.
| Location: Expo Hall 177 |
Fiber Fanatic
Basketmaking and spinning with friends. I belong to Bay Area Basketmakers, Spindles and Flyers Spinning Guild and founding member of the fun-gals - we dye, felt and make paper from mushrooms. I spin yarn from my angora rabbit on a charka, do natural dyes, make baskets, fiber jewelry, paper and felt.
| Location: Expo Hall 200 |
Spindles and Flyers
Learn to make your own drop spindle and to spin wool into wonderful yarn.
Take home your new yarn or donate it, knitting or weaving your special
yarn into the World's Longest Scarf, benefiting Heifer International.
| Location: Expo Hall 201 |
Leatherwork is all Play
Sandra Stewart
An introduction to leatherwork for kids (and adults.)
A hands-on demonstration using vegetable tanned leather, water, wooden mallets and leatherworking stamps, we'll make bracelets and key fobs.
| Location: Expo Hall 202 |
Proximity Sensing with Fabrics
Adrian Freed
Impressed by the proximity and touch sensing of the iPhone? Build your own touch and proximity sensors by sewing, taping, or weaving conductive fabrics and threads.
| Location: Expo Hall 204 |
Making A-Mends with Sewing!
A collaborative project from Craft Leftovers and Sewing Rebellion. Encouraging the REUSE, RENOVATION and RECYCLING of existing textiles in the creation of unique items tailored to YOUR taste. Learn to mend, sew by hand, and use a sewing machine. Projects and techniques demoed each hour with instructions and materials provided.
| Location: Expo Hall 205 |
e pur se muove (and yet it moves)
We have sumo robots that wrestle, taildraggers work their way through a maze, and trebuchets launch a bean at a target. Our interest is to have youth experience making two motors work together to accomplish a goal and talk about the physics of what makes a trebuchet work.
| Location: Expo Hall 207 |
The Pentachord
Cole Ingraham
The Pentachord is a type of "long string instrument." These types of instruments have been created by various composers and instrument builders in order to perform music written in Just Intonation (a tuning system where every pitch is a whole number multiple of a fundamental frequency).
| Location: Expo Hall 208 |
Video Guitars and Six String Midi Controllers
Visionary Instruments, Ben Lewry
The Video Guitar and the Starry Night Guitar are two of the more high tech guitars ever made. They combine interactive light and video displays using computer control and Midi implementation.
| Location: Expo Hall 209A |
Pseudo-Revolving Guitar Amplifier
This amplifer recreates the unique multipath audio and Doppler phase shifting of the rotating Leslie speaker using solid-sate analog synthesizer techniques.
| Location: Expo Hall 210 |
DIY Multitouch Musical Instrument
This is a simple and inexpensive way to create a multitouch surface with optical lasers, a webcam and some software that I wrote. The project uses the interaction with the surface to generate sound based on the position and amount of touch points. I use the surface as a musical instrument, but there are innumerable possibilities for such an easy to make multitouch surface.
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
DIY Stringless Cello and Other Chordophones
These instruments illustrate how to greatly simplify construction of string instruments by substituting rods, motors and resistive touch strips for strings and using a cheap Sparkfun microcontroller to control music synthesizers.
A monochord and 12 string version are currently in use by professional cellists; new 2 string and 4 string versions are under construction.
A new guitar variant will be ready next month that substitutes rigid rods for the rotating rods of the bowed instruments.
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
CCRMA Musical Interactives
Stanford University's CCRMA
See (and hear!) 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 (CCRMA).
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
Bay Area Computer Music Zone
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
A collaborative area for computer music makery by Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (cnmat.berkeley.edu ), Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (ccrma.stanford.edu), and the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (barcmut.org).
Exhibits will include the CNMAT "Ball of Sound" (120 speaker spherical array), Adrian Freed's stringless cello controller (CNMAT), the Particle Chamber (a surround sound infrared controlled installation by Kial Knickerbocker), the entranced interactive music video game (monstro.us), a EEG Biofeedback music machine (Jeff Stot), the sonic palette (sonicpalette.com), custom DJ software (flyloops.com), new sonic interactions using low cost toolkits and open source from CCRMA, and more.
When you come by check the schedule for performances and presentations by the Proyekto Collective, Star Pause, DJ Cypod, Torsos and Wake (with the SN76477 complex sound generator chip and a circuit bent Casio), and many more.
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
Speaking Metal
Sixteen channel speaker array made of hanging metal sheets powered by transducers stuck on the back. Driven via Max/MSP realtime transformations.
Each 'speaker' has a very unique personality, and it serves as an interesting improvisatory space for a performer, a rich sound-installation space, or on its own, driven by midi-controllers.
Development began at IRCAM, and now continues at CNMAT.
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
Ball of Sound with CNMAT
The "Ball of Sound" is a high-tech 120-channel loudspeaker array with the size and shape of a soccer ball. This one-of-a-kind object was built by CNMAT researchers to explore the possibilities of controlling in real-time the directional properties of sound. We present interactive demos that move sound around using sensor inputs such as listener location, 3D pointing and virtual instruments.
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
Pantomorf Squonk
Interactive improvised music using a percussion controller and laptop computer. Based on work of the Swedish duo Pantomorf and my own work on relaxation oscillator networks and birdsong simulation. I will be exhibiting as part of the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT.)
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
dvj
I am demonstrating/performing with a newly open sourced DJ + VJ program I wrote, called dvj. It treats video as a first-class citizen, so if the user scratches the audio, the video also scratches in sync. It uses an M-Audio Xponent as a MIDI input device, and also supports a Nintendo Wiimote for video-scratching with the pointer. Runs on Linux, but OSX and Windows ports will be available later this year.
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
starPause
Jordan Gray
starPause is a netlabel pioneer who remains active with Mp3Death + Hexawe, releasing mp3s under the Creative Commons to catalog cutting edge sounds from re-appropriated retro computers + game consoles. Starpause brings the same DIY ethic to live gigs rocking LSDJ/Gameboy + LGPT/PSP at parties like DutyCycle (SF) + BlipFestival (NYC), and here @ MakerFaire with
BArCMuT.
| Location: Expo Hall 211 |
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 pedal from a game pad controller. We will also feature experimental musician Christopher Willits, showing some of the ways musicians can incorporate Ableton Live and other different looping software into their live performance. Willits also has a few homemade tech toys he uses while performing.
| Location: Expo Hall 212 |
Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition
I've gutted and replaced the electronics in a Nintendo Power Glove, updating it with Bluetooth and improving its sensors. I've demoed its use by connecting it to games I've worked on as an indie video game developer.
| Location: Expo Hall 213 |
Hologlyphics
Hologlyphics is the art of performing 3D moving images seen without special glasses, along with music. It combines elements of holography, music, video synthesis, visionary film, electronic music, sculpture and improvisation to create a unique new artform.
These spatial visuals are seen in true stereoscopic 3D, with full horizontal parallax. Horizontal parallax allows you not only to see the animation in 3D, but to see all views of the animation scene within a 90 degree viewing range. As you walk left to right, the perspective of the image changes as in the real world. Each audience member has their own unique view, there are infinite views available within the 90 degree viewing range
The music is spatially distributed through multiple loudspeakers, fully integrated with the stereoscopic visuals.
| Location: Expo Hall 214 |
Sculptures and Rapid Prototyping
I create abstract metal sculptures using rapid prototyping technologies:
selective laser sintering and direct metal printing. I design custom
3D software to model my shapes.
| Location: Expo Hall 215 |
Digital Stereoscopic 3-D
Homebrew stereoscopic cameras and displays, including live 3D video, moving phantograms, and DIY 3D photography workshops.
| Location: Expo Hall 216 |
Stereoscopic 3D Photography
Educational outreach and workshops in all aspects of 3D photography, both digital and film. Presentations by members of the Stereo Club of Southern California.
| Location: Expo Hall 217 |
Stereoscopix: Adventures in 3D Imagemaking
Interactive demonstrations of a variety of applications and methods for creating, displaying and reproducing unusual and unconventional stereoscopic 3D images, including software for sketching in three-dimensional space, methods for converting two-dimensional drawings and images into 3D, tips and tricks for printing and displaying stereoscopic pictures.
| Location: Expo Hall 218 |
3D Photography and Phantograms
Demonstrations of basic 3D imagery and on-the-spot production of photographic phantograms.
| Location: Expo Hall 219 |
Piano Liberado Extreme
Josef Szuecs & Mauro Fortissimo
A sound installation. Baby grand piano in the center surrounded by four liberated pianos and four basso profundis. A huge self standing mobile made from piano parts hangs umbrella like over the baby grand. Live performances will take place throughout the show. We will also premiere a new Arduino controlled player prepared piano
| Location: Expo Hall 221 |
Orbiting Eden Digital "Brag Bag"
We are a fashion studio integrating lighting and battery technology with handbags. We aim to provide enhanced usability out of everyday items. We provide couture for orbiting Eden.
| Location: Expo Hall 223 |
Charming Sam Studio - Travel Art & Jewelry
Handcrafted travel jewelry using artist Amy Steinberg’s original mixed media paintings set in necklaces, rings and earrings. London, Paris and NYC are just a few destinations to choose from. Each piece is hand embellished by the artist before set in resin and adorned with gemstones and textiles.
| Location: Expo Hall 225 |
conTENT
InteractiveTV Today [itvt] will bring together content developers, artists, digital software developers, and others (as permitted in the available time) to showcase ITV and online applications, video programming, relevant art, and innovative technologies that support the development of content. The general thrust will be projects that present new ways of thinking about our world, culture, and our future (hence the use of the word "con"), but may also have a TV of Tomorrow theme generally running through them where appropriate.
| Location: Expo Hall 226 |
Make Your Own Jewelry
I make hand-crafted jewelry and like to share it with others. At Maker Faire, people can participate and make their own creations with anything beaded on a string. I like a casual setting where people can sit and create and walk away saying, "That was so cathartic."
| Location: Expo Hall 227 |
Cardboard Pencil
The Cardboard Pencil was constructed for an industrial design class at Stanford University using the materials and methods found in Michael Gehry's cardboard furniture from the 1970s. The pencil retains these aesthetic highlights while at the same time preserving the ethic of disposability. The pencil was made using Solidworks, laser cutting equipment, and lots of spray mount.
| Location: Expo Hall 228 |
This Into That
Old coins, stamps, vintage matchbox labels, scrabble tiles, and beads, transformed into jewelry.
Old letters, stamps and vintage fabric, made into collages.
Broken shards and tiles and china made into lamps and sculpture.
Vintage recycled lampshades made into sculpture, and found objects transformed into small sculpture.
| Location: Expo Hall 229 |
Yarn Making 101
Get a feel for yarn making. Touch various animal fibers (ie. sheep, alpaca, llama, rabbit) and yarn spun from them. Learn how to card wool. See both a spinning wheel and a drop spindle in action. Talk sheep.
| Location: Expo Hall 230 |
Furoshiki
Originating from Japan, where it promotes caring for the environment and reducing waste, Furoshiki is the eco-friendly wrapping cloth. Using techniques similar to origami, it can be used for gift wrapping, grocery shopping, or simply as decor.
| Location: Expo Hall 231 |
Effie's Heart
Kimo Frazzitta
Bay Area women's clothing designer. You can see my work at www.effiesheart.com
I am also selling jewelry from my friend who is also a designer. Her website is thevintageempire.com
| Location: Expo Hall 232 & 241 |
Ricochet Wearable Art
A unique line of one-of-a-kind wearable art for children and women made from recycled materials.
| Location: Expo Hall 233 |
Anda Mandala
Come make a stop-motion mandala with us. Think of a mandala as a microcosm of the macrocosm, a visceral map of the universe from the human perspective. Arrange objects symmetrically to create organic, circular shapes. Move the objects, take a picture, move them again, snap another, and repeat ad infinitum.
| Location: Expo Hall 234 |
Handmade Origami Photo Albums
Join Tami Jo in making incredible photo albums using an origami lotus fold. Each unique album unfolds accordion-style to display your favorite photos. These albums also make a fantastic gift for teachers or grandparents. If you know how to work with paper, scissors and glue, this project is for you! She will be doing demonstrations every 15 minutes.
| Location: Expo Hall 235 |
Ruffle Your Feathers
I love to make jewelry using unique materials such as parrot, peacock, pheasant, and flamingo feathers for earrings and to create unique hand-fabricated silver heirloom pieces. I make everything from scratch because I love working with the metal using the fire, the hammer, and the anvil. These pieces are timeless. You will want to take them with you to the grave!
| Location: Expo Hall 236 |
Cameron's Tahitian Jewelry
Beautiful crushed Mother of Pearl beads, necklaces, earrings and pendants.
| Location: Expo Hall 237 |
Polymer Clay Is Addictive!
The South Bay Polymer Clay Guild
Polymer clay is a manmade material that remains pliable for long periods, but bakes in your home oven. You can sculpt it, carve it, stamp it, texture it, sand it, buff it, paint it, and build with it.
| Location: Expo Hall 238 |
Custom Stencil Tshirts
With the use of a heat setting ink and some really cool graphic stencils, I can spray custom t shirts and have them wearable in less than 5 minutes. I work on pre washed cotton t shirts and use stencils from Stencil 1 in Brooklyn. Anybody can choose any image they want, any color from my rainbow of sprays and then I iron for a few minutes...voila! Custom T shirt. This is a great way to pep up an old t shirt or customize a new one. It also works great on canvas shoppers!
| Location: Expo Hall 239 |
Fluid Fashion and Sculpture
I knit clear plastic tubing into sculptures and clothing.
Air and colored fluids are pumped through the tubing to produce color-changing, pulsating, dynamic textiles.
An Arduino microcontroller controls solenoid valves which create patterns with the various fluids while pumps and compressed air propel them.
| Location: Expo Hall 240 |
Interactive Video Folk Art Booth
Folk Art meets Video, includes Viewing Stations & Production Studio. People are invited to be part of a video folk art production, getting to pick stories, create characters out of recycled materials, rehearsing and starring in videos. Costumes used will be recycled into DVD packaging everyone gets free movie.
| Location: Expo Hall 242 |
Peninsula Quilters Opportunity Quilt 2008/2009 Raffle
Peninsula Quilters
We plan to sell raffle tickets on our Opportunity Quilt 2008/2009.
This is an annual project that is our major fund raiser.
This year's Quilt is named:"Morning Star Quilt"
It was designed by one of our members. It measures 100 in. X 100 in. and is for a King sized bed
It is machine pieced and HAND quilted.
The raffle tickets are $1 each and 6 for $5.
The drawing for the quilt will be on June 17, 2009 at our monthly meeting.
Our members would man the booth and they usually bring with them some hand work.
We would be unable to ask our members to pay the entry fee to the Faire. Would you be able to provide us with 20 tickets or passes that they could use while they work their 2 hour shifts at the Faire. We are a non profit organization.
Please let me know if we are a fit for the Makers Faire 2009.
We are certainly willing to give it a shot.
Lynette Cleaveland
Fund Raising co-chair
| Location: Expo Hall 243 |
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 work, not manufactured overseas. The original art is from independent artists that specialize in unique areas of research, like Celtic knots, biologic drawing, and antique machinery. The historic images are from various sources like: archeological digs, ancient manuscripts, and petyroglyphs. The reproduction work is from stuff like 17th century waistcoats, Elizabethan gowns, and Regency pockets.
| Location: Expo Hall 244 |
Museum of Craft and Folk Art
The Museum of Craft and Folk Art promotes craft and folk art traditions in the Bay Area and around the world through exhibits, public events, and in-school educational workshops. The museum is known for a rich offering of exhibitions of traditional and contemporary folk art and craft from around the world, demonstrating how folk art, contemporary craft, and fine art are all part of the same continuum.
| Location: Expo Hall 245 |
Embroidering the New Century
The San Mateo Area Chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America promotes the art and craft of embroidery and fiber arts to anyone interested in stitching. A variety of traditional techniques are explored and creativity in using those techniques is encouraged. Come explore the techniques with us hands on and be part of the 1000 Hands Crazy Quilt. Make-it-Take-it projects will be also offered at the Maker Faire in easy, fun, colorful techniques suitable for age 6 to adult.
| Location: Expo Hall 246 |
Quilting for the Future
Always Quilting
Come see and try out a long-arm quilting machine that can be guided by hand or by computer. Easy software allows you to draw and resize your quilting pattern. The creativity options are endless!
Quilting is one of the oldest crafts where recycling was essential. Early quilters used scraps from clothing and other fabric items to create the quilts that kept them warm at night.
Today, quilters use both new fabrics and scraps of old to create a wide variety of beautiful quilts and wall hangings. The quilting process secures all three layers -- top, batting, and backing -- together. We will provide the machine and the fabric needed to show you how this works and let you try it yourself!
| Location: Expo Hall 247 |
Making Great Gifts with Bargello Needlepoint
Bargello Needlepoint is the easiest form of needlepoint. One stitch, your own selection of threads, needlepoint canvas & you have fantastic results.
Learn how to stitch bargello, pick a color palette & use templates to make original designs, creating unique original items, even if this is your first project.
| Location: Expo Hall 248 |
LooseThreadStitchers.com
All you have to do is: 1. Join LooseThreadStitchers.com.
2. Choose needlework type: cross stitch, needlepoint, sewing, quilting, knitting, or crochet. 3. Decide what you need: classes, retreats, designers, shop locations, etc.
4. View by: state, keyword, month, or year.
That's it! Need it. Find it. Get it with LooseThreadStitchers.com.
| Location: Expo Hall 249 |
Designers and Robots in Harmony
Because We Can designs and makes sustainable interiors, custom furniture, and creative works by using affordable and open source software and CNC tools. Come see their creative designs for sale and learn about the exciting world of personal fabrication, going it on your own as a designer, and working as a husband-wife team!
| Location: Expo Hall 250 |
Scarfed for Affection
A menagerie of cloth demons coming from all areas of San Francisco, scarfed for Affection demons inhabit all of the in-between spaces in San Francisco.
| Location: Expo Hall 251 |
Make Your Own Soap!
Lisa Chouinard
Learn to make your own custom bars of soap using a glycerin base that you can easily melt and pour.
| Location: Expo Hall 252 |
Craftster Make and Take
1. Make your own 8-bit video game art coasters with a devilishly simple technique using inexpensive plastic fuse beads and an iron. You’ll be as addicted to this craft as you were to the games they pay homage to.
2. Learn how to make a fabulous stacked ring out of vintage buttons. Simple, or stacked high and glamorous, you can express your individual style with this easy but impressive craft.
Fun for kids and for grown ups!
| Location: Expo Hall 259 |
Needle Felting Playground
Free-for-all fiber arts! Moxie and I will set up our couches and Asian rugs, and just let people learn, freeform, about the art and science of needlefelting. Our space is very lounge-like. We provide all the supplies for free, and people get to take home their projects.
| Location: Expo Hall 260 |
NeedleArts Stitching Zone
TNNA - The National NeedleArts Association
Join the stitching revolution! Learn the basics of knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, needlepoint, or embroidery. Projects for the entire family!
| Location: Expo Hall 261 |
Learn To Fix Your Bike and Help Change The World
LITE Initiatives/Community Bikes
Celebrate Do-It-Your Self Skills & Community Building!
| Location: Expo Hall 263 |
Recession Clothing
Recession Clothing creates original, one of a kind clothing in our west oakland studio. We design, sew, and screenprint them, and we love every second. We don't outsource anything. We like to do things the slow, hard way, and that's why our clothes are so sweet.
| Location: Expo Hall 265 |
Re:View
Our wares are made from repurposed materials: fabrics and notions that stores would otherwise discard. The proceeds from our sales go toward our team's fundraising efforts for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk for the Cure. So, not only will you be buying lovely goodies that help keep waste from landfills, you can help fund cancer research and screening nationwide. How clever of you!
| Location: Expo Hall 266 |
Noisebridge
A new hackerspace in San Francisco, Noisebridge is a space for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning. Noisebridge is also more than a physical space, it's a community with roots extending around the world. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring. From hardware labs to electronics, cooking, photography, and sound labs, anything that's creative is welcome.
Specific projects we'd like to show off are a found and reverse-engineered LED sign, a hacked payphone, and many more collaborative and individual projects from our members.
| Location: Expo Hall 267 |
SCRAP
People can make found object sculptures out of materials from SCRAP and learn about ways to re-use discarded materials in art projects.
| Location: Expo Hall 268 |
Goldiloks: Jacktress of all trades
Goldiloks uses vintage windows, textile art, and wood working while incorporating street art, kawaii, and history to bring all aspects of art together to represent color, femininity and true creativity.
| Location: Expo Hall 269 |
Bulb Buddy
An electric lamp that grows from a dim glowing bud into a bright flowery blossom. Photo sensors ensure just the right amount of bloom to light up any room.
| Location: Expo Hall 270 |
Penelope Popsicle rePurposed-Plastic Wallets
Penelope Popsicle rePurposed-Plastic Wallets are made from found plastic bags. Originally thrown away as product packaging, produce bags, or catalog mailers, they are now colorful wallets.
Each wallet has six credit card pockets, 2 half-wallet pockets, and a bill fold. The wallets are sewn by hand with top-stitch cotton thread for extra durability.
Fun and functional!
| Location: Expo Hall 271 |
Prologue by Shawna Rose
Purses and wallets handcrafted from vintage books and belts. Out-of-print books from library sales are gutted and up-cycled to create unique one-of-a-kind handbags. Eco friendly by using recycled materials such as belt straps for handles.
| Location: Expo Hall 272 |
Instructables.com
Instructables is the best way to document and share Maker and Crafter projects online! You can learn how to do ANYTHING, in step-by-step detail.
Come by our booth to meet the Instructables staff, pick up some project cards for inspiration, meet the Instructables Robot, and see some awesome Instructables projects in person!
| Location: Expo Hall 273 |
the d.school
The d.school (formally the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University) teaches students to use design thinking to tackle hard social and industry problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions. We are showcasing student projects and are featuring design thinking and rapid prototyping activities.
| Location: Expo Hall 274 |
Ambidextrous Journal of Design
Ambidextrous is Stanford University's Journal of Design. We are showing off recent issues and celebrating Makers featured in the pages of our magazine.
We have a Mechanical Frog Dissection activity for old and young alike to get a taste of Functional Dissection, a core feature of Ambidextrous.
| Location: Expo Hall 275 |
Skeletal Dropkick and Ochibo
Hand thrown ceramics with a monster twist. Crochet with a scientific bent and cuteness thrown in for good measure.
| Location: Expo Hall 276 |
Letterpress Print and Bind Your Own Book!
Volunteers from the SF Center for the Book will help you letterpress print and bind your very own handmade book. You'll get to print from handset type on a table top Kelsey letterpress, make an original monoprint using an etching press and hand sew the binding.
| Location: Expo Hall 277 |
Hamburgerpanda: Illustration of a different flavor.
Illustration inspired by science fiction, nature, and Asian pop culture. Archival digital prints and other paper goods feature animals in unusual, sometimes surreal tableaux, such as three bears encased in ice pops, a tiny pony in a jar, or the series of Seabots which imagine sea creatures as robots.
| Location: Expo Hall 279 |
Recreating Wearable Art from Found Objects
Erin Cooke
we all have jewelry or items of clothing we don’t wear on a frequent basis: a bag full of grandma’s costume jewelry or treasure chest of broken jewelry bits & pieces. perhaps this jewelry is an heirloom or something we keep for special occasions. perhaps it’s something we’ve outgrown (even jewelry trends change over time!). vintage cookie strives to bring life back into these “occassional” or “outgrown” items. how? piece by piece of course! we find fabulous elements and items to “re”incorporate into new creations. we've focused on jewelry in the past but realizing times are tight - we've expanded our skill set to include sewing so we can refab clothes to recreate fabulous new creations to dress you from head to toe (not just from ear to neck to wrist!)
| Location: Expo Hall 280 |
Carol Hearty
MADE ON EARTH BY HUMAN
Bags of confoundingly simple, intuitively mathematical pattern constructs zip into inspiringly unlikely bags.
ENERGY INTERACTING WITH MATTER= NEW STUFF.
We all live within the confines of our daily lives. It can be more, with a little thought & inspiration.
AN INTERESTING LIFE IS A CHOICE.
| Location: Expo Hall 281 |
Skate Deck Chair
A prototype for a furniture line, in kit form, constructed of reclaimed skateboard decks and CNC-milled color fin ply.
| Location: Expo Hall 282 |
Bottle Models
I build very small scale models of historic West Virginia coal camp scenes inside clear glass bottles. I use polymer clay, epoxy resin, styrene, wood, foam, and other materials to create these scenes.
| Location: Expo Hall 283 |
Wooduino!
Wooduino is a prototyping platform for the Arduino that allows for quick projects build directly on the Wooduino or an easy and secure way to mount the Arduino to other devices and structures. The Wooduino is made on a CNC mill which allows for quick development of the platform itself.
| Location: Expo Hall 285 |
Chabot Telescope Makers' Workshop
The Chabot Telescope Makers' Workshop meets weekly for the purpose of teaching optics, optical polishing, telescope making, and general craftsmanship. Come see what we do -- we'll be demonstrating telescope mirror making and mirror testing -- and learn about the Chabot Space and Science Center.
| Location: Expo Hall 286 |
Do-It-Yourself Biology
Do you dream of engineering biofuels, creating new species as pets, and exploring your genome? We represent the San Francisco DIYbio (do it yourself biology) group!
Learn about what's making backyard biology a reality! Plus, see our genetically modified cells that grow green and DNA visualized with gel electrophoresis.
| Location: Expo Hall 288 |
Open Source Blackberry, Open Source Gameboy?
I'm showing off some of my Arduino gadgets.
| Location: Expo Hall 289 |
SubZERO
Promotional booth with information about SubZero, a Do-It-Yourself, participatory, performative, interactive, circuit-bending “street fair” rooted in the out-of-this world imagination and technological virtuosity that are the hallmarks of Silicon Valley. Like a one-night, urban Burning Man, SubZero brings together nearly 100 mostly local artists, performers, and musicians to turn South First Street from Original Joe’s to the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art into a journey of discovery and excitement.
SubZero is an event for the curious-of-mind and the open-to-new-experiences where San Jose becomes an interactive platform of creativity and imagination for the participator as well as the spectator. It’s like nothing else in Silicon Valley – it’s FIRST FRIDAYS on Steriods.
| Location: Expo Hall 290 |
Made With Molecules
A scientist-turned-artist, I make silver jewelry in the shape of molecules - serotonin, dopamine, caffeine, theobromine (chocolate). The star of my collection is an endorphin choker.
| Location: Expo Hall 291 |
The CandyFab Project
The CandyFab project was started in 2007 to promote alternative, low-cost open-source fabrication technologies, including the fabrication of arbitrary 3D objects out of pure sugar. We'll show off the newest version of the CandyFab, completely redesigned for 2009.
| Location: Expo Hall 293 |
HandWriter: Mobile Text Input
Free yourself from the keyboard! We've made a handy little typing device that allows you to enter text while on the go. Put an end to Repetitive Stress Syndrome. This keyset allows freedom of movement -- simply move your fingers to type. Easy to use, no installation.
| Location: Expo Hall 294 |
IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section
IEEE Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section is the largest section in the world for electrical, electronics, computer engineering professionals and managers. Come learn about our local activities! We have 30 technical and affinity chapters with specialties ranging from antennae to semiconductors, covering almost every modern high tech.
| Location: Expo Hall 295 |
Big Mess o' Wires - A Home-Built CPU
Big Mess o' Wires is a custom-designed and hand-built CPU and 8-bit computer. It's similar in concept to homebrew computers from the 1970s, like Wozniak's Apple I. BMOW is built from discrete TTL logic chips, connected with 2500 individual hand-turned wire wraps.
| Location: Expo Hall 296 |
HomebrewCPU - A TTL Computer
Magic-1 is a completely home-built computer (including the CPU) constructed from more than 200 TTL chips using wire-wrap construction. It runs a custom port of the Minix 2 operating system, and serves web pages and telnet sessions at http://magic-1.org.
| Location: Expo Hall 297 |
Engineering Help 5¢
We engineer large-scale sculpture for festivals and permanent installation. Come talk to us about your ideas.
| Location: Expo Hall 298 |
Search and Rescue Robot
Bill Nye
Robots are often used to search for and rescue people trapped after a disaster. This projects presents a Flash animation of a robot that must be controlled by an external operator (the spectator), that views on a projected screen the feed from an imaginary camera above the search robot.
| Location: Expo Hall 299 |
Bill's Artbots
Artfully arranged electronic circuits that flash, move and respond to the environment. Includes Joule Thief circuits, solar life forms, fireflies, picbugs, and the Jar of Circuits, along with demonstrations on how to build from recycled electronics. Bonus: An electronic windharp!
| Location: Expo Hall 300 |
Something Old - Something New
Something old: 2 wooden gear clocks with stepper motors
Something new: 2 robots
| Location: Expo Hall 301 |
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.
| Location: Expo Hall 302 |
Seasteading
What is Seasteading? Seasteading is creating permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas. Why would we want to do that? Because the world needs a new frontier, a place where those who wish to experiment with building new societies can go to test out their ideas. By opening the ocean as a new frontier, we hope to revolutionize the quality of government and social systems worldwide by enabling experimentation, innovation, and competition.
We realize it's a long shot but we strongly believe it's possible. Our philosophy revolves around incrementalism - starting small and building up over time. At this time we want to grow awareness and membership in the seasteading community, share ideas and try to make them a reality.
We are presenting our most recent concepts and ideas (video presentation, images of possible designs) and celebrating ideas in the making by organizing a mini design contest where we give participants a chance to build their own miniature seasteads and try them in out on site TSI aquarium. Successfully floating a design will win a TSI rubber duckie and recognition in the seasteading community.
| Location: Expo Hall 305 |
Playpower: Let's Go 8-Bit!
Playpower.org
Playpower.org will be showing makers how to use and hack 8-bit educational TV-computers!
* program in BASIC and create simple sprite art
* load 8-bit ROMs, including 8-bit art and chiptunes music
* create ROM content such as plot-branching stories
* manipulate video with circuit bending and "visual theremin" effects
* interface with popular commercial cartridges of the 1980s
* develop affordable educational games for worldwide distribution!
| Location: Expo Hall 306 |
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. Have fun and get your infrared picture taken too!
In addition, we will provide various engineering demonstrations of technologies and products in green, nanotechnology, and many other areas.
| Location: Expo Hall 307 |
Channelled Alien Mechanicals
For a couple years
I've been making these mechanical "things" in my garage shop. No design work. No planning. They appear almost by themselves. They react and move to human touch. My friend thinks they are from another dimension, here to gather information from interaction with humans.
| Location: Expo Hall 309 |
Make: television
Make: is the DIY series for a new generation! It celebrates "Makers" - the inventors, artists, geeks and just plain everyday folks who mix new and old technology to create new-fangled marvels. The series encourages everyone to invent, revent, recycle, upcycle, and act up. Based on the popular Make magazine, each half-hour episode inspires millions to think, create, and, well, make.
| Location: Expo Hall 310 |
Bluerain
Commissioned for the London School of Economics and due to be installed in July, more than 23,000 blue LEDs cover this 7'x28' installation. Light appears to flow down the wall, but what one sees are actually words flowing through each other at different rates. Maker Faire visitors can use handheld portable devices to contribute text to the artwork.
| Location: Expo Hall 311 |
Puppy Mover Monorail
The Puppy Mover Monorail is a whimsical work of kinetic art. What began as a joke evolved into a working five-car monorail train, over 10' long, serving some surprisingly well-behaved puppies!
| Location: Expo Hall 90 |
Making Equipment for the High School Physics Lab
Zeke Kossover
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.
| Location: Expo Hall 91 |
Adventure Zoology
Using simple materials and a limited budget, I travel the world and explore the nooks and crannies where small creatures live. My project shows how a sense of wonder and curiosity can bring out the amazing strangeness and beauty of all that is around us.
I have pictures, devices, homemade entomological tools, and various other implements.
| Location: Expo Hall 91 |
R/C Plane with Tilt Sensor Controls
Hacking a micro controller onto the transmitter of an R/C model airplane to allow for tilt sensitive control. Using a Make Controller and a 3-axis accelerometer, the plane can be flown simply by tilting the transmitter. A friend with 10% use of one arm flew it successfully.
| Location: Expo Hall 91 |
PetBots! - Make Your Own Artbots
Kids come create your own PetBOT with common recycled electronics and cool lasercut parts. Connect motors, lights and batteries, then test your creations in the isobotics proving grounds.
PetBots are assembled from a kit of parts comprising of a laser cut chassis and appendages that can be configured in multiple ways that allow many different robots to be made. Using zip ties to hold the parts together anyone is able to master the build and create an army of robotic pets that spin, draw jump and roam all at your command!
| Location: Expo Hall 92 |
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.
| Location: Expo Hall 93 |
Art Kits for Kids
Eye Can Art is a Seattle-based company making high-quality art kits for kids. Current projects available include collograph printmaking, encaustic wax drawing, sumi-e brush painting, and accordian-style book making. The kits are a great introduction to some simple yet beautiful techniques, and come packaged in lovely, reusable containers.
| Location: Expo Hall 94 |
Art/Mo/Sphere
Art/Mo/Sphere is a rochambeau game where virtual bubbles pop to create art! When players blow into their wands, bubbles appear. When certain types of bubbles collide with each other, they pop and leave a splotch across the screen. The resulting exploded bubble splotches leave behind abstract action art!
| Location: Expo Hall 95 |
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 at Maker Faire!
| Location: Expo Hall 96 |
Hands-on Learning with RAFT
Resource Area For Teaching (RAFT)
Each year, 600,000 Bay Area students use RAFT hands-on Activity Kits to learn about Science, Math, Art, and more. RAFT kits "creatively re-purpose" everyday items.
| Location: Expo Hall 97 |
ToonTastic
A Global Storytelling Network - For Kids, By Kids.
Creativity, collaboration, and cultural understanding are becoming increasingly important in our workplace and society. As educators, we are therefore challenged to create new opportunities for children to express their ideas and share their work in collaboratively playful settings, both locally and online the world over. At Stanford's School of Education, we are developing an online storytelling and animation tool that empowers young children without any technical skills to create their own cartoons and share their stories with other kids around the world. Our goal is to build an online Global Storytelling Network that will inspire creative collaboration and spread cultural understanding through the power of story.
With ToonTastic, kids use multi-touch screens to draw and animate via simple and intuitive gestures. The hardware and software are currently under development as an exhibit for a children's museum in San Francisco. As multi-touch screens become more prevalent in classrooms and homes, however, our goal is to launch the software online and empower kids the world over to express and share their cartoons on their very own forum - for kids, by kids.
| Location: Expo Hall 99 |
Motorized Barcalounger
It looks like an ordinary 1970's era black vinyl recliner... but the secret is concealed inside - bwah ha ha ha! The electric wheelchair concealed beneath allows 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)? Build your own motorized barcalounger!
| Location: Expo Hall Roaming |
Hand Some Voices
Blue Fire Grant
Live performance processed in Kyma software over a surround system. Interactive controllers for passers by to play with the vocalizations. Informed by Noh drama, Grotowski, Stockhausen, Monty Python. Made by Blue Fire, one of the BArCMuT geeks.
| Location: Expo Hall West Music Tent |
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