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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.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 326 |
Moondog Madrigal Puppet Show
This full-length theater work, based on the music of legendary New York street performer/composer Louis “Moondog” Hardin, combines multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble performance with an original script inspired by Moondog’s wacky poetry and lyrics and our own puppets made of recycled household items, hardware, and dead bamboo from our Houston backyard.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 334 |
The Eggbot Project
"Eggbot" is a spherical plotter (machine for drawing on round objects like eggs and balls). It works using two stepper motors whose motion is controlled by software. The goal of the Eggbot project is to provide an entry level experience for people to learn the basics of motion control - the foundation of robotics.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 336 |
Wikimedia Foundation
This year, the Wikimedia Foundation is showing off all of our projects, and attempting to highlight as many of their features as possible. Everyone has heard of Wikipedia, the world's largest free encyclopedia, but did you know that anyone can edit it? In fact, we encourage everyone to give editing a try! Our volunteers will be there to help you along as you make your edits, should you wish to try it out. Additionally, we'll be showing off such projects as: Wikimedia Commons - a repository of over 4 million completely free images; Wikinews - the free news source you can write; Wikibooks - a free library of educational textbooks; and Wikiversity - the project dedicated to learning resources at every level of education. Never heard of some of these? All the more reason to come visit and learn more!
| Location: Fiesta Hall 338 |
wikiHow
In keeping with this year's theme of remaking America, wikiHow will share a variety of ways to reuse or repurpose common household items. We will also demonstrate how easy it is for anyone to share their know-how with the world on wikiHow.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 339 |
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
| Location: Fiesta Hall 340 |
CreativeCommons.org
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Music/Films/Photography/Art/Science/Education -> Build on the Past - Remix the Future
| Location: Fiesta Hall 341 |
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading organization defending civil liberties in the digital world and promotes the rights of innovators to develop digital technologies.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 342 |
Jellyfish Aquarium
Jellyfish are the latest in fish tanks and now you can keep one of your own in a desktop tank.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 343 |
Prelinger Library of Historical How-To Materials
Prelinger Library, a maker- and remixer-friendly library in San Francisco, brings a satellite library to Maker Faire. Relax, read and download a 100-year selection of historical books, periodicals, and print ephemera covering all aspects of making, invention, hands-on engineering, hobbies, and DIY.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 344 |
Heliomatrix
Heliomatrix is an adaptive mirror array precisely controlled by servos and coordinated by a network of microcontrollers. It is like a chameleon, with scaly flesh composed of reflective mirrors, each one capable of independent thought and movement. The array harnesses, reflects and manipulates light to produce a virtually limitless spectrum of effects, ranging from a sophisticated light show to a savage display of the sun's incendiary power.
Participants from around the world can interact with Heliomatrix through the "Heliosketch", an AJAX-enabled website that allows anybody to animate the pixels and upload the visuals to the actual hardware for live play.
The 16 pixel prototype made its first public debut 5-7 March 2009 at the Midforms Festival.
http://midforms.wordpress.com/exhibition/
| Location: Fiesta Hall 349 |
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 teachers and students as makers and inventors.
| Location: Fiesta Hall Foyer East |
Bonsai Display & Demos
A display of bonsai and a demonstration on how to create them.
| Location: Fiesta Hall Foyer West |
Leaders Make the Future
Author of a new book, Leaders Make The Future, inspired in part by the Maker movement, Bob draws on the Institute of the Future's latest forecast to introduce skills that will help leaders see connections in the larger systems of which they are a part, embrace shared assets and opportunities, and cut through the chaos to make a better future.
| Location: Fiesta Hall Next to Main stage |
AeroPac High Power Rocketry
We are the association of experimental rocketry of the Pacific. We have many large rockets on display as well as video and printed material. We have a hands on visible rocket and rocket motor as well as having "dummy" propellant grains. We have various construction components as well as rockets in various stages of development. Demos of rocket design software as well as doing static burns of some high power rocket motors out in the parking lot while working hand-in-hand with the LUNAR group and its model rocket launches.
| Location: Fiesta Hall Rocket Room |
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