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Stage A
Building an Airplane From the Ground Up •
Amateur Rocketry and Amateur Radio in the Black Rock Desert •
High-Low Tech: Rethinking Cultural and Material Contexts for Technology •
Remaking Pen and Paper: Livescribe Demos the World’s Smartest Pen •
The Myth of the Silicon Valley Garage •
Getting Out of the Garage: driving your design ideas to success with Chinese manufacturing •
Jellyfish Aquarium •
SETI@home •
Leaders Make the Future •
What's a nice lady like you doing in (a) space like this? •
Creating Killer Innovations •
Colossal Failures •
Flying the World's Fastest Aircraft •
Electric Cars - Why They're Better and How To Buy Them •
Remaking American Manufacturing with Robotics •
Android Beyond the Phone •
A New World for American Manufacturing •
The Universal Remote Control Platform (URCP) •
Home Chip Lab •
Carnivale Mechanique •
Numenta's Vision Systems •
The End of Driving •
The Most Elaborate Watch Ever Made •
DIY Drones •
Smokin' With Bill Gurstelle •
Omega Recoil
Stage B
Elementeo Chemistry Card Game •
Basic Mold Making and Casting •
Not To Kill A Thought •
Design Thinking With Kids: Lessons Learned at Nueva’s Innovation Lab •
Electronics Prototyping Process / Napkin Schematics •
Design Through Dissection: Reverse-Engineering A Mechanical Sculpture •
LED Mania •
Human-Powered Ultracapacitor LED Light •
littleBits •
Bike Repair •
Do-It-Yourself Biology •
iPhone Hacks •
Jailbreaking the iPhone 3.0 •
The Fool's Board: Social Game System •
Relativity Visualized: An Intuitive Way of Picturing Relativity
Stage C
Learning, Making, and Helping in DTV Transition Outreach •
Making It In California •
The Paper Airplane Guy •
The Universal Remote Control Platform (URCP) •
Howtoons! Live Cartoon Drawing •
Making Open Source Hardware into a Kit Business •
Special Awesome •
Kit Maker Panel: Maker-Made, Community-Sourced •
Film: Bob's Knee •
Make: television •
Disability & Access Hacks •
Fantastic Contraption: The Device Artists •
Hack Cool Things with Microcontrollers! •
Ghost Phones
Stage D (Science Stage)
Chladni Singing •
Insect Exploration •
Betty Biodiesel's Big Red Eco Bus •
Making Equipment for the High School Physics Lab
MAKE Demos
Weekend Projects from MAKE •
Make Your Own Robot •
Hack Cool Things with Microcontrollers! •
The Fool's Board: Social Game System •
Carnivale Mechanique •
Making Open Source Hardware into a Kit Business •
The Rail-O-Graph Electromechanical Messaging Device •
Projects with MAKE editor Mark Frauenfelder •
Smokin' With Bill Gurstelle •
The Garduino Indoor Garden Controller •
Electronics Demystified •
Blinkybugs and LED Art •
BEAM Robotics and the Solarengine •
Hacking Toys and Clothes •
Howtoons! Live Cartoon Drawing
Craft Demos
Provo Craft •
NeedleArts Stitching Zone •
Needle Felting Playground •
Vintage Inspired Papier-Mâché •
Star Wars Puppet Craft •
Roxycraft •
Secret Tips from the Crafty Chica: How-to Multiply the Use of Your Supplies •
Lastmaking for Beginners (Shoemaking) •
Buttoning It Up! Make Button Hairclips •
Making A-Mends with Sewing!
Boiler Bar Theater
The Boiler Bar and the Golden Mean
Maker Lounge
BRAINY TUNES: Smarter Songs for Smarter Kids •
McPuzo and Trotsky •
Art Lessing and the Flower Vato •
Shovelman •
jesse morris and the man cougars •
The Slow Poisoner •
the Way-To-Go-Joes •
5 Cent Coffee & the Junkstock Allstars •
Mr. December •
The James Moseley Band •
Vagabondage
West Stage
Abby and the Pipsqueaks •
California Jug Band Association/Tarantulas Jug Band •
The SHE'S •
The Lee Maverick Band •
Microfiche •
Ralph Carney and The All Ones •
Lou Lou & the Guitarfish Live!!! •
The Hounds Acoustic Stomp •
The Gomer Hendrix Experience •
Nathaniel Johnstone and his Band of Miscreants at Carnival Mechanique •
OCB •
The Evolution Control Committee presents The Wheel Of Mashup
Cypress Stage
Swap-O-Rama-Rama •
Pandora's Trunk Storytime Runway Show
Screening Room
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking (SFSDF) •
Mousetrap to Mars - Rube Goldberg Documentary
Homegrown Village
Kitchen Talk •
forageSF, the wild food CSA •
Feeding your Family from Seed to Table to Soil •
Ceallach Dyes: solar dyed yarn for you and the planet •
Fiber Fanatic •
Easy as Pie •
The HOMEGROWN Village •
Beekeepers Guild of San Mateo County •
Urban Rooftop Gardening for Beginners •
Seed Saving
Screening Room
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking (SFSDF) •
Mousetrap to Mars - Rube Goldberg Documentary
Warships
Robotic Warship Combat
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