Maker Faire Bay Area 2009 Schedule

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Presentation and Demo Stages:

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!

Performance Stages:

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

Presentations and Demos:

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