Maker Faire

Chladni Singing   Meara O'Reilly
Watch a voice-driven Chladni plate! Sound pioneers Robert Hooke and Ernst Chladni discovered in the 18th and 19th centuries that sand scattered on a glass or metal plate sent into resonant vibration with a violin bow arranges itself into interesting patterns according to places of stillness. Chladni plates are today often driven by tone generators and used in scientific demonstrations of modes of vibration, but Meara will also show how the human voice and various speech sounds have resonances of their own.

Make: television   Twin Cities Public 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.

Amateur Rocketry and Amateur Radio in the Black Rock Desert   Kevin Weiler
What's it like to join two hundred rocket enthusiasts for three days in the middle of North America's largest desert playa as they put the finishing touches on their rockets and then send them off into the upper atmosphere on pillars of fire? And where does amateur radio fit into all this? Join Kevin Weiler, K6XXX, as he gives a close-up look at some of the temporary but rocket-crazy denizens of the Black Rock Desert. To see additional interesting things you can do with ham radio, go see the Foothills Amateur Radio Society booth at the Faire!

Basic Mold Making and Casting   Conrad Hopkins
Learn how to reproduce everything from works of art, to collector car parts using rubber molds. You will also learn how to cast parts that look like glass, metal, stone, etc. Whether you want to make one unique item or go into production, this seminar will show you how.

Making It In California   Mark Martin , Rick Kuhn
MakingItInCalifornia.com is the URL for the CACT (Center for Applied Competitive Technologies) web site. CACT is the California Community College Economic & Workforce Development initiative that serves the manufacturing and advanced technologies sectors, and that includes makers of every size.

Embroidery 101   Rachel Hobson
Learn the basics of embroidery with CRAFT's contributing writer Rachel Hobson.

BRAINY TUNES: Smarter Songs for Smarter Kids   Ira Marlowe
I loved performing last year on the Human Powered Stage! I write and perform fun, challenging songs for kids 4-10, and use puppets and props to bring the songs alive onstage, while encouraging participation from kids and parents alike. Songs emphasize adventure, cooperation and creativity.

Making Equipment for the High School Physics Lab   Marc "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.

Life Size Mousetrap   Mark Perez
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 Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Making Marshmallows   Karen Solomon
Karen Solomon, author of DIY kitchen craft manual Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It, will demonstrate making homemade marshmallows, her secret to classic campfire s'mores, and other tips for the home cook seeking alternatives to the grocery chain gunk of pre-fab bottles and boxes. Join her as she kicks the lid off of shelf-stable pantry staples and encourages food lovers and kitchen crafters to make, bottle, and eat their own edible handicrafts.

Remaking Pen and Paper: Livescribe Demos the World’s Smartest Pen   Jim Marggraff
An introduction to paper-based computing using the Pulse™ smartpen. Jim will cover the key features that define a smartpen, as well as demonstrate how a smartpen can improve your ability to capture, search and share new information. The Pulse smartpen has won numerous awards, including: Macworld 2009 Best of Show, Popular Science Best of What’s New ‘08, Popular Mechanics 2008 Breakthrough Award, 2008 Java One Show Device, and a 93/100 Superior rating from PC World.

The Paper Airplane Guy   John Collins
A collection of crazy airplanes. Demonstration and instruction for the fine art of paper airplane making.

forageSF, the wild food CSA   Iso Rabins
forageSF is a San Francisco based project that provides a bi-weekly CSF (community supported forage). A box of all wild foraged foods. That means nothing cultivated. No iceberg lettuce or rutabagas, instead we have cattail hearts and minors lettuce. The first time human hands touch this food is when we pick it. Wild food is often more nutritious than its cultivated cousins, and takes no energy to produce (except free from the sun). We mean to change the way people see the woodlands around them, creating a true connection with our local environment, building community around food, and re-purposing the word "weed". Iso Rabins, founder of forageSF, will be on hand to answer questions, as well as holding workshops on homemade sea bean and bull whip kelp pickling.

Getting Out of the Garage: driving your design ideas to success with Chinese manufacturing   Liam Casey
Looking to get your ideas out your home workshop and in front of prospective vendors? Liam's talk focuses on introducing the benefits and advantages of fabless manufacturing to bring your concepts to market. With over 13 years of hands-on experience in introducing clients to Chinese manufacturing, Liam offers a unique perspective on global supply chain.

Abby and the Pipsqueaks   Abby and the Pipsqueaks
The 3 time AWARD WINNING and UNESCO FEATURED ARTISTS: Abby and the Pipsqueaks, from the Bay Area, CA. A cartoon concept band, Abby and the Pipsqueaks brings to life award winning original songs in a zany show with jazzy joke bits, science segments, gym and dance classes, magic, and more!! ...the age 2-6 group has been struggling to find its voice in pop music. That void has been filled... SF Weekly's Listen Up by, Dan Dion. Motown meets the Muppets meets Schoolhouse Rocks, Abby and the Pipsqueaks is sure to inspire and delight.

McPuzo and Trotsky   McPuzo & Trotsky
Heinrich McPuzo (Stroh violin) and Sid Trotsky (bantar) are purveyors of satirical songs from the Roaring Twenties, such as "Warren G. Harding Is A Horse's Ass", and "You Wouldn't Know She Was Irish". Interspersed shall be fabulations of mankind's bright technological future, including "The Lurch Head-on Collider" and "Mansect!".

Howtoons! Live Cartoon Drawing   Howtoons
Howtoons! The possibilities are endless. Come meet the creators of the comic as they show off the latest Howtoons and the process behind them. Live drawing and audience participation.

Insect Exploration   Arlo Pelegrin
Adventure-style entomology on three continents. Science, daring and penury come together as explorer Arlo Pelegrin takes his nets and buckets into forests, jungles, and deserts, travelling on slim budgets and finding friends in unlikely places.

SF Digital Film  
Description to come...

Molecular Gastronomy Presentation  
Michael Zbyszynski will present an overview of Molecular Gastronomy for cooks at home. Topics and demonstrations include basic sphereification, foams, and hydrocolloids, and building your own Sous Vide system.

SETI@home   Dan Werthimer
Are We Alone? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer will discuss the possibility of life in the universe, and how you can create the possibility of your computer detecting the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.

Kids Crafts: Storytelling   Michaela Murphy
Taken from her memoir-in-progress, The Green Monster, Michaela Murphy tells the story of how serendipity and the kindness of a stranger helped her to get her little brother to the 1981 All-Star game that changed both of their lives. The story is approx fifteen minutes long and it is a real whirlwind. I have told it all over the U.S via The Moth and for several younger audiences and it really engages them. It is basically about how taking a great leap of faith can bring about miraculous events.

Shake Your Peace  
SHAKE YOUR PEACE! is a folk band based in San Francisco's Mission District. The band's goal is to - in the words of the great folk singers - "get happy," "walk the freedom highway," and "make a living, not a killing."

forageSF, the wild food CSA   Iso Rabins
forageSF is a San Francisco based project that provides a bi-weekly CSF (community supported forage). A box of all wild foraged foods. That means nothing cultivated. No iceberg lettuce or rutabagas, instead we have cattail hearts and minors lettuce. The first time human hands touch this food is when we pick it. Wild food is often more nutritious than its cultivated cousins, and takes no energy to produce (except free from the sun). We mean to change the way people see the woodlands around them, creating a true connection with our local environment, building community around food, and re-purposing the word "weed". Iso Rabins, founder of forageSF, will be on hand to answer questions, as well as holding workshops on homemade sea bean and bull whip kelp pickling.

What's a nice lady like you doing in (a) space like this?   Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson tells tales of her cosmonaut training. Recently returned from five months at the Yuri Gagarain Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow, she comes equipped with photos and stories - and a willingness to answer questions!

The SHE'S   The SHE'S
The SHE'S are a rock band from San Francisco, California. They formed in 2007 learning, writing, and performing rockin' music. A colossal explosion of rock n' roll music in a candy shop. The SHE's are, SAMI: Bass and "oooohs"...... HANNAH: Lead Vocals...... EVA: Guitar...... SINCLAIR: Drums and Percussion!

Special Awesome   Colin Miller, Peter Williams, Timothy Taylor, Justin Kohn
A presentation and demonstration of stereoscopic 3D animation techniques, and live 3D cinematography. Special Awesome, a group of animation veterans and Coraline alumni: Colin Miller - President & Visual Effects expert, Peter Williams and Timothy Taylor - Motion control stereo cinematographers, and Justin Kohn - Stop Motion Animator and Mechanical Sculptor They will speak, answer questions, show examples, and demonstrate their techniques.

Betty Biodiesel's Big Red Eco Bus   Lindsay Hassett
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. in the process to reduce my overall footprint.

Life Size Mousetrap   Mark Perez
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 Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Shovelman   Isaac Frankle
I play a guitar that's made out of an antique SHOVEL. (Dig it!) I loop, drum on the shovel body, play the strings with a slide, and sing through a bullhorn. (Folktronica!) My friend and I worked together to build it and make it sing. I even played it for my friends' wedding aboard the Neverwas Haul (Victorian spaceship) at Maker Faire last year!

Diet Coke and Mentos Fountains   EepyBird.com
See the original Internet sensation LIVE! Geysers of soda shoot over twenty feet into the air in this spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains, brought to you by the mad scientists of EepyBird. EepyBird has been featured on Late Night with David Letterman, Ellen, the Today Show, and Mythbusters, and they were named "Best of 2006" by People Magazine. Their online videos have won two Webby Awards and received two Emmy nominations.

Creating Killer Innovations   Phil McKinney
Innovation is a key catalyst for economic recovery, yet some find it elusive. As Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for HP’s Personal Systems Group, Phil McKinney sees daily examples of the breadth of human ingenuity to solve social, economic, political and even technical challenges. McKinney is passionate about tapping that human ingenuity to deliver great results and is regularly sought out to guide teams to unleash their own creative potential. In this presentation, McKinney will share the “how” of unleashing your own personal creativity. One example that he will share is the turning points in his own R&D team’s journey to identify and create a whole new way for computers to interact with the world’s population -- ways that involve natural human expression with nary a keyboard or mouse in sight. Attendees leaving his presentation will discover a renewed level of confidence in their own ability to create the next killer innovation while organizations will have the confidence that they can compete and win in the emerging creative economy.

The Boiler Bar and the Golden Mean   Jon Sarriugarte + Kyrsten Mate
Come see the illusion of a 1920s-1930s oil town bar complete with a stage, dancers, performers, fire sculptures, furniture, and a giant iron snail car. The costumes, props, car, stage show, and even schwag are made by the crew of the Boiler Bar Theater! So much talent on one little stage! 1. Boiler Bar (shoots flames from the top) 2. Boiler Bar Theater (dancing, song, and sights to amaze) 3. Bar stools, tables, Fire Gardens to warm and entertain 4. The Golden Mean (a giant iron snail car).

Antioguia  
...Experimental Rock/Funk/Reggae meets AfroColombian rhythm... !Musica para la revolucion!

LUNAR Rocket Club   LUNAR Rocket Club
Build and fly a real model rocket with the LUNAR Rocket Club! Visit our booth and see small, medium, and large model rockets. Talk with expert rocketeers about how easy and fun model rocketry is. Find out how model rocketry gives you a wonderful, rich experience in broad areas for everyone from ages 4 to 104. The sky is the limit!

Edible Pursuits Trivia   Edible San Francisco
Edible San Francisco is excited to announce our first ever Maker Faire Edible Pursuit, a food-themed trivia game featuring challenging questions about San Francisco's local food scene, kitchen know-how, and food politics. Players will compete for delicious prizes, including artisanal treats, Maker Faire gifts, and more!

Feeding your Family from Seed to Table to Soil   Elizabeth Beak
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.

Film: Bob's Knee   Bob Schneeveis , Mike Attie
See the short documentary film, Bob's Knee, created by Stanford filmmaker Michael Attie and meet the subject of the film Bob Schneevis, a Bay Area inventor, famous for his RoboChariot, featured in the film.

Colossal Failures   Adam Savage
I'll be talking about failure - unmitigated, colossal failures that I've been a party to.

Microfiche   Tricerabot
Microfiche is a San Francisco-based, four-piece instrumental outfit – something of a noiserockdanceparty. A Microfiche show delivers a full-on extrasensory experience, drawing diagrams for your ears and mind while keeping your booty shakin’. Microfiche will team up with Andrey Turley and Mike Carnes to deliver a full-on Audio-Visual collaboration, inviting the audience to use crowd-controller sequencers, and incorporating large-scale VU meters and microfiche machines turned light-sensitive MIDI controllers.

The Slow Poisoner   The Slow Poisoner
The Slow Poisoner is a one-man-surrealistic-rock-and-roll-band, playing strange songs of the weeping willows and curing all manner of ailments with his patented miracle tonic.

Making Equipment for the High School Physics Lab   Marc "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.

McPuzo and Trotsky   McPuzo & Trotsky
Heinrich McPuzo (Stroh violin) and Sid Trotsky (bantar) are purveyors of satirical songs from the Roaring Twenties, such as "Warren G. Harding Is A Horse's Ass", and "You Wouldn't Know She Was Irish". Interspersed shall be fabulations of mankind's bright technological future, including "The Lurch Head-on Collider" and "Mansect!".

Make: television   Twin Cities Public 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.

Fiber Fanatic   Gayle Still
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.

Remaking American Manufacturing with Robotics   Rodney Brooks
American Manufacturing remains a strong segment of the American economy and is more adaptable and flexible than ever before. At Heartland Robotics we've visited many factories around the country over the last six months and have learned how that flexibility is achieved: through a combination of large numbers of production workers and a lot of ingenious custom engineering. Every facility we've visited has onsite engineers who design and build specialized tools, jigs, and automatic machines for their own unique facility. These engineers work constantly with production workers to modify lines and machines for improvements in productivity and quality. But American industry will face challenges from changing demographics, as the availability of production workers declines. Workers can use robots to fill the gap, but general purpose industrial robots remain relatively rare in American factories. What will it take for robots to be added to the toolchest of the makers of American manufacturing, so that they can increase productivity, provide better jobs for American workers, and compete even more strongly in our globalized world?

Secret Tips from the Crafty Chica: How-to Multiply the Use of Your Supplies   Kathy Cano-Murillo
Learn uses you never thought of from supplies we love!

Lou Lou & the Guitarfish Live!!!   Lou Lou & the Guitarfish
Spiritual heirs of 60’s British Invasion and actual heirs of 70’s San Francisco punk, these 5 teens mix quirky lyrics with addictive melodies -- and rock’n’roll sounds new again. Longtime Makers already, The Guitarfish have fun doing it all: writing and recording music, shooting videos, creating merch, designing costumes, and more!

5 Cent Coffee & the Junkstock Allstars   5 Cent Coffee
We are dedicated to the idea that everyone can make music. Whether you play a plastic bucket or a thousand dollar guitar, expressing yourself through sound is what it's all about. The Junkstock Allstars play orginal and traditional standards played in the old American tradition and employing found, homemade or dirt cheap instruments whenever possible. Music is everywhere, go out and grab it!

Mousetrap to Mars - Rube Goldberg Documentary   Scott Bailey & Dave Vacanti
Go behind the scenes of one of the world's most unique competitions -- The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest -- in which teams of engineers design and build overly complex contraptions that ultimately perform very simple tasks. Follow the teams of quirky characters in this fascinating and often hilarious documentary as they strive for imperfection and an appearance on late night TV.

Insect Exploration   Arlo Pelegrin
Adventure-style entomology on three continents. Science, daring and penury come together as explorer Arlo Pelegrin takes his nets and buckets into forests, jungles, and deserts, travelling on slim budgets and finding friends in unlikely places.

Life Size Mousetrap   Mark Perez
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 Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Justin Ancheta  
Justin Ancheta is an artist hailing from a small town of Meadow Vista, California with eclectic styles. He has been playing throughout Northern California for seven years, generating a worthy buzz with music worth falling for. He has opened for the Wailer's, and Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Break the Rules After Knowing Them: DIY Food and Wine Pairings   Eden Canyon Vineyards
Elaine Villamin of Eden Canyon Vineyards thinks about wine pairings from the vine to your table. She will teach you how to try, buy, and pair wines with your meals by learning classic pairings and ultimately trusting your senses to bend the rules without breaking the bank.

Easy as Pie   Pie Ranch
Pick up pie-making tricks while learning about Pie Ranch, an educational farm in San Mateo County. Our mission is to inspire and connect rural and urban people to know the source of their food, and to work together to bring greater health to the food system from seed to table.

A New World for American Manufacturing   Mitch Free
Mitch will be speaking about his observations on how manufacturing products – from conceptualization through introduction to markets – is evolving rapidly, and how technology is not only shortening the design and sales cycles but how these changes will enable new creativity and ideas in the marketplace. Mitch will share these views through his many years of invention, manufacturing and leadership experience.

The Boiler Bar and the Golden Mean   Jon Sarriugarte + Kyrsten Mate
Come see the illusion of a 1920s-1930s oil town bar complete with a stage, dancers, performers, fire sculptures, furniture, and a giant iron snail car. The costumes, props, car, stage show, and even schwag are made by the crew of the Boiler Bar Theater! So much talent on one little stage! 1. Boiler Bar (shoots flames from the top) 2. Boiler Bar Theater (dancing, song, and sights to amaze) 3. Bar stools, tables, Fire Gardens to warm and entertain 4. The Golden Mean (a giant iron snail car).

Disability & Access Hacks   Liz Henry
Small assistive devices such as reacher/grabbers, page turners and book holders, grip extenders, can be made with bits of rubber tubing, PVC pipe, and tools as simple as box cutters and duct tape. Rather than obsess over impossible levels of healthiness and longevity, we need to change people’s expectations of how they will deal with changing physical limitations. We can work to spread simple designs, and a DIY attitude for mobility and accessibility gear, to encourage a culture of invention that will be especially helpful to people as they age. We'll look at the philosophy and will list 5 simple things you can do to help a friend or relative with accessibility hacks!

LUNAR Rocket Club   LUNAR Rocket Club
Build and fly a real model rocket with the LUNAR Rocket Club! Visit our booth and see small, medium, and large model rockets. Talk with expert rocketeers about how easy and fun model rocketry is. Find out how model rocketry gives you a wonderful, rich experience in broad areas for everyone from ages 4 to 104. The sky is the limit!

Lastmaking for Beginners (Shoemaking)   Tom Maiorana
A quick overview of how to make a quick last for basic shoemaking. I'll demonstrate a way to make a mold for plaster, some basics of measuring, and an overview of how to make a reusable last from wood.

The Hounds Acoustic Stomp   The Hounds
The Hounds are a high-energy acoustic indie band from San Francisco, who take old-fashioned instruments like fiddle, accordion, and steel-string guitar, and play them with rockstar levels of passion and fun. Bass and drums back up their hoe-downs and pop tunes, making EVERYBODY want to dance!

Mr. December   Mr. December
We are an ukelele/upright bass duo, involving singing, harmonizing, rapping, being handsome, creating ill mouth beats, and playing rag-timey bluegrass. we call it folk-stomp.

iPhone Hacks   Adam Stolarz , David Jurick , Stephen Brown
The more iPhones are sold, the more people want them to do. With every new release, Apple enables features - but for everything they leave out, hacking is the key. This presentation will discuss what's possible today through unlocking the phone, and how some of the most sought-after - but yet undelivered - features of the phone can be unleashed.

Betty Biodiesel's Big Red Eco Bus   Lindsay Hassett
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. in the process to reduce my overall footprint.

Guella  
Four San Francisco-based musicians, all pulling in slightly different directions, find dynamic equilibrium in Guella. The music is at once catchy, open-ended, and original. Due to the great amount of energy and improvisation that Guella brings to each of its sets, it is truly best appreciated in the live setting. A combination of skillful songwriting, intelligent musicianship, and open-ended improvisation always leaves listeners wondering what might happen next.

Diet Coke and Mentos Fountains   EepyBird.com
See the original Internet sensation LIVE! Geysers of soda shoot over twenty feet into the air in this spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains, brought to you by the mad scientists of EepyBird. EepyBird has been featured on Late Night with David Letterman, Ellen, the Today Show, and Mythbusters, and they were named "Best of 2006" by People Magazine. Their online videos have won two Webby Awards and received two Emmy nominations.

Diet Coke and Mentos Fountains   EepyBird.com
See the original Internet sensation LIVE! Geysers of soda shoot over twenty feet into the air in this spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains, brought to you by the mad scientists of EepyBird. EepyBird has been featured on Late Night with David Letterman, Ellen, the Today Show, and Mythbusters, and they were named "Best of 2006" by People Magazine. Their online videos have won two Webby Awards and received two Emmy nominations.

Numenta's Vision Systems   Dileep George , Bill Atkinson
Numenta is releasing a Vision Toolkit in June that will enable hobbyists to train their own vision system based on our technology. Users will need to train the system with a collection of images, much like humans learn by being exposed to visual images. After training they can present new images (e.g. through a web cam or by dragging image files) to see if the network can recognize them. They can then embed this feature into their own website. It won't be perfect, but I think it will be the first time that computer vision will become really accessible to end users without a specialized degree.

Jailbreaking the iPhone 3.0   Chris Hughes
Chris will talk about what you can build when you don't use the official Apple SDK. He will show you how to use private frameworks, dumping the official SDK to find undocumented methods, and SSHing into your phone to debug your apps in a more elaborate fashion. Now that 3.0 is coming out, he's looking at what sort of physical stuff he can build that plugs into the phone or talks via Bluetooth.

Life Size Mousetrap   Mark Perez
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 Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Preserving Summer In A Jar   Alicia Preston
Pickling in a salty brine is one of the oldest known methods of preserving and adding flavor to food. Dill pickles, sauerkraut, and kim chee may be the best known examples, but any vegetable and many other foods can be salt-cured with delicious results. As a bonus, the probiotic qualities of these lacto-fermented foods make them more nutritious and easier to digest as well! Brining your own vegetables allows you to play with flavors to suit your own tastes and is a simple and inexpensive way to store and enjoy the summer harvest year-round. We'll demonstrate the process and teach the rules of thumb for making your own mouth-watering treats at home.

Nathaniel Johnstone and his Band of Miscreants at Carnival Mechanique   Nathaniel Johnstone
I and a few other musicians will be providing live music with the Steampunk/Vintagepunk group using custom instruments/amps created by Jake Von Slatt and Molly Freidrich.

Making Equipment for the High School Physics Lab   Marc "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.

SF Digital Film  
Description to come...

Shovelman   Isaac Frankle
I play a guitar that's made out of an antique SHOVEL. (Dig it!) I loop, drum on the shovel body, play the strings with a slide, and sing through a bullhorn. (Folktronica!) My friend and I worked together to build it and make it sing. I even played it for my friends' wedding aboard the Neverwas Haul (Victorian spaceship) at Maker Faire last year!

Cello Joe  
The wildest beatboxin' cellist in the west!

The Most Elaborate Watch Ever Made   John Biggs
In 1783, on the eve of the French Revolution, master watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet was offered a unique commission. He was hired to build the most complex watch known to horology, a masterpiece of form and function. Forty-four years later, it was finished and, in the process, Breguet created new technologies, new engineering methods, and paved the way for precision timekeeping and, some would say, the Industrial Age. The horological equivalent of the Moon Shot, number 160 or the Marie-Antoinette is the most complex watch of its era. We'll discuss Breguet's background, the problems he solved purely mechanically, and the birth of analog programming through the use of levers and cams. We'll also discuss modern watchmaking methods.

Affinage: The Art of Aging Cheese   Kim Iannotti
This interactive presentation will cover the different types of rinds on cheeses and how affineurs (the guys and gals who age the cheese) help develop these rinds by promoting different molds and.. yes… even bacteria.

Pandora's Trunk Storytime Runway Show   Pandora's Trunk
This group of local artists and designers presents a twisted re-construction of a traditional runway show. Each group of models become thematic characters in a narrative whole. This story will include live string accompaniment, reconstructed and recycled clothes from ten different designers, as well as a pair of audio dresses that each comprise either a speaker or a microphone, and create feedback and music as they move about.

DIY Drones   Chris Anderson , Jordi Munoz
Making low-cost autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles, from planes to blimps.

Howtoons! Live Cartoon Drawing   Howtoons
Howtoons! The possibilities are endless. Come meet the creators of the comic as they show off the latest Howtoons and the process behind them. Live drawing and audience participation.

Relativity Visualized: An Intuitive Way of Picturing Relativity   Professor Epstein
Have you ever tried to understand Special Relativity, but not quite grasped it? Have you wondered why you can't go faster than light? What makes time go slow? What makes space shrink? Lewis Carroll Epstein tells some stories that help make sense of puzzling concepts of Relativity.

OCB   Michael Molenda
OCB is a Celtic-punk-folk-rock act that serves up a stylistic combination of The Faces, The Pogues, and British Isles rockers of the 1970s. We call it "Busker Rock," and it's fun and danceable and kinda wild even! California punk legend Dave Dalton leads the band, which is composed of guitarist Michael Molenda, bassist Patrick Wong, bagpiper/tin whistle master Sean Cummings, and cajon player, percussionist, and background vocalist Cheryl Doll.

Vagabondage   Vagabondage
Vagabondage is a musical duo from a past that never happened – one full of the hard roads and dark roots of Americana. Featuring the barking mad vocals of John Flaw and the whiskey crooning of Emchy, Vagabondage will usher you into a realm of accordion, guitar, kazoo, and hindsight prophecies.

Make: television   Twin Cities Public 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.

Insect Exploration   Arlo Pelegrin
Adventure-style entomology on three continents. Science, daring and penury come together as explorer Arlo Pelegrin takes his nets and buckets into forests, jungles, and deserts, travelling on slim budgets and finding friends in unlikely places.

Oona Garthwaite  
Electro / Soul / Rock

Urban Rooftop Gardening for Beginners   San Francisco Chronicle Home & Garden section
San Francisco Chronicle writer Jane Tunks, a novice gardener, writes a beginning gardening column. She and her mentors, San Francisco Permaculture Guild leaders Fred Bove and Kevin Bayuk, will do a workshop on how a beginner can start a container garden the permaculture way. I will be in the Homegrown Village (homegrown.org)

Seed Saving   Fred Bove
Saving seeds from plants that grow in your garden ensures genetic diversity and keeps your garden growing stronger year after year. Trading the seeds you save with friends and neighbors is not only fun, but a low-cost way to grow plants that work the best in your microclimate. Learn the basics of saving seed in this casual, hands-on session with SF Permaculture Guild’s Fred Bové.

Life Size Mousetrap   Mark Perez
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 Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

The Evolution Control Committee presents The Wheel Of Mashup   The Evolution Control Committee
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!

Betty Biodiesel's Big Red Eco Bus   Lindsay Hassett
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. in the process to reduce my overall footprint.

The Boiler Bar and the Golden Mean   Jon Sarriugarte + Kyrsten Mate
Come see the illusion of a 1920s-1930s oil town bar complete with a stage, dancers, performers, fire sculptures, furniture, and a giant iron snail car. The costumes, props, car, stage show, and even schwag are made by the crew of the Boiler Bar Theater! So much talent on one little stage! 1. Boiler Bar (shoots flames from the top) 2. Boiler Bar Theater (dancing, song, and sights to amaze) 3. Bar stools, tables, Fire Gardens to warm and entertain 4. The Golden Mean (a giant iron snail car).