Maker Faire

Kids Crafts: Paper Bead Jewelry   Natalie Zee Drieu
Recycle old magazines by turning them into paper beads from this CRAFT: 05 project lead by CRAFT Senior Editor Natalie Zee Drieu.

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.

Building an Airplane From the Ground Up   McKinley Siegfried
When McKinley Siegfried was only 16 years old, her parents gave her an airplane for her birthday. The only caveat: She had to build it. "We just thought, you know what, this is perfect, this will do it; she'll get a thorough understanding of the process and what goes into it," said her father, Rand Siegfried. McKinley was not new to flying. She had been soloing airplanes since she was 14 years old, but she was new to building them, especially one that she would fly.... Come hear directly from McKinley and Rand as they recount their story and describe how they were able to accomplish this incredible task!

3rd Thursday   mike mckevitt
A six piece band that plays every third Thursday of the month. guitar,bass,drums,sax two vocals.All star players. Plays Abba to Zappa

Learning, Making, and Helping in DTV Transition Outreach   James Miller
Broadcast television's analog to digital TV transition is a technology event touching every American household. On June 12, full power TV stations around the nation will cease over the air transmission of analog television and transmit only digital. Analog TV sets in low-income, non-English speaker, disabled and other households receiving TV over the air will no longer function unless steps are taken to maintain reception after the transition, for example by using a digital converter device. Technical and logistical challenges associated with the DTV transition are expected to impact these households hardest. James Miller, Attorney Advisor at the FCC, will discuss these issues and how this unprecedented technical change offers tech-savvy volunteers an opportunity to share expertise and make a difference to people in need, while learning more about the wireless engineering aspects of broadcast TV. A popular DTV antenna make will be demonstrated, and opportunities to get involved in helping people by making things will also be discussed.

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.

High-Low Tech: Rethinking Cultural and Material Contexts for Technology   Leah Buechley
People knit scarves and solder radios together in their homes and garages. In contrast, companies produce high-tech things by high-tech processes. A host of new tools is making many of the resources previously available only to companies accessible to individuals, empowering people to design, engineer, and build devices that integrate high and low technology.

The Universal Remote Control Platform (URCP)   Mark Sigal
Imagine a universal remote control device that controls your home entertainment center, home alarm system AND functions as your interactive programming guide. This presentation, by digital entrepreneur Mark Sigal and Square Connect (doing the demo) will discuss the hardware and accessories that you need to build an iPod touch/iPhone powered universal remote control “touch pad.” It will show you the necessary wireless signaling protocols that you need to control your home entertainment center, activate and deactivate your home alarm, turn on, off or dim lights, and more. Finally, premised on an objective of making media more interactive, Mark will introduce an framework (lifecycle) for thinking about social, metadata and services overlays and interconnects. Don’t miss it.

Not To Kill A Thought   Steve Davee
The impact of language on curiosity, creativity and scientific inquiry. This talk explores how easy it is, even with the best of intentions, to stifle creative thought and true learning when it comes to working with children in the areas of science, math and engineering. We will investigate examples of simple but powerful changes in language, with the intention of provoking the best of creative potential and shared inquiry.

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.

Design Thinking With Kids: Lessons Learned at Nueva’s Innovation Lab   Kim Saxe
Come learn what The Nueva School is doing to promote Design Thinking mindsets and skills in students ages 5 to 14. You'll hear about how the 3,500 sq. ft. Innovation Lab (I-Lab) was created in partnership with the d.school at Stanford and IDEO. The Director of the I-Lab will share what Nueva students have been doing there over the past two years, and what the teachers have learned about fostering an iterative, user-centric, and collaborative approach to design projects of all kinds. Kim will also give specific suggestions of ways to create your very own I-Lab at home for your children - and even you - to use!

The Myth of the Silicon Valley Garage   Steve Blank
The origins of Silicon Valley can be traced to a Palo Alto garage. Bet you don't know which garage.

California Jug Band Association/Tarantulas Jug Band   California Jug Band Association
Good-time music can be played on just about anything - garden hoses, kitchen sinks, combs, artillery shells, and luggage. CJBA members will provide toe-tapping musical performances and demonstrations on building and identifying a wide variety of music-makers. The audience will be quickly drawn into participating in the musical madness.

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.

Making Open Source Hardware into a Kit Business   Phillip Torrone
Thinking of selling your cool invention? Learn how sharing your design makes it easier for more people to enjoy your kit, improve it, and share it in turn. MAKE Senior Editor Phil Torrone has built or blogged most of the DIY electronics kits out there, and he's helped develop open source kits like the Tweet-A-Watt.

SF Digital Film  
Description to come...

Quinn Devaux  
Quinn DeVeaux and the Blue Beat Review is a dance and groove band with hopping mad rhymes and rhythms. Quinn has been playing soul and blues in the bay area for years and has finally started his own band The Blue Beat Review! It's sweet melody and soul music with a groove that makes you wanna use your feet for moving. This band is at the root of it and keeps the people in a state of joy. Don't miss em.

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.

Design Through Dissection: Reverse-Engineering A Mechanical Sculpture   Benjamin Cowden
Local mechanical sculptor Benjamin Cowden explains the design and creation of his moving artworks by disassembling and rebuilding a small machine in 25 minutes. See how initial sketches become final layouts, how simple math becomes a complex mechanical movement. Each of the 37 separate pieces of Benjamin's machine will be examined, the tools and techniques employed in their production shown. Mr. Cowden will demonstrate that the elementary movements of his sculpture can be adapted to infinite uses both large and small.

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.

Art Lessing and the Flower Vato   Art Lessing and the Flower Vato
We are a band that uses a bunch of home made instruments. We have both invented and traditional instuments, but we like to use mostly DIY things when we're performing.

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.

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!

Leaders Make the Future   Bob Johansen
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.

LED Mania   Tom Igoe
Making LED displays is fun. There are a a few tools that get used all the time, from row-column scanning to LED driver chips to multplexers and shift registers. I'll show a couple examples, and open the floor to Q&A as to how to approach multiple-output display projects. I'll also show some of the LED displays I have been playing around with myself.

The Lee Maverick Band   The Lee Maverick Band
Rock-n-Roll using some instruments made from motorcycle parts and a unique kitsch set incorporating sculpture and paintings.

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.

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.

Kit Maker Panel: Maker-Made, Community-Sourced   Dan Woods
While most retail sectors have been in a nose dive, the burgeoning DIY marketplace has actually been growing. If you've ever contemplated turning your passion for making into a business, here's your chance to see what's hot and why, and where the new opportunities are. We've assembled an who's who lineup of indie kit makers, including Phil Torrone (adafruit), Ariel Churi (Sparkle Labs), Mitch Altman (Cornfield Electronics), Ken Murphy (Blinky Bugs), Anshul Samar (Elementeo), Dale Wheat (tiny Cylon), and Shawn Wallace (AS220).

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!

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).

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!

Vintage Inspired Papier-Mâché   Cathy Callahan
Vintage craft blogger Cathy Callahan/Cathy of California will demonstrate a technique using recycled cardboard and newspaper to create papier-mâché jewelery. Cathy has found inspiration for her own work from 1960s papier-mâché pieces by artists such as Enid Collins and Gemma Taccogna.

Flying the World's Fastest Aircraft   Jerry Glasser
What's it like to be a pilot in some of the world's fastest aircraft? Jerry is an experienced pilot and flight instructor for supersonic aircraft. Come listen to his PowerPoint presentation, titled "Lockheed's SR-71 Politics, People & Plane".

Ralph Carney and The All Ones   Ralph Carney
Music performance May 31st.

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!

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.

Ceallach Dyes: solar dyed yarn for you and the planet   Kelley Dean-Crowley
Between crafting and making, there lies an exciting intersection of possibility where yarn and fiber can be dyed using passive solar for the dyeing of the fibers. My dyeing process uses home built solar ovens built from recycled and reclaimed wood and glass which will be on display, minimizes water usage and contamination from chemicals.

jesse morris and the man cougars   joe dean
country music played by strange folks.

"Streetbeats" by John F King II   John King II
About my show! It's called "Streetbeats-Sounds of San Francisco". It is a high energy, innovative, infectious "all" instrumental drums and percussion show that was developed on the streets of San francisco, CA. The music consist of an eclectic blend of expressions with wide ranging cultural diversity and global appeal, emphasizing the introduction and promotion of positive messages/images. Fun beats and grooves with infuences from Celtic to afro-Cuban to Polynesian to American and East Indian to Jazz, country, Soul/R&B, hip-hop, Rock etc... All done with items found in a garbage dumpster such as old pots & pans, #10 foodservice cans, CD rack, 5 gal. buckets,garbage cans, etc..

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.

Electric Cars - Why They're Better and How To Buy Them   Jason Jungreis
An overview of electric vehicle technology. This presentation will explain electric vehicle components, and the different types of electric vehicle designs and their comparative merits. Learn how electric vehicles are superior because of their greater efficiency, reduced environmental impact, and reduced dependence on foreign oil. We'll discuss the electric vehicles that are available today and the many more that will be available in the next couple of years.

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!

the Way-To-Go-Joes   Josef Szuecs
A musical trio that plays jazz, blues, and what-have-you.

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...

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!

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!

The Gomer Hendrix Experience   the Gomer Hendrix Band
The Gomer Hendrix Experience does original fun music that's a mix of Weird Al Yankovic's style and mash-ups between different styles of music. Humorous, upbeat, fun for the whole family, musical entertainment.

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.

Android Beyond the Phone   Daniell Herbert
Google developed Android explicitly to run on cell phones, but it is robust enough to run on other devices. Because Android is open source and not restricted by licensing agreements/permissions, and because it is supported by an active development community, it is already growing beyond its mobile device roots. Learn how to use this standardized toolset and you can create applications that easily share and use information across many types of devices -- from cell phones to netbooks to set top boxes to home automation systems. Your fridge could twitter your shopping list when your last RFID-tagged container of milk is used… Your doorbell will send you photos of the people who rang it… Seamless connectivity and control across a range of mobile and stationary devices: welcome to the land of Big Android!

The Universal Remote Control Platform (URCP)   Mark Sigal
Imagine a universal remote control device that controls your home entertainment center, home alarm system AND functions as your interactive programming guide. This presentation, by digital entrepreneur Mark Sigal and Square Connect (doing the demo) will discuss the hardware and accessories that you need to build an iPod touch/iPhone powered universal remote control “touch pad.” It will show you the necessary wireless signaling protocols that you need to control your home entertainment center, activate and deactivate your home alarm, turn on, off or dim lights, and more. Finally, premised on an objective of making media more interactive, Mark will introduce an framework (lifecycle) for thinking about social, metadata and services overlays and interconnects. Don’t miss it.

Buttoning It Up! Make Button Hairclips   Diane Gilleland
Make a quick, fun button-embellishment project: a pretty set of button hair clips to enjoy. You can mix colors and layer sizes and styles, along with sparkly rhinestones, for a super-personal finished piece.

Los Banos   mike mckevitt
the cyclecide bike rodeo band bicycle themed mariachi-punk

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.

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).

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.

The Gomer Hendrix Experience   the Gomer Hendrix Band
The Gomer Hendrix Experience does original fun music that's a mix of Weird Al Yankovic's style and mash-ups between different styles of music. Humorous, upbeat, fun for the whole family, musical entertainment.

The James Moseley Band   James Moseley
The James Moseley Band fronted by lead vocalist and guitarist James Moseley has been wowing audiences in the Bay Area for over ten years at a wide range of music venues, festivals and special events. Their continually growing fan base, one of the most loyal in the Bay Area, is no doubt due to their high energy live performances that get everyone up and dancing with tunes by Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Gladys Knight, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley and many more. The James Moseley Band showcases the very best in Motown, R&B, Jazz, Blues, Funk and Reggae.

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!