Maker 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.