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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Projects and Makers tagged robot

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Bay Area Tankers R/C Model Club
B.A.T. demonstrates radio-controlled robot tanks modeled after 1/16th scale WW II Allied and German vehicles. The scratch-built, modified, or stock tanks engage each other using infra-red gaming computers for graduated damage effects. Battles are fought in a scale diorama representing 1944 Italy. This year we will be able to allow attendees to become tank crewman alongside club members who will pilot the tank while volunteers operate the guns so no harm is done to tanks due to inexperience.

Location: Redwood West Outside Lane

BEAM Robotics and the Solarengine
Learn how to use the BEAM design approach to create nimble robots from simple components, with no programming required! Many BEAMbots are powered by the simple Solarengine circuit using a solar cell and capacitors.

Chess playing robot arm
A homemade system comprised of a sensory chess board, a robot arm, and an open-source chess engine (GNUChess) to create a robot arm that plays chess.

Location: Expo Hall 118

ComBots Combat Robot Exhibit
Exhibit of combat robots.

Location: Redwood 414

Cupcake CNC
Cupcake CNC is a simple, low-cost CNC machine for 3D prototyping, foam milling, cupcake decorating, and general derring-do. The hardware design is open source, and the platform is designed to be completely hackable and upgradeable.

Location: Show Barn 808A

Drone Machines / Dub Machines Author & Punisher
Drone Machines and Dub Machines are custom made from raw materials, using open source circuitry. They draw heavily on aspects of industrial automation, robotics, and mechanical tools, and require significant force from the performer, aligning him or her with the plodding drone and doom-influenced sounds that are created.

Ethel The Robot...
Ethel is a large 200 lb+ 4WD robot. Ethel is built to demonstrate that it is possible to build simple robotic machine using off-the-shelf components. Ethel has a 1Ghz computer for her vision a basic stamp to control various functions and sensors. Ethel has a 250 watt stereo, wifi, 75 mhz radio control, wireless 2.4 ghz keyboard and mouse and a wireless joystick. Ethel also uses telepresence with wireless cameras and microphones. Ethel also can provide a light show using a propane poofer system.

Location: West Lot WL12

FIRST LEGO League - Youth Robotics
Learn and watch LEGO Mindstorms robots built by local youth. The autonomous robots will solve this year's FIRST LEGO League Game Challenge called, "Climate Connections"

Location: Redwood 412

FIRST Tech Challenge -- Youth Robotics
Learn and watch Tetrix robots built by local youths. The robots will solve this year's FIRST Tech Challenge Game, called "FACE OFF!" Demo robots will be available for you to try!

Location: Redwood 413

GigaPan - Gigapixel images for everyone
You can create gigapixel-plus images with a low cost digital camera and a robotic camera mount. Come see gigapans of last year's Maker Faire, see how gigapixel images can be used in education, and learn how to make your own gigapans and embed them in your website!

Location: Sequioa 607

Greathouse Labs
We have several new projects this year along with some of projects we brought last year. Steampunk Machine called (The Vessel) A large remote control interactive fire machine, It has three 5' movable metal looking arms that shoot fire under operator control. A very Jules Vern looking Machine. (under construction) The Dr Evil wheelchair, large custom wheelchair like the one use in the Austin Powers movie. (under construction) The Greathouse Labs Fire Truck, a three wheeled flame shooting vehicle.(completed) El Reactor a 35' fire shooting machine! (completed) And smaller projects too!!

Location: West Lot WL04

Hamburgerpanda: Illustration of a different flavor.
Illustration inspired by science fiction, nature, and Asian pop culture. Archival digital prints and other paper goods feature animals in unusual, sometimes surreal tableaux, such as three bears encased in ice pops, a tiny pony in a jar, or the series of Seabots which imagine sea creatures as robots.

Location: Expo Hall 279

Heliomatrix
Heliomatrix is an adaptive mirror array precisely controlled by servos and coordinated by a network of microcontrollers. It is like a chameleon, with scaly flesh composed of reflective mirrors, each one capable of independent thought and movement. The array harnesses, reflects and manipulates light to produce a virtually limitless spectrum of effects, ranging from a sophisticated light show to a savage display of the sun's incendiary power. Participants from around the world can interact with Heliomatrix through the "Heliosketch", an AJAX-enabled website that allows anybody to animate the pixels and upload the visuals to the actual hardware for live play. The 16 pixel prototype made its first public debut 5-7 March 2009 at the Midforms Festival. http://midforms.wordpress.com/exhibition/

Location: Fiesta Hall 349

HomeBrewed Robots!
A variety of electro-mechanical creatures including "Springy Thingy," a Burningman Artbot, and his faithful cybernetic companion, "Rusty." "Homer the HomeBrewed Humanoid" performing Kung-Fu-Fighting. The "LosiBot," an autonomous radio-controlled car. "Wirey," AKA My Little Blue Robot "Wired". "SnoopBot," a hacked puppet. The PROTOBot Army: We will settle for nothing less then total world domination.

Location: Redwood 418

IEEE Robotics and the HomeBrew Robotics Club
See robots and other devices developed by members of the IEEE RAS (SCV/SF/OEB Joint Chapter) and the Home Brew Robotics Club, and learn about our organizations.

Location: Redwood 405

IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section
IEEE Santa Clara Valley (SCV) Section is the largest section in the world for electrical, electronics, computer engineering professionals and managers. Come learn about our local activities! We have 30 technical and affinity chapters with specialties ranging from antennae to semiconductors, covering almost every modern high tech.

Location: Expo Hall 295

Justin Gray's Fire Sculpture Robots and Electric Motorcycles
Justin Gray presents: my latest robotic fire sculptures and custom electric motorcycles! One of my recent creations merges hi-tech robotics with jet engine fire sculpture, on a heavy steel track drive base.

Location: East Gate S Area

Kite Aerial Photography Collective Exhibit
The Bay Area hosts a particularly active community of kite aerial photographers. Local KAP artists will demonstrate several approaches to controlling an aerial camera including inexpensive robotic cradles, radio-controlled apparatus, and specialty panoramic rigs.

Location: Sequioa 604

Learningtech Summer Technology Workshops
Workshops include Classroom Technology Officers (CTO), Build a Computer, Program a Robot and Make a Music Video.

Location: Expo Hall 122

Lux Lucis
A kinetic sculpture project featuring a combination of robotics with sophisticated movements and various forms of articulated and moving light including plasma, LEDs, lumia and laser light.

Location: Meeting Pavilion 512 & 513

Make Controller Kit
The Make Controller is a powerful and easy-to-use general purpose programmable controller. It offers Ethernet, USB and a variety of extra goodies to connect to and work with to just about anything your project might include!

Location: Expo Hall 165

Make Your Own Robot
How to cut, bend, and drill metal, wire motors and sensors, and program the Arduino microcontroller for awesome robotic behaviors. The result -- your very own autonomous robot. Robot on, dudes!

Maker Faire Africa
Maker Faire Africa, a celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, will take place August 13-15 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana's capital, Accra. We're letting people know what's going on with the Maker Faire Africa project in August. We have literature and a few projects on hand, and enthusiastic volunteers to discuss the festival.

Modkit
Modkit is a graphical programming environment for embedded systems programming.. Modkit can currently program arduino (http://arduino.cc) and arduino compatible hardware using simple graphical blocks similar to the scratch programming environment (http://scratch.mit.edu)

Location: Maker Shed Maker Shed

Not To Kill A Thought
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.

PetBots! - Make Your Own Artbots
Kids come create your own PetBOT with common recycled electronics and cool lasercut parts. Connect motors, lights and batteries, then test your creations in the isobotics proving grounds. PetBots are assembled from a kit of parts comprising of a laser cut chassis and appendages that can be configured in multiple ways that allow many different robots to be made. Using zip ties to hold the parts together anyone is able to master the build and create an army of robotic pets that spin, draw jump and roam all at your command!

Location: Expo Hall 92

PIPEROID paper robots
PIPEROID is a paper craft robot that is made from paper pipes with pre-drilled holes. All you need is a pair of scissors to cut, connect, and fold the pipes to form a cute unique robot without a need of tape or glue.

Location: Cypress

Posables - Life Size Posable Mannequins
An interactive sculpture garden, using life-size, posable stick-figure mannequins or "Posables". A number of posables will be available for groups of 2-3 attendees to pose and position with respect to each other, creating eye-catching scenes. Digital photos will be posted on a website.

Location: Redwood West Outside Lane

R2-D2 Astromech Droids
We're members of the R2 Builders Club. A loosely organized international group of Star Wars fans who love to build droids. We've been featured in MAKE Magazine and we run droid building workshops. We'll be roaming around the event throughout the weekend with frequent stops back at our Rebel Base to charge our batteries and answer questions.

Location: Expo Hall 147

Robomagellan Autonomous Robot
Robomagellan is a robot competition at Robogames. Autonomous robots drive to and touch cones dispersed over 300 feet away, knowing only GPS coordinates of the cones and avoiding obstacles. It's the robot hobbyists version of an autonomous car.

Location: Redwood 415

Robotic Bagpipe Chanter
A Scottish bagpipe chanter gets computerized, resulting in a unique robotic instrument. Air pressure is created using three bicycle pumps, notes are played using eight electromagnetic fingers. The controlling computer can play anything from "Highland Cathedral" to "Star Wars".

Location: Expo Hall 111

Robotic Solar Electric Chariot
President Barack Obama leads the way with this Solar electric chariot. Solar panels provide shade for the drive and store power in batteries. These drive and electric motor in the chest which in turn power the legs through a series of cams.

Location: Roaming Mobile

Robotic Warship Combat
Last year's popular Axis vs Allies naval combat returns to Maker Faire with even more exciting "Sink or Surrender" events in the outdoor warship combat arena. This year more battles will be scheduled, with something new added: special, hands-on combat events just for kids, featuring R/C boats that launch ping pong balls at targets. In the adult events, watch 6-foot-long robotic warships duel to the death in a large, specially built pond. Sophisticated DIY robotics and guns fire CO2-powered steel balls. Safe for the whole family. Hands-on exhibits and technology demonstrations provided by the Western Warship Combat Club (WWCC) of San Jose, California.

Location: Outside Battle Zone

Robotics for Fun
Three projects are available to the public: 1. Wheel-of-Robots - Find your fortune on the Wheel-of-Robots. 2. Scorpion-bot - Catch and sting the animal with the Scorpion-bot. 3. Mouse-In-The-House - Find your way to the cheese while avoiding the cat and mouse trap.

Location: Redwood 402

RTTTL Calliope "Calliopus Minimus"
Stamp controlled programmable one octave calliope plays ringtone text files; Ed says, "So simple that even I could figure out how to build it!" A short video of Calliopus Minimus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKG3MYgIeMc&feature=channel_page

Location: Expo Hall 116

Rumble Robots with Arduino
I hack these Rumble Robot toys and set them up to be controlled with an Arduino Microcontroller. I add Parallax ultrasonic sensors and microswitches as sensors so it can "see". I will allow visitors to type in and upload code from a laptop to the Arduino and see the results as the bot drives around the enclosure.

Location: Redwood 404

Scrapyard Challenge
Intensive workshops where participants build simple electronic projects (both digital and analog inputs) out of found or discarded "junk". No electronic skill or experience with technology is necessary to participate.

Location: Redwood 419

Sea Perch
The Sea Perch is a simple remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) made from PVC pipe and other inexpensive, easily available materials. The Sea Perch Program trains educators around the world to build Sea Perch and use them as an interactive platform to ignite student's enthusiasm for science, technology, and engineering.

Location: Expo Hall 170

Search and Rescue Robot Bill Nye
Robots are often used to search for and rescue people trapped after a disaster. This projects presents a Flash animation of a robot that must be controlled by an external operator (the spectator), that views on a projected screen the feed from an imaginary camera above the search robot.

Location: Expo Hall 299

Slug Spackler's Revenge
This is the final project for the UCSC Engineering "Introduction to Mechatronics" class. Student teams of three have 10 weeks total to learn how to build, prototype, and program a functioning robot that performs a task.

Location: Redwood 407

SOBEaR :: the responsible robot bartender
SOBEaR is a robot friend for anyone who does not know their own limits, or has problems controlling themselves around alcohol. SOBEaR has a breathalyzer which the user blows into, and depending on how drunk you are (or aren�t) SOBEaR will pour you a drink with the strength appropriate for your current state.

Solarbotics at the Maker Shed
Our fascinatingly talented crew will demonstrate a variety of robots, both solar and battery powered, in an interactive and hands-on display. We invite ALL people to join us and catch our enthusiasm for electronics and do-it-yourself fun.

Location: Maker Shed Maker Shed

Something Old - Something New
Something old: 2 wooden gear clocks with stepper motors Something new: 2 robots

Location: Expo Hall 301

SPACE:1967 Welcome Back!
Team Filo's efforts to explore and celebrate the Digital Space Race through the restoration of the control panel for the Discovery Center's Gemini capsule, development of a Gemini Simulator, information Kisok, and Gemini Jetpack Simulator. Also our ongoing Lost In Space Robot project will be displayed.

Location: Expo Hall 117

Sparky Jr.: The Original DIY Mobile Telepresence Robot Marque Cornblatt
Sparky Jr. is a new social network for DIY mobile telepresence enthusiasts and video-chat robot builders. Using our free software, some common materials, and tech, learn to make an open source telepresence robot. Fun for any age.

Location: Redwood 403

SWARM
SWARM is a kinetic art work of semi-autonomous spherical robots ("Orbs"). Each robot has a shell 30 inches in diameter, with batteries, motors, audio system and color LED illumination inside. The SWARM is under the command of an on-board computer with wireless connectivity to other orbs and a central computer. SWARM is built to explore the aesthetic possibilities in the emergent behavior of artificial systems. As a first step, Orbs are remote-controlled by human operators, but each Orb's sounds and color illumination is algorithmically generated in response to location and motion. Each Orb has sophisticated navigational sensors including GPS, accelerometers, and rate gyros. We are progressing towards sophisticated navigational algorithms, much like those used in spacecraft, that allow each orb to determine its location with high accuracy. From this, we can explore emergent and cooperative behavior like flocking as well as new possibilities in machine choreography. SWARM is not a simulation. SWARM is a platform for art of the 21st century.

Location: Outside Grass Grass N

The Eggbot Project
"Eggbot" is a spherical plotter (machine for drawing on round objects like eggs and balls). It works using two stepper motors whose motion is controlled by software. The goal of the Eggbot project is to provide an entry level experience for people to learn the basics of motion control - the foundation of robotics.

Location: Fiesta Hall 336

The Electric Giraffe
A huge robot giraffe that is an ever changing project, growing, changing, adapting to new technologies and sponsorships. The giraffe is "Grazing on the Frontiers of Technology" and hopes to offer something new to see, hear and feel each year.

Location: Expo Hall 110

The Hand of Man
The Hand of Man is a large-scale hydraulic human hand, capable of picking up and crushing cars! It is controllable from an ergonomically designed "glove" controller that is made available to anyone from the public who wishes to "flex their muscles!"

The Nueva School Interactive and Space Art program
The Nueva School will be displaying and demonstrating the interactive and space art projects that 7th and 8th graders made during the course of the year, including interactive candy dispensers, an interactive trashcan, robotic animals, mechanical pinball machines, spaceships, rockets, and space houses.

Location: Expo Hall 106

Tilt/Acceleration Sensors for Robotics
How to choose a Tilt/Acceleration Sensor for Robotics and Gesture Controllers: This demonstration covers a range of tilt and acceleration sensor boards and modules you can incorporate into your robots, music and gesture controllers. The pros and cons of each are discussed and put in the context of real applications. The main focus is on MEMS sensors but we will also cover a wearable DIY tilt sensor based on fabric being developed by Hannah-Perner Wilson.

Topobo
What is it like to sculpt with motion? Topobo is the world's first construction toy with kinetic memory, the ability to record and playback physical motion. Snap together Passive (static) and Active (motorized) pieces into a creation, and with a press of a button and a flick of your wrist, you can teach your creation how to dance or walk. The same way you can learn how buildings stand by stacking up blocks, you can discover how animals walk by playing with Topobo.

Location: Expo Hall 133

Underwater Robotics (ROV)
Jesuit High School is introducing high school students and individuals to the world of underwater robotics.

Location: West Gate Grass J

WALL�E Builders
We're the WALL-E Builders -- an online group dedicated to building all the robots from Disney-Pixar's hit movie WALL-E. We provide construction methods, blueprints, and helpful forums discussing how to build Pixar's bots. There are no membership fees, the only requirement having an interest in building your very own Wall-E.