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3D Photography and Phantograms
Demonstrations of basic 3D imagery and on-the-spot production of photographic phantograms.
| Location: Expo Hall 219 |
AC Clothing and Bags
Amy Cools
*lovingly designed, meticulously crafted clothing and bags for women who love comfort & beauty, artistry & quality, style & fun
*timeless and edgy, flattering and playful, easy to wear and artistic pieces that are set apart by exciting details, specialty and vintage fabrics, and fresh & unexpected conjunction of elements
*meticulously crafted of contemporary and original vintage yardage, buttons, & trims
*all pieces are produced in limited runs; each item is a rare piece to add to your unique & adventurous style
*all-original designs are designed in Oakland, California & produced in-house or locally: they're sweatshop-free!
| Location: Cypress |
Acme Muffineering
Acme Muffineering presents Kinetic Pastry Science Mobile Muffins.
Discover the recipe for a full batch of 1:18 scale mobile muffins. Delicious scratch-built, electric-powered, highly maneuverable, and capable of 18mph+!
| Location: Outside East Gate Entrance |
Ambulation and Rotation
Seabat Studios presents: a 9 foot tall, hoof to horn tip, four legged, moss covered, Swamp Kirin that towers over the masses as it ambles lazily through the crowds and Dr Opio's kinetic sculptures made from beautifully forged steel sent spinning from the slightest push.
| Location: Outside Grass North Midway |
Anda Mandala
Come make a stop-motion mandala with us. Think of a mandala as a microcosm of the macrocosm, a visceral map of the universe from the human perspective. Arrange objects symmetrically to create organic, circular shapes. Move the objects, take a picture, move them again, snap another, and repeat ad infinitum.
| Location: Expo Hall 234 |
Applied Kinetic Arts
A gallery of kinetic and electronic arts. Artists include Nemo Gould, Reuben Margolin, Christopher Palmer, Carl Pisaturo, Kal Spelletich, Matt Heckert, Alan Rorie, Jonathan Foote, Mark Galt, Benjamin Cowden, Aaron Geman, and Shemoel Recalde.
| Location: Expo Hall 169 |
Art Kits for Kids
Eye Can Art is a Seattle-based company making high-quality art kits for kids. Current projects available include collograph printmaking, encaustic wax drawing, sumi-e brush painting, and accordian-style book making. The kits are a great introduction to some simple yet beautiful techniques, and come packaged in lovely, reusable containers.
| Location: Expo Hall 94 |
Art/Mo/Sphere
Art/Mo/Sphere is a rochambeau game where virtual bubbles pop to create art! When players blow into their wands, bubbles appear. When certain types of bubbles collide with each other, they pop and leave a splotch across the screen. The resulting exploded bubble splotches leave behind abstract action art!
| Location: Expo Hall 95 |
ArtCars
ArtCars are 100% street-legal vehicles that have been permanently modified into artworks. These aren't parade floats, they drive on our highways and byways every day, and ArtCar Fest (the Bay Area's annual ArtCar event in Sept) is exhibiting a nice sampling of ArtCars at Maker Faire.
Artgolf 2009!
Returning to Maker Faire for the third year, it's Artgolf 2009. Those fun and chaotic favorites of the shrink-ray, the tubes, the tiki jungle, the classic castle, and more are all here! As well as a whole new hole for 2009, based on working together to help each other out!
| Location: Outside East Grass O |
B. Coole Designs
I am a textile artist, working in historic, fantasy, and contemporary textile.
I create costumes, especially Steam Punk. I also sell patterns, findings, and other bits for people that do their own costumes.
I do machine embroidery of original, historic, and reproduction designs. Each piece is my own work, not manufactured overseas. The original art is from independent artists that specialize in unique areas of research, like Celtic knots, biologic drawing, and antique machinery. The historic images are from various sources like: archeological digs, ancient manuscripts, and petyroglyphs. The reproduction work is from stuff like 17th century waistcoats, Elizabethan gowns, and Regency pockets.
| Location: Expo Hall 244 |
Bay Area LEGO Users Group
The Bay Area LEGO Users Group presents a large model train layout made entirely of LEGO, as well as a variety of other creations made by our members.
| Location: Expo Hall 139 |
Bazaar Bizarre
Jamie Chan & Blas Herrera
Dissatisfied with stencils of country ducks and painted wooden slices of watermelon, a hodge-podge of friends started the Bazaar Bizarre craft fair in Boston in 2001. Seven years later this community based event is still growing in popularity and has now spread to Los Angeles, Cleveland, San Francisco, San Mateo and Austin! Bazaar Bizarre Maker Faire will feature over 90 indie crafters and designers from across the country. Approximately half of their vendors are new and emerging talent in the indie craft community. Expect to find a smorgasbord of handmade items, many cleverly made with recycled materials. Something for everyone - jewelry, toys, lotions, art, glass, fiber arts, ceramics, handbags, baby items, even crafting supplies.
| Location: Cypress |
Be There Now Light Portal
An interractive light and sound sculpture. Participants will create layers of Tibetan Techno Chant through their prescence and alter the colors of the light arrays. Made of recycled food barrels, energy effficient LED illumination and computer controlled environmental controls. Recycling + high tech + meditative chant. What more could you want?
| Location: Meeting Pavilion 501 |
BeatBoxxx
BeatBoxxx is an interactive beat creator and recorder that allows using gesture based beat selection input. Users can choose to either perform live or record a sample and endlessly loop it. Through encouraging users to create their own enclosure from readily available items such as shoeboxes, BeatBoxxx aims to be a simple, affordable, and extremely customizable kit that will hopefully inspire a large amount of creative and practical implementations.
| Location: Expo Hall 141 |
Belly Dance at the Carnivale Mechanique
Deshret will be providing choreographic entertainment for all passersby as part of the demonstration of Steampunk performance art and culture, in addition to its fine artifacts, at the Carnivale Mechanique.
| Location: Steampunk Grass F |
Bill's Artbots
Artfully arranged electronic circuits that flash, move and respond to the environment. Includes Joule Thief circuits, solar life forms, fireflies, picbugs, and the Jar of Circuits, along with demonstrations on how to build from recycled electronics. Bonus: An electronic windharp!
| Location: Expo Hall 300 |
Blinkybugs and LED Art
Learn to make blinking electro-mechanical insects with Ken Murphy, creator of Blinkybugs. They're made from just a few simple parts, but respond to movement in an almost lifelike way, blinking their LED eyes when their antennae pick up even the slightest vibration.
Ken will also demonstrate his LED Art Kit. This is another simple project: a framed piece of luminescent LED art that projects an endlessly shifting pattern of color and light on a translucent screen. They're easy to make and each one is unique.
| Location: Maker Shed Maker Shed |
Bluerain
Commissioned for the London School of Economics and due to be installed in July, more than 23,000 blue LEDs cover this 7'x28' installation. Light appears to flow down the wall, but what one sees are actually words flowing through each other at different rates. Maker Faire visitors can use handheld portable devices to contribute text to the artwork.
| Location: Expo Hall 311 |
Bonsai Display & Demos
A display of bonsai and a demonstration on how to create them.
| Location: Fiesta Hall Foyer West |
Bottle Models
I build very small scale models of historic West Virginia coal camp scenes inside clear glass bottles. I use polymer clay, epoxy resin, styrene, wood, foam, and other materials to create these scenes.
| Location: Expo Hall 283 |
Bulb Buddy
An electric lamp that grows from a dim glowing bud into a bright flowery blossom. Photo sensors ensure just the right amount of bloom to light up any room.
| Location: Expo Hall 270 |
Bushwaffle
Bushwaffle are playful personal inflatables that transform the urban surface from hard to soft, impersonal to intimate, businesslike to social. By placing the power to generate urban forms in the hands of the individual user, Bushwaffle invite new forms of social interaction, collaboration, improvisation and play.
| Location: Outside Grass |
Camera Obscura
This Camera Obscura is a walk-in camera showing the surrounding scenery in full color and detail.
The rooftop lens projects the scenery onto a circular screen in the darkened room.
500 years ago Leonardo daVinci described the camera obscura which led to the development of photography.
| Location: Midway M4 |
Carnivale Mechanique
Carnivale Mechanique is the umbrella term for our group.
The Contraptors consist of Jake von Slatt, Richard Nagy (Datamancer), Suzanne Forbes and others who make artifacts in the Steampunk Style. We will bring examples of the items we make and will be on hand to discuss Steampunk artwork and hand crafting with any and all who are interested.
| Location: Steampunk Grass F |
Charming Sam Studio - Travel Art & Jewelry
Handcrafted travel jewelry using artist Amy Steinberg’s original mixed media paintings set in necklaces, rings and earrings. London, Paris and NYC are just a few destinations to choose from. Each piece is hand embellished by the artist before set in resin and adorned with gemstones and textiles.
| Location: Expo Hall 225 |
conTENT
InteractiveTV Today [itvt] will bring together content developers, artists, digital software developers, and others (as permitted in the available time) to showcase ITV and online applications, video programming, relevant art, and innovative technologies that support the development of content. The general thrust will be projects that present new ways of thinking about our world, culture, and our future (hence the use of the word "con"), but may also have a TV of Tomorrow theme generally running through them where appropriate.
| Location: Expo Hall 226 |
CreativeCommons.org
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
Music/Films/Photography/Art/Science/Education -> Build on the Past - Remix the Future
| Location: Fiesta Hall 341 |
Design Thinking With Kids: Lessons Learned at Nueva’s Innovation Lab
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!
Diet Coke and Mentos Fountains
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.
| Location: West Lot WL05 |
Digital Light Art
Revolutionary digital light art featuring our new full-color video display - the world's most advanced rotating wheel display system. Also new digital light art for bikes, light painting, and hackable systems for the hobbyist. Showing every 2 hours - 3D Video on a spinning bicycle wheel. This amazing demonstration - never seen before - highlights our state of the art Persistence Of Vision technology. We'll hand out the 3D glasses for this 3-5 minute demonstration.
| Location: Expo Hall 128 |
Digital Stereoscopic 3-D
Homebrew stereoscopic cameras and displays, including live 3D video, moving phantograms, and DIY 3D photography workshops.
| Location: Expo Hall 216 |
Doggie Diner
John Law
From their humble commercial beginnings spinning above local fast food joints, these heads were decreed icons of The First Church of the Last Laugh in 1996.
| Location: East Gate East Gate |
doubleparlour
We will be bringing our prints and handmade polymer clay sculptures. We are a husband and wife team of local artists from San Francisco, CA. We make art and crafts items influenced by natural science, human emotions and architecture. DIY rocks!
| Location: Cypress |
Dutch Door Press
Dutch Door Press is a letterpress & design studio in San Francisco that specializes in eye-catching, bright and colorful wedding invitations, birth announcements, personal stationery, greeting cards and limited edition prints. Dutch Door Press designs blend modern design with patterns and icons inspired by the traditional folk art of northern Europe.
| Location: Cypress |
Educational Response Vehicle
The Crucible's Educational Response Vehicle (ERV) is a 1960 International Harvester fire engine, re-purposed as a demonstration platform for industrial and fire arts. ERV supports simultaneous demonstrations of blacksmithing, arc welding, oxy-acetylene torch cutting, glass flameworking. Additionally, ERV has an on-board accumulator flame effect (poofer).
| Location: Outside South of Oak |
Electronics Demystified
Be not afraid! You don't have to be an electrical engineer to have fun with electronics. MAKE blogger and video maker Collin Cunningham shares a crash course through some basics, and a few tips to get you started making fun things with electronics.
Etsy
We'll be featuring some fabulous handmade items from Etsy, as well as having some DIY projects for Maker Faire attendees to create. And of course, some giveaways. Etsy admins Adam Brown and Eric Beug will be on hand to answer any questions about all things Etsy.
Ezme Designs
Ezme Designs is based in Oakland, CA and focuses on making small runs of handmade ceramic items for yourself and your home. Chanda Beck is the Owner/Designer and has a special interest in abstract depictions of nature with a retro feel. All of our dinnerware items are microwave and dishwasher safe. We will be a part of the Bazaar Bizarre!
| Location: Cypress |
Fluid Fashion and Sculpture
I knit clear plastic tubing into sculptures and clothing.
Air and colored fluids are pumped through the tubing to produce color-changing, pulsating, dynamic textiles.
An Arduino microcontroller controls solenoid valves which create patterns with the various fluids while pumps and compressed air propel them.
| Location: Expo Hall 240 |
Ghost Phones
Ghost Phones are interactive modifications of the ancient and nearly
arcane dial telephone system. By hiding an MP3 player inside a
telephone, you can have a one-sided conversation with a ghost from the
past. Greg will share the concept behind this art project, discuss
the methods and perspective for recording the dialog, and demonstrate
the methods to hide the technology and make it all more mysterious.
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 |
Glass Flamework with a Portable Setup!
Flameworking, lampworking, or torchworking glass is an affordable and portable practice for anyone who wants to try hot glass sculpture on a small scale. It's like drawing mid-air with molten glass!
| Location: Redwood Outside South L1 |
Goldiloks: Jacktress of all trades
Goldiloks uses vintage windows, textile art, and wood working while incorporating street art, kawaii, and history to bring all aspects of art together to represent color, femininity and true creativity.
| Location: Expo Hall 269 |
Holistic Hooping
Join us in our flow tool play environment! Providing plenty of hand-made toys to play with, you can learn the art of HoopDance & Staff spinning in this interactive zone. With impromptu performances & ongoing instruction, the entire family can spin, laugh, smile and have fun together!
| Location: West Gate Grass Area F |
Hologlyphics
Hologlyphics is the art of performing 3D moving images seen without special glasses, along with music. It combines elements of holography, music, video synthesis, visionary film, electronic music, sculpture and improvisation to create a unique new artform.
These spatial visuals are seen in true stereoscopic 3D, with full horizontal parallax. Horizontal parallax allows you not only to see the animation in 3D, but to see all views of the animation scene within a 90 degree viewing range. As you walk left to right, the perspective of the image changes as in the real world. Each audience member has their own unique view, there are infinite views available within the 90 degree viewing range
The music is spatially distributed through multiple loudspeakers, fully integrated with the stereoscopic visuals.
| Location: Expo Hall 214 |
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 |
Hopeandfearometer
The Hopeandfearometer is a video voting kiosk which asks two questions: "What makes you glow?" and "What dangers do you delight in?" Two computers record participants' hopes and fears for the future. The collected recordings are played back in a cacophonous medley of random hopes and fears.
| Location: Expo Hall 167 |
Howtoons! Live Cartoon Drawing
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.
Imperial 'Viper Class' Probe Droid
The Droid is a 3/4 life size computer controlled fire sculpture based upon a Star Wars 'viper class' droid.
The sculpture is computer controlled with fully closed loop communication. In addition to self sensing, it can sense motion and human occupancy within 20' of its exterior.
The droid responds with a wide range of fire and colored fire effects.
It is completely custom built using a range of materials: steel, aluminum, brass, bronze and stainless steel.
Intel Computer Clubhouse Network
Our booth features different aspects of what the Clubhouses offer. This includes LEGO robotics and other interactive, hands-on projects.
| Location: Expo Hall 107 |
Japanese Storycard Theater
Experience short kamishibai dramas from the Storycard Theater series, winner of the 2004 Dr. Toy Award for Top 10 Creative Products and two 2008 Parents' Choice awards. Kamishibai (literally "paper theater") was a popular Japanese street-performance format in the days before TV. For kids of all ages.
| Location: Outside |
Jellyfish Aquarium
Jellyfish are the latest in fish tanks and now you can keep one of your own in a desktop tank.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 343 |
Jill K. in LA
Jill Kleinhans makes handmade greeting cards from her garage in Silver Lake, California. She employs the age-old technique of block printing. Starting with original designs, Jill then carves an individual block for each color. Every card is a lovingly crafted piece of art. Each card is hand-torn from large sheets of 100% cotton paper. All cards are paired with a bonus print on an eco-friendly envelope. Some cards are even embellished with a scratch-n-sniff scent!
| Location: Cypress |
Kaleidoscopic Dreams
I make large and small kaleidoscopes. My favorites are the big ones about 4' in length. I am working on building one approximately 32' long and 8' tall. They are great fun for interaction and create great visuals. I love to share them with people.
| Location: West Gate B3 |
Kinetic Steam Works
Kinetic Steam Works, a Bay Area collective dedicated to steam powered kinetic art, came together in 2005 to explore and repurpose the artifacts of clockwork modernity. We are a small and growing group of industrial artists curious about what came before the advent of petroleum power, electronics, and the automobile culture.
| Location: West Lot WL01 |
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 |
LEGOJeep
The LEGOJeep is a fun interactive art car, seen on the street and at the most playful parties & events for all to interact with. You never know what patterns, shapes, or sculptures will be on it and neither does he! So come play with the LEGOJeep and change your environment, rethink what is possible, and make something new.
| Location: Outside East Grass O |
Life Size Mousetrap
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!
| Location: Outside Grass North Midway |
Like Minded People.
Like Minded People. is an independently run shirt company whose aim is to provide folks out in the world with conscious messages and imagery as an alternative to much of the emptiness being produced today. "You are what you wear" and "Body as Billboard" are all along the lines of belief of Like Minded People. and that is why we strive to come with life inspired conscious ideas.
We believe clothing should be about the clothing, how it makes you feel inside and out, not the status one might feel it brings. We let the clothes speak for themselves.
| Location: Cypress |
Lil' Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum
The Lil' Ju Ju is part of the Pacific Pinball Museum's pinball educational outreach program. We modified a 1947 Spartan Manor Travel trailer with a reinforced frame, four point hydraulic legs, an electronic self leveling controller, on board batteries and 2500 watt inverter system all for the purpose of bringing the pinball experience anywhere we need to. Housing 6 vintage pinball machines and a mini Jukebox it is a rolling testament to American ingenuity and cultural icons. Always a crowd pleaser, this will be the Lil Ju Ju's third trip to the Faire.
| Location: Expo Hall 149 |
Live Maker Drawing
I'm a former CBS courtroom artist and I love to use my life-drawing skills to document art-making and community.
| Location: Steampunk Grass F |
Lizard Press Hand Printed Letterpress
By combining vintage wood and lead typefaces with digital designs made into polymer plates, each limited edition combination is printed on an old-fashion vandercook proof press, each one pulled by hand, from a single run on the press to as many as eight. Lizard Press projects vary from rocking CD sleeves, inspiring broadsides, typographic greeting cards and intuitive artists books.
| Location: Cypress |
Lunapillar Mutant Vehicle
The Lunapillar is a mobile kinetic sculpture of glorious light, color, motion, and sound. This mutant vehicle will transport groups of people around in comfort and bliss bringing a vibratory connection to community. Her spontaneous whimsy, magic, and deliberate mischief will delight all she encounters.
| Location: East Gate Grass Area V |
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 |
Made With Molecules
A scientist-turned-artist, I make silver jewelry in the shape of molecules - serotonin, dopamine, caffeine, theobromine (chocolate). The star of my collection is an endorphin choker.
| Location: Expo Hall 291 |
MAKE Play Day
Michael Shiloh
A treasure trove of electronics, construction materials, and expert assistance has all you need to turn a creative doodle in your noodle into something physical. Drop in or stay all day.
| Location: Redwood 450 |
Make Your Own Glass Beads
Learn the secrets of the Venetian Masters! With common equipment you can make your own glass beads, buttons and dishes. Come see how it's done, live, before your very eyes!
| Location: Redwood Outside South L2 |
Maker Faire Information Booth
The place for information about Maker Faire
We also have an art project - a take off on the Pinwheels for Peace project, but we're asking participants to write on their pinwheel how they want to Remake America. The pinwheels will be displayed either on the fence surrounding our booth or placed in the grass. Should look awesome by Sunday afternoon!
There is a rest area and a wheelchair rental area. This is also be one of the sites for attendees to fill out their safety forms and receive their bracelets.
| Location: Outside Grass East Area of Grass O |
Mani Designs
The seedpods, flowers, buds and twigs in my botanical series are collected from my walks in the woods near my home. They are lost wax cast silver and gold originals of the actual flowers and branches that I gathered. This commitment to "live casting" insures that I must continually forage for or grow in my garden new material to be cast.
| Location: Cypress |
Martin Hsu Illustrations
Martin Hsu started his self-titled business in 2006 to create a channel for his silly ideas. He enjoys making t-shirts, illustrations, self-published sketchbooks, and original paintings. When Martin is not modeling for his own t-shirts, he works in animation as a character designer. Please visit his website for more of his artwork.
| Location: Cypress |
Matthew Porter Art
Matthew Porter will be showcasing his paintings, prints and products all featuring his infamous monkey world illustrations. Matthew is a children's book illustator and writer. He currently has three books published with Vancouver, BC publishing house Simply Read Books. An aditional two books are in the works for release in 2009 and 2010. In addition his children's books Matthew co owns Bluebottle Art Gallery and Store in Seattle with his wife, Andrea.
| Location: Cypress |
Mercedes Pens Art Car
The Mercedes Pens is a 1981 300SD Mercedes covered in over 10,000 pens. I was inspired by a book on Art Cars and in June of 2005 I had the idea to glue PENS on my car early one morning. So far I have had opportunities to speak in schools about what I do and inspire others to follow their dreams, and appear at various events where kids ages 1-120 years old get to glue pens on my car. In the four years I have been driving this car around I have been able to make a lot of people smile - and that is the best part of why I do this. If you have a chance come by and experience this for your self, and if you happen to have any "dead" pens laying around, bring them and you can glue these on the car also.
| Location: Outside West Gate |
Metal Arts Guild
Members from MAG will run participatory metal arts and jewelry workshops such as fold-forming, making woven chain, and helping to make a 12'x27' art installation from recycled pencils. In between workshops, live demos will be given on working with Argentium silver, and on the ancient Korean technique of Keum-boo. A Recycled Jewelry Exhibition, displayed in MAG's hand-wrought steel floor cases, will showcase members' artwork.
| Location: Show Barn 803 |
Metal Arts Techniques
Demonstrations of various simple metal arts techniques people can easily master and use on their own. Demonstrations change every three hours, and when feasible, are make-it-and-take-it projects.
Techniques include chain making, riveting, jewelry from soda cans and wire crochet.
| Location: Show Barn 801 |
Moondog Madrigal Puppet Show
This full-length theater work, based on the music of legendary New York street performer/composer Louis “Moondog” Hardin, combines multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble performance with an original script inspired by Moondog’s wacky poetry and lyrics and our own puppets made of recycled household items, hardware, and dead bamboo from our Houston backyard.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 334 |
Mousetrap to Mars - Rube Goldberg Documentary
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.
| Location: Screening Room |
Neon Art Shop
With a portable set of neon cross-fires, Shawna Peterson demostrates neon tubebending techniques. Shawna owns a small shop in Oakland, CA focusing on commercial neon and her own artwork. Her artwork utilizes old signs and new neon to create sculpture and furniture. She also teaches classes at her studio.
| Location: Sequioa 603 |
Neverwas Haul
Neverwas Haul is a self-propelled 3-story Victorian House inspired by the works of Jules Verne. The public is invited to tour the Haul and marvel at our steam-powered devices and mechanisms. Costumed performers will guide you as you take a sideways step back in history.
| Location: Outside Grass North Midway |
New Archaic Woodworking
For over one million years hominids have made objects from wood. However in the land of Ikea it is easy to forget the potential of our own hands. I would love to reawaken this knowledge by leading a woodcarving demonstration. I propose that on a small patch of ground outside, I would lay out my hand tools, a few pieces of local driftwood, and carve. In the middle of the mayhem of Maker Faire there would be a little space to sit, watch and tell stories. All that separates us from the time where people whittled in rocking chairs are sticks and knives.
| Location: Outside Grass Grass Area S by Gate D |
NIMBY
We are showcasing a selection of NIMBY art, fire art, and metal sculpture housed in and around a 20' shipping container - the basic building block of our 64,000 square foot space.
Attendees can create welded candle holders with scrap metal and wallets from recycled grocery bags. NIMBY artists are present to explain their work and how to become a part of NIMBY.
| Location: West Lot WL14 |
Nove Bit
Nove Bit is an interactive 3 x 3 matrix that allows users to record sequences of light and save them as 9 bit memories. Nove Bit addresses human to computer interaction by allowing the user to physically input the memory as 9 bits, as opposed to the traditional 8 bit computer memory. Nove Bit also touches on the notion of a personal memory by recording a users’ thoughts in time and replaying them as a pattern of lights. The visual memories are stored as 9 bits, represented by a corresponding button. Compared to 8 bits, 9 bits also allows for a visually even distribution of the memory as a square. The “Nove”, which means nine in Italian, also references the Arduino Duemilnove, one of the two micro-controllers that control the unit.
The programming mode is entered as soon as the user presses any button. The user can program light sequences by simply pressing buttons in the desired pattern. Patterns are recorded after several seconds of inactivity from the user. The patterns are replayed by fading the leds on and off inside the translucent white buttons. The buttons are placed in a wooden facade, while the square, white plexi-glass case forms the base and houses the Arduino and the TLC 5940 micro-controllers. The unit is powered by a wall adapter and can easily fit on a desk, nightstand or other flat surface with limited space.
| Location: Expo Hall 130 |
Orbiting Eden Digital "Brag Bag"
We are a fashion studio integrating lighting and battery technology with handbags. We aim to provide enhanced usability out of everyday items. We provide couture for orbiting Eden.
| Location: Expo Hall 223 |
Pandora's Trunk Storytime Runway Show
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.
| Location: Cypress Outside Stage |
Pearson-Maron
Adam Maron and Quincy Pearson are full time artists and kitsch peddlers. They make work individually and together under the name Pearson-Maron.
| Location: Cypress |
Pinbowl Chaos Generator
A large polycarbonate dish 3 feet in diameter contains 4 bumpers, 3 Neon/Argon rings, and 1 to 3 pinballs. When activated, the bumpers begin energizing, sending balls careening and colliding with each other and triggering the gas tubes and creating a cacophony of light and sound. They eventually lose momentum, roll back down to the bottom, only to be sent on their way once again by the bumpers. This gives a glimpse of the chaos theory and Brownian motion, besides being a spectacle that is hard to take your eyes off.
| Location: Expo Hall 149 |
Pnuema
A 12" tall active fire sculpture; Pnuema is a copper, brass, aluminum, steel, and stainless steel flower sculpture, resting on three large leaves. Flame effects include a rotating fiery stamen, a vortex effect, and hot blue flames running down each leaf spine.
| Location: West Lot WL11 |
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 |
Prelinger Library of Historical How-To Materials
Prelinger Library, a maker- and remixer-friendly library in San Francisco, brings a satellite library to Maker Faire. Relax, read and download a 100-year selection of historical books, periodicals, and print ephemera covering all aspects of making, invention, hands-on engineering, hobbies, and DIY.
| Location: Fiesta Hall 344 |
Provo Craft
For 40 years, Provo Craft has invented new products that bring industrial
technology to the masses, including the Cricut® Personal Electronic Cutter,
the Yudu™ Personal Screen Printer, the YourStory™ Book Binder and Laminator,
the Cuttlebug® Die Cutter and Embosser, and the GoBe™ Battery Pack/Power Hub
and Solar Briefcase. These innovative tools help women bring their creative
ideas to life in a personalized, professional-looking way at home, in
schools, and in the workplace.
Come to the Provo Craft booth and turn on your creative best! We'll show you
how to use the Cricut® Personal Electronic Cutter, the Yudu™ Personal Screen
Printer, the Cricut DesignStudio® software, the YourStory™ Book Binder and
Laminator, the Cuttlebug® Die Cutter and Embosser, and the GoBe™ Battery
Pack/Power Hub and Solar Briefcase.
Puppy Mover Monorail
The Puppy Mover Monorail is a whimsical work of kinetic art. What began as a joke evolved into a working five-car monorail train, over 10' long, serving some surprisingly well-behaved puppies!
| Location: Expo Hall 90 |
Recycled Optical Art
My art contains vibrant colors that result from the absorption and transmission of specific wavelengths of light from the recycled transparent plastic that all of my art is made from. The material can be cut and formed to any shape or dimension and replace stained/textured glass for many purposes.
Retro PCs by Datamancer
Victorian-themed computers and computer accessories by Richard Nagy.
| Location: Steampunk Grass F |
Riekes Center Animation Segment
Make a stop motion and time lapse animation. Using clay, objects, paint, sand, and more, participants bring the inanimate object to life using simple frame by frame shooting techniques. The final project will show on the Riekes Center Youtube page. All ages.
San Francisco Mobile Museum
Maria Mortati
I will be a walking museum polling station, asking the public to vote on issues museum.
Sasha Bell Jewelry
Sasha Bell
Sasha Bell is a Canadian born silver smith and jewelry designer having most recently returned to this passion full time since moving to Los Angeles this past year. Her desire to create jewelry and work with precious metals was first piqued at the Kootenay School of the Arts in B.C. Canada where she completed a 2 year program of small object and jewelry design. She is a designer on the well known Etsy website and also sells her jewelry at many stores throughout the US. Her style is both modern and edgy with an organic feel presented in soft brushed finishes and deep patinas. Through her jewelry design process, she intends to create completely handmade miniature wearable works of art to be treasured by women of all ages.
| Location: Cypress |
SCRAP
People can make found object sculptures out of materials from SCRAP and learn about ways to re-use discarded materials in art projects.
| Location: Expo Hall 268 |
Scraper Bike Exhibit
The Scraper Bike Movement seeks to capture the creativity of youth living within dangerous communities. It gives them a positive outlet that is fun, educational, and promotes healthy lifestyles. The Scraper Bike Movement offers youth a sustainable group of peers that is positive and motivating. We want to expand and enlighten young people's perspective on life through fixing and painting bicycles. Our goal is to support youth entrepreneurship and cultural innovation.
The Scraper Bike Movement has been around for about 5-6 years and is now starting to get exposure worldwide. We recently put a video on youtube.com and watched it touch people all over the country as well as the world. The video is at 2.5 million views and still going. We have set up a lot of events over the past few years to spread the movement around. Oakland is the birthplace of the Scraper Bikes and we plan to continue giving back to our community.
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 |
Sculptures and Rapid Prototyping
I create abstract metal sculptures using rapid prototyping technologies:
selective laser sintering and direct metal printing. I design custom
3D software to model my shapes.
| Location: Expo Hall 215 |
Seattle Show Posters
We screen print gig posters and art. We like glow in the dark ink, happy sadness, and rabbits. Sometimes we print awesome shirts for awesome kids.
| Location: Cypress |
SF Digital Film
Description to come...
Shadow Puppet Fantasy
The ancient art of Shadow Puppetry enchants young and old, whether puppeteer or observer. Experience this magical art form as you assemble a wildly expressive puppet from simple found and upcycled materials. Learn technical secrets that bring storytelling alive using your puppet, a light, and simple screens.
| Location: Meeting Pavilion 502 |
Sharkmobile
A 1948 international pick-up truck art car.
| Location: East Gate |
Skate Deck Chair
A prototype for a furniture line, in kit form, constructed of reclaimed skateboard decks and CNC-milled color fin ply.
| Location: Expo Hall 282 |
Soda Bottle Wave
The Soda Bottle Wave is a monumental mechanical mobile using hundreds of recycled two-liter soda bottles. Ten feet in diameter, and twenty feet high, the linked matrix of soda bottles undulates fluidly, driven by an overhead structure containing an electric motor and lots of string.
| Location: Expo Hall 169 |
Soma
A fantastical sculpture that translates the anatomy of neurons into metal, fire and light; magnifying the microscopic world to an epic scale.
For Maker Faire, we have a partial installation of Soma's central elements: the cell nucleus. This is a counter spinning rotating ball of fire; 6' tall; enclosed within a stainless steel dodecahedron.
| Location: West Lot WL13 |
Sparkle Labs - Discover Electronics
The Discover Electronics Kit contains everything you need to learn the basics of electronics circuit design. It contains all of the most common electronics components as well as a prototyping breadboard for you to get started right away.
Special Awesome
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.
Sphae 2009
A 25-foot tall steel plant sculpture with illuminated inflatable bulbs on top.
| Location: West Lot Launch Area |
Spread Eagle
Symbolizing transcendence, freedom and the pursuit of happiness, viewers are invited to step inside the center and become part of the sculpture.
| Location: West Lot Entrance |
Steampunk Airmail Letter Project
The StClair Aeronauts dress in what we imagine a Royal Zepplin Airmail Crew of 1883 would look like. At our table, we have parchment paper, envelope patterns, stamps, pen and ink, and glue. People can come to the table and write letters to their friends. My crew then delivers these letters.
| Location: Steampunk Grass F |
SteamPunk Magazine
SteamPunk Magazine is for the punks who lurk behind steampunk's shiny brass veneer. It's also one of the premier sources for DIY steampunk mechanicary and contraption.
| Location: Steampunk Grass F |
Steampunk Magazine - part of Carnivale Mechanique
Libby Bulloff
With Magpie Killjoy, for the second year I am representing Steampunk Magazine and other Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness publications as part of Carnivale Mechanique. We are instigating conversation about lost technology as well as showing off our post-civ, sustainability, vintage punk, upcycled, etc, projects.
| Location: Steampunk Grass F |
Stereoscopic 3D Photography
Educational outreach and workshops in all aspects of 3D photography, both digital and film. Presentations by members of the Stereo Club of Southern California.
| Location: Expo Hall 217 |
Stereoscopix: Adventures in 3D Imagemaking
Interactive demonstrations of a variety of applications and methods for creating, displaying and reproducing unusual and unconventional stereoscopic 3D images, including software for sketching in three-dimensional space, methods for converting two-dimensional drawings and images into 3D, tips and tricks for printing and displaying stereoscopic pictures.
| Location: Expo Hall 218 |
SubZERO
Promotional booth with information about SubZero, a Do-It-Yourself, participatory, performative, interactive, circuit-bending “street fair” rooted in the out-of-this world imagination and technological virtuosity that are the hallmarks of Silicon Valley. Like a one-night, urban Burning Man, SubZero brings together nearly 100 mostly local artists, performers, and musicians to turn South First Street from Original Joe’s to the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art into a journey of discovery and excitement.
SubZero is an event for the curious-of-mind and the open-to-new-experiences where San Jose becomes an interactive platform of creativity and imagination for the participator as well as the spectator. It’s like nothing else in Silicon Valley – it’s FIRST FRIDAYS on Steriods.
| Location: Expo Hall 290 |
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 |
Tangólumen
Tangólumen is an interactive lighting space that activates shared spaces and illuminates the implied social relations in them.
| Location: Meeting Pavilion 514 |
Tara to the T
Tara to the T is the result of designer Tara Tonini combining her passion for accessories, vintage fashion and unique personal sense of style into a vintage inspired line of clothing and accessories.
| Location: Cypress Baz Biz 92 |
TechShop
Jim Newton
Come to the TechShop area and try your hand at using some of the machines and equipment available at this local, membership-based workshop.
| Location: Show Barn 813 |
The ChakraTron
The ChakraTron. An illuminated interactive kinetic fortune telling sculpture by Scott Gasparian. Using recycled sewing machines, broken glass, microcontrollers and LEDs, this classically styled figure can answer all your questions!
| Location: Expo Hall |
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 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 |
The Visible Pinball (Electromechanical)
A vintage EM pinball machine from 1975 has been housed in a clear acrylic cabinet. It is completely functional down to the coin mechanisms that initiate game play. Even the playfield itself is clear so that the user is able to view all the components in action as they play the machine. Spectators will also see the relays actuating, solenoids, stepper switches, score motor, spinners, targets, bumpers and sling-shots in action. The head is clear displaying the score reels, lights, relays and switches in motion. The original artwork is visible although translucent, so you see through it also. This exhibit amazes visitors of all ages and stimulates interest in electro-mechanics.
| Location: Expo Hall 149 |
This Into That
Old coins, stamps, vintage matchbox labels, scrabble tiles, and beads, transformed into jewelry.
Old letters, stamps and vintage fabric, made into collages.
Broken shards and tiles and china made into lamps and sculpture.
Vintage recycled lampshades made into sculpture, and found objects transformed into small sculpture.
| Location: Expo Hall 229 |
ToonTastic
A Global Storytelling Network - For Kids, By Kids.
Creativity, collaboration, and cultural understanding are becoming increasingly important in our workplace and society. As educators, we are therefore challenged to create new opportunities for children to express their ideas and share their work in collaboratively playful settings, both locally and online the world over. At Stanford's School of Education, we are developing an online storytelling and animation tool that empowers young children without any technical skills to create their own cartoons and share their stories with other kids around the world. Our goal is to build an online Global Storytelling Network that will inspire creative collaboration and spread cultural understanding through the power of story.
With ToonTastic, kids use multi-touch screens to draw and animate via simple and intuitive gestures. The hardware and software are currently under development as an exhibit for a children's museum in San Francisco. As multi-touch screens become more prevalent in classrooms and homes, however, our goal is to launch the software online and empower kids the world over to express and share their cartoons on their very own forum - for kids, by kids.
| Location: Expo Hall 99 |
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 |
Veritable Vicissitudes
We will enable attendees to create continuously evolving dance works. By playing a game, winning attendees can move a dancer(s) in space and direct their movement phrases. Attendees can either collectively or independently create new choreographic works in real-time while being engaged in a fun, challenging and collaborative experience.
| Location: Outside Grass O |
Waking Antiquity
Dimension traveling crafter of retrofuture art, fashion, and various
curiosities.
I will bring some jewelry, fashion pieces,
the Elder Bass, and an example
of the Ladies Discreet Companion as seen in MAKE 17.
Xylocopa Design
Andrew & Michele Waser
Andrew & Michele are Xylocopa Design, a husband-wife team dedicated to the creation of wondrously fun things from wood and other natural materials. Best known for our award-winning Mad Science Alphabet Blocks, we use everything from lasers to hand carving tools to build our unique collection of jewelry, toys, home decor, musical instruments, and much more. All our creations are designed, illustrated, and produced by us in sunny Tucson, Arizona.
| Location: Cypress |
Yoyos at Maker Faire
Group of yoyo players, performer(s) and possible a yoyo company will be attending Maker Faire to show what modern yoyoing is all about! Check out new innovations in yoyo technology and in yoyo tricks.
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