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Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Projects and Makers By Topic

Engineering

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"Over The Top" Self-Propelled Ferris Wheel
This 2-person Ferris wheel is powered by the riders, using arm muscles to shift their weight. Standing 20 feet tall and made of plywood, it's truly a green machine.

Location: Midway M2

2010 Call for Rube Goldberg Machines!
We're partnering with the Rube Goldberg Foundation to bring a new, all-ages machine contest in 2010. Get rules and instructions here!

Location: Redwood 417

3d Printer
Learn how to turn your projects into reality using the latest in digital fabrication technology.

Location: Expo Hall 163

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

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

actual hardware
actual hardware designs open source tools. Our first design, the NutJob, is a wrench for fixed gear bikes.

Location: Bike Town A3

Amateur Radio: Getting on the Air
Demonstration of amateur radio station, with radios, antennas, and related gear; use local repeaters to communicate; how to get your FCC license; how to set up a mobile station to use anywhere; volunteer for emergency communication in emergencies.

Location: Redwood 416

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

Ambidextrous Journal of Design
Ambidextrous is Stanford University's Journal of Design. We are showing off recent issues and celebrating Makers featured in the pages of our magazine. We have a Mechanical Frog Dissection activity for old and young alike to get a taste of Functional Dissection, a core feature of Ambidextrous.

Location: Expo Hall 275

Android Beyond the Phone
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!

Appliance Repair ifixit
Can't figure our why the water won't drain from your washing machine? Don't know why your dryer makes annoying noises or just shuts off from time to time? Repairing appliances yourself is surprisingly easy and very rewarding.

Applied Science Research James Dann
We are a high school in Menlo Park. Students will display their projects from my Applied Science Research class. There are about 10 in total and include a Wave energy device, a regenerative braking project on a bicycle, a hover craft, maglev model train with self propulsion system, art with Ferro-fluid, high speed photography (using Make Magazine design), Moon orbit measurement device, ...

Location: Expo Hall 114

Audio Anecdotes
Demonstrate interactive sound, music, mind/body, demos from the Audio Anecdotes series of books. We attempt to bridge the isolated islands of narrow expertise between Musicians, Audio Engineers, Scientists, Medical Practitioners, Programmers, Game Developers, and Enthusiasts (MAKERS) by sharing digital audio tools, tips, and techniques! We will provide detailed descriptions of the demos including explanation and C-code implementation of the algorithms. Series Creator, Ken Greenebaum, and bay area contributors including Robert Quattlebaum, Ben Luna, and Eric Lee will be present.

Augmented Reality for Cheapskates
A 3-D head-mounted augmented-reality display made from an iPhone, two $3 lenses, a bit of plastic from an Ikea frame, and some foamcore to hold it all together. Total cost: under $10. Plus an iPhone.

Location: Expo Hall 161

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.

Berserker Off-Road Recumbent Tricycle Berserker Cycle Design
We have designed an off-road recumbent tricycle, the first of its kind. Combining an extra-wide seat pan, fully articulated control arms, and aircraft-grade cromoly tubing, and optional electric assist, we've created a trike that can take whatever you choose to dish out.

Big Kid Bikes
I am displaying two of my interesting and unique bikes, and their building process and specific bicycle part know-how that streamlines that process. The "Kitten": A large frame 2-wheeled bicycle that uses recycled car wheels, has a solar powered directional lighting system. The "Bigger Wheel": A grown up version of the big wheel capable of doing 30 mph, that can both stick to corners or slide round them. Probably the most fun bike most will ever ride.

Location: Bike Town A3

Big Mess o' Wires - A Home-Built CPU
Big Mess o' Wires is a custom-designed and hand-built CPU and 8-bit computer. It's similar in concept to homebrew computers from the 1970s, like Wozniak's Apple I. BMOW is built from discrete TTL logic chips, connected with 2500 individual hand-turned wire wraps.

Location: Expo Hall 296

Bike Repair ifixit
Having derailleur problems? Want to know how to fix a flat quickly or adjust your pedals, handles and seat properly? We'll show you how to fix common problems on your bike.

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

Building an Airplane From the Ground Up Rand & 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!

Burning Man Earth
Burning Man Earth (BME) is an initiative to gather and archive information about the art installations, events and people of Burning Man through aerial and Gigapan photography, GPS, APRS, user-generated data, and other tools and sources. This information is made publicly available to encourage the broadest possible access to and interaction around that data, for both the current and past Burning Man events.

Location: Sequioa 608

California Insect Bots David Wiley
Robot fighting for weight classes of 150 gram Flea Weights,1 Lb Ant Weights,and 3 Lb Beetle Weights referred to over all as the insect classes. Because they are allowed to use very destructive weapons this takes place inside a fully enclosed Lexan arena that is 7'x7' wide by 6' tall for safety. For rules go to: http://www.calbugs.com/RFL%20&%20CIB%202006%20Rules.doc

Location: Redwood 410 & 411

Car Repair ifixit
Are you stuck with a tricky problem on your project car? Or are you new to automobile repair want to learn how to change your own oil? We have years of experience and are here to help!

Cardboard Surfboards
Hollow, translucent surfboards, with a corrugated cardboard core structure, assembled from notched 2D cross sections cut on a small CNC router. The surfboard design and rendering software was built with Web technologies.

Location: Show Barn 805

Carnivale Mechanique Meredith Scheff-king
With Jake von Slatt and the Steampunk Workshop! This is the area where makers' love of the archaic meets the future meets the fantastic.

Location: Steampunk Grass F

Catapult Design
The majority of our world's population lacks access to life's basic needs. We develop and implement human-centered products to help them thrive.

Location: Expo Hall 125

Channelled Alien Mechanicals
For a couple years I've been making these mechanical "things" in my garage shop. No design work. No planning. They appear almost by themselves. They react and move to human touch. My friend thinks they are from another dimension, here to gather information from interaction with humans.

Location: Expo Hall 309

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

Collaborative DIY Repair ifixit
Imagine a world where everyone could know how to fix anything. What would change? iFixit is launching a new collaborative repair site where people can exchange repair knowledge. Join us, and teach the world how to fix something: www.iFixit.com

ComBots Combat Robot Exhibit
Exhibit of combat robots.

Location: Redwood 414

Computer & Electronics Repair ifixit
Does your computer need a RAM upgrade, but you want to do it yourself? Did you break the screen on your cell phone? Is the infamous Xbox red circle of death on the staring you down? We love tinkering with and fixing gadgets, and we're happy to help out.

Concentrating Solar Collector and Electric Car
Our inexpensive solar collector uses flat mirrors that track the sun to boost the output of photovoltaic cells. We use the power to charge an electric car. The collector is built by high school students at the Latino College Preparatory Academy in East San Jose, Calif.

Location: Sequioa 601

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

Cyclecide Bike Rodeo and Carnival Midway
From salvaged bicycles we've created a fleet of double-decker tall bikes, choppers, tandems, swing bikes, reverse bikes, and more. The Heavy Pedal Bike Rodeo highlights these monstrous alter-cycles with stupefying stunts, while our pedal-powered carnival rides and attractions demonstrate the possibilities of human-powered fun and engineering. Little kids, big kids and kids-at-heart can all participate in our shows!

Location: Midway M4

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.

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

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

DIY Balancing Scooter
This project was designed to emulate the invention of the Segway by Dean Kamen. We want to provide the resources for any hobbyist to make a balancing scooter on their own, in only a few weekends.

Location: Bike Town A1

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

DIY Mac Repair ifixit
iFixit.com is the world's leading source of information on do-it-yourself Mac, iPod, and iPhone repair. Broke your iPod screen? Are the proud owner of brand new iBrick? iFixit's expert Mac technicians are ready and willing to help out.

DIY Magic Mirror
Take that extra PC you have lying around and turn it into an Interactive Magic Mirror. Features: * Responds to Proximity, Touch, and On/Off sensors * Weather Forecast, Stock Performance, and X-10 Lighting Control * Princess, Pirate, and Halloween modes

Location: Fiesta Hall 340

DIY midi controller and step sequencer
This project is with the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT): This is a DIY project. The idea is to build a compact MIDI controller with a simple step sequencer (something like 4 tracks simultaneously with 16 steps each) along with some controls for the sequencer (like a monomer like control). Simple enough to record some ideas real quick, without having to turn on the Laptop, wait for Live to start up etc. The whole project is based on a Parallax propeller ship and several peripheral chips like I2C 8 bit parallel port, 11-channel 12 bit ADC converter etc. The project is very much a bunch of components right now and far from finished, but it might be interesting for people to take a look and chat a little about the electronics etc.

DIY Stringless Cello and Other Chordophones
These instruments illustrate how to greatly simplify construction of string instruments by substituting rods, motors and resistive touch strips for strings and using a cheap Sparkfun microcontroller to control music synthesizers. A monochord and 12 string version are currently in use by professional cellists; new 2 string and 4 string versions are under construction. A new guitar variant will be ready next month that substitutes rigid rods for the rotating rods of the bowed instruments.

Location: Expo Hall 211

DIY Wireless Internet Radio Receiver
This homebrew internet streaming radio receiver is based on a hacked Asus WL-520gU wireless router and an ATmega168 microcontroller.

Location: Expo Hall 166

Do-It-Yourself Biology
Do you dream of engineering biofuels, creating new species as pets, and exploring your genome? We represent the San Francisco DIYbio (do it yourself biology) group! Learn about what's making backyard biology a reality! Plus, see our genetically modified cells that grow green and DNA visualized with gel electrophoresis.

Location: Expo Hall 288

Dual motor ebike, solar powered
Dual motor electric bike with a solar powered battery charger constructed on a bike trailer. The project is a proof of concept that demonstrates various technologies including electronics, electric motors, and solar charging. The goal is to educate and inspire other inventors to experiment and join the electric vehicle movement.

Location: Bike Town A8

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.

Electronics Prototyping Process / Napkin Schematics
2 presentations

Engineering Help 5¢
We engineer large-scale sculpture for festivals and permanent installation. Come talk to us about your ideas.

Location: Expo Hall 298

Engineers Without Borders
We strive to empower communities by providing tools that facilitate local economic development and provide basic needs, local education, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Current projects include: a Wind Turbine in Guatemala, a Rock Crusher for BioSand Filters in the Philippines, a Hippo Roller for water transport in South Africa, a Solar Water Distiller in India, a Farming Trellis in Afghanistan, and a Composting Toilet in Belize.

Location: Expo Hall 124

Epolog Laser
Epilog is the leading manufacturer of CO2 and fiber laser engraving systems. Our user-friendly equipment engraves, marks and cuts a variety of materials including wood, acrylic, plastic, fabric, rubber, glass, treated metals and so much more! Epilog will be demonstrating our newest entry-level laser system, the Zing 24 at Maker Faire. We'll also be doing custom engraving jobs, so make sure to bring in your favorite gadget and we'll personalize it!

EV Miata
A classic red Mazda Miata converted to 100% electric drive -- no oil, no gas, no emissions. Not only is it clean and quiet, but it's quick and it handles as good or better than stock.

Location: Sequioa 613

Fab@Home version 2 Cornell University
A new Fab@Home has been developed at Cornell University. By changing the electronics and mechanics, the cost was reduced from $2500 to roughly $1500. These changes reduce build effort, required skill of assembler, and increase system speed without sacrificing accuracy. We are also using the Fab@Home to create food structures that are otherwise extremely difficult to create by professional chefs.

Location: Show Barn 807B

Fantastic Contraption: The Device Artists
Final description to come...

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

Firefall
Naphthalene will be pumped into the copper kettle to burn on the surface of the water and cascade over the lip of the kettle, creating a beautiful fire effect. During the day, Firefall will operate as a simple water fountain.

Location: Outside Grass North Midway

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

Flaming Zen Garden
This fire art piece allows participants a chance to express their creativity as a fire artist. The piece is not about the creator; Wally Glenn is simply the man who sets up the piece. The Flaming Zen Garden comes alive when people work with it and draw shapes. Everyone who draws a design in the sand becomes an artistic contributor at Maker Faire. Their contribution is the shape and the moment in time. Flaming Zen Garden becomes a focal point of conversation and a creative outlet for participants.

Location: Outside Grass North Midway

Flying Magnets
Make Flying Magnetic Kinetic sculptures by hacking regular soliniods and rotary electromagnet. Plans and parts will be available to build a simple model that demonstrates Newton's Law of Conservation of energy.

Location: Expo Hall 302

Flying the World's Fastest Aircraft
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".

FlyLoops Looping Studio Aaron Leese
Demonstration of real time audio looping and manipulation with a program I invented called FlyLoops (www.flyloops.com). FlyLoops is intended for electronica style music creation, and so involved audio scratching and other turntablism effects. It is the only audio looped to incorporate such effects and first of it's kind in a number of ways. Presentation in cooperation with the Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT).

Free Radio Berkeley
Free Radio Berkeley is an ongoing project to reclaim the broadcast airwaves with low cost DIY FM and TV broadcast transmitter kits, antennas and related items. Training programs and technical support are also offered for the development of community radio stations on an international basis.

Location: Expo Hall 162

Freelancers Union
Freelancers Union members and staff are here to talk to you about our community, advocacy work, and all the employer-style benefits we offer freelance members. We�ll also tell you why we�re trying to reach 10,000 freelancers in California by the end of this summer. And if you dig it, you can join on site and walk away with a free Freelancers Union tote bag or bookmark!

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

GleanEnergy Project
This application of the GleanEnergy principle demonstrates a mechanism which gleans a small amount of energy from pedestrian activity, and applies it to raising water, through a simple system of one way valves, to a height where it can be used to generate electricity.

Location: Outside Grass U

Google SketchUp
Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. We will be showing how to build models and add them to Google Earth.

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

Gyrobike
Gyrowheel, a revolutionary device that adds stability and balance to bicycles for riders of all ages. Here�s the scoop: The Gyrowheel �senses� unbalanced biking and re-centers the bike underneath the rider�s weight at the point when tipping starts to occur. The force created by the Gyrowheel creates high stability at very slow speeds, whether riding straight or turning.

Location: Bike Town A4

Hack Cool Things with Microcontrollers!
Anyone can learn how to make cool things with microcontrollers! Even if you've never sewn a button, you can actually make a fun, intriguing project at the Faire. Blink lights, hack your brain, play video games, turn off TVs in public places — microcontrollers can do it all. This is for all skill and experience levels. Ages 5 to 100. You can even learn to solder! Learn all this and more from expienced makers at the Hardware Hacking area in the Maker Shed.

Location: Maker Shed Maker Shed

Hacking Toys and Clothes
MAKE and CRAFT online editor Becky Stern hacks toys and clothes to make art, new toys, musical instruments, and wearable electronics. She'll show how she made her TV-B-Gone Hoodie, the sweatshirt that turns off TVs, and how to hack the circuit board of an electronic toy to change its sound. Don't miss Becky's Twitchie Scorpion toy and Human Hair Blythe doll.

HandWriter: Mobile Text Input
Free yourself from the keyboard! We've made a handy little typing device that allows you to enter text while on the go. Put an end to Repetitive Stress Syndrome. This keyset allows freedom of movement -- simply move your fingers to type. Easy to use, no installation.

Location: Expo Hall 294

Heads On Fire
Fab Labs are a global network of design and fabrication laboratories, installed as a resource for community-based innovation. They combine CNC milling machines, specialized software, and the ability to make and program electronics.

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

Hennepin Crawler
Four very BIG wheels and four riders pedal a handmade kinetic conveyance of whimsy known as the "Hennepin Crawler" by Krank-Boom-Clank. The Crawler represents a melding of alternative transportation innovation, human-powered kinetic sculpture, recycling functional garbage, and a prankster's notion of inflicting bewildering beauty upon an unsuspecting public.

Location: Steampunk Grass F

High-Low Tech: Rethinking Cultural and Material Contexts for Technology
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.

Holiday House 2009
Bob and Robert, two semi-retired computer engineers with a passion for artistic expression through the use of computers, music, and an obscene number of ridiculously bright lights, bring their "Holiday House" to Maker Faire 2009, with almost 75,000 watts of lights synchronized to pulse-pounding music via custom-build hardware and software.

HomebrewCPU - A TTL Computer
Magic-1 is a completely home-built computer (including the CPU) constructed from more than 200 TTL chips using wire-wrap construction. It runs a custom port of the Minix 2 operating system, and serves web pages and telnet sessions at http://magic-1.org.

Location: Expo Hall 297

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.

HP
HP, the world's largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. The HP TouchSmart PC: Touch the Future Now - Your digital life at your fingertips. - Just touch the screen to navigate to information, entertainment, and social networks. - Check the weather; play music and create playlists; crop, edit and share photos; or watch TV - with only a tap or swipe of a finger http://www.hp.com/touchsmart Come to the HP TouchSmart PC Information Stations for a demo of the PC or to get all your Maker Faire information in real time!

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

Infrared Thermography
Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) presents infrared thermography that provides an imaging and measurement camera and LCD that can "see" and "measure" the heat of an object. Have fun and get your infrared picture taken too! In addition, we will provide various engineering demonstrations of technologies and products in green, nanotechnology, and many other areas.

Location: Expo Hall 307

Inventaholic Prototype Playground
Come to the Prototype Playground and be a guinea pig! Play with actual prototypes and fun craft tools too. Try the Award Winning ColorCutter, the new DoodleCutter, BongoCargo (The Drum Driven RC Car) and more. See how ideas become Prototypes and then ultimately products. Learn the process of inventing from Inventaholic Award Winning Designer Perry Kaye. And discover how you too can begin making your own persnickety mechanisms.

Location: Expo Hall 137

iPhone Hacks
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 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.

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

K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple & Silent. Homemade car alarms unlike any that exist anywhere. Simple. With a drill, wire, 12v relay, soldering iron, wireless doorbell system, & 15 min. I can show you how to make a silent $15 car alarm with a panic/alert button.

Location: Sequioa 611

L.V.I.S.B.F.
Livermore Valley Illegal Soapbox Federation. In early 2008 a group of four friends decided to take the inspiration we found in the San Fernando Valley Illegal Soapbox Federation and start our own group up north. A year later, and after a couple months of racing our group has expanded to include about 10 racers.

Location: Cypress Outside 715

labs.MOTO.com
Android Action + DIY WattCam + Scaleable Multi-Touch + more Android Action: The folks at labs.moto.com have been tinkering with Google's Android, pushing it beyond the phone, booting E-Ink displays and such. Come witness MOTO's latest Android antic! DIY WattCam: Rise above the murky waters of pre-smart grid confusion and track the ups and downs of your home's electricity/gas/water consumption with a pure and simple webcam to Flickr Feed. Plot the numbers and finally: a comprehensive view on your household's energy consumption. Scaleable Multi-Touch Prototype: THIN and LARGE capacative touch feels... mmmmmm... great!

Location: Expo Hall 113

Learning, Making, and Helping in DTV Transition Outreach
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.

LED Mania
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.

Lightning Laboratory Prototype
An experimental twin-tower system that generates large-scale artificial lightning.

Location: Expo Hall 119

littleBits
littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together.

Location: Expo Hall 126

macetech
macetech will be displaying various interactive projects based on our new LED and Arduino products.

Location: Expo Hall 135

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 It Green
We're turning great ideas that improve lives and help our planet into actual products. Submit an idea of your own and vote for your favorites at http://makeitgreen.yahoo.com At Maker Faire, we're showcasing 'Make It Green' with some of our favorite innovations to inspire makers to create and share their own. Come see the Garduino, a "plantsitter", that gives plants water and light when needed and alerts you if the temperature drops too low; the Solar Cooker, a solar-powered cooker saves energy, trees, the atmosphere, and even lives- And much more. Check it out.

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 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!

Make: 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.

Location: Expo Hall 310

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.

Making and Engineering at City college of San Francisco
We've a well developed teaching machine shop and project-oriented engineering classes. Bringing your own ideas and plans is usually an option!

Location: Show Barn 810

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

Making Open Source Hardware into a Kit Business
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.

Marble Madness
Marble Madness is a giant vertical marble maze created by 26 8th grade students from Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. Each student crafted their own 1' x 1' mini marble maze and then we attached them to a wooden base and vertical structure so that each maze would feed into the next.

MayBlue Bus
Our project is a 40ft school bus that has been transformed into a mobile home. Many fixtures of the bus allow it to be self sustaining including: the compostable toilet, solar panels, push pedal sewing machine, and biodiesel running engine. We engineered each of the elements of the conversion to create more independence in our lives.

Location: West Lot WL18

Mechanization Takes Command
Metalworking machines and electric vehicles with an industrial aesthetic and an emphasis on simplicity. Made mostly from recycled and surplus materials. Featured will be my new 3 wheel electric car, and an electric motorcycle. I will also be displaying some drawings and models to illustrate the design-build process.

Location: Sequioa 602

Meta - USA
Our self-balancing scooter was designed to go curb hopping and through the sand. It is exceedingly fast. The hardware is from an open source project, and the scooter has lean steering, using a flat titanium spring that we invented. Our clone is also radio controlled!

Location: Bike Town A2

Mice'pace Maze
Mice'Pace Maze players are given audio information through the use of wireless headphones creating a maze using sound as the walls and challenging players' abilities to move through a space with only what they hear.

Location: Meeting Pavilion 503

MIT Media Lab Makers
Students and researchers will bring and demo their latest prototypes, hacks, etc. such as: LilyPad Arduino, Drawdio, Sprout i/o, Homebrew RFID, TV-B-Ours, Pimp My Arm, VAMP, etc. -Play with toys, exchange ideas, try new hardware. -Talk to us about what it's like to be a student, professor, collaborator, sponsor etc.

Location: Expo Hall 134

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

Motorized Barcalounger
It looks like an ordinary 1970's era black vinyl recliner... but the secret is concealed inside - bwah ha ha ha! The electric wheelchair concealed beneath allows for the ultimate in laziness and nerd-geekiness combined!! Too lazy to get a beer from the fridge and your dog's too stupid to learn (or too smart to reward your lazy bum)? Build your own motorized barcalounger!

Location: Expo Hall Roaming

Noisebridge
A new hackerspace in San Francisco, Noisebridge is a space for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning. Noisebridge is also more than a physical space, it's a community with roots extending around the world. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring. From hardware labs to electronics, cooking, photography, and sound labs, anything that's creative is welcome. Specific projects we'd like to show off are a found and reverse-engineered LED sign, a hacked payphone, and many more collaborative and individual projects from our members.

Location: Expo Hall 267

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

Open Source Blackberry, Open Source Gameboy?
I'm showing off some of my Arduino gadgets.

Location: Expo Hall 289

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

Physical Design Co
Mass Customized Design and Fabrication for Architectural Scale Structures. We provide consumers with easy-to-use online tools that engage them in the design and manufacturing process and enables them to become the producers of their own architectural-scale designs. Through our web platform, anyone can upload and transform their own digital design � any inhabitable accessory structure, from a doghouse to a backyard art studio - into a customized kit of interlocking parts that are locally manufactured and that can be easily assembled by the user.

Location: Show Barn 815

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

Playpower: Let's Go 8-Bit! Playpower.org
Playpower.org will be showing makers how to use and hack 8-bit educational TV-computers! * program in BASIC and create simple sprite art * load 8-bit ROMs, including 8-bit art and chiptunes music * create ROM content such as plot-branching stories * manipulate video with circuit bending and "visual theremin" effects * interface with popular commercial cartridges of the 1980s * develop affordable educational games for worldwide distribution!

Location: Expo Hall 306

Plug-In Hybrid Car Conversions
The California Cars Initiative's fifth Maker Faire appearance turns a Prius into a 100+MPG plug-in hybrid by adding batteries and electronic systems. We're partnering with a company selling conversion systems, 3Prong Power, and local volunteer advocates. Plus we're explaining the next big thing: Conversions of large internal combustion gas-guzzlers.

Location: Sequioa 614

Potato Gatling Gun
This is an autofiring multi-barrel version of the popular PVC potato cannon from the book "Backyard Ballistics". It is capable of launching 6 potatoes approximately 400ft.

Location: West Lot WL24

Power Glove 20th Anniversary Edition
I've gutted and replaced the electronics in a Nintendo Power Glove, updating it with Bluetooth and improving its sensors. I've demoed its use by connecting it to games I've worked on as an indie video game developer.

Location: Expo Hall 213

PrimitiveWays.com
We are a group of makers interested in primitive technology. We would like to demonstrate: Knapping (stone tool making), knife making, fire making, cord making using native plants, net making, basket making, primitive pigment making, bow making and much more.

Location: Homegrown Village WL28

Projects with MAKE editor Mark Frauenfelder
Join MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder to see how to make simple Vibrobot toys, homemade guitars, and more. Plus: Mark's joined by Make: television host John Park to demonstrate their favorite coffee hacks, including the Florence Siphon, the Precision Espresso Tamper, and more cool coffee projects from MAKE magazine.

Propane Fountain
Propane Fountain is a propane/hydrogen powered flame effect that combines water and fire. The participants can control the flame shape, height, color and sound, while sitting at a child's school desk to operate the controls! This piece is kinetic, the only energy consumed is the fuel supplied.

Location: Outside Grass North Midway

R/C Plane with Tilt Sensor Controls
Hacking a micro controller onto the transmitter of an R/C model airplane to allow for tilt sensitive control. Using a Make Controller and a 3-axis accelerometer, the plane can be flown simply by tilting the transmitter. A friend with 10% use of one arm flew it successfully.

Location: Expo Hall 91

R/C Russian Alfa Class Submarine
This 5-foot, four-channel, radio controlled Russian Alfa Class submarine features an onboard air compressor and original operating systems designed by Mike Wernecke. It has an operating distance of 50+ feet on the surface and 8 feet below freshwater surface.

Location: Outside Battle Zone

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

RadioShack
Radio Shack first opened for business in 1921. Currently Radio Shack has Approximately 4,400 Company operated stores and 1,400 dealer outlets. RadioShack meets the needs of customers by cultivating collaborative relationships with a large number of leading technology companies. AT&T, Casio, Duracell, Garmin, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Mio, RIM, Samsung, SanDisk and Sprint Nextel are among the brands recognized for innovation and available at RadioShack. At Maker Faire we will be demonstrating and vending the latest in Digital Imaging, Wireless, Computers, Gaming, Toy's and Parts/Components.

Rapid Prototyping of Rapid Prototyping Machines
Makers are increasingly building their own rapid prototyping tools. Unfortunately, the time investment and barriers to entry can be daunting. This exhibit demonstrates methods to ease development, using four working machines as examples: a desktop PCB miller, a plaster xyz cell, a foam-core 3D printer, and a parametrically designed xy stage. 1) A sub-$200 PCB milling machine is the test-bed for using internet protocol as a medium for distributed machine control. 2) Another machine is parametrically designed from engineering formulas and uses a spreadsheet to automatically generate a customized McMaster-Carr order. 3) A third machine is cast out of plaster using laser-cut molds. This has the potential to expand on the parametric design principles and uses an earth-friendly structure. 4) Finally, I've made a 3D printer for less than $100 which can be made at home in around 12 hours. This machine explores the lower boundary conditions of functionality.

Location: Expo Hall 136

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

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

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 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

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

Santa Cruz Interactive Multi-touch Platform
Building on existing technologies documented at http://www.nuigroup.com, the Santa Cruz Interactive Multi-touch Platform (SCIMP) will be a 4-foot by 6-foot touch table that uses an array of projectors and webcameras to achieve high resolutions for both display and touch detection.

Location: Redwood 406

ScienceWiz Electric Car Camp
In the Sciencewiz Electric Car Camp elementary school age campers design and build electric go carts. The youngest campers learn basic metal working and electrical skills while building relatively conventional go carts, while the older campers design exotic and original cars.

Location: Outside East of Meeting Pavilion

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

Seasteading
What is Seasteading? Seasteading is creating permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas. Why would we want to do that? Because the world needs a new frontier, a place where those who wish to experiment with building new societies can go to test out their ideas. By opening the ocean as a new frontier, we hope to revolutionize the quality of government and social systems worldwide by enabling experimentation, innovation, and competition. We realize it's a long shot but we strongly believe it's possible. Our philosophy revolves around incrementalism - starting small and building up over time. At this time we want to grow awareness and membership in the seasteading community, share ideas and try to make them a reality. We are presenting our most recent concepts and ideas (video presentation, images of possible designs) and celebrating ideas in the making by organizing a mini design contest where we give participants a chance to build their own miniature seasteads and try them in out on site TSI aquarium. Successfully floating a design will win a TSI rubber duckie and recognition in the seasteading community.

Location: Expo Hall 305

SF Bay Area Amateur Radio
Amateur Radio (or ham radio) provides the broadest, most powerful wireless communications capability available to any citizen anywhere in the world.

Location: Fiesta Hall 326

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

SOHH Project
Solar Human Hybrid Vehicle. A street-legal, four wheel, pedalable vehicle with electric motor, solar panels & iPod dock. Carries 4 people, dog & groceries. An 8th grade project for the Novato Charter School. The SOHH challenges traditional transportation ideas, and demonstrates green transportation options for our community.

Location: Bike Town A6

Solar Souvenir Shoppe (of Burnination)
The giant Fresnel lens liquefies metal, allowing it to flow into a mold. It's science and entertainment rolled into one!

Location: West Gate Grass Area I

Solar Touring Bike
Our Solar Touring Bike will allow two riders to travel up to 200 miles per day entirely powered by the sun. Clever use of a geared hill-climbing motor and a silent cruise hub motor will enable us to tackle even difficult mountain touring on solar power.

Location: West Gate Grass K1

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

SparkFun Electronics - PTH Soldering Workshop
This 10-30 minute workshop will give you the necessary tips, techniques, and confidence to solder through-hole components. You will get to choose between 3 kits: Metro-Gnome, Terror-min, or ClockIt. This workshop is great for beginners who want to get some hands-on experience in assembling embedded electronics. SparkFun is asking for a $5-7 donation for the workshop, which will benefit two Bay Area non-profits (San Francisco Robotics Society of America and The Exploratorium).

SparkFun Electronics - SMD Soldering Workshop
SMD Soldering Workshop: This 2 1/2 hour intensive workshop will give you the necessary tips, techniques, and confidence to solder SMD (Surface Mount Devices). SparkFun instructors will guide you through assembling a Simon Kit, which will be yours to keep and brag about to all your friends. This workshop is great for beginners and experts alike, but confidence in PTH soldering is recommended. SparkFun is asking for a $20 donation, which will benefit two Bay Area non-profits (San Francisco Robotics Society of America and The Exploratorium). Sign up sheets are available at the SparkFun booth for the three classes on Saturday (10:30, 2:00, and 5:30) and two classes on Sunday (10:30 and 2:00).

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

Spooky Things: Halloween Pneumatic Props
The creators of Spooky Things use pneumatic cylinders, valves, wood, fog machines, light, PVC and electronics to create amazing Halloween yard props. The props rely on Aurdino microcontrollers to provide control and sound effects.

Location: Redwood 401

Stanford to the Fourth
Four projects from five Stanford Design students. We feel that presenting together better speaks to our ethic of encouraging exploration through building. 1) The Beancat - An all-wheel drive electric bean bag chair 2) Cumulus - Quilted trash bag lamp 3) Personal Fire Suit 4) Rotomax - Automated rotating time lapse camera mount

Location: West Gate B2

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

Tesla Motors, Tesla Roadster
San Carlos, California-based Tesla Motors Inc. makes electric vehicles with exceptional design, performance and efficiency, while conforming to all North American and European safety, environmental and durability standards. The Roadster has a 0-to-60 mph acceleration of 3.9 seconds yet is more energy efficient than a Toyota Prius. Tesla expects to begin producing the all-electric, zero-emission Model S sedan in late 2011.

The CandyFab Project
The CandyFab project was started in 2007 to promote alternative, low-cost open-source fabrication technologies, including the fabrication of arbitrary 3D objects out of pure sugar. We'll show off the newest version of the CandyFab, completely redesigned for 2009.

Location: Expo Hall 293

The Clock of the Long Now
Long Now's 10,000 Year Clock is a monument to long-term thinking. See one of the first full-sized component prototypes of the Clock: an 8-foot diameter Geneva wheel mechanism that is part of the bell ringing system.

Location: Expo Hall 104

the d.school
The d.school (formally the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University) teaches students to use design thinking to tackle hard social and industry problems that demand interdisciplinary solutions. We are showcasing student projects and are featuring design thinking and rapid prototyping activities.

Location: Expo Hall 274

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 Enchanted Classroom
Automated technology for home and school: Teachers and parents are overloaded. This project looks at the most effective teachers and adapts their strategies into child friendly objects, such a teddy bears. We use easily available technology. Children love the learning tools, and teachers and parents are pleased with the outstanding academic progress.

Location: Expo Hall 105

The End of Driving Mike and Maaike
We always wanted to design a car, it just never felt right. The current climate made us feel like something had to be done. We decided it was time to experiment and generate a new destination for a new auto industry since the current industry seems mired in its ways. The push for efficient, affordable, zero-pollution cars is important for the future of humanity and planet but is not the only problem to be solved. We think a shift must take place from marketing and styling cars to redefining them. The '90's was selfish in it's gas guzzling size and luxury, the current focus is zippy electric efficiency, and we believe the next destination will be driverless (self-driving) spaces. Our vision is a new focus on quality of time while in traffic and transit. We dismiss the need for extreme MPH and acceleration as irrelevant. Performance will be measured by time savings instead. So without the need for raw speed, we are able to focus on a new influence—for us, this is architecture. Unencumbered by driving, we want to provide a space for living. The list of life-enriching benefits for driverless cars is long: accessibility for young, old, and disabled (no drivers licenses), no searching for parking (it will drop you off and park itself), fewer cars will serve more people, less energy use, people will save hours each day (think autonomous check-ups and grocery pickups). Most importantly, there will be far fewer fatalities and there will always be a designated driver. We are excited to contribute our ideas of the future automobile and optimistic that it can lead to a meaningful new destination point for a new auto industry.

The Fool's Board: Social Game System
Kipp Bradford and Brian Jepson have developed a Socialbomb-inspired wearable game. The Fool's Board is designed to be a flexible platform for social gaming. It's got: * ATMega168 running the Arduino bootloader * An XBee for 802.15.4 wireless communications * Some push buttons * An 8x8 array of surface-mount LEDs Here's one game: each gamepiece randomly chooses whether it likes or dislikes each other gamepiece. When your gamepiece is close to players it likes, it gets happier. When it's close to players it dislikes, it gets sadder. The goal is to make it happy, keep it in a neutral mood, or make it sad, depending on how you feel.

The Garduino Indoor Garden Controller
Learn about gardening with computers, from an amateur at both! MAKE author Luke Iseman shows how he used an Arduino microcontroller and simple sensors to make his Garduino indoor garden controller. Now it waters his plants, turns on the lights, and even alerts him if the plants get too chilly. He'll talk about how we might achieve food autonomy by combining a little tech with a lot of seeds. Feel free to bring your Arduinos, plants, and ideas for combinations thereof!

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

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

The Problem with eWaste ifixit
Many people don't know that electronics have all kinds of nasty chemicals in them. You can't just throw those kind of chemicals into a landfill because they contaminate soils and leach into the water supply. Find out how proper recycling and reuse of electronic equipment will help fix the planet.

The Rail-O-Graph Electromechanical Messaging Device
Make: TV host John Edgar Park and Usman Muzaffar will demonstrate their latest innovation, the Pony Express that never was. The Rail-O-Graph is an Arduino-driven train that powers a chat room by physically tapping messages (a la Morse code) to connect two terminals. Topics covered include a whirlwind tour through the history of serial communications, the perils of remote collaboration, and how to make robots touch each other.

The Speed Vest
The Speed Vest is a bicycle safety device and advocacy tool that displays the wearer�s current speed on their back in easy-to-read lighted numerals. It improves rider visibility and legitimizes bicycles on the roadway as a fun and efficient way to get around.

Location: Expo Hall 132

The Universal Remote Control Platform (URCP)
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.

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

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.

Tinker Your Way Out Of This!
Using common everyday items and salvaged bits, can you build something that will help you extract the loot from each of five successively more difficult traps? We provide the tools and materials, you provide the brains. See how quickly you can extricate your prize. Ages 5-10.

Location: Expo Hall 100

tinyCylon, Lux Spectralis & Wee Blinky
Simple DIY electronics kits that are fun, educational and affordable. Dale shows you how to assemble, modify, customize and extend these open source kits in the Maker Shed.

Tricerabot
A collaboration between software, hardware, manufacturing, and graphics experts. These three gentlemen explore the intersection of music, lights, graphics, customizable machine behaviors, and sensing technology. This booth is in part related to a performance by the band Microfiche at Maker Faire.

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

Location: West Gate Grass J

Unusual Handmade Bikes
I build unusual bikes and scooters from discarded materials. wooden bikes, Ski bikes, crutch bikes, scooter bikes, etc. You can test ride them. You can see how they're put together. I'll give a half hour bike design and construction talk at 12:30 each day.

Location: Bike Town A5

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.

Location: Expo Hall 147

Weekend Projects from MAKE
Join Kipkay, MAKE's video maker, as he shares great Weekend Projects from the pages of MAKE Magazine.

Whirl-O-Rator
This is a human-powered merry-go-round that can accommodate one to six people at a time. It uses the same principle that a spinning ice skater uses to accumulate energy from its riders to go faster/higher. People love it. It was in continuous use at Burning Man 2008.

Location: Midway M3

Whirlygig Emoto
A Steampunk inspired electric motor-scooter with real steam. 24V 15hp sytem with propane powered steam boiler. Carries 2-3 people.

Location: Steampunk Grass F

wikiHow
In keeping with this year's theme of remaking America, wikiHow will share a variety of ways to reuse or repurpose common household items. We will also demonstrate how easy it is for anyone to share their know-how with the world on wikiHow.

Location: Fiesta Hall 339

Wooduino!
Wooduino is a prototyping platform for the Arduino that allows for quick projects build directly on the Wooduino or an easy and secure way to mount the Arduino to other devices and structures. The Wooduino is made on a CNC mill which allows for quick development of the platform itself.