Presenting a chandelier made out of plastic bottles. There was a lot of planning and redesigning that the team did in order to come up with their final design. The project will light up when the motion of your hand is detected. When your hand does different motions, the light will light up differently.

This is a soccer or basketball sport shirt with cool neon on it. The cool neon shows when the team player has a yellow card and if the player has the ball for the cool neon it'll blink with different colors.

We have created a soccer ball that contains LEDs that light up once the person kicks the ball. The LEDs light up differently depending on the kick.

Presenting a roadster go kart. It's pedal-powered, and made with PVC piping.

An LED light organ, first generation of music visualizer. Converts music input to light that's synchronized with the beat.

An air-powered air cannon that works on the principle of pressurizing a chamber (in this case a 2-liter bottle) and depressurizing it very quickly through half-inch PVC piping with a marshmallow inside.

Highly modified R/C car programmed to visually follow a circle. Uses an onboard smartphone camera running openCV object recognition software, an Arduino board, and motor controller circuitry.

The SR Clubhouse Makers built a crazy maze for their bot to traverse while creating electronic sound with a Theremin.

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Join Shelby Arnold, a professional pop-up book designer, as she demonstrates how you can make pop-up creatures of your own!

No-Sew Projects Using a T-Shirt - Lee Meredith

Learn how to recycle a t-shirt into a useful shopping bag using nothing but scissors and a safety pin, then use up those leftover fabric scraps to make a few more small projects so none of your tee is wasted!

School of Rock - School of Rock

With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the national leader in music education for kids from age 7 to 18. Students learn from professional musicians in an interactive environment combining weekly private lessons and structured group rehearsals with the ultimate goal of performing live in front of real crowds.

Urban Goats - Heidi Kooy

Heidi will discuss the the rewards and challenges of raising goats in an urban environment. Topics covered will be responsible goat ownership, housing, fencing, feed, exercise, and health care. The workshop will include a milking and cheesemaking demonstration.

Paper Alchemy: Turning Paper Into Metal - Sarah Hodsdon

Learn how to make your own paper jewelry.

Health 2.0 - Lizzie Dunklee

Interested in learning about how you can engage in health and technology? Come find out about the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Thousands of students pass through City College of San Francisco each year in many technical departments: automotive, engineering, art, etc. In the limited time they are on campus we have to train them to have "handy hands" - to become adept with many different tools. For many students, it's their first time building a project for a specific assignment and they are not adept with the medium or the tools to shape it. This presentation is not about sensational accidents - we merely wish to share the most common shop screw-ups we've observed across many departments and the way to avoid them with safety in mind.

A growing movement around the world is encouraging young people to discover the joy and meaning of truly creative living and finding solutions for living with the Earth in mind. Discover how students learn about "making" that supports the health and quality of life for present and future generations. She'll talk about a tin-can wind turbine project.

School of Rock - School of Rock

With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the national leader in music education for kids from age 7 to 18. Students learn from professional musicians in an interactive environment combining weekly private lessons and structured group rehearsals with the ultimate goal of performing live in front of real crowds.

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Convert Your Yard to Food - Rachel Brinkerhoff

A presentation on the experience of eating only what you grow, resources for how to get started, the cost and value.

Tiny Homes & Simple Shelters - Lloyd Kahn

Slide show of tiny houses on land, on wheels, on the water; cabins, shacks, sheds; saunas, studios, greenhouses, chicken coops: Small living - urban or country. This is a preview of our forthcoming book Tiny Homes & Simple Shelters, due out early 2012.

Crafting Your Online Presence - Diane Gilleland

Imagine if your car could drive itself. Get in, push a button, and everything else is done by your car. This presentation will introduce you to the fascinating world of self-driving cars. Google has developed a fleet of modified Priuses that can drive themselves on public roads in California. In the past months, Google's cars have driven over 150,000 miles, in places like downtown San Francisco, LA, and near Lake Tahoe. The Google self-driving cars blend into traffic just like human-driven cars. While this technology is still in the research stage, it may one day transform society, leading to better and safer modes of transportation.

Paper Airplanes - The Paper Airplane Guy

The fun and science of paper airplanes by The Paper Airplane Guy.

Real Bread in 10 Minutes - Lee Sonko

Making bread is easier, faster and more flexible than you thought. You can make fantastic bread every day inexpensively with less than 10 minutes effort, including cleanup! Lee will talk about and demonstrate techniques minimizing the ordinary and maximize the extraordinary parts of making bread at home. We'll talk about: instant yeast vs sourdough, refrigerated dough, crust, crumb, shaping, amendments, the chemistry and biology of bread, and the thousands of varieties of this staple food. Once you have the foundations, you'll see bread recipes as suggestions instead of steps to be followed. The sky is the limit!

Scott Brierley, Manager with General Motors' Advanced Technology Demonstration Program (ATDP) team, will lead a discussion and an overview of three of General Motors' advanced vehicles: the Chevrolet Volt, the Equinox Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle, and the EN-V Urban Mobility Concept Vehicle. in the southern California.

Workspace Wellness: Design in Hacking and Health

Massimo will discuss the current state of the Arduino project and its ecology. He will show some relevant projects done with Arduino, statistics of web traffic and sales to illustrate the impressive growth of the project. Finally he'll provide a glimpse of new products coming in the next few months.

Abby and the Pipsqueaks - Abby and the Pipsqueaks

Back for their 3rd Maker Faire, it's the green kid's band Abby and the Pipsqueaks! 4 time award winners and UNESCO Featured artists from Oakland, CA. Don't miss the dance-along, sing-along fun. This show has music, comedy, puppet fun, and more!

The GrilledCheezGuy & His Brick's Trick! - Michael Davidson

After placing 3 years in a row at the National Grilled Cheese Invitational, Michael Davidson will be revealing the mystery behind the magic, behind the grill. Right after winning his first trophy I promised myself that my goal would be to teach every American about my sandwich and its technique so that they could go forth and enjoy it themselves. Luckily for America (and me) I have been given that opportunity at the Maker Faire. What better place to show you the practicality and versatility of a simple brick that is probably already laying around your backyard! Recession proof! Full proof! Maker proof! Come here the story behind the brick and learn how to make the Nationally winning recipe at home!

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.

Star Wars Crafts: Washcloth Wampa - Bonnie Burton

Turn a boring washcloth into a cuddly wampa.

ANFO - Destination Investigation

ANFO is a flying machine that's a hybrid of an airplane and a helicopter. It has three rotors, two of which produce upward thrust and the third pulls the aircraft. This design eliminated the need for tilting, which is a huge technological problem for most aircrafts today. ANFO has the capability to carry large payloads over long distance with minimal power. This design can be modified to recognize color.

Bob Richards outlines how a carefully planned private Moon mission could set in motion the technological, political, legal and regulatory precedents that will allow humanity to peacefully embrace and develop the Moon as the worldÕs eighth continent.

Leaders from many of the industryÕs best suppliers of electronic components will be on hand to discuss sourcing electronic parts. Come and ask them questions about strategies for getting parts for your next project.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Charlemagnet - Charlemagnet

From Oakland, CA, DIY duo Charlemagnet, delivers a unique multi-genred performance. Unconventional hand fabricated instruments and electronic sound devices back powerful vocal melodies and detailed instrumental sound loops.

Chinese Noodle Maker - Kent Strand

On-lookers will rave about this ancient culinary art form from the Chiang Dong Province, which transforms dough into hundreds of strands of perfectly shaped noodles. The chef can create round noodles, flat noodles, and pot stickers.

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could create an app that helps you ace your next test or make that perfect stock buy? Dreaming up and then creating the next great app may be simpler than you think. In this session, Phil McKinney, chief technology officer of HP’s Personal Systems Group and contributing columnist at Forbes, will share how the barrier to creating killer apps is coming down, and reveal his “wish list” of apps that he hopes will be an inspiration to the DIY community.

Amp'ed Up! - San Francisco Rock Project

Come to see the collection of student-built amplifiers--stay for a music lesson and explanation of sound and electric amplification from the students and instructors at San Francisco Rock Project.

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

POW! ZAP! Magnets - Susan Beal

Make a colorful felt comics-inspired POW! ZAP! magnet for your fridge from my new book, World of Geekcraft. This free workshop is beginner- and kid-friendly (with help from a parent). SHAZAM!

We made an assault vehicle for military simulation games.

A Mad Hatter cake is a tipsy turvy cake with all kinds of decorations and fun stuff.

LEDs, a siren, and more in a small scale replica California Highway Patrol police car. The goal is to make this car look like a real CHP. It has a four-tone siren, LED, 1/18 scale police light bar, lights. Headlights and tail lights are automatic so when it gets dark the lights turn on. Radio sounds automatically come on in a policeman's voice when an object comes within 1-2 feet. He will sound like he is talking on the radio.

We're inspiring and developing the next generation of makers, creators, and innovators. We’re creating a community, both online and physical, that brings together like-minded teens, adult mentors, and fabrication facilities to make things.

This is a robot game in which a robot shoots a ball at a flying helicopter. If the ball hits the helicopter then the game is over and the helicopter loses. Each player gets 4 balls.

When Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the surface of the moon in 1969, the Spacesuit they were wearing was made not by a military-industrial conglomerate, but by Playtex makers of women's underwear. Not only was the suit hand-sewn by seamstresses whose usual work was sewing bras and girdles, but the head of suit development for Playtex, Lenny Sheperd, had only previously worked as a television repairman. An artifact of maker culture long-before-the-fact, the Apollo spacesuit holds crucial lessons for how we approach technology, and our own human nature.

Ben Heck, Mitch Altman, Windell Oskay (Evil Mad Scientist Guy) and Jeri Elsworth reflect on their personal experiences and challenges coming up in the United States education system, and their perspective on shaping a better future for students by way of technology and the open source philosophy.

Sour Mash Hug Band - Sour Mash Hug Band

Klezmer & Hot Jazz Cabaret

Jar Your Own: Basic Canning Techniques - Karen Solomon

Karen Solomon, author of Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It, and the forthcoming Can It, Bottle It, Smoke It, will teach both novice and experienced cooks basic hot water bath canning techniques. Participants will learn about canning equipment, processes, and safety, and how easy it is to can your own jams, pickles, and more.

Makers + Education = Innovation - Nolan Bushnell

The Maker Movement is the right thing at the right time. I am working on a new school project aimed at creating the citizen, worker and innovator of the future. We know little about the future, just that it will be very different than today. The pace of change is accelerating and all bets are off as to the jobs of tomorrow. The only skill worth pursuing is the ability to creatively problem solve and innovate. With the right skills a student should be able to survive and prosper in an alien society because tomorrow will look very alien when compared with today.

Traditions of autonomy, innovation, teamwork and competitiveness are as alive as ever. But what about optimism and our sense of confidence? Can people still believe in a future that will be better than the past? David created a graphic novel, Tinkerers, that explores a future world where makers are much in demand; he suggests that tinkerers and startups and team-builders may be vital in helping determine the difference between a tomorrow of Bladerunner and one of Star Trek.

Cyborg Mutiny - Camilo Landau

Utilizing a home-made synth-bass pedal, loopers, samplers, laptops, guitars, cuatros, microphones, amps and pedals Cyborg Mutiny creates a vast soundscape centered around musicality and raw emotion.

Star Wars Bith Spoon Puppet - Bonnie Burton

Kids of all ages are welcome to come and learn how to make a Stars Wars Bith puppet from a spoon.

In the new book Biopunk, he chronicles a growing community of DIY scientists working outside the walls of corporations and universities who are committed to democratizing DNA the way the Internet did information. The “biohacking” movement, now in its early, heady days, aims to unleash an outbreak of genetically modified innovation by making the tools and techniques of biotechnology accessible to everyone. Borrowing their idealism from the worlds of open-source software, artisinal food, Internet startups and the Peace Corps, biopunks are devoted advocates for open-sourcing the basic code of life. They believe in the power of individuals with access to DNA to solve the world's biggest problems. You’ll meet a new breed of hackers who aren’t afraid to get their hands wet, from entrepreneurs who aim to bring DNA-based medical tools to the poorest of the poor to a curious tinkerer who believes a tub of yogurt and a jellyfish gene could protect the world’s food supply.

In the new book Biopunk, he chronicles a growing community of DIY scientists working outside the walls of corporations and universities who are committed to democratizing DNA the way the Internet did information. The “biohacking” movement, now in its early, heady days, aims to unleash an outbreak of genetically modified innovation by making the tools and techniques of biotechnology accessible to everyone. Borrowing their idealism from the worlds of open-source software, artisinal food, Internet startups and the Peace Corps, biopunks are devoted advocates for open-sourcing the basic code of life. They believe in the power of individuals with access to DNA to solve the world's biggest problems. You’ll meet a new breed of hackers who aren’t afraid to get their hands wet, from entrepreneurs who aim to bring DNA-based medical tools to the poorest of the poor to a curious tinkerer who believes a tub of yogurt and a jellyfish gene could protect the world’s food supply.

eTextile and Wearable Computing Showcase

In response to an unforgiving environment, Australia has evolved a robust tradition of inventors who resourcefully adapt technology from limited means. One of the most enigmatic of these people was Henry Hoke, a brilliant innovator all but forgotten by scientific history. This talk will examine HenryÕs legacy of hitherto forgotten inventions (e.g., the Waterproof Tap, the Population Tool, the Long Weight, and his Dehydrated Water Pills), and his many baffling and enigmatic tools that appear to defy the accepted laws of physics and the principles of engineering.

Crowdfunding is a powerful and popular new way for makers to fund their projects, attract people's interest, externalize expectations, and solicit expertise. Crowdfunding Revolution author Kevin Lawton talks with Danae Ringelmann of IndieGoGo, Jenny Kassan from the Sustainable Economies Law Center, Eri Gentry of DIY biology hackerspace BioCurious, and artist Harvey Moon about their experiences and recommendations for using crowdfunding to support art, science, and local community projects. Audience members are encouraged to float any crowdfunding ideas that they are considering.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Shovelman - Isaac Frankle

"Shovelman's music would be playing on the radio if Tom Waits and Les Claypool ever went on a road trip together ......and were lost." - Chip, 'So Wat TV

Butchery Demonstration - Tia Harrison

"Butcher's Guild Charter Member Chris Arentz of Avedano's Market in San Francisco will demonstrate butchery technique with half a hog. The Butcher's Guild will discuss their mission, while Chris helps us learn to identify cuts and tips for shopping with your local butcher. Butchers are the link between ranches and eaters, between life and afterlife, between livestock and dinner. MEAT THE BUTCHER'S GUILD, LOVE YOUR LOCAL BUTCHER"

Shake it! Make it! Butter! - Cornelia Homegrown

Watch the magical transformation from cream to butter in this fun and lively workshop with HOMEGROWN.org's Cornelia Homegrown. Sweet organic butter happens before your eyes - and wait until you taste the results!

Crafty Ladies of the 60s & 70s - Cathy Callahan

Cathy's new book is Vintage Craft Workshop - Fresh Takes on Twenty-Four Classic Projects from the '60s and '70s. Cathy collects vintage craft books from the 60s and 70s and in them she finds inspiration for her work. In those books Cathy also found some amazing stories about the women who were making crafts at the time. Cathy will present a slideshow about these woman so that you too can learn more about them and become inspired too. DIrectly following the slideshow Cathy will be signing copies of her book. [Photo: Aleene Jackson - inventor of Tacky Glue - late 1960's at her store in Temple City, California. (Image from A Tacky Lady by Aleene Jackson, courtesy of Tiffany Windsor)]

Matt Brown, the President of Klutz, will talk about creativity, play and innovation. He'll offer a glimpse into the world of designing children's toys and learning products. Matt Brown is a seasoned entrepreneur and “recovering” attorney dedicated to making play central in the lives of kids and families. He has spent most of his career leading cross-functional teams, blending science, academics, technology, strategy, and innovation in order to develop and launch branded platforms that inspire developmentally rich play experiences.

5 Cent Coffee & The Junkstock Allstars! - 5 Cent Coffee

5 Cent Coffee expands it's line up at Maker Faire with the Junkstock Allstars! We incorporate homemade instruments and homespun songs into an eclectic vaudevillian hoe-down! Music is everywhere, go out and grab it! Web site: www.junkstock.org

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Reverse engineering the Microsoft Kinect Camera to create open source drivers for the research and hobby communities.

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.

Vintage Craft Workshop - Cathy Callahan

Cathy Callahan is the founder of Cathy of California - a blog dedicated to vintage crafts. She will be signing copies of her new book "Vintage Craft Workshop" published by Chronicle Books. http://cathyofcalifornia.typepad.com/

Needle Felting 101 - Moxie

Learn the basics of needle felting and all you need to get started with expert needle felter Moxie, author of the new book, <em>I Felt Awesome</em>.

The bottle rocket car will be powered by a mousetrap and a second power source will be baking soda and vinegar mixed inside of the bottles in order to create pressure.

Buckle-up and here we go...we have built a gokart with our dads! It rips and roars - goes forward, turns left and right. We welded the frame together, installed steering and a motor, and fine-tuned it til it hummed.

This project uses MIDI to control external light setups and a sample based drum synthesizer through an Arduino board, with applications in live music performance.

We took an Xbox360 controller and added an extra button that acts like the right trigger is being hit very, very fast. We also plan to custom paint it.

Project: Varia is a fully wearable version of the Varia suit worn by the character Samus Arun in the Metroid video game series.

In this box are many wonders! Look around and see if you can find the special items listed on the paper scroll. All of these items came from many different Littlest Makers.

Fortune may favor the bold, but how do you win fortune's favor if you are meek? Mary Haskett will tell stories of her transformation from scared bunny to calculated risk taker. Learn how to deal with small risks and the bigger ones get easy.

Sharing is not a foreign concept to most of us. These days, sharing is an industry thanks largely to new technology. It's critical to the environment, the economy, and the way we live together as a society. Moderated by Stuart Gannes, this panel consists of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and visionaries who are pioneering The New Sharing Economy. With Punsri Abeywickrema (Founder & CEO of Rentalic.com), Neal Gorenflo (Publisher of Shareable Magazine), Janelle Orsi ("The Sharing Lawyer"), and James Hanusa (New Initiatives at Burning Man).

A homemade pulse jet engine, powered by propane, made out of steel exhaust tubing an no moving parts. It's extremely loud and dangerous-sounding.

A look at Dr. Chrono, building tools for the Doctors Office.

Purple Beat - Purple Beat

Pregnant moms and dads, check us out: We hooked up an Ultrasound Doppler to an iPhone to help you capture, record and share the heartbeat of your baby!

Analog phone calls degraded with distance; we now have the Internet. Analog computations degraded with time; we now have PCs. But today's most advanced manufacturing processes, whether additive or subtractive, remain analog because the materials themselves don't contain information. Neil will present research on digital materials, and discuss its implications for the future of making things.

Third Thursday Band - Mike Dingle

the Third Thursday Band

A remote-control boat that contains a small off-road remote-control car. This boat can cross a body of water and deliver the car with a door that opens mechanically. The hull is balsa wood and fiberglass and built to specifications for the car. The car is a remote-control buggy (not made by the team).

As scientists try to create robotic limb replacements for amputees they are gaining new respect for the complex biomechanics responsible that allow the human arm and hand to move as they do. What makes an arm and hand uniquely human? Why does the two-pronged, body-powered hook patented 100 years ago consistently outperform the most advanced computerized prosthetic we have? If you think human prosthetics is too hard a problem for young "hand hackers," think again.

Members of the Flux Foundation have been working in the world of large-scale collaborative art for over a decade. Through Flaming Lotus Girls and other experiences, Flux has become experts at taking an impossible dream from an ethereal idea to a monumental interactive sculpture by using a highly-evolved collaborative platform for creating large-scale art. Flux members Jess Hobbs, Rebecca Anders, Catie Magee, and Peter Kimelman will engage the audience in an experience of radical collaboration while also imparting an understanding of how and why this way of making art in the world mattersÑnot just for the sake of art, but for how the process engages and reconnects us to our creative, innovative, maker minds.

The Camp Couture Fashion Show - AVB Design/ The Camp Couture

Swap-O-Rama-Rama - Erin Scholl

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Molecular Gastronomy - Michael Zbyszynski

Michael Zbyszynski will present an overview of Molecular Gastronomy for cooks at home. Topics and demonstrations include basic spherification, rapid infusion via nitrogen cavitation, foams, hydrocolloids, and building your own Sous Vide system.

Making Seed Bombs: The Throwable Garden - Cornelia Homegrown

Come get your hands dirty by learning how you can encapsulate seeds into a growing medium, then throw them in areas that could use some beautifying! Seedballs (aka Seedbombs) make great gifts, too!

Soft, Stretchy and Pretty Circuits - Syuzi Pakhchyan

Combining material experimentation with DIY production methods, learn how to create stretchable, flexible circuits using conductive textiles, SMD electronic components and silicone. The demo will also include a brief overview of various textile-based "soft circuit" techniques and a discussion on best practices and use case scenarios for each method.

Learn the basics of needle felting and all you need to get started with expert needle felter Moxie, author of the new book, <em>I Felt Awesome</em>.

We are teaching people how to grow their own algae at home, and selling live spirulina and kits to make it easy. You can grow enough Spirulina in one window to significantly supplement your diet every day!

Two seemingly simple summer programs contained the seeds of an extraordinary new pedagogy. Thrill to the exciting tale of how a new kind of K-12 school went from crazy idea to opening doors in just 10 months.

Aurora Activity Pony - Conrad Schuman

This is a live music and audio visual experience using modern technologies in sound imaging and projection using a basis of synthesized sounds that correspond with displayed visuals as well as rudimentary robotics and lasers as part of show.

Jon Magnificent ~ Musical Entertainment - Jon Magnificent

"I endorse Jon Magnificent as the single greatest rock star of all time." - Al Bowman, Founder of the LA Music Awards Orchestral Composer of the Year 18th LA Music Awards Rock Album of the Year Rock Artist of the Year nominee 20th LA Music Awards

Photorealistic Gadget Pouches - Kelly Jensen

Kelly Jensen, co-author of Photojojo: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas, shows you how to make no-sew gadget pouches that look like cassette tapes, vintage cameras, or anything else you can photograph.

Investigating novel ways to interact with virtual environments. Can we make a virtual environment we can walk through and explore? Can we dance in a rainstorm made of colored hail that explodes on contact? This is being done with a green screen, computer and projector.

The PS2 controller gun is a PS2 controller that's in the shape of a gun. It uses infrared emitters and a vertical and horizontal row of IR detectors to track the controller's motion across the screen.

The Infrared Helmet allows you to see in the infrared spectrum with an infrared light that only the wearer can see.

Reverse engineering the Microsoft Kinect Camera to create open source drivers for the research and hobby communities.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

The VJacket is a wearable controller for live video performance. Built into the jacket are bend, touch and hit sensors which let you control video effects and transitions, trigger clips and scratch frames all from the comfort of your own jacket.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

The 'No-Touch Garden' is a garden which grows independently where you, the human, don't have to care of it. It is controlled by Arduinos, has Peltier devices for climate control, and LEDs. It's totally awesome!

A bow that uses water balloons as ammo. The bow uses elastic tubing and a container to shoot multiple water balloons.

We have built a pink girly pedal car from bike parts to make it run. The outside is made out of plastic. The bike parts have to make the pedal function well and we are going to ride it down on the floor instead of like a bike. We learned how to weld. We both found cheap plastic and bike parts. Our mentors helped us build the pedal car.

I can move two mini robots with my rockband wireless guitar controller.

ANFO - Destination Investigation

ANFO is a flying machine that's a hybrid of an airplane and a helicopter. It has three rotors, two of which produce upward thrust and the third pulls the aircraft. This design eliminated the need for tilting, which is a huge technological problem for most aircrafts today. ANFO has the capability to carry large payloads over long distance with minimal power. This design can be modified to recognize color.

An LED light organ, first generation of music visualizer. Converts music input to light that's synchronized with the beat.

The Mill Valley Rover is a four-wheeled vehicle that is powered by a 10hp Craftsmen ride-on mower engine. It has four gears going forward and one going backwards. It can also turn.

A Rube Goldberg Machine that will lead up to create a bowl of cereal. It will not be the easiest thing but the chain reactions will be as interesting as i can Make them.

Brass Farthing - Director Brass Farthing

Brass Farthing is a group of stalwart lads brought together to sing songs, raise good cheer, and make merry. The layered and swaggering harmonies of Brass Farthing will transport you to dusty pub where the taps are a-flowing.

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Making Seed Bombs: The Throwable Garden - Cornelia Homegrown

Come get your hands dirty by learning how you can encapsulate seeds into a growing medium, then throw them in areas that could use some beautifying! Seedballs (aka Seedbombs) make great gifts, too!

Sand Tapestry the art that naturally flows.

T-shirt Transformation - Jennifer Williams

CRAFT booth demo: T-Shirt Transformation Creating a new yarn from old T-shirts, then crocheting it into fun rugs, totes, and more by Jennifer Williams of Moonlit Circus "Emporium of Fine Accessories for the Carnival of Life"

Join Shelby Arnold, a professional pop-up book designer, as she demonstrates how you can make pop-up creatures of your own!

Our design is unconventional but perfect. We have implemented the latest in DIY technology for our wireless camera. Our spy car is different from normal spy cars. Ours is driven by a white remote control glove that was designed at our school.

Our house is eco-friendly, partly underground and underwater. It's only powered by solar panels and hydro-electricity. It is very self-sufficient and economic.

School of Rock - School of Rock

With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the national leader in music education for kids from age 7 to 18. Students learn from professional musicians in an interactive environment combining weekly private lessons and structured group rehearsals with the ultimate goal of performing live in front of real crowds.

Pulsewave is the US’s longest running monthly Chip Music event. Using vintage game systems & computers as the basis for stunning music & visuals, Pulsewave spotlights emerging & established artists from all over the world.

Hands On Sauerkraut! - Happy Girl Kitchen

Join Happy Girl Kitchen as we all get hands on with cabbage, sea salt and spices to create a jar of living sauerkraut to take home! Each participant will pack a jar of fresh kraut.

Mike Rowe of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs @ Maker Faire - Mike Rowe

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - May 12, 2011) - TechShop, the first membership-based DIY workshop and fabrication studio for makers, is excited to welcome Mike Rowe to Maker Faire, the world's preeminent DIY festival. Rowe, whose own website, mikeroweWORKS.com, was created as a "PR Campaign for Hard Work," will drop by the Fiesta Hall at the San Mateo County Event Center on Sunday, May 22nd, at 11 a.m. for an impromptu chat with makers and fabricators from around the country. "The only thing I make these days is a mess," joked the creator and Host of Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs. "But the TechShop idea is phenomenal, and Maker Faire sounds like TechShop on steroids. It'll be fun to hang out with some people who can still make things out of thin air. I'm a big fan."

Maker Faire celebrates things people create themselves -- from rockets and robots, to DIY biology and hacked everything. The family-friendly event for creative people of all ages and skill levels offers two days of exhibits, activities, instruction and information from over 600 makers. The event is projected to draw 95,000 people from the Bay Area and beyond who want to marvel and be inspired by the world of "making."

"Maker Faire brings together those who want to get their hands dirty," said Dale Dougherty, founder of Maker Faire, and Editor in Chief of MAKE magazine. "TechShop provides the tools for people who want to get their hands dirty. What could be better than having both TechShop and Mike Rowe at Maker Faire."

TechShop will set up a glimpse into TechShop at Maker Faire by hosting celebrity makers, key partners and members as part of on-going demonstrations for anyone who wants to make or learn to make things. Machines ranging from manual mills and lathes, to laser and plasma cutters, industrial sewing machines, electronics and more are available to TechShop members for a monthly access fee, similar to the fitness club model. TechShop is a key sponsor of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.

"Maker Faire is the 'maker' event of the year," said Mark Hatch, CEO of TechShop. "The size of the crowd and the level of commitment from companies like Autodesk, tells us that the Maker Movement is taking hold. We want to harness that excitement to engage, encourage and empower everyone to build their dreams. TechShop provides a broad array of machines and tools, instruction, and a supportive environment so hobbyists, entrepreneurs, artists, and others who want to make things but lack the tools, space or skills can do just that. "

More than a Booth TechShop's exhibition area at Maker Faire, a.k.a. "The Show Barn," will spotlight select TechShop member projects and numerous machine demonstrations, including 3D printing by 3D Systems. TechShop partner Autodesk will showcase their newest software release 123D. Autodesk is currently offering free software and training to all TechShop members (see May 5, 2011 press release for more information). TechShop founder Jim Newton and TechShop staff and member volunteers will be on hand to answer questions.

Attendees will be inspired by member projects ranging from handmade goods found on Etsy to solar panels, and a variety of consumer-good prototypes. TechShop memberships and classes will be available at special Maker Faire prices so future makers can get started right away.

Calendar Editors A celebration of DIY culture, Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 runs Saturday-Sunday, May 21-22, at the San Mateo County Event Center, 1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo. Saturday, 10am to 8pm; Sunday, 10am to 6pm. $5-$25; 3 and under are free. www.makerfaire.com. To purchase tickets, including weekend passes stop by Bay Area TechShop locations or go to: http://makerfaire-marketwire.eventbrite.com

About Maker Faire Maker Faire is being held on May 21 & 22, 2011 at the San Mateo County Event Center. Started in San Mateo, California in 2006, and also being held in Detroit and New York, Maker Faire is the premier event for grassroots American innovation. Held annually in each of these locations, the event may expand elsewhere in the future. Maker Faire is supported by MAKE Magazine and O'Reilly Media, the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. The company's books, conferences and web sites bring to light the knowledge of technology innovators. For more information about Maker Faire, please visit http://www.makerfaire.com. You can follow Maker Faire on Twitter at "#MakerFaire." Maker Faire is also on Facebook as "Maker Faire" and as "Maker Faire Bay Area 2011."

About TechShop, Inc. Founded in October 2006, TechShop, Inc. is a membership-based, do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio, providing access to a vibrant community of highly creative people and more than $750,000 worth of high-quality machines, tools and software. Based in Menlo Park, CA, with locations in San Francisco and Raleigh, NC, and soon to open locations in San Jose, New York and Detroit, TechShop offers training and instruction for people of all skill levels.

For information and course listings, visit http://www.techshop.ws, email info@techshop.ws or call (800) 640-1975. You can follow TechShop on Twitter at "TechShopInc." TechShop is also on Facebook as "TechShop Incorporated".

About mikeroweWORKS mikeroweWORKS is a website created by Mike Rowe as a "PR campaign for hard work and skilled labor." Its purpose is to call attention to the growing skills gap in the trades, provide comprehensive resources for anyone looking to explore those vocations, as well as focus the country on the very real issues facing our trade workers, miners and farmers. In addition to the trade resource center, Mike has established The mikeroweWORKS Foundation to help fund scholarship programs and other initiatives that reinvigorate trade school interest, enrollments and industrial arts programs around the country. The website also includes Mike's blog, videos and photos. www.mikeroweWORKS.com.

Sally Applin is a founding member of AnthroPunk, a movement concerned with how people promote, manage, resist, endure and create change; how people hack their lives (and those of others) - living the world not just in it. Formally founded by Dr. Michael D. Fischer, AnthroPunk explains how individual people collectively make the world around them, not only from the materials and ideas available to them but from new materials and ideas they construct. There are limits imposed by materials, but the application of ideas constantly transforms these into new possibilities, and new limits. In this talk, we will explore the role that we all have as makers of culture--and will discuss the current maker movement as it relates to other cultural movements and how the maker movement influences upcoming technologies and thus our future.

Pulsewave is the US’s longest running monthly Chip Music event. Using vintage game systems & computers as the basis for stunning music & visuals, Pulsewave spotlights emerging & established artists from all over the world.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Keeping Urban Livestock - Esperanza Pallana

A summary of wise choices for the urban environment and troubleshooting.

StarBoards are flexible circuit boards designed with electronic crafters in mind. They're totally flexible, thin, and can be ironed or glued on to any fabric or other material. The can be soldered or sewn through with conductive thread.

Crafting Your Online Presence - Diane Gilleland

Project: Varia is a fully wearable version of the Varia suit worn by the character Samus Arun in the Metroid video game series.

Tesla Motors and Rocket eBook founder Martin Eberhard imagined products that had never Êexisted. Both electronic books and electric cars are realities today because Martin dove in at a time when few believed that these categories were real. How do tech tinkerers make their visions come true? As Martin explains, not knowing all the answers can be an advantage.

School of Rock - School of Rock

With more than a decade of successful experience teaching music, School of Rock is the national leader in music education for kids from age 7 to 18. Students learn from professional musicians in an interactive environment combining weekly private lessons and structured group rehearsals with the ultimate goal of performing live in front of real crowds.

Pulsewave is the US’s longest running monthly Chip Music event. Using vintage game systems & computers as the basis for stunning music & visuals, Pulsewave spotlights emerging & established artists from all over the world.

Real Bread in 10 Minutes - Lee Sonko

Making bread is easier, faster and more flexible than you thought. You can make fantastic bread every day inexpensively with less than 10 minutes effort, including cleanup! Lee will talk about and demonstrate techniques minimizing the ordinary and maximize the extraordinary parts of making bread at home. We'll talk about: instant yeast vs sourdough, refrigerated dough, crust, crumb, shaping, amendments, the chemistry and biology of bread, and the thousands of varieties of this staple food. Once you have the foundations, you'll see bread recipes as suggestions instead of steps to be followed. The sky is the limit!

Inspiration - Adam Savage

MythBusters' Adam Savage is going to be in Fiesta Hall at 12pm on Sunday, May 22nd! Adam will talk about inspiration. What inspires you?

Scott Brierley, Manager with General Motors' Advanced Technology Demonstration Program (ATDP) team, will lead a discussion and an overview of three of General Motors' advanced vehicles: the Chevrolet Volt, the Equinox Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle, and the EN-V Urban Mobility Concept Vehicle. in the southern California.

Alexander Rose will discuss the design challenges while building a monument scale 10,000 Year all mechanical Clock. The reasoning behind the project will be covered as well as details of engineering and construction. The presentation will include new images and video of Clock construction underway in the high desert.

Pulsewave is the US’s longest running monthly Chip Music event. Using vintage game systems & computers as the basis for stunning music & visuals, Pulsewave spotlights emerging & established artists from all over the world.

A wheelchair DJ interface - the left wheel fades between tracks while the right wheel scratches the music. Users bring their existing wheelchair skills to the show.

Vintage Book Cover Notebook - Cathe Holden

Learn how to bring new life to vintage book covers by turning them into great covers for planners, sketchbooks, journals, and more.

This is an electric guitar that we made ourselves and added LEDs that light up according to the stringsa being played.

The moving legs of this horse are based on a kinetic sculpture design by Theo Jansen. Isabella made a prototype using K'NEX. The horse is powered by an electric motor and it moves at two speeds. The final model is slightly larger. Painted and decorated to look like a paint mustang.

An Interactive Educational MultiTouch Table - Liza Singer

An multitouch table designed to educate children with autism and other learning disabilities symbolic representation through interactive play that has real-world application. Involves gameplay that encourages collaboration and gives audio/visual feedback.

Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us. When Gadgets Betray Us gives us a glimpse into the secret lives of our gadgets and helps us to better understandÑand manageÑthese very real risks.

Hacker and Maker spaces provide passion-based education that many of us missed in traditional education systems. The learning which takes place in these spaces is intergenerational, transdisciplinary, and multi-intelligent. A panel of hackerspace founders will ask how these alternative education venues can be recognized as a legitimate route to certification, how they propagate knowledge across the culture, and how they avoid becoming dull and co-opted. With Mitch Altman (TV-B-Gone), Jordan Bunker (Chicago's Pumping Station), James Carlson (The School Factory), James Carlson (Bucketworks and The School Factory).

Zen Finger Painting - Zen Finger Painting

Math professors, robots, and girls from quantum physics class - “Zen Finger Painting” is the only band gutsy enough (or ridiculous enough) to tackle these important issues in their music. Experience the future of nerd rock!

Battlehooch - Battlehooch

Battlehooch is a local San Francisco band who plays "Desolation Shows" highlighting different beautiful and barren areas of the world. They use a custom-built portable battery setup to power their instruments and can charge it with solar panels.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Chinese Noodle Maker - Kent Strand

On-lookers will rave about this ancient culinary art form from the Chiang Dong Province, which transforms dough into hundreds of strands of perfectly shaped noodles. The chef can create round noodles, flat noodles, and pot stickers.

The open-source Robot Operating System (ROS) is used by over fifty different types of robots, from high-end research platforms to home built Arduino-powered robots. The talk will highlight the many different applications that ROS, the role of ROS in the Kinect-hacking community, and the various libraries that you can use in your own projects.

Swim Rehab is a program designed for rehabilitating stroke patients. Using the Microsoft Kinect, it asks users to use their hands to pop on-screen bubbles, which are arranged so that the patients perform correct movements.

Getting Started with Soft Circuits - Angela Sheehan

Take a brief tour of the various kits and modules available to help get you working with soft circuits/etextiles. Learn where to get supplies, tips and tricks, and helpful online resources. There will also be some example projects on hand for inspiration.

Needle Felting Workshop - Moxie

Needle felting is fun and addictive! Learn to make and embellish 3D wool objects using fiber and felting needles. You'll have time to explore several interchangeable techniques to make unique jewelry pieces, small soft toys and replicas like fruits and veggies, or even free-form abstract sculpture. (15 person limit. Must be 13 years of age or older.)

A hovercraft which rides on a thin layer of air and can be driven! This hovercraft is flown using two leaf blowers that fill up a sheet of plastic as the skirt of the board. The hovercraft looks like a car made from cardboard or another light material. It's driven with a fan or another blower attached on the back of the board and tilted left or right by rope or light weight sturdy material to turn.

You saw custom-built radio-controlled 60-pound to 225-pound combat robots set out to destroy each other in a bulletproof area here at the Maker Faire a few years ago. Think of a one-pound mini-me version of these heavy metal behemoths designed to compete in a sport known as robotic combat. Warpig is a one pound battlebot with a powerful lifter and ultra-strong titanium armor, while Attitude is a three pound bot with an 8-inch titanium sawblade that spins at 8,000 rpm!

Fritz and Stephen will talk about fostering creativity in schools and in our culture. EepyBird’s famous geysers of mint-powered soda have been featured on Late Night with David Letterman, Ellen, the Today Show, and Mythbusters, and they were named "Best of 2006" by People Magazine. This is your chance to ask them questions, mine their minds!

Dgiin - Dgiin

Dgiin - Irresistible Gypsy, Flamenco, Funk at it's best!

Defective - Defective Bobby, Dane, Dom, Drew, Eric, Hillary, Nick

Defective - The hardest working band in Castro Valley! Castro Valley was once known for chicken ranches and rodeos. A-Bomb ridinin' Slim Pickens got his start in CV as a clown in Castro Valley's Rowell Ranch Rodeo. Cliff Burton, guitarist for Metalica formed his first band, EZ Street, while attending Castro Valley High. Now there is a new sound rockin' the 580 corridor. They bring the rock, a little soul with a hint of blues. Defective is the group and they bring it! Their rendition of TNT lights the fuse. See them now at the Maker Faire, so you can say 10 years from now, I saw them when...

Arduino Robotics - Chris Anderson

The phenomenal rise of the Arduino physical computing platform has made it a preferred platform for small-scale robotics. Cheap, easy to use and surprisingly powerful, Arduino can control everything from walkers and rovers to boats, blimps and drones. This presentation will give an overview of what's possible with Arduino, including some demonstrations of Arduino-powered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Cool Projects to Hack from the MiniPOV Kit

Carl Bass is a long time maker and advocate for the maker movement. He will share through personal observations and anecdotes his own maker story: what he makes, how he does it, and what he gets from making. He will also discuss Êwhere he believes the future of making is going and why it is important.

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Tag the world with QR codes. How to do QR code graffiti that is permanent, hidden, or biodegradable. Use reprogrammable URL shortners to make dynamically changing real-world buttons.

Kanzashi: Learn the Art of Japanese Fabric Flowers - Diane Gilleland

Learn the ancient Japanese art of Kanzashi by making a beautiful fabric flower brooch. All it takes is a little folding and sewing!

A to-scale and mathematically accurate rollercoaster model. It was inspired by a physics project at school, while studying energy and radial motion, and is powered completely by gravity. It is hand-made out of copper wire and popsicle sticks. Although simple, it was complex to create because of the math and intricacy it involved.

For almost 200 years, clever inventors have dreamed of building their own computers. ÊMany of them tried. ÊSome of them succeeded. ÊStarting with Charles Babbage in the early 1800s, this talk will highlight some of the odd, brilliant, offbeat, comical, tragic and/or prescient efforts to build one-of-a-kind computers.

Crowdfunding is a powerful and popular new way for makers to fund their projects, attract people's interest, externalize expectations, and solicit expertise. MAKE Executive Editor Paul Spinrad talks with Dana Mauriello of ProFounder, Louise Velazquez of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), and Vladimir Tetelbaum of Satarii, Inc. about their experiences and recommendations for using crowdfunding to support commercial and social ventures. Audience members will be invited to float any crowdfunding ideas that they are considering.

Vagabondage - Vagabondage

Vagabondage will woo you with Americana roots and bluesy, whiskey soaked vocals singing a wild mixture of pirate shanties, murder ballads and carnivale vaudevillia.

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

Growing Gourmet Mushrooms on Recycled Coffee Grounds - Nikhil Arora

Back to the Roots, an urban mushroom farm in Oakland growing gourmet mushrooms on entirely recycled coffee grounds, will be offering a hands-on demo on how to grow your own mushroom at home! Learn all about choosing the proper substrate (growing medium), inoculation, incubation, and harvesting. Back to the Roots is currently on pace to collect & reuse 1 million lbs of coffee grounds this year as a soil for its mushroom kits...learn how you can join the movement towards sustainable, urban farming!

Hands On Sauerkraut! - Happy Girl Kitchen

Join Happy Girl Kitchen as we all get hands on with cabbage, sea salt and spices to create a jar of living sauerkraut to take home! Each participant will pack a jar of fresh kraut.

Put a coin in and get something handmade! Now take the empty plastic bubble and go make something to put back in to get your coin back! (No, there's nothing preventing someone from putting back a dud, but then that misses the point, doesn't it?)

"What if you could break open the bottleneck for new health science research? What questions would you ask? Rather than waiting for the NIH or big Pharma to fund studies, individuals (the people doctors call 'patients') have banded together, designed health study protocols, shared data, and performed collective analysis. We will show you how to do the same. These open crowdsourced clinical trials--participant-driven health research, are answering questions like 'Which Vitamin B formulation is best for my body chemistry and DNA?' and 'Is this generic statin more or less effective than the brand drug?' and 'Do butter and coconut oil make you smarter?' and 'Which of the 3 techniques for ACL surgery produces the best long term outcomes?' Users create profiles, upload and track data, create and participate in group health studies. By asking open questions and inviting others to participate, new health data streams can be leveraged to simultaneously discover both personal answers and bigger truths. This crowd-sourced research focuses on learning by sharing, and lets the people who stand to most directly benefit from research be involved at the ground level, deciding how studies are run, analyzing data, and finding ways to measure outcomes. Techniques used by researchers, including clinical tests, gene scans, and personal tracking are now cheaply available to all. Low cost means it is possible to explore areas that companies have no economic incentive to address, such as rare diseases, personal epidemiology, off-label drug testing, supplements and lifestyle changes. In this talk, we describe the first open, crowd-sourced heath experiments performed. We speak candidly about breakthroughs, pitfalls, and lessons learned."

Print Your Own Fabric with Cyanotype - Christina McFall

Cyanotype (blueprinting) is the best printmaking technique you’ve never heard of! Come learn how to use this 19th-century photosensitive process to create your own handprinted fabrics and crafts. It’s cheap, easy and fun.

Maxime Bilet, chef and Ryan Matthew Smith, photographer take you inside the making of their 2,438 page, 6-volume book project, Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, Bilet and Smith will share details on how they took unconventional approach to both food and photography with the goal of helping the reader to experience food in a way they never have before. By literally cutting food, equipment and tools in half to get the prefect shot to using equipment and testing new recipes with tools and ingredients seldom used outside the laboratory, they will set out to educate readers - and themselves - about the science of food.

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.

This project uses PVC to hold air pressure, a sprinkler valve to release air & a bike pump. Marshmallows go in the end of the cannon. Pump to 20psi & fire. The marshmallow will travel about 30-50 yards.

Arcane Dimension - Arcane Dimension

A Bay Area band/performance group that features a blend of world fusion, electronic beats and Middle Eastern flavored rock, with belly dance and ritual integrated live. They have enchanted Bay Area audiences at Harmony Festival, Tribal Fest and more.

Michael Jean Evans and Sean Walling will discuss the making of the From Steel video, a beautiful documentary of the making of a custom bicycle frame. Michael is a filmmaker and creative director specializing in short films about master craftsman. Sean mixes his love of riding with his love of machinery and building things as the owner and framebuilder at Soulcraft Cycles.

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.

Institute of Urban Homesteading - K.Ruby Blume`

The Institute of Urban Homesteading is a response to current interest in food security, localization and self-determination, We are riding the wave of a massive global movement to change our relationship to food and resources. Necessary components of this movement are small-scale person-to-person, person-to-land based projects. IUH seeks to fill this need and to model sustainable, local direct-action through education. We intend to conserve both personal and global resources by staying home and tending the garden

Shoemaking - Thomas Maiorana

This demo will provide an overview of how to make a one piece pattern into a ballet flat. This simple shoe will provide a great starting point for men or women's shoes, as the principles behind this style apply to more complicated shoe styles. We will move quickly through the process of how to make a pattern from a last, how to cut and sew material based on the pattern, and finally, how to construct the upper.

Founder of Make: Magazine and Maker Faire, Dale will introduce the winners of the NASA Make Challenge and reflect on the weekend's activities. He'll talk about how Maker Faire is organizing makers of all kinds, establishing a hands-on DIY culture for the 21st century and creating a community-based model for learning that can change how we think about education.

Over the last 2 months, 28 hackerspaces from around the globe have been engaged in a friendly competition to create, hack and/or mod something that will have a positive impact on education. To maximize the creative range of thinking in the competition, the definition of "positive impact on education" was left entirely up to each competing space. The only regulations were that each team use a microcontroller and a portable power supply in their creation. element14 also provided each team with an additional $900 stipend to fund additional parts and materials. The winner will be announced.

Vernian Process: The Sound of Steampunk - Vernian Process

As one of the founders of the steampunk music movement, Vernian Process sonically captures its sci-fi-driven atmosphere by fusing neoclassical, progressive rock, post-punk, machine noises, and other sounds both old and new.

We are teaching people how to grow their own algae at home, and selling live spirulina and kits to make it easy. You can grow enough Spirulina in one window to significantly supplement your diet every day!

Life-Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show, original Musical score by the one woman band Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice can-can dancers, clown workers, acrobatic hi jinks, and other spectacular scenes dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden fun!

ArcAttack! -

ArcAttack employs a unique DJ set up of their own creation to generate an 'electrifying' audio visual performance. The HVDJ pumps music through a PA system while two specially designed DRSSTC's (Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils) act as separate synchronized instruments. These high tech machines produce an electrical arc similar to a continuous lightning bolt and put out a crisply distorted square wave sound reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers.