The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

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.

Tracking involuntary movement disorders is notoriously difficult for doctors. Tests for these disorders are subjective and difficult to perform reliably. KAMAS's goal is to provide simple, cheap, accessible technology that can automate the performance of these tests in the patient's home.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Sharing Hackerspaces with the Rest of the World - Bilal Ghalib

In the past four years, hundreds of hackerspaces have come to exist in countries throughout the planet, with more popping up all the time. Yet they are absent in parts of the world that need them the most. Mitch Altman and Bilal Ghalib, co-founders of two thriving hackerspaces (Noisebridge in San Francisco, and All Hands Active in Ann Arbor, Michigan), will share their stories of the impact hackerspaces have made on their communities and individuals’ lives, and will share their plan to help people in Africa start hackerspaces, starting in Cairo, Egypt, at Maker Faire Africa.

Extremophiles and the Search for Life in the Universe - Lynn J. Rothschild

Dr. Rothschild has gone from the Bolivian Andes to the Rift Valley of Kenya searching for the hardiest of organisms in the most extreme environments for life. By getting to know life forms on Earth that can occupy the most hostile niches, and sometimes stressing them either further by flying them through stratosphere, we can begin to understand the survival requirements for life in general. She describes her quest for "life at the edge" and how such discoveries will shape our search for life in our Solar System and beyond.

Fab@Home and the Future of Personal Manufacturing - Hod Lipson , Fab@Home/ Fab@School

The Fab@Home has been at the fore-front of personal manufacturing. The project is now preparing to rapidly expand the scope of what can be manufactured at home with the Model 3 fabber and the Fab@School efforts.

Arduino 101 - Brian Jepson , Tyler Moskowite

Arduino is an inexpensive open source electronic prototyping platform for artists, designers, hackers, and makers. Come to this class to learn the basics of Arduino.

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!

Kelvin Daly - Kelvin Daly

Kelvin Daly is an artist, musician, poet, and builder of odd musical instruments. He has been performing on his homemade instruments since the early 90's, and has played in many different scenarios from full bands (Music from the Mood Expansion Chamber, Thong of Kong) to multimedia performance spectacles (Ransom Corp. Destruction Dance Band, Wandering Womb Productions/Nomadic Festival, Resonant Wave Festival) to solo work.

Crowdsourcing for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Innovation - Brant Revill

This is a call for innovators of every kind; scientists, engineers, citizen scientists and dreamers to collaborate on the UAVForge Challenge and win $100,000 USD. The goal is to build a user-intuitive, backpack-portable remotely piloted aircraft.

Custom Pet Applique Tote Demonstration - Haley Pierson-Cox

In this CRAFT demo, learn to make a fun, personalized tote bag using a photo of your pet as the template for creating a custom felt applique with pet-specific details. No sewing machine required!

Scrapyard Challenge Workshops - Jonah Brucker-Cohen

The Scrapyard Challenge Workshops are intensive workshops held in over 14 countries, on 5 continents where participants build simple electronic projects with both digital and analog inputs out of found or discarded junk.

The Zeo uses an EEG headband to stage your sleep and wake you up at the optimal time. Several open source libraries are available to interact with your sleep data. Come learn more about the Zeo, the libraries available, and how to hack your sleep!

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Projects and Geek Parenting - David Giancaspro

Raising Makers a Project Based Approach: How Geek parenting and projects can be used to help kids be makers instead of consumers.

RepRap, Self-Replicating 3D Printer - Josef Prusa

RepRap is self replicating 3D printer and I'll guide you thru it. I will reveal the new way of Open Hardware documentation called ThingDOC helping RepRap to get organized. All is based on my experience and my story showing how awesome open source is.

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!

Helmsman Pete - Pete Reid

Dedicated man of mood music and story, Helmsman Pete brings a taste of his wild storytelling tunes to town. Best known in Australia for his work with band Pete and the Tar Gang, and for his eclectic performance company The Tar Pit, the Helmsman shall appear in solo form with little more than a beat-up guitar and a trash can lid. "A classy performer whose deep, rich voice and world weary expressions you'll carry for a long time afterwards" - The Scotsman. "Artistically genius and infinitely entertaining" - Philadelphia Examiner. "Reid manages to do something unique... a wee gem of a show" - Edinburgh Spotlight.

Making, Education, and Innovation - Dale Dougherty

This all-star panel will discuss the impact that Making can have on education and innovation in the US. Featuring Dale Dougherty (Make), Tom Kalil (Deputy Director, Whitehouse OSTP), Francisco D'Souza (Cognizant CEO), and Margaret Honey (NYSCI CEO)..

Toy Knitting Basics - Anna Hrachovec

Anna Hrachovec of Mochimochi Land will demonstrate her techniques for knitting toys with double-pointed needles, plus a few extra tips to make your toy as cute as can be.

Luke's “Skywalker” - John Pickle

Luke's “Skywalker” is a therapeutic walker built by the Concord Academy inventing club, DEMONs, to help a two year-old with cerebral palsy learn to walk

Enough Already: Silencing Celebs with Arduino - Matt Richardson

Sick of Snooki? Tired of Trump? MAKE video producer Matt Richardson shows you how to use an Arduino microcontroller to mute your television based on keywords found in the broadcast's closed captioning transcription. You can rest easy knowing that you'll never have to hear about Kim Kardashian-or whoever you're sick of-again!

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

All About Arduino - The Arduino Team

What Is Arduino? You've heard of Arduino, you've probably seen projects that people have made with it. Maybe you even know someone who uses it for everything they make. But what is it? Come to this session to understand more about the sort of things artists, hobbyists, and designers make with electronics; what open source means to people who make things; how to prototype your ideas with electronics; how Arduino helps make all these things possible.

Circus Warehouse - Circus Warehouse

Circus Warehouse is Queens' own center where the circus stars come to train and teach. With ceilings high enough to house a flying trapeze rig of classic proportion, the Warehouse has over 8000 square feet of space for practicing circus arts including trampoline, silks, lyra, cloud swing, solo trapeze and wire walking. It also houses a mirrored dance studio with a sprung floor. Throughout Maker Faire weekend, Circus Warehouse will present a series of performances and opportunities for visitors to learn some of the basics of Nouveau Cirque.

Electric Junkyard Gamelan - Terry Dame

Electric Junkyard Gamelan plays the original groove-driven music of composer Terry Dame on musical instruments of her own invention.

JOHN HODGMAN shall present information on THE SECRETS OF FAMOUS MAGIC TRICKS from his forthcoming book of FINAL WORLD KNOWLEDGE entitled THAT IS ALL.

The Past, Present and Future of Open Tool Chains Using Atmel Microcontrollers - Eric Weddington

Hear from Atmel Open Source Community Manager about the past, present and future of open tool chains using Atmel microcontrollers. Learn how it has helped Atmel and created new challenges for themselves and users!

Tornado Intercept Vehicle - Sean Casey

To capture the extraordinary, first-of-a-kind footage in Tornado Alley, director Sean Casey not only had to learn how to enter a tornado, he had to design a vehicle that could take him there. It was a tricky proposition, considering tornadoes have the power to pick up locomotives and hurl cars through the air-carrying them over distances of up to a mile. In 2002, Casey sketched out a design (which, he says, looked "remarkably similar to the spaceships I drew when I was twelve"), taught himself how to weld, and, that summer, work on the original tornado intercept vehicle began. The TIV, as it is known, was built for one express purpose: to house and shuttle Casey's camera (he and his crew call it "an armored tripod on wheels"). He created a military-style filming turret, inside of which he maneuvers much like a tank gunner, only he's shooting film instead of ammunition and his range is 360 degrees. Featured prominently in the film Tornado Alley, TIV 2 is an updated incarnation of the original vehicle, built on a Dodge Ram 3500 platform. A third axle was added, giving it six-wheel-drive capability, in addition to four hydraulic drop-down skirts that block wind and debris during an intercept, a self-leveling suspension system, a modified 6.7-liter turbo-diesel engine, and a 92-gallon fuel tank. TIV 2 weighs 14,000 pounds and has a top speed of over 100 mph—not bad, but still a little sluggish if you're being chased by an EF5 tornado.

We frequently think about obesity in terms of body weight, or body mass index. But excess body weight does not always equal disease risk. To get an accurate personalized indicator of metabolic risk, we need to go further. We need to define new ways to measure what the body is made of in order to help us understand why not all weight, or even all fat is created equal.

Easy Knitting - Finlay Logan

Learn to make a simple knitting project from Finlay Logan of Purl Soho.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

FreebassBK - Aaron Gldsmith , Julie Covello

A collaboration between beat mistress Julie Covello (DJ Shakey) and multi-bass instrumentalist Aaron Goldsmith (Aaroneous), FreeBassBK has brought its special blend of the vintage and modern, acoustic and electronic to warehouse parties, clubs, and festivals all over the US for almost 5 years. For this performance, Aaroneous will conduct a demonstration of the history and techniques of "jugband" instruments, such as the washtub bass, the bucket bass, the washboard, kazoo, cigar box guitar, jaw harp and jug.

Hacking Autism: Using Technology to Give People with Autism a Voice - Phil McKinney

In this session, Phil McKinney, chief technology officer of HP's Personal Systems Group, will discuss new ideas for apps that could benefit people with autism. Hewlett Packard is working with the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation's "Hacking Autism" initiative to seek new ideas for software beneficial to people with autism by crowd sourcing ideas for apps. McKinney will discuss this open call for collaboration from all across the autism community, as well as the broader technology community.

Case Studies of Open Source Hardware Projects about the Nuclear Accident in Japan - Shigeru Kobayashi

When the nuclear accident occurred in Japan, there was the lack of information. So many radiation monitoring and visualization projects have been proposed. I'll introduce Open Hardware related activities and propose possibilities of 'citizen science'.

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!

What's Ahead for Arduino - Massimo Banzi

The Arduino team will talk about future directions and new product developments for the Arduino platform.

Latch Hook and Machine Knitting with Digital Images - Andrew Salomone

Design and create a latch-hooked rug from a digital image. (Saturday) Learn how a hacked knitting machine can turn a digital image into a sweater or ski mask for some unbelievable bitmap knits. (Sunday)

Programmatic CAD and its Future - Christopher Olah

From openscad to implicit cad, a discussion of programmatic CAD and its future, with insight from mathematics.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Epidemiology is the study of health patterns in a society - and helps inform decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine. Through study, collection and statistical analysis of data over the day of the faire, we'll take a look at the epidemiology of attendees at Maker Faire, and discuss what can be learned from the process and the results.

Burnkit2600 - Thomas Uliasz

Burnkit2600 are the experimental electronics trio that combine homemade, modified, circuit-bent, and 8-bit instruments, with seriously funky live musicianship to create other-worldly grooves of the highest caliber.

Tech Narratives & Robotic Futures - Heather Knight

From novel robotic interaction algorithms to Robot Film Festival storytelling, Knight shares her work on creative machines at MIT, Syynlabs, CMU & Marilyn Monrobot. Warning: Knight will unabashedly showcase a live comedy performance from Data the Robot.

Fun with XBees - Robert Faludi

Shoes are making music, sculptors are creating interactive experiences and plants are tweeting about their needs. We'll review 30 creative projects enabled by XBee radios, then take a tour of the tools you can use to join the makers having fun with XBee!

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!

Coke Zero & Mentos Fountains - Eepybird.com

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.

Collaborative Gaming in the Twitter Age - Tim Lillis , Tim Lillis & Andy Turley

Discussion of making multi-player games that encourage players to collaborate. Audience members will also be given a chance to play games that illustrate the topics we will cover. Come for the learning, stay for the games!

Quick Quilted Pillows - Lish Dorset

Intimidated by quilting? Are you pillows a bit frumpy? Not to worry, you can quilt in just a few short minutes. Lish Dorset, a former reluctant quilter, will show you a basic quilt block technique and pillowcase assembly in this presentation.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

David Pogue's iPhone Brain Dump - David Pogue

NY Times tech columnist David Pogue is something of an iPhone fan, critic, and instructor all in one. In this half hour, he'll dazzle you with the coolest apps... share some undocumented tips and tricks...look back at the iPhone's unlikely origins...and look forward to the future of app phones and their apps.

Todd Reynolds vs. Sxip Shirley - Sxip Shirey , Todd Reynolds

Sxip Shirey is: ecstatic melody, unimaginable sounds and deep sexy beats played Industrial Flutes, Bullhorn Harmonicas, Regurgitated Music Box, Triple Extended Pennywhistls, Miniature Hand Bell Choir, Obnoxiophone, Glass Bowls With Red Marbles and a clutch of curious objects. Todd Reynolds' commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music has produced innumerable collaborations with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world.

Open Source Hardware Revolution - Alicia Gibb

Open Source Hardware is hardware that is shared, copied and reproduced. In this talk, the founders of the Open Hardware Summit give a recap of a movement that will change the way the electronics industry functions forever.

Migrating Projects to Arduino 1.0 - Michael Margolis

A brief overview of the changes in the Arduino 1.0 release with a walk-through showing how to use the new capabilities to get your projects working well with 1.0.

Circus Warehouse - Circus Warehouse

Circus Warehouse is Queens' own center where the circus stars come to train and teach. With ceilings high enough to house a flying trapeze rig of classic proportion, the Warehouse has over 8000 square feet of space for practicing circus arts including trampoline, silks, lyra, cloud swing, solo trapeze and wire walking. It also houses a mirrored dance studio with a sprung floor. Throughout Maker Faire weekend, Circus Warehouse will present a series of performances and opportunities for visitors to learn some of the basics of Nouveau Cirque.

Professional-Strength DIY - Kipp Bradford

You want to make stuff cold? Ha! Wanna run lots of high-power motors w/an Arduino? Don't bother. Why not? Why do people think DIY=inexperienced tinkerers, & thumb their noses at the idea of DIY addressing needs of professional scientists/engineers? I will dispatch this ridiculousness & demonstrate professional-strength kits that are accessible to beginners

Raspberry Pi - Eben Upton

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is developing a $25 ARM Linux box. In this presentation we talk a little about the Foundation's aims, and describe the Raspberry Pi hardware, with an emphasis on those features most relevant to the hacking community.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Radio Wonderland - Joshua Fried

RADIO WONDERLAND turns mass culture into recombinant funk, LIVE, with computer processing of live FM radio controlled by a real steering wheel, old shoes hit with sticks, knobs and gizmos. Hear award-winning composer Joshua Fried build his grooves, step by step, out of recognizable radio, and even UN-wind those grooves back to the original source.

Kinect Hacking, Face Tracking and More - Zach Lieberman

In this talk, Zach Lieberman, an artist and professor at Parsons will talk about openframeworks, an open source c++ toolkit he helped co-found, and recent explorations using the Kinect 3d camera and high end face tracking code. Recent collaborations for live performance and music video work will be shown, with an emphasis on the tools / toolkits that make this kind of creative exploration possible. There will be live demos and nerdy insights.

Arduino 101 - Brian Jepson , Tyler Moskowite

Arduino is an inexpensive open source electronic prototyping platform for artists, designers, hackers, and makers. Come to this class to learn the basics of Arduino.

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!

I Am on the Teevee, and So Can You: Basic Cable and Maker Culture - Hackett

I am Hackett. The deafeningly loud jet engines and chaos of the Chariot Races at last year's Maker Faire were pretty much my fault. I currently have my own show of the Science Channel (Stuck with Hackett), and I will be speaking a little bit about my experience, but mostly about how the cable spectrum is full of opportunities for Makers to make some money and get some exposure.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Sign Up For The Singularity: How To Be An Immortal Wizard & Program Your Personal God - Sam Frons

In this prep/pep-talk/presentation geared towards inventors and designers, we will explore emerging technologies and rethink the creative process for the next generation of innovation.

Learning to Screen Print - Emily Webster

Screen printing can be used for lots of different things, from clothing designs to circuit designs. In this session you'll learn the basics of screen printing and what it's good for.

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.

Making Tomorrow's Makers - AnnMarie Thomas

Tomorrow's inventors are today's children. As schools drop shop class and children spend more time watching TV than building tree houses, we need to contemplate where the inventors of the future will learn to be makers, and how we can aid in this process.

Hackerspaces: Schools of the Future - James Carlson , Jimmie Rodgers , Jon Santiago , Mitch Altman , Willow Brugh

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), Willow Brugh (Space Federation), Jimmie Rodgers (Bucketworks and The School Factory), James Carlson (Schoolfactory.org), and Jon Santiago (NYC Resistor).

DIY Medical Technologies can empower patients and their care providers to improve medicine. Using MEDIKits we can empower the ingenuity of every day inventors in hospital operating rooms, rural clinics, and disaster response settings.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

The Empowerment Plan - Veronika Scott

The Empowerment Plan is a humanitarian project centered on the Element S. It is self-heated, waterproof, and transforms into a sleeping bag at night. They are made by a group of homeless women that are paid to create these coats for those living on the streets.

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!

Kelvin Daly - Kelvin Daly

Kelvin Daly is an artist, musician, poet, and builder of odd musical instruments. He has been performing on his homemade instruments since the early 90's, and has played in many different scenarios from full bands (Music from the Mood Expansion Chamber, Thong of Kong) to multimedia performance spectacles (Ransom Corp. Destruction Dance Band, Wandering Womb Productions/Nomadic Festival, Resonant Wave Festival) to solo work.

The Future of Digital Things: Physicial Mashups, Dragons, Gangstas, and Rabbits-OH MY! - MakerBot Industries

In this talk Bre Pettis will use funny anecdotes with serious implications to explore the latest trend in digital design: physical mashups. From the clever to the bizarre, physical things have gone digital and heads from one model are getting put on bodies of another and then printed out on MakerBots. By listening to this talk, you'll become an expert on this strange and wonderful trend in digital design.

Custom Pet Applique Tote Demonstration - Haley Pierson-Cox

In this CRAFT demo, learn to make a fun, personalized tote bag using a photo of your pet as the template for creating a custom felt applique with pet-specific details. No sewing machine required!

Making Things Talk (and Listen) - Tom Igoe

In this presentation, Tom will talk about the changes in the forthcoming second edition of his book, "Making Things Talk," as well as some upcoming projects, including Near-Field Communication (NFC), monkey tracking, clocks, and more.

Pulse Sensor: Heart-Rate Beats Per Minute for Arduino, Lickety-Split! - Yury Gitman

"Pulse Sensor" is a well-designed plug-and-play heart-rate sensor for Arduino. The creators will introduce the Pulse Sensor, and demonstrate it's functions and applications.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Building Your Personal Lie Detector - Julio Terra , Mustafa Bagdatli

In this workshop you'll learn how to build a device to read the changes in your skin that reflect your mood using an Arduino and a couple basic parts.

Alyson Greenfield & Masai Electro - Rachel roc-elle-records

A musical performance hybrid combining electronic dance, hip hop rapping, and folk story-telling roots. Synthesizers, drums, vintage Casio keyboards, guitars, rainbow glockenspiels, and live beat boxers. Songs about giving birth to keyboards, going back in time to visit ancestors, and encountering new friends that arrive via spaceship. Might make you question, laugh, think, and even dance.

Technology at Your Service - Tatjanja Dzambazova

Innovations in hardware, software, reality capture and fabrication tools-based on some of the same technologies used by industry professionals-are now at your service to help unleash your originality, express your creativity, or exercise your entrepreneurial spirit!

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!

Getting Started with Arduino - Marc de Vinck

What is an Arduino? And how to get started.

Birth of an Electronics Kit - SpikenzieLabs

Describe our experiences in the electronics kit business, from idea to finished kit product. Including hurtles to overcome and tips that we have learned long the way.

Handmade: The Future of Community-Based Markets - Kellan Elliott-McCrea

Etsy CTO Kellan Elliot-McCrea talks about how Etsy is creating opportunities for people, and the future of "handmade" in the marketplace.

Total Craft Party! Ideas for Decorating Your Next Celebration by Hand - Maura Madden

Learn how to make stenciled cork coasters, adorable garlands, party favor containers, cupcake decor and more with Crafternoon author Maura Madden.

Extract DNA and barcode life with PCR, or explore your genome. Genetically-engineered organisms on display. Design potential new life forms in silico. Build a gel electrophoresis box to separate dyes and sort DNA into different length pieces.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Phat Man Dee - Mandy Kivowitz-Delfaver

Voted #2 Best Local Jazz Act in Pittsburgh City Paper Readers' Poll of 2010, Phat Man Dee has sung with Neverwas Haul, Boiler Bar, Madagascar Institute & Lifesize Mousetrap at the San Matteo & World Maker Faires. Come check out this dynamic artist!

Connecting iOS to the Real World - Alasdair Allan , Bryan Hord

Demonstration of how to connect your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad to the real world. Makes use of the Redpark Serial Cable for iOS and the Arduino, allowing you to make your iOS Device part of the Internet of Things.

Circus Warehouse - Circus Warehouse

Circus Warehouse is Queens' own center where the circus stars come to train and teach. With ceilings high enough to house a flying trapeze rig of classic proportion, the Warehouse has over 8000 square feet of space for practicing circus arts including trampoline, silks, lyra, cloud swing, solo trapeze and wire walking. It also houses a mirrored dance studio with a sprung floor. Throughout Maker Faire weekend, Circus Warehouse will present a series of performances and opportunities for visitors to learn some of the basics of Nouveau Cirque.

DIY Medical Technology - Jose Gomez-Marquez

DIY Medical Technologies can empower patients and their care providers to improve medicine. Using MEDIKits we can empower the ingenuity of every day inventors in hospital operating rooms, rural clinics, and disaster response settings.

Making Posters with Processing - Rune Madsen

Computer programs and algorithms can create beautiful images. In this session you'll learn to make your own posters using the Processing programming environment.

GLANK - Paul Rudolph

GLANK is magnetic, interactive percussion that GROOVES. GLANK is anonymous performers in Clean Room Suits. GLANK is audience integration. GLANK is found object percussion. GLANK is anonymity. Created by Paul Rudolph. Instruments include a range of tuned 'metalophones': propane tanks, saw blades, artillery shells, motorcycle gears, vibraphone, etc... Audience interaction includes anonymous masks and lab coats, "shaker activation", and numeric music patterns.

K'Nex Gun Site Acquired by Billion-dollar CAD Maker - What Gives? - Instructables

Autodesk buys Instructables; all employees must now build K'nex guns and buy pro memberships.

ReMake It! Scrap Paper Picture Frame - Tiffany Threadgould

Turn an old road map or magazine page into a picture perfect picture. Tiffany Threadgould will show you how to make this fun frame from take two pieces of paper. This is just one project from Tiffany's book, ReMake It, filled with 95 DIY recycling projects.

The Past, Present and Future of Open Tool Chains Using Atmel Microcontrollers - Eric Weddington

Hear from Atmel Open Source Community Manager about the past, present and future of open tool chains using Atmel microcontrollers. Learn how it has helped Atmel and created new challenges for themselves and users!

The Deconstruction is a creative sporting event based on taking things that already exist, combining them with current technology, and using teamwork and new ideas to create something completely different.

Using multiplexing technologies invented at GE Global Research, we are employing fluorescent probes to microscopically map the distribution, activity and abundance of protein markers in cancer in a way that was not possible before.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Tornado Intercept Vehicle - Sean Casey

To capture the extraordinary, first-of-a-kind footage in Tornado Alley, director Sean Casey not only had to learn how to enter a tornado, he had to design a vehicle that could take him there. It was a tricky proposition, considering tornadoes have the power to pick up locomotives and hurl cars through the air-carrying them over distances of up to a mile. In 2002, Casey sketched out a design (which, he says, looked "remarkably similar to the spaceships I drew when I was twelve"), taught himself how to weld, and, that summer, work on the original tornado intercept vehicle began. The TIV, as it is known, was built for one express purpose: to house and shuttle Casey's camera (he and his crew call it "an armored tripod on wheels"). He created a military-style filming turret, inside of which he maneuvers much like a tank gunner, only he's shooting film instead of ammunition and his range is 360 degrees. Featured prominently in the film Tornado Alley, TIV 2 is an updated incarnation of the original vehicle, built on a Dodge Ram 3500 platform. A third axle was added, giving it six-wheel-drive capability, in addition to four hydraulic drop-down skirts that block wind and debris during an intercept, a self-leveling suspension system, a modified 6.7-liter turbo-diesel engine, and a 92-gallon fuel tank. TIV 2 weighs 14,000 pounds and has a top speed of over 100 mph—not bad, but still a little sluggish if you're being chased by an EF5 tornado.

Pants Interface - Open-Source Wireless Wearable Controller - Rachel Hospodar

Pants Interface is a family of open source wearable projects. Rachel will show a four-button device designed to send custom MIDI triggers to computers, mixers, and other equipment, and discuss her learning process in developing a kit form of the device.

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!

Add Twitter Feeds to any TV! - Bunnie Huang

Add twitter feeds to your TV! Introducing an open hardware platform consisting of an 800 MHz wifi linux computer running Webkit, with an FPGA that composites web content over most HD video sources, such as game consoles, DVD players, PVRs...

Burnkit2600 - Thomas Uliasz

Burnkit2600 are the experimental electronics trio that combine homemade, modified, circuit-bent, and 8-bit instruments, with seriously funky live musicianship to create other-worldly grooves of the highest caliber.

DIY U: Designing Self Organized Education - Anya Kamenetz , Caroline Woolard

How do we teach, learn, and credential each other outside the logic of traditional educational institutions?

Latch Hook and Machine Knitting with Digital Images - Andrew Salomone

Design and create a latch-hooked rug from a digital image. (Saturday) Learn how a hacked knitting machine can turn a digital image into a sweater or ski mask for some unbelievable bitmap knits. (Sunday)

Everything You Wanted to Know About Arduino But Were Afraid to Ask - The Arduino Team

Q/A Session with the Arduino Team: Ever wanted to know why the boards have that weird shape or why pins on the Arduino aren't properly aligned? This is your chance.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Epidemiology is the study of health patterns in a society - and helps inform decisions and evidence-based medicine by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine. Through study, collection and statistical analysis of data over the day of the faire, we'll take a look at the epidemiology of attendees at Maker Faire, and discuss what can be learned from the process and the results.

Creating Organic Circuits Using Household Materials - Patricia Adler

Learn how the most common materials like pencil graphite, jell-o, and skin can be used in electrical circuits - to make your electronics projects more organic and fun

Android Accessories Made Easy With Arduino & Handbag - Philip Lindsay

Learn how to make Android accessories with your Arduino & the Handbag 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!

Radio Wonderland - Joshua Fried

RADIO WONDERLAND turns mass culture into recombinant funk, LIVE, with computer processing of live FM radio controlled by a real steering wheel, old shoes hit with sticks, knobs and gizmos. Hear award-winning composer Joshua Fried build his grooves, step by step, out of recognizable radio, and even UN-wind those grooves back to the original source.

From Faires to Spaces for Making in Africa - Emeka Okafor

Locations for inter disciplinary cross-pollination of expertise, experience and knowledge are emerging as logical evolution of the Maker movement in the continent.

How to Sew a Skirt in One Hour - Brett Bara

Learn to sew a simple skirt, using straight seams only! In this demo you'll learn how to make a custom skirt to fit your own body measurements, and further customize it with fabric choices. From the new book Sewing in a Straight Line, by Brett Bara.

Arduino 101 - Brian Jepson , Tyler Moskowite

Arduino is an inexpensive open source electronic prototyping platform for artists, designers, hackers, and makers. Come to this class to learn the basics of Arduino.

Coke Zero & Mentos Fountains - Eepybird.com

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.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

Onyx Ashanti - Onyx Ashanti

Onyx Ashanti is the creator of Beatjazz and the Beatjazz control system. an open source musical performance system that combines motion, Improvisation, beats and light into a never before realized form of artistic expression.

The Higher Levin Steel Orchestra - Tichard Chapman

Higher Levin is a not-for-profit Brooklyn based Youth Performing arts Organization. Founded by Mr. Tichard Chapman in 2006, it has as its goal to provide a positive alternative to the street life while enhancing knowledge and practice of the Performing arts. The steel band has performed for Mayor Bloomberg, Borough President Markowitz and many other local politicians, including Dr. Kendal Stewart and Assemblyman Nick Perry. They have also partnered with the 67th Precinct of the NYPD and have performed for Police Commissioner Kelly in Prospect Park. With a unique blend of popular music ranging from Caribbean to Classical Music and everything in between, The Higher Levin Steel Orchestra is a heartwarming band of young people with great potential for super stardom.

Open Innovation Can Solve Real World Problems - GROUND Lab , Justin Downs

Justin Downs and Benedetta Piantella, founders of GROUND Lab, will introduce some of their past and current projects and will discuss the lessons learned and the challenges encountered in building a business focused on open source platforms to be deployed in many countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the United States and more.

STEMGarden - Karen Kaun

Meet an elementary school design team. Help us build a better hydroponic garden. Knowledge iTrust, Fordham University and Educate LLC support NYC youth as CHANGE MAKERS through hands-on design of their own solutions for green, healthy living.

Circus Warehouse - Circus Warehouse

Circus Warehouse is Queens' own center where the circus stars come to train and teach. With ceilings high enough to house a flying trapeze rig of classic proportion, the Warehouse has over 8000 square feet of space for practicing circus arts including trampoline, silks, lyra, cloud swing, solo trapeze and wire walking. It also houses a mirrored dance studio with a sprung floor. Throughout Maker Faire weekend, Circus Warehouse will present a series of performances and opportunities for visitors to learn some of the basics of Nouveau Cirque.

Making Your Own Wind-Powered Generator - Michella Johanna Cardona , Nelson Ramon

Design and the Hand of the Designer - Allan Chochinov

Designers have been described as aestheticians, innovators, strategists, and design thinkers, increasingly moving them further away from their hands. How can design regain its handhold and how can new approaches to design education can help?

Behind the Scenes at Junkyard Wars: How They Make "Maker" TV - Jeff Del Papa

Behind the scenes of Junkyard Wars - The first US participant lets out some secrets of how "maker" TV gets made. See a never broadcast episode, ask questions.

The staff of MAKE has selected kits, tools, microcontrollers, crafts, souvenirs, and other fun stuff for sale. Plus: meet kit makers, watch project demos, and learn to solder for just $1 and keep the fun blinky pin you make!

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!