Tony Regalbuto's father has a penchant for decorating the family's front yard with whimsical, sometimes frightening, humanoid decorations. Many of the characters are based around Posables, a system of configurable...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Monday October 24th, 2011 10:00 AM
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Jeffrey Lipton of Fab@Home demonstrates their 3D printing system at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. This open source personal manufacturing machine can print with many different materials from plastic to...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday October 24th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Education, General, Workshop | 2 Comments
Ed Haas shows his Calliope #5, a handmade pyrophone, at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Controlled by a midi keyboard, this wind instrument is similar to an organ, but has...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Saturday October 22nd, 2011 10:00 AM
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Tyler Freeman hacked his clothes and created a jacket that transforms movement into video performance art. The VJacket senses gestures and then uses that information to create complicated visuals right...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Friday October 21st, 2011 10:00 AM
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Inspired by his friend's couch on wheels, William Keller built this motorized La-Z-Boy to get around the Playa at Burning Man.
Posted by Becky Stern | Thursday October 20th, 2011 5:00 AM
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The Black Hole is an elevated whirlpool built by Michael Yates. Visitors at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 climbed up the stairs to witness the balance of gravity and centripetal...
Posted by Becky Stern | Tuesday October 18th, 2011 10:30 AM
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As an industrial and fine arts education center in the Bay Area, The Crucible was the perfect group to show Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 attendees demonstrations in welding, blacksmithing,...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday October 17th, 2011 10:00 AM
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Zac Carroll and his team created a moveable Front Porch that is towed by a vintage tractor. He brought this creation, complete with all sorts of nostalgic reminders of domesticity,...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Sunday October 16th, 2011 10:00 AM
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Haley Who, as liaison for the Seabat family, guides the Mechanical Swam Kirin around Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. According to Haley’s story, Evrin Seabat spotted a Swamp Kirin in...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday October 15th, 2011 8:30 AM
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Joe and John DiPrima's ArcAttack! is a performance group that creates electrifying melodies by controlling the frequency sweep on their solid state Tesla coil. This is accompanied by a full...
Posted by Becky Stern | Friday October 14th, 2011 10:00 AM
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Lisa Pongrace's cupcake cars are powered by electric motors, and evolved from a costume idea for Burning Man. After building the first prototype, her friends wanted their own mobile muffins...
Posted by Becky Stern | Wednesday October 12th, 2011 10:00 AM
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The Uira Engine is a part of the guts from the Raygun Gothic Rocket Ship, which now resides in San Francisco's Embarcadero. For Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, the engine...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Tuesday October 11th, 2011 12:00 PM
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