Monday, April 10, 2006
MAKE NEWS No. 38 -- Maker Faire, tick tock!
MAKE NEWS No. 38 -- Maker Faire, tick tock!
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April 10, 2006
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Maker Faire is coming up April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Can you
believe it? We're just two weeks away from what is shaping up to be one of
the most original and entertaining events of the year--part science fair,
part craft fair, part county fair, with a dash of Burning Man for good
measure.
We are absolutely blown away by the people and attractions we will have at
the Faire: a flying Pterosaur replica, a flock of whale blimps, a giant
painting machine, DIY RFID implants, model rocketry, breadboarding,
trailer glass blowing, The Crucible's welding workshops off the back of a
fire truck, pinhole photography, soldering, spud gun building, bubble
machines and a bubble guy that appeared on Johnny Carson in the 70s,
Bunnie Huang, Joe Grand, William Gurstelle and his Backyard Ballistics,
The Exploratorium, Zeum, The Lunar Society (rocket builders), Graffiti
Research Lab, Squid Labs, biodiesel making, electric cars, a Linux
supercomputer cluster running on veggie oil, neon art, circuit bending,
VJs, slide rules, pinball restoration, the Phenomenauts, Satan's Calliope
.... and much, much more. Quite an eclectic collection, not to mention
Diana Eng of Bravo's Project Runway and the 50 craft booths in Bizarre
Bazaar and the Swap-o-Rama-Rama.
CNN, NPR Science Friday's Ira Flatow, KPIX TV, Discover Magazine, CBS
News, The Discovery Channel, New York Times, Kevin Rose of Digg and
digg.com Films, and CNET will be covering the event. But hey ... why wait
to read it in a blog or see it on TV when you can be there in person?
If you haven't purchased your ticket yet, visit:
<http://www.makezine.com/faire/>
Featured Makers...
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Lady Ada's Super Happy Fun Blinky Workbench
Join Limor "Lady Ada" Fried, who will show some of her projects and kits
in the Make Play Day area, including a TB-303 synthesizer clone, animated
Pac-Man wheels, and more!
She'll also have tons of inexpensive MiniPOV kits on hand for people to
build and experiment with, right at the worktable! The MiniPOV kit is a
simple "persistance of vision" toy, similar in theory to the Fantazein
clocks you've probably seen. When waved through the air, eight red LEDs
spell out a message! You can customize the message at home with only a PC
and some free software.
Super-hacker Bunnie Huang will join in to help people make all of their
LED-blinky dreams come true!
Beginners are encouraged to stop by--no previous electronics experience
necessary!
Related site: <http://www.ladyada.net/make/minipov2>
More from the program overview:
<http://www.makezine.com/faire/program/>
MAKER FAIRE Sponsors
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Friends of the Faire
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Alameda County Computer Resource Center
Ambidextrous Magazine
Bazaar Bizarre
Botball
Chabot Space & Science Center
DorkBot
Exploratorium
Extreme Networks
Instructables
John Robert Powers
Renga Arts
Robo Educators
Robotics Society of America
Robogames
Squid Labs
Zeum
MAKE: Blog
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MAKE VIDEO PODCAST: The making of a Warbot and death of a RAZR phone.
Bre has really outdone himself this week! See a phone get harpooned!
"When Pablos and 3ric Johanson called me up and invited me to see their
robot, I had no idea what they were on about or that this visit would be
the demise of my slim cellphone. Working together like mad scientists,
these guys are developing a warbot to destroy all other warbots at the
Western Allied Robotics Seattle Bot Battles IV. This mechanized showdown
is set to begin at high noon at Seattle Center in the shadow of Seattle's
own space needle.
Inspired by their ingenuity and robotic daring, I'm putting together my
own "Reporter Warbot" to enter the ring and document the shards and
shrapnel of robots struggling for dominance! I'll be flying a white flag,
and I've got the mobility part sorted out with a little XMods remote
control car that I plan on adding some armor to. I need to figure out a
mobile video recording solution so I can bring video back from the robot
battlefield. If you have ideas for a good mobile video recording unit,
drop me a note in the comments. Look forward to a video next week from the
robot battlefield! P.S. 3ric's name is really spelled with a 3."
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/make_video_podcast_the_making.html>
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