2009 Makers
Below is a list of makers featured at the September 19, 2009 Maker Faire RI main event.
100kGarages
100kGarages is a new service to help Makers find digital fabrication shops all over the world. A collaboration between ShopBot Tools and Ponoko, we'll be there to talk to Makers about local manufacturing, digital fabrication, and how 100kGarages can help Makers and Fabbers connect.
Maker web site: Bill Young
Category: Engineering
100kGarages is a new service to help Makers find digital fabrication shops all over the world. A collaboration between ShopBot Tools and Ponoko, we'll be there to talk to Makers about local manufacturing, digital fabrication, and how 100kGarages can help Makers and Fabbers connect.
Maker web site: Bill Young
Category: Engineering
Another Side of In
Boston Cyberarts Festival collaboration with musician Mike Gordon (Phish) and artist Marjorie Minkin. Artwork with custom embedded electronics detects proximity of viewers to control both light and sound. Involves ultrasonic range-finders, custom wireless MIDI network and embedded mp3 player. Would bring working components to demonstrate, but not set up full artwork installation.
Maker web site: Jamie Robertson
Category: Engineering
Boston Cyberarts Festival collaboration with musician Mike Gordon (Phish) and artist Marjorie Minkin. Artwork with custom embedded electronics detects proximity of viewers to control both light and sound. Involves ultrasonic range-finders, custom wireless MIDI network and embedded mp3 player. Would bring working components to demonstrate, but not set up full artwork installation.
Maker web site: Jamie Robertson
Category: Engineering
AS220 Labs' Nomadic Fab Lab
Visit the Nomadic Fab Lab at the RI Maker Faire. We'll be bringing all the tools of the Fab Lab (a community workshop that allows you to make pretty much anything). Come play Fluxly and build your own game controller using the tools of the Providence Fab Lab.
Maker web site: AS220 Labs
Category: Engineering
Visit the Nomadic Fab Lab at the RI Maker Faire. We'll be bringing all the tools of the Fab Lab (a community workshop that allows you to make pretty much anything). Come play Fluxly and build your own game controller using the tools of the Providence Fab Lab.
Maker web site: AS220 Labs
Category: Engineering
AstroDime Transit Authority
We are a media arts collective that does performances and interventions using tin can telecommunications systems. I can demonstrate the iCAN, our tin can party line, and also tin can phone wiretapping.
Maker web site: sam smiley
Category: Arts
We are a media arts collective that does performances and interventions using tin can telecommunications systems. I can demonstrate the iCAN, our tin can party line, and also tin can phone wiretapping.
Maker web site: sam smiley
Category: Arts
Brooklyn Aerodrome
We build out of mostly trash remote controlled airplanes. They are scratch built, cost around $100 to create and take around 3 hours to build. We will show the aircraft, do demonstration flights and share the design.
Maker web site: Breck Baldwin
Category: Engineering
We build out of mostly trash remote controlled airplanes. They are scratch built, cost around $100 to create and take around 3 hours to build. We will show the aircraft, do demonstration flights and share the design.
Maker web site: Breck Baldwin
Category: Engineering
Closer to the Ocean
I'm an artist/crafter with loads of mixed media pieces made almost entirely of recycled goods. Everything from art to hang on your wall to jewelry to furniture. Vintage goods given new life to notebooks made of recycled paper of all kinds. All sorts of themes run through these creations, from anatomy and physiology to paper cranes, plants, and the occasional humorous mustache. While there, my lovely partner in crime, Miss Amelia Jane, will stitch recycled notebooks and I will decorate the covers. This could easily be opened up to folks who want to customize something they'd like to buy- we can bring along lots of materials and let folks design their own! We'll stitch the notebooks, they paint/draw/type on them, and if they want they can choose or bring an image to be transferred onto the cover. The same can be done on single sheets of recycled pages from books/maps, etc. to be framed!
Maker web site: Courtney Chelo
Category: Crafts
I'm an artist/crafter with loads of mixed media pieces made almost entirely of recycled goods. Everything from art to hang on your wall to jewelry to furniture. Vintage goods given new life to notebooks made of recycled paper of all kinds. All sorts of themes run through these creations, from anatomy and physiology to paper cranes, plants, and the occasional humorous mustache. While there, my lovely partner in crime, Miss Amelia Jane, will stitch recycled notebooks and I will decorate the covers. This could easily be opened up to folks who want to customize something they'd like to buy- we can bring along lots of materials and let folks design their own! We'll stitch the notebooks, they paint/draw/type on them, and if they want they can choose or bring an image to be transferred onto the cover. The same can be done on single sheets of recycled pages from books/maps, etc. to be framed!
Maker web site: Courtney Chelo
Category: Crafts
creature creation
BIG NAZ0 LAB is an international touring group and Creature-making storefront studio based in downtown Providence, RI that blends a variety of mask, puppet, performance and visual styles with live music & audience interaction. The NAZO LAB fabricators have designed, constructed and animated original characters for countless stage productions, parades, TV projects, and family extravaganzas throughout the US and overseas, stretching as far and wide as Singapore, Scotland, Indonesia, Portugal, Japan, Canada, Italy and Holland.
Maker web site: Big Nazo
Category: Arts
BIG NAZ0 LAB is an international touring group and Creature-making storefront studio based in downtown Providence, RI that blends a variety of mask, puppet, performance and visual styles with live music & audience interaction. The NAZO LAB fabricators have designed, constructed and animated original characters for countless stage productions, parades, TV projects, and family extravaganzas throughout the US and overseas, stretching as far and wide as Singapore, Scotland, Indonesia, Portugal, Japan, Canada, Italy and Holland.
Maker web site: Big Nazo
Category: Arts
Custom bicycle framebuilding
Circle A Cycles is a world renowned custom bicycle frame and component manufacturing shop which provides the highest quality, custom fit frames for people who have an appreciation for hand built steel bicycles.
Maker web site: Circle A Cycles
Category: Crafts
Circle A Cycles is a world renowned custom bicycle frame and component manufacturing shop which provides the highest quality, custom fit frames for people who have an appreciation for hand built steel bicycles.
Maker web site: Circle A Cycles
Category: Crafts
DC401/QuahogCon Info Booth
DC401 will be at RI Maker Festival to promote the monthly DC401 meetings and QuahogCon (coming to Providence in April 2010!)
Maker web site: DC401
Category: Engineering
DC401 will be at RI Maker Festival to promote the monthly DC401 meetings and QuahogCon (coming to Providence in April 2010!)
Maker web site: DC401
Category: Engineering
Dense City Project
We are trying to make something tangible to express unmanageable ideas. Interactive banners, drawings, surveys, sculptures, and photographs investigate ways we communicate and makes choices the modern world. Join us at Maker Faire to draw pictures of strangers, answer simple questions, and eat apple pie!
Maker web site: Caroline Doherty
Category: Arts
We are trying to make something tangible to express unmanageable ideas. Interactive banners, drawings, surveys, sculptures, and photographs investigate ways we communicate and makes choices the modern world. Join us at Maker Faire to draw pictures of strangers, answer simple questions, and eat apple pie!
Maker web site: Caroline Doherty
Category: Arts
DIY Displays
We present a collection of fabrication techniques and Arduino-based platforms that allow users to design and build truly one of a kind displays. Example displays include a screen-printed electroluminescent 7-segment display, a flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) game screen.
Maker web site: John Sarik
Category: Engineering
We present a collection of fabrication techniques and Arduino-based platforms that allow users to design and build truly one of a kind displays. Example displays include a screen-printed electroluminescent 7-segment display, a flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) display, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) game screen.
Maker web site: John Sarik
Category: Engineering
Eracer
My Electrathon Eracer is a one horsepower, lightweight, streamlined, battery electric race car. It holds the world record for its class, 62 miles in one hour, and has topped 100mph at Bonneville. We built it in my basement, and tow it in a custom aero trailer with my Honda Insight.
Maker web site: C. Michael Lewis
Category: Engineering
My Electrathon Eracer is a one horsepower, lightweight, streamlined, battery electric race car. It holds the world record for its class, 62 miles in one hour, and has topped 100mph at Bonneville. We built it in my basement, and tow it in a custom aero trailer with my Honda Insight.
Maker web site: C. Michael Lewis
Category: Engineering
ESSENCE OF OBJECT TRANSFORMATION
This project aims to uncover the unique energetic essence of the object- whatever that object may be! By using a special technique hand applied by the artist herself, simple everyday objects are transformed into energetic masses of distinction! True object essence is allowed to exude from these objects like never before!!
Maker web site: DAWN EXTON
Category: Arts
This project aims to uncover the unique energetic essence of the object- whatever that object may be! By using a special technique hand applied by the artist herself, simple everyday objects are transformed into energetic masses of distinction! True object essence is allowed to exude from these objects like never before!!
Maker web site: DAWN EXTON
Category: Arts
FIRST LEGO League
We'll like to demonstrate autonomous LEGO NXT robots that solve missions and dodge obstacles on the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) POWER PUZZLE robot table game. We'd bring in the 4x8 table and robots so guests of Maker Faire can see the innovative engineering and programming developed by the 9-14 year olds who participate in the FLL. As the Tournament Director for Rhode Island's FLL, I would be on hand to provide information on forming and coaching teams for the 2009-2010 season. The demonstration space would be hosted by coaches and students who participate in the FLL.
Maker web site: Mary Johnson
Category: Engineering
We'll like to demonstrate autonomous LEGO NXT robots that solve missions and dodge obstacles on the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) POWER PUZZLE robot table game. We'd bring in the 4x8 table and robots so guests of Maker Faire can see the innovative engineering and programming developed by the 9-14 year olds who participate in the FLL. As the Tournament Director for Rhode Island's FLL, I would be on hand to provide information on forming and coaching teams for the 2009-2010 season. The demonstration space would be hosted by coaches and students who participate in the FLL.
Maker web site: Mary Johnson
Category: Engineering
Fun things from wood
recycled wood, furniture, shelves, toys, tools, featuring a variety of geodesic tensigrity spheres formed from slats reclaimed from old fir from trashed doors and roll up blinds. Geometric model instruction sheets handed out. How to make a tensigrity structure from sticks and wire. Amusing clock made from old printer motors.
Maker web site: Dan Warren
Category: Crafts
recycled wood, furniture, shelves, toys, tools, featuring a variety of geodesic tensigrity spheres formed from slats reclaimed from old fir from trashed doors and roll up blinds. Geometric model instruction sheets handed out. How to make a tensigrity structure from sticks and wire. Amusing clock made from old printer motors.
Maker web site: Dan Warren
Category: Crafts
Greenhouse/eco diesel
1) R&D on algae derived eco-diesel 2) Patent Pending greenhouse which uses NO ENERGY even in dead of winter, grow veggies and plants year round 3) Solar based veg oil heater saves electricity in eco diesel production
Maker web site: Energy Innovation Group
Category: Green Tech
1) R&D on algae derived eco-diesel 2) Patent Pending greenhouse which uses NO ENERGY even in dead of winter, grow veggies and plants year round 3) Solar based veg oil heater saves electricity in eco diesel production
Maker web site: Energy Innovation Group
Category: Green Tech
Hydro-Squirt Master Mk1
Rotary magazine 5cc syringe based, pneumatically powered squirt pistol. This is the first in what we hope to be a series of water pistols exploring the essence of the idea. Megan already has dibs on this one so we'll need at least one more...
Maker web site: Megan Billings/John Mills
Category: Engineering
Rotary magazine 5cc syringe based, pneumatically powered squirt pistol. This is the first in what we hope to be a series of water pistols exploring the essence of the idea. Megan already has dibs on this one so we'll need at least one more...
Maker web site: Megan Billings/John Mills
Category: Engineering
Hydrolizer
I will display my car that is running with a hydrogen device that I made and installed. This device uses water as a fuel by separating the hydrogen from the oxygen. This device suppliments the gas consumption so you have a much more efficient combustion, nearly zero emessions and 25 - 85% gas mileage gains.
Maker web site: Peter Tousignant
Category: Green Tech
I will display my car that is running with a hydrogen device that I made and installed. This device uses water as a fuel by separating the hydrogen from the oxygen. This device suppliments the gas consumption so you have a much more efficient combustion, nearly zero emessions and 25 - 85% gas mileage gains.
Maker web site: Peter Tousignant
Category: Green Tech
Ice cream in ziplock bags
With a few simple ingredients from home ice cream can be made. Combine milk, sugar and vanilla in a small zip lock bag. In a larger bag, put ice, salt and the sealed bag ice cream bag. Toss or shake for about ten minutes for a single serving of ice cream. Here is just a basic link to one of many different recipes on how to do this: http://homeparents.about.com/od/recipesandcrafts/r/zip_icecream.htm On my kafe lila web site there are photos and a link to myspace.com that shows pictures of my ice cream cart.
Maker web site: Karen Pace
Category: Food Hacking
With a few simple ingredients from home ice cream can be made. Combine milk, sugar and vanilla in a small zip lock bag. In a larger bag, put ice, salt and the sealed bag ice cream bag. Toss or shake for about ten minutes for a single serving of ice cream. Here is just a basic link to one of many different recipes on how to do this: http://homeparents.about.com/od/recipesandcrafts/r/zip_icecream.htm On my kafe lila web site there are photos and a link to myspace.com that shows pictures of my ice cream cart.
Maker web site: Karen Pace
Category: Food Hacking
Intel Computer Clubhouse Network
The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is an international community of 100 Computer Clubhouses located in 20 different countries around the world. The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.
Maker web site: Keith Simmons
Category: Arts
The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is an international community of 100 Computer Clubhouses located in 20 different countries around the world. The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.
Maker web site: Keith Simmons
Category: Arts
Interactive Pong
It is an interactive mixed-reality pong game played by wearing helmets with IR LED's attached. Using custom software and hacked wiimotes, players control the two pong paddles by running from side to side.
Maker web site: Tellart
Category: Engineering
It is an interactive mixed-reality pong game played by wearing helmets with IR LED's attached. Using custom software and hacked wiimotes, players control the two pong paddles by running from side to side.
Maker web site: Tellart
Category: Engineering
Making Cool Things With Microcontrollers
Anyone can learn how to make cool things with microcontrollers! Even if you've never sewn a button, you can actually make a fun, intriguing project at the Faire. Blink lights, hack your brain, play video games, turn off TVs in public places — microcontrollers can do it all. This is for all skill and experience levels. Ages 5 to 100. You can even learn to solder!
Maker web site: Mitch Altman and Jimmie P. Rodgers
Category: Engineering
Anyone can learn how to make cool things with microcontrollers! Even if you've never sewn a button, you can actually make a fun, intriguing project at the Faire. Blink lights, hack your brain, play video games, turn off TVs in public places — microcontrollers can do it all. This is for all skill and experience levels. Ages 5 to 100. You can even learn to solder!
Maker web site: Mitch Altman and Jimmie P. Rodgers
Category: Engineering
Mississippi Mixer (video)
An episode of Scrapheap Challenge (US name Junkyard Wars). In a tribute to I.K. Brunel, the teams were tasked with building paddleboats. This episode was never shown in the US. My team (The NERDS) turned the drum of a cement mixer into a diesel engined, cargo carrying sternwheeler. Will also be bringing various (tbd) recumbent bicycles of my own design/construciton.
Maker web site: Jeff Del Papa
Category: Engineering
An episode of Scrapheap Challenge (US name Junkyard Wars). In a tribute to I.K. Brunel, the teams were tasked with building paddleboats. This episode was never shown in the US. My team (The NERDS) turned the drum of a cement mixer into a diesel engined, cargo carrying sternwheeler. Will also be bringing various (tbd) recumbent bicycles of my own design/construciton.
Maker web site: Jeff Del Papa
Category: Engineering
Modkit: Simplified programming of Arduino and Compatibles
Modkit is an online development environment that makes creating programs to control physical interactions as simple as clicking together little virtual lego blocks.. We'll be demoing Modkit and our proto boards which can connect to sensors and lego motors to build little contraptions... Modkit also works with Arduino compatible boards so if participants own one they can bring it along and we'll show them how the Modkit environment can be used to program their Arduino as well.. Modkit is not yet publicly available but we'll be giving out invitations to join our alpha testing program.. Hope to see you there!
Maker web site: Ed Baafi
Category: Engineering
Modkit is an online development environment that makes creating programs to control physical interactions as simple as clicking together little virtual lego blocks.. We'll be demoing Modkit and our proto boards which can connect to sensors and lego motors to build little contraptions... Modkit also works with Arduino compatible boards so if participants own one they can bring it along and we'll show them how the Modkit environment can be used to program their Arduino as well.. Modkit is not yet publicly available but we'll be giving out invitations to join our alpha testing program.. Hope to see you there!
Maker web site: Ed Baafi
Category: Engineering
MOO.COM
MOO is a new kind of printing Business We're an online stationer helping photographers and creatives stand out in an over-crowded world. With our unique printing technology - which we call 'Printfinity' - we help our customers get noticed. Printfinity gives you the opportunity to print a different image on every card, creating a remarkable 'pocket portfolio'. It’s perfect for photographers and creatives, who need to show and share their work. We print Business Cards, MiniCards (half-sized Business Cards), Postcards and Stickers and more..! Upload photography straight from your computer, import images from Flickr or your social network, or use beautiful artwork created by MOO's Designers.
Maker web site: Rebeka Fluet
Category: Arts
MOO is a new kind of printing Business We're an online stationer helping photographers and creatives stand out in an over-crowded world. With our unique printing technology - which we call 'Printfinity' - we help our customers get noticed. Printfinity gives you the opportunity to print a different image on every card, creating a remarkable 'pocket portfolio'. It’s perfect for photographers and creatives, who need to show and share their work. We print Business Cards, MiniCards (half-sized Business Cards), Postcards and Stickers and more..! Upload photography straight from your computer, import images from Flickr or your social network, or use beautiful artwork created by MOO's Designers.
Maker web site: Rebeka Fluet
Category: Arts
NYC Resistor
We are a hacker collective. Raphael Abrams, Deeanna Gunderson and Bill Ward will minimally bring a red-eyed lion painting. Lots of other projects will be in the offing: Portable labs. Twitchies. Maybe a little soldering and how-tos. Some crafting. We'll bring some yarn and does some fancy technocrafting.
Maker web site: Raphael Abrams
Category: Arts
We are a hacker collective. Raphael Abrams, Deeanna Gunderson and Bill Ward will minimally bring a red-eyed lion painting. Lots of other projects will be in the offing: Portable labs. Twitchies. Maybe a little soldering and how-tos. Some crafting. We'll bring some yarn and does some fancy technocrafting.
Maker web site: Raphael Abrams
Category: Arts
Old Fashion Robotics Store
Demo and hands-on robotics. We will have robotic and soldering kits for sale. We own and operate the Old Fashion Robotic Store in Providence, RI which provides electronic and material products for education and hobbyist needs.
Maker web site: James Tabele
Category: Engineering
Demo and hands-on robotics. We will have robotic and soldering kits for sale. We own and operate the Old Fashion Robotic Store in Providence, RI which provides electronic and material products for education and hobbyist needs.
Maker web site: James Tabele
Category: Engineering
olopede
olopede is a series of kits designed to teach electronics while remaining functional and modular. Current teaching kits suck because they aren't reusable, they're poorly documented, and they aren't cool. So far, we have a function generator/noisemaker, an Arduino clone called modularduino, and a turing machine & lightstrip system.
Maker web site: Zach Banks & Josh Gordonson
Category: Engineering
olopede is a series of kits designed to teach electronics while remaining functional and modular. Current teaching kits suck because they aren't reusable, they're poorly documented, and they aren't cool. So far, we have a function generator/noisemaker, an Arduino clone called modularduino, and a turing machine & lightstrip system.
Maker web site: Zach Banks & Josh Gordonson
Category: Engineering
One-Person Submarine
I am working on a one-person submarine which can go down 30 feet and travel for six hours at full power (5 mph). I have been building it for 6 months. It will be going down in one week.
Maker web site: Sean Bagge
Category: Engineering
I am working on a one-person submarine which can go down 30 feet and travel for six hours at full power (5 mph). I have been building it for 6 months. It will be going down in one week.
Maker web site: Sean Bagge
Category: Engineering
Open Source Handheld Gadgets
I've used many of the widely available Arduino modules to create do-it-yourself versions of a few popular handheld gadgets, like the blackberry, gameboy, and palm.
Maker web site: Justin Huynh
Category: Engineering
I've used many of the widely available Arduino modules to create do-it-yourself versions of a few popular handheld gadgets, like the blackberry, gameboy, and palm.
Maker web site: Justin Huynh
Category: Engineering
Ponaganset High School Fuel Cell Model T
Ponaganset High School's Fuel Cell Model T is a street legal replica of a 1923 Ford Roadster that was first converted to battery electric power and is now powered by a Hydrogenics 12 kw HyPM hydrogen fuel cell.
Maker web site: Ross McCurdy
Category: Science
Ponaganset High School's Fuel Cell Model T is a street legal replica of a 1923 Ford Roadster that was first converted to battery electric power and is now powered by a Hydrogenics 12 kw HyPM hydrogen fuel cell.
Maker web site: Ross McCurdy
Category: Science
Radical Skateboard Experiments
Gives new meaning to the phrase "fast, cheap, and out of control."
Maker web site: Luke Kraffft
Category: Crafts
Gives new meaning to the phrase "fast, cheap, and out of control."
Maker web site: Luke Kraffft
Category: Crafts
Robots Learning from Demonstration
RLAB (Robotics, Learning and Autonomy at Brown) will interactively demonstrate learning from demonstration technology. Participants will teach a robotic dog new tricks. Controlling the robot with a wiimote, participants will demonstrate behaviors like finding and kicking a ball. The robot will then try to perform these tasks on its own.
Maker web site: Trevor Jay
Category: Engineering
RLAB (Robotics, Learning and Autonomy at Brown) will interactively demonstrate learning from demonstration technology. Participants will teach a robotic dog new tricks. Controlling the robot with a wiimote, participants will demonstrate behaviors like finding and kicking a ball. The robot will then try to perform these tasks on its own.
Maker web site: Trevor Jay
Category: Engineering
Second Stitch
A exhibition of one of a kind adjustable clothing made from 100% recycled fabrics. Sculptural, low carbon footprint, wearable points of dearture. Some pieces include extra fabric to encourage further DIY innovation.
Maker web site: Clay Ward
Category: Crafts
A exhibition of one of a kind adjustable clothing made from 100% recycled fabrics. Sculptural, low carbon footprint, wearable points of dearture. Some pieces include extra fabric to encourage further DIY innovation.
Maker web site: Clay Ward
Category: Crafts
stuff we make and do @ keeseh
We'll be showing work that has come out of Keeseh and providing people with information about what we do at Keeseh. Keeseh Studio is a design collaborative with prototyping and fabrication capabilities. The workshop provides machinery, tools, and workspace that local artists and designers rent using something resembling a membership system. This gives artists and designers access to capabilities, resources, and a community of others with whom to share their ideas and gain critiques. To encourage the growth of woodworking as design and craft, Keeseh offers woodworking classes. Keeseh additionally offers design and consulting services and works both with individuals on commissions as well as designs for industry. The studio’s clientele includes Crate & Barrel, Room & Board, Maria Yee Inc, Pli Design, Up Country, and many more.
Maker web site: keeseh studio
Category: Engineering
We'll be showing work that has come out of Keeseh and providing people with information about what we do at Keeseh. Keeseh Studio is a design collaborative with prototyping and fabrication capabilities. The workshop provides machinery, tools, and workspace that local artists and designers rent using something resembling a membership system. This gives artists and designers access to capabilities, resources, and a community of others with whom to share their ideas and gain critiques. To encourage the growth of woodworking as design and craft, Keeseh offers woodworking classes. Keeseh additionally offers design and consulting services and works both with individuals on commissions as well as designs for industry. The studio’s clientele includes Crate & Barrel, Room & Board, Maria Yee Inc, Pli Design, Up Country, and many more.
Maker web site: keeseh studio
Category: Engineering
The Autophenakistoscope
This project will be in Make, volume 20. The Autophenakistoscope: This device explores motion picture technology by computerizing the very earliest motion picture device (The Phenakistoscope, invented in 1832). By combining the phenakistoscope, a gear motor, a strobe, and an Arduino, the user to gains an intuitive understanding of motion picture technology.
Maker web site: Dan Rasmussen
Category: Engineering
This project will be in Make, volume 20. The Autophenakistoscope: This device explores motion picture technology by computerizing the very earliest motion picture device (The Phenakistoscope, invented in 1832). By combining the phenakistoscope, a gear motor, a strobe, and an Arduino, the user to gains an intuitive understanding of motion picture technology.
Maker web site: Dan Rasmussen
Category: Engineering
The Links: Fearless Mobile Mini Golf
4 Holes. Brightly colored balls. 1000 sq ft of carpeted mini golf love.
Maker web site: The Woolies
Category: Arts
4 Holes. Brightly colored balls. 1000 sq ft of carpeted mini golf love.
Maker web site: The Woolies
Category: Arts
The New Flesh Workshop
The New Flesh Workshop designs and develops Functionally and Aesthetically Customized Prosthetics and Orthotics, Biomedical Implant Devices, Wearable Gadgetry, and Party Armor. MISSION STATEMENT The New Flesh Workshop is dedicated to the development of technology which allows individuals to expand their options for interacting with the world. By creating devices and gear that are functional – as well as beautiful – we allow people to remain both independent and stunning as the world is engulfed by the fires of Armageddon, with the skills needed to provide for themselves, their loved ones, and the world. All too often the utilization of technology as an extension of human form is bent to the intent of making life easier for the individual, rather than making the individual more self-sufficient. He or she is not more able to interact freely in a technological or ecological environment, but is instead shielded from it. If a tool is to truly serve as an extension of human form then not only must it provide a fundamental function, but also be an expression of the individual utilizing it. To that end The New Flesh Workshop has been created to make real the things many are programmed to think are impossible and in doing so provide a means for the expression of humanity through technological form.
Maker web site: Dr. Seth Adventure
Category: Crafts
The New Flesh Workshop designs and develops Functionally and Aesthetically Customized Prosthetics and Orthotics, Biomedical Implant Devices, Wearable Gadgetry, and Party Armor. MISSION STATEMENT The New Flesh Workshop is dedicated to the development of technology which allows individuals to expand their options for interacting with the world. By creating devices and gear that are functional – as well as beautiful – we allow people to remain both independent and stunning as the world is engulfed by the fires of Armageddon, with the skills needed to provide for themselves, their loved ones, and the world. All too often the utilization of technology as an extension of human form is bent to the intent of making life easier for the individual, rather than making the individual more self-sufficient. He or she is not more able to interact freely in a technological or ecological environment, but is instead shielded from it. If a tool is to truly serve as an extension of human form then not only must it provide a fundamental function, but also be an expression of the individual utilizing it. To that end The New Flesh Workshop has been created to make real the things many are programmed to think are impossible and in doing so provide a means for the expression of humanity through technological form.
Maker web site: Dr. Seth Adventure
Category: Crafts
The Steampunk Guns
A Cool Dozen of some of the most fun I have had In my workshop- These all were created with parts from Buy Back programmes and are Beautiful Sculptures depicting fantasy and improbable weaponry that is Scary but at the same time Completely Inert and Harmless.
Maker web site: Chris Hausbeck
Category: Arts
A Cool Dozen of some of the most fun I have had In my workshop- These all were created with parts from Buy Back programmes and are Beautiful Sculptures depicting fantasy and improbable weaponry that is Scary but at the same time Completely Inert and Harmless.
Maker web site: Chris Hausbeck
Category: Arts
Tri-Chromatic Keyboard
A new music keyboard layout that makes it easier to see music theory. The traditional keyboard favors one frame of reference, the C scale, and then describes everything as a deviation from that. My keyboard treats all frames of reference equally.
Maker web site: Roy Pertchik
Category: Music
A new music keyboard layout that makes it easier to see music theory. The traditional keyboard favors one frame of reference, the C scale, and then describes everything as a deviation from that. My keyboard treats all frames of reference equally.
Maker web site: Roy Pertchik
Category: Music
WASTE NOT WANT NOT
Recycled and reclaimed clothing, accessories and fine art.
Maker web site: London
Category: Arts
Recycled and reclaimed clothing, accessories and fine art.
Maker web site: London
Category: Arts
wiblocks
Physical computing building blocks that can be programmed using open source tools like the Arduino software. All wiblocks tools are created using open source software.
Maker web site: John Luciani
Category: Engineering
Physical computing building blocks that can be programmed using open source tools like the Arduino software. All wiblocks tools are created using open source software.
Maker web site: John Luciani
Category: Engineering
Willoughby and Baltic
We are a group of artists, engineers and makers in the Boston area. The group would like to come down and show some of what we've been working on over the past year. This includes two downhill racers (one made out of a bathtub, one make out of a port-o-potty), a pong game done in 3d out of wood, our tesla coil, robotic puppets, and a whole bunch of handmade tools.
Maker web site: Meredith Garniss
Category: Engineering
We are a group of artists, engineers and makers in the Boston area. The group would like to come down and show some of what we've been working on over the past year. This includes two downhill racers (one made out of a bathtub, one make out of a port-o-potty), a pong game done in 3d out of wood, our tesla coil, robotic puppets, and a whole bunch of handmade tools.
Maker web site: Meredith Garniss
Category: Engineering
Your Heaven (r) Musical Instrument Processing
An acoustic drum set can be recorded and/or amplified with first class studio sound in any space and with no sound engineering experience or knowledge needed. Setup is very fast, the system is small, lightweight, and self contained. There are also systems for other musical instruments.
Maker web site: Stephen R. Schwartz and Arvid Tomayko-Peters
Category: Music
An acoustic drum set can be recorded and/or amplified with first class studio sound in any space and with no sound engineering experience or knowledge needed. Setup is very fast, the system is small, lightweight, and self contained. There are also systems for other musical instruments.
Maker web site: Stephen R. Schwartz and Arvid Tomayko-Peters
Category: Music
