2009 Makers

Below is a list of makers featured at the September 19, 2009 Maker Faire RI main event.

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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

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

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

Radical Skateboard Experiments
Gives new meaning to the phrase "fast, cheap, and out of control."
Maker web site: Luke Kraffft
Category: Crafts

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

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