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more about #makerfaire more comments → Nick: alright, i'll do it. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. more » kwiiboy: first more » Kaiser-Machead: Add a second arm, a couple of legs, armored torso and a good portable power supply, and consider me sold. more » dimsum4u: Thats excellent, the first thing the kid does is mimic his dad. Pick up a can of beer chug it, crush it, drop it. more » Monty: This sucker clearly brings new meaning to the term "hand job", but there are only a couple people in the world that would think the size of this is "j... more » Mitch: Oh god...I WAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT Now when I say I will crush my enemies, I can really REALLY mean it. more » Curves: Yes, its immature, but who ISNT going to flip the middle finger as the first thing they do? I would. more » Geisrud: Would this be considered a hand puppet? more » Joseph_Shaw_520: looks like it needs some force feedback...but crushing stuff is fun too more » ripfire: Just try not to scratch your nose. more » -
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Wii Nunchuck-Controlled Beanbag Chair Makes Nacho Retrieval Easier
The Beancat is a battery-powered skid-steer beanbag chair piloted by a Wii nunchuck controller, created for this year's Bay Area Maker Faire. It looks like a pretty great way to make a fridge run without having to, well, run. [Make] More » -
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Giant Robotic Hand Controlled By Mimicking Your Hand Motions
This gigantic robotic hand is controlled by what's called a Waldo: a small glove that has the big hand mimic whatever its doing. It's awesome and kind of scary, as you can see by the video BotJunkie grabbed of it. More » -
#makerfaire2009
Interactivation: When Music Makers and Tesla Coils Collide
On display at Maker Faire 2009, Interactivation is a whimsical, slightly non-sensical cross between a six-way collaborative music machine and a Tesla coil, producing improvised sounds and scientific trickery from the same machine. More » -
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Puppy Monorail Makes Me Fear for Mankind's Future
Of all the ridiculous things one can see at the Maker Faire, the Puppy Mover Monorail might take the cake. More » -
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Neuron Chamber Offers a Glimpse at What Alien Brains Might Look Like
Okay fine, maybe this is more of an artistic representation that's taken a few liberties, but still, the Neuron Chamber on display at Maker Faire 2009 is a pretty cool looking piece of extraterrestrial art. More » -
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Maker Faire This Weekend
Reminder to you lucky bastards in the Bay Area: Maker Faire—the world's largest DIY festival—is happening this weekend at the San Mateo Event Center. There'll be huge Tesla coils, battling battleships, cybernetic giraffes, and lots of crazies running around. Like Burning Man, but safe for kids. [MF] -
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MAKE Makes Call for Makers for October Austin Faire
We love the whacky creativity of the Maker Faire here at Giz, and all you DIY gadget enthusiasts out there will be pleased to hear MAKE has just put out a call for Makers for the upcoming Austin Faire. You've got until September 4th to get your application in, and the faire itself will be happening October 18th and 19th at the Travis County Expo Center. [MakerFaire via LaughingSquid] -
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Wiimote Wheelchair Helps Disabled People Paint (Roughly Speaking)
Digital Wheel Art, a wheelchair painting program to help disabled people make art, was on display at the Maker Faire event in NYC tonight. Creator YoungHyun Chung was inspired to create the device after seeing children with cerebral palsy whose limited movement stifled their artistic expression. Here's how it works, plus a video of the system in action. More » -
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The Best Way To Cook Hot Dogs: by Tesla Coil
The most exiting way to cook hot dogs: connect a chain of 12 of them up and send bolts of multi-thousand-volt electricity through them. Awesome, and all thanks to the Nevada Lightning Lab and their 10-foot Tesla coil at Maker Faire '08. And amazingly, the coil they used is just a prototype for a 122-foot version they want to build for lightning experiments. Imagine the light show and cookability you'd get from that! [Lightning Lab via Oh Gizmo] -
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Video: A Robot Drawing Beautiful Stars In The Sand
Here's a video of Sisyphus V drawing shapes in the sand using a magnetic arm on a 2-axis plotter. [Maker Faire] -
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Remote Plant Watering Via iPhone
Peter set up a robotic watering can to take directions from an iPhone. When Safari's screen state goes from horizontal to vertical, it sends a status update to a webserver via javascript that sets the watering can up or down. Pretty simple but clever setup. [Maker Faire] -
#opensource
Build Your Own Multitouch Table With the Cubit
Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people who want to make a scaled-down Microsoft Surface for one tenth the Surface's price. More » -
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Maker Faire: Remote Controlled Battleships Fighting With BB Gun Cannons
Why do I need goggles to watch R/C ships sailing in a pond? Because these replicas of WWII battleships fire C02-powered projectiles. In the video above, you can see munitions bounce off the plexi shields protecting the crowd and make splashes as they ricochet off enemy hulls. The Western Warship Combat Club is recreating Axis vs. Allies fights where each side tries to sink the other. At 1/144 scale. [Western Warship Combat Club Maker Faire] -
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Sisyphus V: A Robot Making a Zen Garden
This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kinetic sculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of a buddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel sphere carefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes that can best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an arm on a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up, and Sisyphus is making its first appearance here, at Maker Faire 2008. An unrelated but cool Interview with Bruce, by Cool Hunting\, after the jump. [TaoMC at Makers] More » -
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Holy Crap: MacGyver Blockbuster Film Coming!
Today at Maker Faire 2008, MacGyver creator (and real life inspiration) Lee David Zlotoff announced he has a big budget MacGyver movie in the planning stages. More » -
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I Love Maker Faire!
I'm so happy Mark, Phil and the rest of the MAKE Mag folks put on Maker Faire. I'm here with Adrian and Lisa and surprisingly, it's even better than last year's. There are a ton of great pieces I've never seen, the weather is fine, the crowds aren't too bad and the food is great. I'd recommend you get your butt down here and come visit the event if you're even remotely close to the Bay Area. [Maker Faire] -
#announcements
Maker Faire Bay Area - This Saturday and Sunday
Maker Faire and its ridiculously dangerous projects are going to be in San Mateo this weekend. If you're in town, drop by and say hello, since Brian's going to be there covering the crazy robots and trying to keep his eyebrows from burning off. If you're going to be running an awesome booth at Maker, drop him a note as well so he knows to stop by. See you tomorrow! [Maker Faire] -
#gadgets
Maker Faire Hits Bay Area May 3 and 4
Maker Faire is in town again, hitting up the bay area with their ridiculously dangerous projects and robots and flaming robot projects this May 3 and 4. If you're in town, you should stop by and see what the crazy doctor Phil Torrone has cooking for you. At the very least, you can stop by and say hi to the Giz folks that are going to be down there. Maybe even buy them some soda. Trying to take pictures of stuff next open flames and wildly careening robots is thirsty work. [Maker Faire] -
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2008 Maker Faire Announced
DIY gadgeteers, fire up your engines: the dates for Make magazine's first 2008 Maker Faire have been unveiled as May 3rd and 4th. The San Mateo County Fairgrounds in San Mateo, California will again be the venue. Expect to see all sorts of wonderful (and weird) DIY science, arts, crafts and engineering projects in action, just like last year. We'll be keeping you posted, of course, but if you want to go there in person remember that discount ticket sales end April 25th. [Maker Faire] -
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Violent Battlebots Make Sparks Fly, Fight Like Hell
We never get tired of watching battlebots, and here's a couple of particularly violent ones facing off at last weekend's Maker Faire. It's a good thing these remote-controlled warriors are battling it out behind bulletproof glass! It's jousting for the 21st century. More » -
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Maker Faire Starts Tomorrow
The San Mateo fairgrounds in California are hopping because tomorrow is the start of Maker Faire. The fair will be a weekend full of projects, demonstrations, entertainment and fun where the DIY'ers across the world come together to show off their goods. Hit the link below to see everything that will be going on this weekend. Even if you aren't a maker, it is worth checking out all of the goods. More » -
#itsaparty
Maker Faire Coming Up: May 19 + 20
Just a quick reminder from our buddy Phil that the Maker Faire is coming up on May 19 and 20 at the San Mateo fairgrounds. We'll be there—as will Phil and thousands of other do-it-yourselfers—hanging out with a bunch of guys with way too much time on their hands and all the awesome stuff they make. More » -
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Maker Faire: Life-Size Mouse Trap Game
I'm not sure what the recent trend is, but everyone seems to be life-sizing my childhood. Remember the game Mousetrap? Yes, the game that was fun for 30 seconds, and not worth the effort and time it took to set it up. Someone has created a life-size replicate of the Mousetrap Rube Goldberg machine. Rather than dropping the cage on the mouse and cheese, like in the original, this monstrous version will drop a safe on any object of your choosing (to crush and destroy). It will be on display at the Maker Faire next month. More » -
#announcements
Maker Faire 2007 Auditions This Sunday
The staff of Make and Craft magazine are calling for anyone who has a do-it-yourself project that might be inspiring or inspirational to audition for the Maker Faire 2007. Check out that example above—hey, what is that, an electric giraffe? Yes, indeed it is. The tryout is this Sunday (February 18), and will be held at the Machine Project in Los Angeles. The winners will be invited to share their accomplishments at Maker Faire 2007, a gathering on May 19-20 at the San Mateo, California Fairgrounds.We invite proposals for Maker workbench exhibits, workshops, presentations and performances for the Maker Faire. We are interested in proposals from individuals as well as from groups such as hobbyist clubs and schools.
Make and Craft editors Dale Dougherty, Mark Frauenfelder, and Natalie Zee Drieu will be at the audition. Keep in mind, you perverts, that this is a family-friendly event, which last year had 20,000 people attending. Keep it clean. More » -
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2007 Maker Faire Announced
MAKE Magazine, the folks behind all of the crazy DIY projects have announced the Maker Faires for 2007. The San Mateo fairgrounds in San Mateo, California will host one of the 2007 Maker Faires on May 19 and 20. Another Maker Faire will be held October 20 and 21 at the Travis County fairgrounds in Austin, Texas. The Maker Faier is a weekend full of projects, demonstrations, entertainment and fun where DIY'ers of all types come together to show off their goods. Check out info from Maker Faire 2006 here. More »
