Month: May 2011

Lanny Smoot will showcase his incredible strobing zoetrope. You’ll be able to lipsync a Ping-Pong ball to your voice!

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s PLASTICS.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Saul Griffith will bring these four months of Materiality to an end, by talking about his elephants that he built in each of our four highlighted materials: plastic, cardboard, metal, and wood.

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Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s WOOD.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Shawn Lani’s Strobe Flower lanterns will be installed in the Tinkering Studio. A simple plastic bag becomes a thing of beauty.

Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s PLASTICS.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.

Virginia Fleck will host a workshop on building a collaborative, inflatable meditation cushion made of recycled plastic bags.

Visit http://makerfaire.com for more information about MAKE

Each Open MAKE will center around a different material-centric theme. This month it’s PLASTICS.

Open MAKE is a monthly program highlighting the tools, techniques, and ingenuity of local makers. Visitors are invited to participate in tinkering and making activities inside the Tinkering Studio, where makers from around the Bay Area will share their work. In addition, Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine, will interview Featured Makers in the McBean Theater.