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Z-Machines, a robot rock band, headlined the fair with several concerts each day.
By all accounts Maker Faire Tokyo was a big success. Ian Lesnet of Dangerous Prototypes was there.
“The fair was huge this year, more rooms and a second building were added. It (was) amazing!”
Ian and his crew took some great photos of the fair. Have a look at the sights and commentary from Ian below and check out all Dangerous Prototype’s coverage here.
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- Mechanical Paper Model that actually walks. Even the gears are made from paper.
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- Can’t be there in person? Sending your robotic self might be the next best option.
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- Airgaragelabo has a yearly favorite – a slime based instrument. Stretch, pull, and poke the slime to make music.
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- The-Menz is a DJ scratching station using harddrives and other computer parts.
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- Stake2722 used a bunch of PIC microcontrollers and electromagnets to bang out tunes with this simple DIY instrument.
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- A low resolution matrix display using small wooden blocks pushed up by solenoids.
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- Z-Machines, a robot rock band, headlined the Maker Faire with several concerts each day.
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- There’s lots of glowing nixie tubes at every Maker Faire, but this is the first attempt we’ve seem to home brew a nixie tube.
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- @awatwi creates a symphony of air bubbles in clear tubes filled with water. An array of servos press or release air hoses that blow bubbles through the water in each column.
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- Skeletonics is a light weight exoskeleton that’s completely human driven. There’s no electronic, pneumatic, or augmented power supplies.
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- Walking, flying, or rolling, Maker Faire is overrun by bots of all types. A-L-C is an animatronic troll with amazing realistic facial movements.
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- Switch Science, an open hardware company in Tokyo, put on a simple soldering workshop using a neko (cat) badge
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- A ‘holographic’ figure dances in front of a projected background. This technique has been used in stage shows. By Hatsune Miku.
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- Egg drops are a universal high school physics experiment. This is the first time we’ve seen it a Maker Faire and it was extremely popular.
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- Tokyo’s extensive metro and train system recreated in colored water and air bubbles by Takatsugu Kuriyama.
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- Maker Faire isn’t just a place to see cool projects, you get to try things out yourself. At this pan flute workshop straws, cardboard, and rubber bands are combined into a simple DIY musical instrument.
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- An augmented reality cell phone application plays an animation over the image printed on the card. By Kuralab.
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- Makers express their inner geek in all mediums. This collection of crochet sea creatures is amazing, beautiful, and delightfully creepy at the same time.
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- Fabric resistors.
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- Chairs, tables, and other furniture made from cardboard.
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- A collection of Japanese origami dragons, horses, and monsters.