Sunday Schedule for Maker Faire Detroit

By Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty

DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term โ€œmakersโ€ to describe people who enjoyed โ€œhands-onโ€ work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.

In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a โ€œChampion of Changeโ€ through an initiative that honors Americans who are โ€œdoing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.โ€ At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. He believes that the Maker Movement has the potential to transform the educational experience of students and introduce them to the practice of innovation through play and tinkering.

Dougherty is the author of โ€œFree to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing our Jobs, Schools and Mindsโ€ with Adriane Conrad. He is co-author of "Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities" with Peter Hirshberg and Marcia Kadanoff.

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For a complete daily schedule with links, see the online program.

MAKE’s Mark Frauenfelder will talk about his new book Made by Hand and cigar box guitars. Bre Pettis, of MakerBot, will talk about personal fabrication. Also, Ted Hall, of Shopbot Tools, will talk about his grandfather who was an inventor who worked with Henry Ford and became “the father of aviation lighting.” Ted visited his grandfather during the summer and spent time with him in his workshop. There are lots of hands-on demos and ongoing activities throughout Maker Faire.

ANDERSON THEATER (IN MUSEUM)
11:00 AM New Appropriate Technology, John Barrie
11:30 AM Tearoom for Robots, John Marshall
1:00 PM Inspired by Bucky Fuller
รขโ‚ฌยข Wind Power on Buildings, Bil Becker of Aerotecture
รขโ‚ฌยข My Personal Journey Thru Space and Time, Dewayne Hendricks
2:00 PM Made By Hand, Mark Frauenfelder of Make
2:30 PM Generations of Makers, Ted Hall
3:00 PM 3D Printing and Personal Fabrication, Bre Pettis, MakerBot Industries

MAKE DEMO STAGE (TENT)
รขโ‚ฌยข 10:00 AM Automated Web Brewery, Joe Szacon
รขโ‚ฌยข 11:00 AM Rogue Engineering, Eric Michaud
รขโ‚ฌยข 12 PM DIYLILCNC, Chris Reilly
รขโ‚ฌยข 1:00 PM Laser Lunch Box, Mike Gould
รขโ‚ฌยข 3:00 PM Matt Mets Makes, Matt Mets
รขโ‚ฌยข 4:00 PM Quad Copters, Eric Merrill

DIY THEATER (AUTO HALL OF FAME)
รขโ‚ฌยข 10:00 AM Green Crafting: Handmade Detroit
รขโ‚ฌยข 11:00 AM Crafting with Wire, Deanne Neiburger
รขโ‚ฌยข 11:30 AM Sewing Fabric Floweres, Karen LePage
รขโ‚ฌยข 12 PM Building a Business from Junk Drawer Common Sense, Sarah Hodsdon,
รขโ‚ฌยข 1PM Hackerspaces Panel
รขโ‚ฌยข 2PM Space as a Service, Michael Kessler
รขโ‚ฌยข 2:30PM Crafting with Xyron’s Creatopia, Brookelynn Morris
รขโ‚ฌยข 3:00PM Button Machines, Amanda Marie Edmonds
รขโ‚ฌยข 3:30 PM Repair 2.0: Reinventing the way we fix things, Kyle Wiens, iFixit
รขโ‚ฌยข 4:00 PM DIY Garden Irrigation, Jamie Wolfe

LOCAL ROOTS STAGE (TENT)
รขโ‚ฌยข 11:00AM Genesis
รขโ‚ฌยข 12 PM 80 lbs of Chicken in 8 weeks, Chad Chenier
รขโ‚ฌยข 1:00 PM BEE Aware!Tracey Gaudette, Island Gold Honey
รขโ‚ฌยข 2:00 PM Brother Nature Farms, Greg Willerer
รขโ‚ฌยข 3:00 PM Local Food Map, Local Dirt

METALWORKING AREA
รขโ‚ฌยข 10 & 2PM Metal Casting Demo, Rick Chownyk

**Additional Performances**

Life-sized Mousetrap Performance (outside) –
11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30PM
Illuminatus 2.1 Laser Lightshow (Anderson Theater) – 10, 12, 2:30, 4:30PM
Power Racing Series events – 10, 1 PM
COKE ZERO & MENTOS — 4PM (outside)

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By Dale Dougherty

Dale Dougherty

DALE DOUGHERTY is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine 2005, which first used the term โ€œmakersโ€ to describe people who enjoyed โ€œhands-onโ€ work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. He is President of Make:Community, which produces Make: and Maker Faire.

In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a โ€œChampion of Changeโ€ through an initiative that honors Americans who are โ€œdoing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.โ€ At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. He believes that the Maker Movement has the potential to transform the educational experience of students and introduce them to the practice of innovation through play and tinkering.

Dougherty is the author of โ€œFree to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing our Jobs, Schools and Mindsโ€ with Adriane Conrad. He is co-author of "Maker City: A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities" with Peter Hirshberg and Marcia Kadanoff.

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