The mammoth two wheels of Unwheeldy will be rolling into Bay Area Maker Faire – In January of 2005, I began construction of a vehicle to enter into the World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race from Arcata California to the nearby town of Ferndale. The race is held every Memorial Day, near the end of May. […]
An innovative, modular approach to LED displays appearring at Bay Area Maker Faire – Every time we look at computer screen, millions of pixels of light disappear into our work, our correspondence, or our entertainment. Imagine if you could capture those dots of light and scoop them up as you would grains of sand on […]
The hills of Bay Area Maker Faire shall be alive with a whole lotta music. Make sure to bring your feet for tappin’ because the Tarantulas will be in attendance! – The jug band tradition emerged from Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 20th Century when poor but creative individuals built their own instruments from […]
Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool) will be providing musical entertainment at Maker Faire via human-powered bike-stage! In case you’re not up, Fossil Fool is a bike rapper – A bike rapper is like a regular rapper, but instead of showing up in a car and rapping about cars, I show up on bike, and rap […]
Motion-controlled fire will be present at Bay Area Maker Faire – looks like a great way to live out those unfulfilled D&D fantasies. 2Ï€r is a blisteringly interactive large-scale fire toy. It is a central stage surrounded by a larger ring of inconspicuous flame effects – completely innocuous to onlookers – until a participant makes […]
Longing for a more collaborative play dynamic in music games, Kevin Lim and Shawna Hein came up with a new direction to take the genre – straight toward the land of jug band. Jug music has strong social and even humorous connotations – a perfect antidote to the solo button-racing so prevelant around the time […]
Justin Gray’s amazing machines are not to be overlooked – in fact, it would be near-impossible to ignore the awesomeness of Libby the flame-belching robot! – My dog libby died last year from a un-known brain disorder. I was inspired by the sadness of here death to find the resolve and courage to build my […]
