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How-To: Bedtime Story Shadow Puppets

How-To: Bedtime Story Shadow Puppets

Make nightly story time even more fun with this bedtime story shadow puppets tutorial with free printable template!

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Animatronic Beaker Puppet Lip-Syncs to Tunes

Animatronic Beaker Puppet Lip-Syncs to Tunes

Instructables user vigothecarpathian adapted a holiday decoration to create a fully functional Beaker puppet that can be used as a traditional puppet but also moves his mouth along with the music when a music player is plugged into him. Beaker-bot, for me is both an excellent puppet for someone like me who does not have […]

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Kid-Friendly Activities at Maker Faire

Kid-Friendly Activities at Maker Faire

It’s Maker Faire weekend! Check out this round-up of some of the kid-friendly performances, exhibits, and activities taking place Saturday and Sunday at the San Mateo Event Center.

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Close Encounters of the T-Rex Kind

Close Encounters of the T-Rex Kind

The Maker Faire Bay Area brings in Makers from around the world, like 15 year-old Gabriel Diaz Yanten, who is coming all the way from Chile along with his animatronic dinosaur puppet, Anacleto. Anacelto is a 12.8 feet tall and 8.2 feet long T-Rex that Gabriel designed and built with the help of his uncle, a mechanic.

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Shake Hands with Francis at the Maker Faire Bay Area

Shake Hands with Francis at the Maker Faire Bay Area

Brian Matthews of Flapping Sprocket creates beautifully intricate machinery, wings, and other contraptions in his Los Angeles studio. For the second year running, he will be at the Maker Faire Bay Area as a mobile exhibit, roaming the Faire with his hand puppet Francis, a metal marvel finely articulated enough to shake your hand.

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Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire

Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire

The Hello World Program would like to invite you to a Robot Puppet Party at the Maker Faire Bay Area next month. Hello World has been running for about a year, building a library of video tutorials on a variety of open source tech topics, narrated by handmade puppets. Guido the Python teaches the Python programming language, of course, while the robot Unique ID discusses robotics, circuitry and the basics of object-oriented programming. Currently under construction is a new fox puppet who will be in charge of HTML tutorials.

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