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Maker Faire 2007: Drum Machine

Posted By: Tina Wood | Jun 25th, 2007 @ 12:14 PM
Meet Tony from San Francisco state.  He built a drum machine that takes a midi signal from a midi device that goes to another device which processes the midi signal.  Got it?  Yea, better to just watch the video. It's short, but sweet.  :) 
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Maker Faire: Lightning straight to the brain

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jun 20th, 2007 @ 12:54 PM
Back in my college days (last year) nothing inspired me more than a teacher who really got hands on, and especially if they let me electricute them! Well UC Santa Cruz is experimenting with particle physics and taking their findings on the orad to enlighten other schools and excite little pyro's like me. Check out this demonstration of power and electricity from this years Maker Faire. And yes, there's a real live person in that metal suit.
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Maker Faire: Bre Pettis gives us...Photo Bot

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jun 19th, 2007 @ 11:59 AM
Channel 10 and Bre Pettis (from Make Magazine and imakethings.com) have been dear old buddies from the very beginning. I found the talented boy down at Maker Faire and he shared with us his latest brain child. A robotic pen that does line drawing portraits, of course!
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Maker Faire: GreatHouse Labs

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jun 13th, 2007 @ 12:18 PM
Walking robots! Fire breathing metallic monsters! Flame shooting motorbikes! And all this just in one mans front yard. Ladies and Gentlemen...I introduce you to Lance from GreatHouse Labs. This is an unbelievable example of what one man can do with some metal scraps, a blow torch, an MP3 player and a whole lot of creativity. I want one!!!
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Maker Faire: Pedal Power

Posted By: Laura Foy | Jun 11th, 2007 @ 6:34 PM
Have you ever wanted to go for a nice bike ride through the park but you stopped and thought to yourself -"Self, a bicycle ride sounds lovely but gosh darnit I wish there was something I could do to help protect our planets precious energy?" Well...now there is! Check out this video from Maker Faire and see how you too can power your laptop while burning off that cheeseburger.
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Maker Faire: Putting a StreetDeck PC into your car

Posted By: Laura Foy | May 22nd, 2006 @ 9:00 AM
Cars, cars, cars. It's all about making your ride custom to your needs. At Maker Faire I met up with Damien Stolarz, author of Car PC Hacks, and he introduced me to the all-in-one mobile electronics package StreetDeck. StreetDeck delivers all the extras you want (GPS, Music, DVD, the works!) and need in your car, so you can go from zero to loaded with one installation. It's pretty sweet...
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Mythbusters at Maker Faire!

Posted By: Laura Foy | May 18th, 2006 @ 1:00 PM
Have you seen Mythbusters on the Discovery channel? Well, it's a tough job separating truth from urban legend, but the MythBusters are here to serve. Each week special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman take on three myths and use modern-day science to show you what's real and what's fiction. I ran into them at Maker Faire for this behind the scenes interview.
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CalCars... Taking a Prius Hybrid to 100+ MPG!

Posted By: Tina Wood | May 10th, 2006 @ 4:00 PM
So Laura heads to Maker Faire and gets indepth information on those ridiculously high gas prices. Okay, well kind of. She talks to the founder of CalCars and learns how they can convert a Toyota Prius so that it can be charged using your household electricity ... power that is a whole lot cheaper than the gas a normal Prius uses to generate all of its electric power. Learn how they make this work, and how much easier it would be for Toyota to make their hybrids work this way in the first place. Enjoy! Oh and Laura's not so bad either.
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What is Maker Faire??

Posted By: Laura Foy | May 1st, 2006 @ 1:00 PM
Join me down in San Mateo, CA as I check out Maker Faire! I chat with Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine, to find out what this event is all about, and I learn about the Maker's Bill of Rights from Mr. Jalopy himself!

Want to see more? No worries, more Maker Faire coverage coming soon!
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