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Maker Faire 2009 in San Mateo Expo!

max — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:17:25 +0000

Maker Faire will be coming home to San Mateo Expo center in California again. Don’t miss out and check out the biggest “re-make” event of the year.

Go here to get your tickets online. Of course, I will be there to take some pics and videos on the latest DIY gadgets.

4th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area: Re-Make America

Following on President Obama’s call to “begin again the work of remaking America”, Maker Faire 2009 will be organized around the theme of Re-Make America. Held in the San Francisco Bay Area on May 30-31, Maker Faire celebrates what President Obama called “the risk takers, the doers, and the makers of things.” The fourth annual Maker Faire will showcase individual creativity and grassroots innovation in the largest festival devoted to DIY culture and technology in the country.

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Maker Faire 2009 in San Mateo Expo!

Best of Maker Faire by Phillip Torrone!

max — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:55:20 +0000

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Here’s some videos you can enjoy from the Maker Faire last week!

Check out all the fun and excitement at this year’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Take a look at some of the highlights and make plans to attend the next Maker Faire.

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Nevada Lightning Laboratory Lightning demo at Maker Faire 2008!

max — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:06:55 +0000

Well, these guys were at Maker Faire last year but I missed their show everytime since I had a Maker booth.

This year, I got the whole footage on tape:

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Enjoy~

Btw, you can find more information about these super-gigantic tesla coils over at Lod.org.

Boy, these things are way cool, maybe there’s more uses for it than simply a show. Perhaps, power my back-to-the-future vehicle, De Lorean. (speaking of which, I heard they were going to sell them again soon…)

Here’s an excerpt from their website:

In 1998, LOD designed, constructed and commissioned the Electrum Project, a privately-owned lightning sculpture in New Zealand. Electrum provided a “real world test-bed” for the computer-based design methods needed to approach a large-scale coil design. Electrum’s spacious top electrode also allowed a unique opportunity to measure in detail the intricate dynamics of the streamer discharges — by enclosing a human observer inside the sphere, armed with test equipment.

In 2003, LOD completed the second Conceptual Design [CD2], using the test data and experience gained from the Electrum Project. The CD2 makes several optimizations to the tower and top electrode geometry, and incorporates recent technological improvements in the primary drive circuitry. In the CD2 each tower is now 122 feet high and features shielded observation areas for experimenters inside each top electrode.

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Nevada Lightning Laboratory Lightning demo at Maker Faire 2008!

Sparkfun’s Touch Tetris at Maker Faire 2008

max — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:33:24 +0000

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Remember we featured Touch Tetris way back last year? Well, I saw it in person at the Maker Faire 2008 so I had to post another video of how “cool” it is.

You can go here to find out how to make one yourself.

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Sparkfun’s Touch Tetris at Maker Faire 2008

Maker Faire 2008!

max — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:06:48 +0000

Wow, Maker Faire was a lot bigger this year over at San Mateo Fairgrounds near where I used to work.

Anyways, it was a lot of fun watching some cool gizmos, DIYs, and makers but it’s really crowded this year.

Wow, this is great structure of woman!

Phew, there’s a lot of stuff. You can check out my Flickr over here for all the pictures I took today. I have couple videos I might have tomorrow so check back!

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Maker Faire 2008!

Maker Faire in Texas

max — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:52:42 +0000

Check out some of the cool photos from Maker Faire Austin, Texas.

It doesn’t seem as fun as Maker Faire held in San Mateo couple months ago but this finger painting LCD is kinda cool, isn’t it?

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Maker Faire in Texas

Get 35% more MPG on your car with this little device.

max — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:59:00 +0000

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Basically this little device produces HHO and feeds it into your fuel line in your car. The HHO is produced by distilled water and baking soda. The only drawback is that you much keep adding the distilled water and baking soda once a week.

This is a very good idea. I’ve heard of water injection systems but this one actually injects HHO.

Looks pretty cool to me, has anyone tried it yet?

I met this guy at the Maker Faire show along with Phillip Torrone. This would be great for my SUV… :p

Check out the Water4Gas website if you wanna order one and save some gas and earth too.

Congratulations! You have just found a way to own a water-to-energy converter for your car. Water4Gas is one of the most PRACTICAL free-energy devices, marked by extraordinary simplicity and effectiveness. You cannot get anything, anywhere near this good, for even four to six times the price.

We offer devices that use a little electricity out of your car’s battery, to separate water into a gas called HHO (2 Hydrogen + 1 Oxygen). HHO, also called Brown’s Gas or Hydroxy, burns beautifully and provides TONS of energy.

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Get 35% more MPG on your car with this little device.

3D Metal and Sugar Sculptures by Bathsheba Grossman

max — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:49:02 +0000

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Bathsheba Grossman explains to us the 3D sculptures, sugar sculptures, and the sculptures made with lasers at the Maker Faire!

These are priceless…

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3D Metal and Sugar Sculptures by Bathsheba Grossman

Cheryl Downing on Low cost marketing for Inventors and Makers

max — Mon, 28 May 2007 03:43:07 +0000

Are you an inventor? Need some marketing help?

Cheryl Downing stopped by our booth and explained to us a little about Low cost marketing for inventors and makers.

Thank you Cheryl!

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Check out her website and Inventors Alliance for more information.

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Cheryl Downing on Low cost marketing for Inventors and Makers

Maker Faire 2007 – Automatic Drum Piano!

max — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:48:35 +0000

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Wow, this drum piano is the coolest thing ever. Although you do miss the physical part of actually drummin’ on your equipment, this is a nifty device for those of you good with the piano but not with the drums. It looks like there are hydraulic actuators on it to control all the drum sticks. Anyways, this is cool…

On the site note, I have been slacking on posts lately. We had to move a lot of stuff out of our site which was slowing our site down. We will have them up and running again since we will be moving to a new server very soon~

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Maker Faire 2007 – Automatic Drum Piano!

Make Faire 2007 – Lawnmower Bike!

max — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:21:09 +0000

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Wow, this is an awesome lawnmower bike! You could probably build these one yourself and make your next lawnmowing easier!

You can check out more pictures from our flickr Maker Faire Day 1 and Maker Faire Day 2.

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Make Faire 2007 – Lawnmower Bike!

Maker Faire 2007 – Biological Containment Art – Junior’s Returns

max — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:06:52 +0000

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Check out this cool biological containment art from Philip Ross. It’s a hydroponic garden which allow just enough light using LEDs for the plants to survive but do not grow bigger. Very interesting. This might be good for saving our planet by controlling light plants receive and thus use less energy if we are ever in a closed environment due to wars and what not. (not that i’d want that happen… impeach Bush!!!)

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Maker Faire 2007 – Biological Containment Art – Junior’s Returns

Maker Faire 2007 – Cool robot from High School Students!

max — Fri, 25 May 2007 10:31:27 +0000

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Check out this cool robot from high school students. Although we didn’t have enough time to chat with them, this is cool!

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Maker Faire 2007 – Cool robot from High School Students!

Maker Faire 2007 – Multi-Touch Multimedia Device

max — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:28:57 +0000

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Check out this cool Multi-Touch Multimedia device. This could be a cool combination of touch, sound, and video for future video game controls.

MultiTouch is the ability of an input controller to detect multiple fingers simultaneously. Multitouch input devices are just starting to be seen in the real world, rather than just in the movies (the most famous being “Minority Report”). MAKE magazine has even declared them the The Future of Interfaces.

For Maker Faire 2007, I propose to demonstrate a variety of graphical, musical, video, and browser-based applications that I’ve developed that show some of the unique capabilities of use of MultiTouch controllers. Below is a picture of the custom controller I’ve built containing 3 Fingerworks iGesture pads (each capable of detecting multiple fingers simultaneously with excellent resolution and responsiveness), and a JLCooper CS32 with lots of sliders and buttons for additional control.

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Maker Faire 2007 – Multi-Touch Multimedia Device

Maker Faire 2007 – Make Controller Peripherals

max — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:16:40 +0000

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Here’s a cool review of Make Controller and peripherals from MakingThings.com. Thanks Ann for the video!

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Maker Faire 2007 – Make Controller Peripherals

Homebrew CPU

max — Wed, 23 May 2007 22:29:23 +0000

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Wow, this was the coolest thing there, a homebrew CPU LIVE! Anyways, I got to meet Bill, maker of the homebrew CPU and take lots of cool pics and see it in action.

Thanks Bill for explaning all the cool stuff on your homebrew CPU! Just check out the video for some explanation.

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Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Electric Motorcycles

max — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:38:02 +0000

I love motorcycles in general since I own a Gixer but WOW; I was amazed at these really cool electric motorcycles at the Maker Faire. These things have like 30 batteries hooked up to it!

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Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Electric Motorcycles

HPV – Human Powered Vehicle or Cool Bike we say

max — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:21:16 +0000

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Wow, there’s so much stuff still to come from our Maker Faire 2007 coverage. It’s like a massive virus or a bomb that hasn’t released itself yet…

With all the cool bikes we’ve covered in the past, this is probably the coolest bike, well at least the most technological “lookin’”. I am not exactly sure where this bike is from, I think we’ve covered it before but… it’s cool~

There’s always large-scale molding DIY if you ever want to build one yourself.

Update: Here’s the website for Human Powered Vehicle for it. (Thanks Joseph!)

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HPV – Human Powered Vehicle or Cool Bike we say

Hanging out at Hackszine

max — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:19:12 +0000

While Garrett was working hard at the booth, I went around and made some friends like Jason Striegel from Hackszine. He’s a very friendly guy and we took some pictures together. The guy taking the picture on the left is also the author of Google Maps Hacks, cool…

You can check out more pictures from our flickr Maker Faire Day 1 and Maker Faire Day 2.

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Hanging out at Hackszine

Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Sit and Pedal Persistence of Vision!

max — Tue, 22 May 2007 03:50:18 +0000

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It’s been a blast yet we’ve been able to get barely 5 hours sleep. But we will get all this cool stuff posted.

Mayhem & Chaos brings you some really cool sit and pedal POV (Persistence of Vision) using recycled bicycle parts.

I guess Mayhem took it to Burning Man every year. Cool… I gotta go one of these days.

Thanks Mayhem for letting us take a vid!

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Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Sit and Pedal Persistence of Vision!

Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Midi Controller that looks cool – LivePAd

max — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:44:39 +0000

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Here’s Midi Controller “LivePAd” by Craig Dorety who is a musician, inventor, and a very smart (mechanical) engineer! He built this as his college project. (By the way, he went to UC Davis, where I went too!) Anyway, if you want to contact him to build you one of these or start a business with him, you can contact him at cdorety at gmail.com.

Custom-built from space-age plastics and psychedelic circuitry, this MIDI computer music controller for the 21st century allows the complete, dynamic control in a small guitar-like instrument.

It took 6 months of CAD design, some helpful design assistance and input from my friend Devin Becker and a lot of time nearly inside a nice Mori-Seiki CNC with some not-so-cheap, plastics. Many hours were spent with a soldering iron and experimenting with opamps. Now that I have started programming my own little micro controllers, I will be adding music and MIDI responsive lighting to the next incarnation of this invention.

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Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Midi Controller that looks cool – LivePAd

Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Thanks for watching!

max — Mon, 21 May 2007 23:20:59 +0000

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Here’s a hilarious “Thanks for watching Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage from Garrett. Jed’s ALAVs and Hubberbots were right next to our booth so he suggested we help him deflate his cool balloons while trying to pack everything and leave the faire. Great job Garrett!

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Zedomax Maker Faire 2007 Coverage – Thanks for watching!

Maker Faire – Flying Saucer Oven

max — Mon, 21 May 2007 22:44:50 +0000

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Here’s a simple flying saucer oven that uses a single light bulb yet heats up to 425 degrees fahrenheit!

They won the Dorkbake competition. This is really simple but great idea!

Eric and Jodi Kurland Eric is an award-winning filmmaker and digital artist whose films have played in festivals around the world. Jodi is a physical therapist and self-published photographer and author known to dabble in crafts.

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Maker Faire – Flying Saucer Oven

Having too much fun at Maker Faire video

max — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:53:47 +0000

I was having too much fun at the Maker Faire just checkin’ out everything. (While Garrett was at our workshop table booth)
Anyway, here’s a fun little clip while I was having too much fun running around.

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Having too much fun at Maker Faire video

Zedomax Maker Faire Showcase – USB HID Portal

max — Sun, 20 May 2007 20:00:09 +0000

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Here’s video from yesterday before it got crowded. Today, it’s pretty crowded as you can tell on the live webcam.

Cool.

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Zedomax Maker Faire Showcase – USB HID Portal

BRAIN FREEZE at Maker Faire – Hey we are at Maker Faire with Phillip Torrone!

max — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:46:22 +0000

Yes, Phil was going around at the end of the show yesterday so we persuaded him to take a picture with us.
This week is amazing. My brain is about to expload from having the opportunity to see so much cool stuff.

Also check out photos and videos from Make Faire at Make Blog!

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BRAIN FREEZE at Maker Faire – Hey we are at Maker Faire with Phillip Torrone!

Maker Faire Live Blogging – ALAVs by Jed Berk!

max — Sun, 20 May 2007 18:45:47 +0000

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Check out these Cool ALAVs (Autonomous Light Vessels) by Jed Berk! Tight! It uses Sun Microsystems SunSpot microcontroller, which can be programmed in Java. I like this idea since there’s a lot of Java embedded processors out there but this ones from the creators. Jed tells me that all the pieces were 3D designed on the computer and laser-cut, kinda cool~

Jed says, Make Store will have these cool DIY ALAV kits soon!

Internet is kinda slow here at the Maker Faire. (That’s why our posts are slow too.) We even switched to a Sprint Broadband but with live video streaming, it’s still too slow but we will keep postin’~

You can come and join us to chat here to while watching our live video.

You can also check out our Flickr photos from Maker Faire Day 1 and Jed’s Flickr for more ALAVs.

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Maker Faire Live Blogging – ALAVs by Jed Berk!

Live Blogging Maker Faire – Balancing Bot spotted!

max — Sat, 19 May 2007 22:11:40 +0000

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Wow, there’s so much cool stuff here at Maker Faire such as this cool balancing bot. It’s so big and there’s so much stuff, I don’t think you can see everything in one day. Phew…

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Live Blogging Maker Faire – Balancing Bot spotted!

Live Blogging – Zedomax Booth at Maker Faire

max — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:08:19 +0000

Hey we are live at the Maker Faire, blogging live! See our automated camera that follows people? Well, it’s a $160 Logitech camera we got in a hurry at Best Buy last night just before the store closed. Glad we got it working although the internet here sucks sometimes. Anyway, our booth is really popular!

Garrett is doing a great job with the crowd while I am hiding in the back. (Why am I hiding? Blogging of course!)

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Live Blogging – Zedomax Booth at Maker Faire

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