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
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evhn0OBzASE
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!
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp6qD4mvfTw
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
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djF3LRQvOBw
Check out this cool electric skateboard these guys made. Thanks Frank for letting me get on it. I was about to take off with it to my house… It’s an electric skateboard that goes forwards and backwards by simply putting your weight towards where you want to go. It seems to be using some kind of accelerometer. If they start selling these to kids, these would be way more cool than any Segways for sure.
Check out MetroMotive.com for more information. (A
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFppXL0Ov8
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.
Looking for the HID Portal? Did you see us at Maker Faire?
Garrett will have updates soon on the cool HID Portal used to control the flying game at the Maker Faire.
While we update our site on the HID Portal, you can check out Garrett’s previous DIYs:
Check out the original DIY on the HID Portal.
Check out Maker Faire Preview.
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF_HRLe6ga8
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,
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU742dF86EE
Check out the Light Orb. Remember we had a post about the Light Orb way back? It’s cool to see it in real life. Maker faire rules.
