Don't miss the Oct 24 East Bay Mini-Maker Faire--and save on tickets!

Published on Thursday, October 21, 2010
Last updated on 04:57AM, Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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Oakland Local is thrilled to be both a media partner and a partiipant in the first-ever  East Bay Mini Maker Faire, held on Sunday, October  24th at Temescal's Park Day School.

Makers, crafters, cooks, musicians, parents, and kids are welcome to participate in this celebration of learning and doing. The East Bay Mini Maker Faire follows the "big"  Maker Faire model of celebrating do-it-yourself creativity and tinkering, but is all about the local talent right here in Oakland (and the East Bay).

Oakland Local will have a booth and be teaching a free noon workshop for everyone (kids welcome) on Getting Started with Blogging.

Come out for the community and the fun--and rockets, robots, DIY science and technology, urban farming and sustainability, alternative energy, bicycles, unique hand-made crafts, music and local food, and educational workshops and installations that will make it such a great day!

Oh--and use our discount code! Tickets are available ebmakerfaire.eventbrite.com. Use the code OAKLANDLOCAL to save 15% off A TICKET!

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MAKERS & CRAFTERS

Ace Monster Toys:  MakerBot Orchestra, 3D plastic fabrication, and edible 3D frosting sculptures
Alameda County Beekeepers:  observation hive and hive products
Alameda County 4-H Clubs:  goats, chickens, rabbits, reptiles and maybe a pig
Astromech: the R2-D2 builders club
Bucepheless:  a built-from-scratch, electric-driven, robotic “carriage”
Cedar’s Clothes Creations: make a purse out of an old pair of jeans
Church of Craft: design and make your own button
Completely Awesome Robotic Desk Lamp Experiment:  Ordinary anglepoise desk lamps have been retrofitted (hacked!) with servomotors on the joints and the lamps have been replaced with high-power full-color LED illuminators
The Crucible: blacksmithing and glass-blowing demos
Dale Family Farm: learn to press your own olive oil
Department of Spontaneous Combustion:  trikes from a place near Purgatory
East Bay School for Boys’ Marble Run: an interactive exhibit by and for kids
Eggbot:  open source art robot makes Halloween decorations
Electrify it!: a 1975 Porsche goes electric
Engineering Advice 5¢:  worth every penny!
EV Project/Maker Group:  kids building model and kid-sized electric vehicles
Face Tracking and Substitution: a great computer project for Halloween!
Fingerloop Braid:  friendship bracelets
Fixit Clinic: guided disassembly (and possible repair) of your broken stuff
Francis the articulated hand puppet, from Flapping Sprocket
Friendship Bracelets:  two girls that love making friendship bracelets
Free  Radio Berkeley: kits and equipment to create your own low-power broadcast station and reclaim the airwaves!
Geek Dad Ken Denmead with his R/C Demolition Derby
GER mood sweater: clothing that tells how you’re feeling
Gridbeam Nation: life-sized building erector system
Greywater Action: sustainable waters
Hackaudio: sound systems from scraps
Harmonograph:  a cross between an etch-o-sketch and a spyrograph by Audiomason
Henna Tattoos by Chris Hecker
Holland Hen Houses:  raise your own chickens
Hologlyphics: holographic video/music performance system
Homemade Welders:  easy to make AC and DC welders
Homespun Bikes: how to build bucket or fabric panniers  from recycled materials
Howtoons with Michael Chabon: making comics workshop
Ice Brain:  live brain making with refrigeration and sparkly ice crystals
International Plastic Quilt Project: art that inspires us to live plastic-free
Isaac, a next generation 3D printer
Jam Making Presentation with Tim O’Reilly
Kinetic Arts Circus Club and Park Day School 5th grade:  circus arts play and making
LEGOJeep: an interactive art car
MakeSF:  learn to solder!
Mini Solar Trike: simple to build solar electric vehicle
Nightside Studios: live demonstration of glass beadmaking
Opabinia Regalis:  kinetic, fire-breathing sculpture
Original Scraper Bikes:  Oaktown positive bike posse
Over-Again:  silkscreen your own shirts & clothes
The Paper Airplane Guy:  shockingly good demo show of myriad ways to propel paper through air
Park Day School Pre-K’s “Bruiser the Reuser,” go crazy and embellish the recycling truck made out of scrap wood, green waste, and recycled material
Park Day School Kindergarden:  make and eat your own butter
Park Day School First Grade’s “Wind Driven”:  rain gutter regatta, a bubble machine, and pinwheels
Park Day School Second Grade:  make your own school desk & Golf Ball Luge
Park Day School Third Grade:  help them make a real cob (clay, sand and straw) bench
Park Day School Fourth Grade:  make and launch your own rockets
Park Day School Fifth Grade and Kinetic Arts:  watch and learn and do circus tricks
Park Day School Sixth Grade’s Atomic Art:  make a pendant of an element in the periodic table or create a new one of your own
Paul’s Rides:  pedal your way to hilarity on Ride to the Moon
Please Be Seated: a sound experience and experiment
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
St. Vincent de Paul Artist in Residence:  harvesting from the waste stream to make art
Science Toys: home-built toys that demonstrate scientific principles in fun ways
Simbolrides: Ranger9 Personal Motion Simulator
Slimm Buick Art Bike Builder:  stylish alternative transportation!
Smart Cruise Control for $20:  simple PCB kit that connects your smartphone to your car’s cruise control
Solar Flora:  solar powered sculptures made from repurposed materials
Smart Phone Squirt Gun Robot:  new hack toy by Mike Winter, founder of Stupid Fun Club
Stanford D School: Hand Over Your Wallet workshop
Stanford Optical Society: hands-on optics demonstrations
Sustainable Waters:  life sized greywater system, mini-water harvesting system, and a model composting toilet
The Traveling Wonders of the Boiler Bar: giant iron snail art car and more mind-blowing creations
The Walking Beacon:  Kimric Smythe’s accordians and steam-powered oddities
Waterworks: a festival of waterwise strategies
Wikispeedia: Smart Cruise Control for $20
Wonderarium: make your own terrarium of wonder
Woven Futures:  a large patchwork quilt digitally unravels youth attitudes towards their futures

MAKER & CRAFTER vENDORS

Blue Atom Robotics, Inc.:  electronic & moving toys and devises + prototypes
Blue Ribbon Salvage: vintage bling, found and reclaimed
Cookie & the Dude:  fabric accessories: headbands, earrings, pony tail holders
Dali Lana Felt Couture:  hand-felted garments and accessories
Dismal Things:  spooky stuffies and wire toys
Fresh on Mondays:  felt phone cases and paper/felt crafts
Frustrated Farmgirl:  hand-hewn soap
The Girl and the Rhino:  silk screened apparelHoop Power: custom made hoola hoops for all ages and abilities
Ghetto Garden:  fine, urban succulents
Honeymoon Studios :  vintage & handmade wearables
ICHI-V:  handbags/accessories
Leafcutter Designs:  bicycle-powered flour milling and The World’s Smallest Post Office
Luvette:  felted cashmere and wool baby clothes
Mani Designs:  one-off cast jewelery from botanicals
Make Mobile Shed:  kits, tools, and books from Make and Craft magazines
Medium Reality:  sustainable men’s wear
Moonlit Circus:  f*ittens (fingerless mittens from recycled wool sweaters)
Nightside Studios:  glass beads, jewelry
The Poetry Store:  poems on demand and poetry art pieces
Tehama Gold:  organic local olive oil and salads

PERFORMERS

Poison Apple Pie:  Oakland WOW! girl trio of 8th graders
The SHE’s:  teen power girl rock sensations
Hungry Hungry Ghost:  one man hip parade
Daniel Popsicle:  jazz orchestra for the new millenium
Toychestra:  original lady music on toy instruments
Eric Glick Rieman:  solo modified Rhodes piano
The Black Bones: middle school classic rock

About Susan Mernit
Susan Mernit is the founder of Oakland Local. She is also a circuit rider for The Community Information Challenge, a program of The John S and James L Knight Foundation, and a consultant to non-profit and community organizations. Susan lives in North Oakland, near the Santa Fe school, with her partner, her housemate, a rescue dog named Cazzie, and a yard full of ants. She is an aspiring gardener, a long-time blogger & entrepreneur, and a recovering journalist who's found home in Oakland.