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June 2002 - Unicorn Precinct XIII Nick Thompson | Grey Area Rev. Al Deaderick | Ice Cream Cone David Pescovitz | The Media: Friend or Foe, Target or Tool Brian Normanly | Liberation and Re-distribution of Electricity August 2002 - Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch Rudy Rucker | Home-made Wireless Antennae Max Max | The Obnoxicator Polymorf | Introduction to Logic Audio Kimric Smythe | Fire Spewing Vacuum Cleaners September 2002 - Abstrakt Zone Spot Draves | Electric Sheep Maribeth Back | Listen Reader + Speeder Reader Vordo | Abletons Live Demo December 2002 - Abstrakt Zone Greg Leyh | Advanced Lighting Facility Gregory Cowley | Fractured Cinema Scott Arford | Beware the Image January 2003 - Cataclysmic Megashear Ranch Making Things | Introduction to Teleo Technology Jack Napier | An Introduction to the Mechanics of [Neon] Outdoor Advertising Improvement Violet Blue | Bizarre But True Tales of Sex and Electricity with Demonstration Febuary 2003 - Splat Cave M. Millivolt | Small Sparks and Shocks Kal Spelletich | Fear As A Medium for Social Change June 2003 - New Hack City Tim Thompson | Key Kit: Happy Feet, Joy Balls, and other Tune Toys Dan Bornstein | A Little Bit About the Hiptop Dr. Aaron Wolf Baum aka Dr. Friendly September 2003 - rxGallery Jonathan Foote | Electronics: Almost as Much Fun as Drugs Eric Barbour | Electronic Music The Hard Way - A Demonstration of Synthesizers Made of Vacuum Tubes Edwin Berlin | Capturing Motion for Character Animation October 2003 - rxGallery Andrew Bennett | Absorption Dye Machine Ken Goldberg and Team | Collaborative Tele-Experiences: Tele-Actor, Co-Opticon and Tele-Twister Eric Paulos | Familiar Strangers: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places Pablos | Wi-Fi Hackerbot (Putting the Bot Back in Dorkbot) January 2004 - false-profit Cassidy Curtis | Grafitti Archaeology Barrett Fox | Creating Independent and Solo CG Animated Short Films Kris Bell | Of Animated Clothing and Caml Rides March 2004 - false-profit Donald Swearingen | Sensor-Based Electronic Sound Work Sasha Harris-Cronin | Implicating Interfaces: User Interaction and Social Critique Mike McCabe | Strontium and Everclear April 2004 - rxGallery Rudy Rucker | The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul Spot Draves | Spotworks July 2004 - Shipyard Scott Killdall | Computer-controlled Fire Art The Shipyard Circle of Dork Jake Lyall - The Riot Wheel Scott Bartlett - Home-made Jet Engine Tom McCarty & peef - the Shipyard's off-the-grid power system Matthew Snyder - EST (Experiments in Spherical Transportation Kiki Petit - Firefall Ryon Gesink - Fuck Machine October 2004 - Dimension 7 Tom Williams | VJ Morphology Lynn Hershman Leeson | DiNA Garnet Hertz | Control (Communication in the Animal and the Machine): Cockroach-controlled Mobile Robot December 2004 - The Crucible Gary Goddard | The Paradox of Engineering Art Bruce Cannon | Trends in Electronic, Robotic, Interactive, and Kinetic Art and The Crucible's Emerging Curriculum Christopher Palmer | Recent Works, Automata and Other Stuff Jeremey Lutes | Self-organization and Emergent Behavior in Distributed Systems of If Mother Natuer Does It, It Must Be Good February 2005 - Dimension 7 Stelarc | Prosthetic Head Luther Thie | Acclairism: A New Elitism Paul Haeberli | Lamina Design: Free Form Sturctures from Computer Models June 2005 - rxGallery Simnuke Team | Simnuke Project Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Bugs Violet Blue | Teledildonics Now (with LIVE Demonstration) July 2005 - rxGallery Otis Fodder and TradeMarkG | Dueling Theremins monochrom | Experience the Experience of 1 Baud August 2005 - Onomy Labs Jill Miller | How to Hunt for Bigfoot: Satellites, Solar Power, and Triangles Scott Minneman and Dale MacDonald | Make-tanks: A New Paradigm for Innovation September 2005 - rxGallery Dale Dougherty and the Make Crew | The Making of Make Spot Draves | The Latest with Electric Sheep Jon Phillips | How to Build an Online Development Community October 2005 - SFSU Mike Estee | Home Cookin' with SMT Michael Shiloh | All My Robots Are Belong To You Jacob Appelbaum | Finding Uplinks in Unlikely Places November 2005 - Dimension 7 Graham Plumb | Light Fantastic Tom Zimmerman | Using Electronic Gadgets to Teach Kids Science and Engineering January 2006 - rxGallery Marc Powell | Food Hacker's Guide to Molecular Gastronomy Jennifer Granick | Securing Civil Liberties or Why Geeks and Hackers Should Run the Government April 2006 - rxGallery Mikey Sklar | DIY RFID Implants Craig Latta | Quoth: Interactive Fiction Meets Musical LiveCoding June 2006 - rxGallery Jeremy Fitzhardinge | Constellation Shannon Wright | Animating Principle Michael Laine | Liftport: Opening Space to Everyone - A Space Elevator Presentation July 2006 - BOCA Joel Slayton | C5 Quest for Success and other stuff including ZeroOne San Jose Oron Catts | From Semi-Living to the Biological Art Lab - on The Tissue Culture and Art Project and Symbiotica Eric Paulos | Interactive City August 2006 - Encounter Studio Simran Gleason | Generative Music Steve Omohundro | The Consequences of Very Smart Machines October 2006 - BOCA Tim Hunkin | Reinventing the Amusement Space Mike Kuniavsky | The Coming Age of Magic November 2006 - Encounter Studio Greg Hazel | Incoherence: Stereo Field Spectrum Analysis Matt Chisholm and Russ Cohen | The Neighborhood Project February 2007 - Encounter Studio Greg Leyh | In Pursuit Of Relativistic Runaway Breakdown -- A Proposal to Construct A Lightning Laboratory At The Megascale Monochrom | Soviet Unterzoegersdorf Adventure Game, Apple Song, Fujutsu Song, Roboxotica, and more... March 2007 - 7hz Dan Maynes-Aminzade | Interactive Audience Games (and other fun with cameras) Afshin Mehin | Color-changing Cement, Talking T-shirts, Passenger Poking Car Seats and Interactive Tools for Product Design Evolution Control Committee / TradeMark G | A Dork's Eye View of the Evolution Control May 2007 - Chez Poulet Rudy Rucker, The Elder | PsiPunk! Daniela Steinsapir - Recycling Junk May 2007 - Porn Palace Kyle Machulis | Sex and Electricity Shifz | Cocktail Robotics: Mindreading Martini Maker monochrom | The Void's Foaming Ebb and Lord Jim Team Unicorn - Triumph of Chastity and the Legend of the Unicorn Jun 2007 - 21 Grand Kimric Smythe - The Modern Steam Engine Liam McNamara - Clockworks Kinetic Steamworks - Steampunk Treehouse Aug 2007 - TechShop Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman - The CandyFab 4000 TechShop Tour Oct 2007 - Fundraiser for Todd Blair Ken Goldberg - Robots as Environmentalists: Searching for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker using Robotic Observatories for Natural Environments Eric Paulos - Citizen Science Mark Pauline - SRL in Amsterdam 2007 Joe Grand - Fifteen Art Projects in Fifteen Minutes Steven Lassovszky - Airplane GPS/Telemetry Video Johannes Grenzfurthner - monochrom May 2008 - Polly Harrold's Sometime Gallery D.V. Rogers - Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF) Jeff Wishnie - Harsh Computing: Designing Computer and Communication Systems for Way Out There Jeremy Bornstein - Introduction to Soapmaking David Calkins - Robogames Sep 2008 - Million Fishes Carl Pisaturo - Orbit 2 Jonathan Jaffe - RIAA vs You Rachel McConnell - Soft Circuits Nov 2008 - Retox Lounge Laura Mappin - Laser Etching TradeMark G / ECC - Touchscreen Video Controller for Live Mashup Sam Coniglio - Designing the Orbital Lifestyle Jan 2009 - Monkeybrains Joe Grand - The Projects of Prototype This Michael Ang - Gigapixels: Practice and Aesthetics Paul Cesewski aka Paul da Plumber - Fun is the Universal Language Feb 2009 - Parisoma Sasha Harris-Cronin (with Jonathan Ross and Richard Shields) - Behind the Scenes at California Academy of Sciences Jonathan Foote - Robots and Things that Glow Mitch Altman - TV-B-Gone: From Thought to (Bizarre and Cool) Reality Mar 2009 - Hat Factory Moldover - The Mojo-69: Musical Instrument FROM THE FUTURE Dave Mathews - SOFTware is the New HARDware Apr 2009 - Gallery With No Name Bruce Damer - The EvoGrid: Building a Precursor Origin of Artificial Life Simulator Making Things and Michael Brown - Bluerain: 23,520 LEDs, 1 Make Controller Kimric Smythe & Shannon O'Hare - Steam Engine MII and Steam Calliope Jun 03 2009 - 7 Year Anniversary Meeting - Nevada Lightning Lab Jonathan Foote - Ghostmatrix Marc Powell - Exploring the Food Genome Greg Leyh - Research Possibilities at the Lightning Lab and Live Tesla Coil Load Testing Jun 20 2009 - 7 Year Anniversary Party - Kraftworks Keith Johnson and Greg Solberg - Building Electric Cars from Scratch (Marriage Wrecker, Cupcake Cars, Tesla Roadster) Jon Sarriugarte - 1928 Hogan Tesla Coil Mike Winter - Interrogation by Robot Omega Recoil - Wireless Power Transmission and Demonstration Sep 23 2009 - TCHO Mark Pauline - Survival Research Labs Timothy Childs - Technology and Chocolate Michael Ang - Light, Attraction and Emotion: Projects with Photons, Biology, and Electrons Nov 18 2009 - noisebridge Anselm Hook - Augmentia: Scratching the Surface of Augmented Reality David Gessel - Stalking Slanderizing Trolls Shelly Farnham - Steve the Robot H.E.Ai.D.: A Large Scale Generative Music and Laser Play Space Gian Pablo Villamil - 360 Degree Panoramic Video without the Megabucks Jan 2010 - Gallery With No Name Pavel Machalek - From Pixels to Exoplanet Atmospheres Camp Peavy - Homebrewed Robots Eric Boyd - North Paw: Haptic Compass Anklet Apr 21 2010 - GAFFTA Todd Huffman - The Front Lines of Geek Imperialism Eric Gradman - The Cloud Mirror: Your Virtual Self is Leaking Annalee Newitz - Revenge of the Meatsack or Four Arguments Against Immortality Apr 28 2010 - Chez D Pi Ken Goldberg - Visualizing Opinions Kimric Smythe - Hurt Locker Eggs Gever Tulley - Book 2.0: How We Did Everything Wrong and Wrote a Book May 5 2010 - Parisoma Tim Hunkin - Recent Arcade Machines Jun 9 2010 - Parisoma RU Sirius - MONDO 2000 History Project Michele Pred - Black Friday Shopdrop Jeremy Bornstein & Lenny Raymond - The Mongoliad Jul 7 2010 - GAFFTA Mike Kuniavsky - Information Is A Material T.bias - Night Garden: Bio-Modified Photography k9d - Chip Music ~ Milking New Sounds Out of Game Consoles and Vintage Computers Scott Kildall & Victoria Scott - Gift Horse Nov 17 2010 - Snibbe Interactive Scott Snibbe - Body, Space, and Cinema Garnet Hertz - OutRun Games of Nonchalance - City as Platform, Play, and Narrative in the Physical World: A Peek Behind the Curtain at the Jejune Institute Kyle Machulis - Open Kinect Feb 23 2011 - WHQ Mark Lottor - Cubatron Joe Grand - BSODomizer Alex Handy - Sorry But Games Are Art Timothy Childs - Sneak Peeks at ClearGrape Mark Pesce - Plexus: Own Your Social Graph Mar 30 2011 - Exploratorium Alan Rorie - HOW TO: Build a Rocketship Engine Aaron Ross - Home Movies from the Noosphere: Representing Inner Perceptions The Exploratorium New Media Group - Exploring Science Interactively Bill Meyer Eric Sokolofsky North Pitney Chris Cerrito Lotte Meijer May 18 2011 - GAFFTA Doc Pop - The Portable Art Studio Crashfaster - Chip Music 101 Mitra Ardron - Scalable Innovation to Meet Basic Needs Tony Parisi - Viz Populi! 3D in the Web Browser For Realz Oct 12 2011 - Noisebridge Joe Grand - Breaking San Francisco's "Smart" Parking Meter Tim Dye - Weather Report: No Numbers, Just Colors Jake and Lilia - Nuclear Analyzer Nov 02 2011 - The MADE (Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment) Philipp Reist - Blind Juggler Jonathan Foote - Yet More Robots and Things That Glow Christopher Schardt - Garden of Rockets

Open dorks: Dan Collard - Pickle Light Jon Sarriugarte - Mortar Launch from the Backyard Kevin Mathieu - Steve Kurtz update Spot Draves - Electric Sheep/Spotworks easter egg Matthew Bennett - mod'd xbox Jonathan Foote - VideoBots - http://www.fxpal.com/?p=foote Bruce Damer - Cyberwearz - http://damer.com/ Scott Minneman - Liberty Science Center mobile - http://www.onomy.com Stephen Dunifer - FM and TV transmitters build and designed by Radio Free Berkeley Mike Estee - Surface Mount boards Eddie Codel - Webzine Mark Pesce - Swarm Tech / VRML / Playful World Erik Davis - Techgnosis Paul Spinrad - author of the vj book | http://thevjbook.com Kimo Crossman - providing public input into the city's (SF) TechConnect WIFI process | http://webnetic.net Jonathan Moore - SVG plugin hacking in the new firefox Team1031 - high school robotics | http://www.team1031.org Oron Catts - tissue culture art | http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au Jake Appelbaum - monochrom/roboxotica Jonathan Moore - CO2 Confetti Launcher Wendy Tremayne - Swap-o-rama-rama | http://swaporamarama.org Fuze Factory - a/v break-pop from switzerland | http://www.fusefactory.ch/ Bill Jarrold - human feedback for AI systems | http://www.openheartlogic.org David Calkins - 3rd Intl Robolympics | http://robolympics.net Kal Spelletich and Anu Vikram - AI and Frankenstein Theory of Robotics | http://seemen.org Leila Hasan - Gigapan | http://gigapan.org Simone Davalos - El Espanol Borracho | http://suicidebots.com Bjoern Hartman - Color Field Camera | http://www.bjoern.org/projects/cfcam/ Simran Gleason - Kepler's Orrery | http://www.art.net/simran Jonathan Moore - External Combustion Engine | http://0x0000.org Raj - Tiki Graffiti | http://tikirobot.net/wp/tikigraffiti Eddie Codel presents Jonathan Lassoff - Michelle Clay - Magic Safire | SF Mooninites Ken Murphy - LED Light Bugs | http://www.blinkybug.com/ledart.html Leila Hasan - Yuri's Night | http://www.yurisnight.net/2007/ Marc Powell - Delicious Corpse | http://www.deliciouscorpse.com/ Courtney Sexton - NOSO Project | http://nosoproject.com/ Jesse Zbikowski - Gumstix/BA Linux User Group | http://upcoming.org/event/165473 Rudy Rucker - Monkey View | http://monkeybrains.net Starpause and Computer Truck - Chiptunes | http://dutycycle.tumblr.com/ Randy Sarafan and Noah Weinstein - Joydick | http://instructables.com/member/noahw and /randofo Simran Gleason - Diffusion Limited Aggregation == Zombie Freeze Tag Trademark G - Safeway Card Exchange Christian Ristow - Hand of Man Katherine Becar - Vaccum Tube Pins and Pocketed Tool Belts | http://blue-moon-designs.com Evil Mad Scientists - EggBot | http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/eggbot Kyle Machulis - Open Kinect | http://slashdong.org Mark Pesce - Plexus | http://plexus.relationalspace.org/ Anselm Hook - Wherecamp Big Red - Dancing Bliss Bre Pettis - Thingiverse | http://www.thingiverse.com Barney Haynes and Jennifer Parker - sonicSense | http://www.sonicsense.net Addie & Stefan - lasersaur | http://lasersaur.com Warren Stringer - iPad/Kinect Hacking | http://www.youtube.com/ikoino#p/u/0/aFO6j6tvdk8 Mitra Ardron - Natural Innovation | http://naturalinnovation.org