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2014
December 03 2014 - Gray Area
Alex Reben - Film Making Robots and Human-Machine Relationships
Michael Ang - The Polygon Construction Kit
Josh Silverman - Adventurs in Playa Re-Engineering: A Projection Mapping Project Rises From the Dead
Oliver Hess - Wilmington Waves Maintenance
October 15 2014 - Stochastic Labs
Lynn Hershman (Mark Hellar and Josiah Zayner) - The Infinity Engine
JD Beltran and Scott Minneman - Cinema Snowglobes
Karen Marcelo and Graham Plumb - Open Cube
Greg Leppert - Boomerang
Josiah Zayner - I Can See Your Genome
July 15 2014 - noisebridge
!Mediengruppe Bitnik - Hacktvist Art Pranks, Darknets, etc.
Andy Isaacson - Notes from a Tororist: Running Your Own Tor Node
Dave Matthews - Proximity Apps Immediacy and NewAer on Mesh Networks
June 25 2014 - GrayArea
Balint Seeber and John Malsbury - The ISEE-3 Reboot Project - First Contact from Arecibo
Dan Novy -
Ben de Leeuw - Camera Sculptura
Daniel Anderson - Interactive Projection Mapping with VDMX and Quartz Composer>
June 18 2014 - Cyclecide Swearhouse
Micah Elizabeth Scott - Inside the Ecstatic Epiphany
William Jarrold - Computational Rumination: Random Contempl ations of an Artificial Intelligence
Neal Strickberger - Battlefield Illuminators, Billions of Candlepower, Hundreds of Amps, Now What?
Rich Mortimer Humphrey - The Omphaloskepsiscope, and Internet Enabled Underwear That Might Just Save the World!
May 21 2014 - BlueSprout
Eddie Codel - An Uncritical Examination of the Exploding World of Quadcopter Drones
Simon Winder - The Calculating Engine
Pete Warden - How You Can Use Computer Vision in Your Own Projects
Feb 27 2014 - Highway1
Mark Pesce and Tony Parisi - VRML 20 Full Circle
Anouk Wipprecht - Hardware Couture
Jan 29 2014 - Cyclecide Swearhouse
Rudy Rucker - The Big Aha Quantum High
Shovelman - Folktronica Slide Shovel
Jake - Making a DIY Robotic Assembly System from a 3D Printer
Paul Freedman - The Bike Powered Concert
2013
Dec 18 2013 - dorkboat
Scott Minneman - Cinema Snowglobes: How Hard Can This Possibly Be?
Mark Stephen Meadows - 7 Years On A Sailboat in Central America: Working at Anchor
Jill Miller - Unleash the Girls
Eric Paulos - Hybrid Assemblages, Environments, and Happenings
Nov 20 2013 - dimension 7
Aubrey Shick - The Romibo Robot Project - Designing an Evolving Social Robot for Special Needs Therapy
Weidong Yang - Intermedia Dance Performance (1.0->2.0)
George Zisiadis - Pulse of the City - From Prototype to Permanent
Christopher Schardt and Peter Tjeerdsma - Se tting Your Pixels Free (from a Regular Grid)
Oct 12 2013 - dimension 7
Tom Zimmerman - Texting Sea Turtles and Cars Making Music
Andy Isaacson - Cypherpunks Part II: Fight!
Jordan Gray (starpause) - Analog Modular Video Synthesis
Eric Cheng - Aerial Imaging and Drones: A Different Perspective
Damon Hernandez - Digital Fabrication & Interactive 3D - A Better Way To Build
Moldover - New Human Interfaces for Music - DIY MIDI Controllers
Jul 31 2013 - OtherFab
Danielle Applestone - Mom, Where Do Batteries Come From...?
Tom Longson - The P2P Payment Revolution
Anselm Hook - Wearable Computing and Big Data
Star Simpson - Revealin g the Mysteries of Google Glass: A Hardware Teardown
2012
Nov 30 2012 - RallyPad hosted by XFF (Extreme Futurist Festival)
Tiffany Shlain - Cloud Filmmaking: Cloudsourcing Creativity in The Age of Collaboration
Ken Goldberg - Bloom: Aesthetics and Analysis of Streaming Seismic Data
Amy Critchett - The Bay Lights: World's Largest LED Light Sculpture
Mark Pauline - SRL videos and machine demo
Sep 19 2012 - Langton Labs
Brad Templeton - Robot Cars Will Change the World Far More Than You Think
Ben De Leeuw - DIY People Scanning - Adventures in Photogrammetry
Moldover - Moldover's New Controller: The RoboCaster
Balint Seeber - All Your RFz Are Belong to Me: Hacking the Wireless World With Software Defined Radio
Aug 15 2012 - S.P.A.C.E
Mark Meadows - We Robot
Tony Parisi - WebGL From the Front Lines
Jim Ellis - DIY Synth Overview: The New Romanticiscm of Synth DIY Hardware 2012
Mike Kuniavsky - The New Product Development Ecosystem: How to Reinvent Manufacturing so that it is More Sociall y and Ecologically Responsible, Creates Cooler Stuff, and is Run By Makers
Jul 25 2012 - Jellyfish Gallery
Daniel Suarez - Crossing the Rubicon: Autonomous Combat Drones -- whats driving their development and their likely impact on human society
Alexander Rose - 10,000 Year Clock
Jason Wilson - Seeing Yourself Seeing Your Self
Parker Higgins - Pwn the Drones: A Survey of UAV Hacks and Exploits
Mar 30 2012 - GAFFTA
Stelarc - Zombies & Cyborgs
Mark Pauline - The Spine Robot Lives!
Leo Villareal - Bay Lights
Feb 29 2012 - Langton Labs
Rudy Rucker (the Elder) - The Big AHA
Rudy Rucker (the Younger) - Running a Punk ISP
Mike Estee - The Three Laws of Paper Robotics
Liam Holt - Syneseizure
2011
Dec 07 2011 - Langton Labs
Jeremy Franklin-Ross and Mike McCracken - Smashputt: Miniature Golf Apocalpyse
Sasha Harris-Cronin - MSI Giant Heart
Tim Thompson - Space Palette: A New Instrument Using the Kinect
Matt Goodman - Playa Time Lapse
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
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
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
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
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
2010
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
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
Jun 9 2010 - Parisoma
RU Sirius - MONDO 2000 History Project
Michele Pred - Black Friday Shopdrop
Jeremy Bornstein & Lenny Raymond - The Mongoliad
May 5 2010 - Parisoma
Tim Hunkin - Recent Arcade Machines
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
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
Jan 2010 - Gallery With No Name
Pavel Machalek - From Pixels to Exoplanet Atmospheres
Camp Peavy - Homebrewed Robots
Eric Boyd - North Paw: Haptic Compass Anklet
2009
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
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
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
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
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
Mar 2009 - Hat Factory
Moldover - The Mojo-69: Musical Instrument FROM THE FUTURE
Dave Mathews - SOFTware is the New HARDware
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
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
2008
Nov 2008 - Retox Lounge
Laura Mappin - Laser Etching
TradeMark G / ECC - Touchscreen Video Controller for Live Mashup
Sam Coniglio - Designing the Orbital Lifestyle
Sep 2008 - Million Fishes
Carl Pisaturo - Orbit 2
Jonathan Jaffe - RIAA vs You
Rachel McConnell - Soft Circuits
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
2007
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
Aug 2007 - TechShop
Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman - The CandyFab 4000
TechShop Tour
Jun 2007 - 21 Grand
Kimric Smythe - The Modern Steam Engine
Liam McNamara - Clockworks
Kinetic Steamworks - Steampunk Treehouse
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
May 2007 - Chez Poulet
Rudy Rucker, The Elder | PsiPunk!
Daniela Steinsapir - Recycling Junk
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
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...
2006
November 2006 - Encounter Studio
Greg Hazel | Incoherence: Stereo Field Spectrum Analysis
Matt Chisholm and Russ Cohen | The Neighborhood Project
October 2006 - BOCA
Tim Hunkin | Reinventing the Amusement Space
Mike Kuniavsky | The Coming Age of Magic
August 2006 - Encounter Studio
Simran Gleason | Generative Music
Steve Omohundro | The Consequences of Very Smart Machines
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
June 2006 - rxGallery
Jeremy Fitzhardinge | Constellation
Shannon Wright | Animating Principle
Michael Laine | Liftport: Opening Space to Everyone - A Space Elevator Presentation
April 2006 - rxGallery
Mikey Sklar | DIY RFID Implants
Craig Latta | Quoth: Interactive Fiction Meets Musical LiveCoding
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
2005
November 2005 - Dimension 7
Graham Plumb | Light Fantastic
Tom Zimmerman | Using Electronic Gadgets to Teach Kids Science and Engineering
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
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
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
July 2005 - rxGallery
Otis Fodder
and
TradeMarkG
| Dueling Theremins
monochrom | Experience the Experience of 1 Baud
June 2005 - rxGallery
Simnuke Team | Simnuke Project
Heather Dewey-Hagborg | Bugs
Violet Blue | Teledildonics Now (with LIVE Demonstration)
February 2005 - Dimension 7
Stelarc | Prosthetic Head
Luther Thie | Acclairism: A New Elitism
Paul Haeberli | Lamina Design: Free Form Sturctures from Computer Models
2004
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
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
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
April 2004 - rxGallery
Rudy Rucker | The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul
Spot Draves | Spotworks
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
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
2003
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)
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
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
Febuary 2003 - Splat Cave
M. Millivolt | Small Sparks and Shocks
Kal Spelletich | Fear As A Medium for Social Change
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
2002
December 2002 - Abstrakt Zone
Greg Leyh | Advanced Lighting Facility
Gregory Cowley | Fractured Cinema
Scott Arford | Beware the Image
September 2002 - Abstrakt Zone
Spot Draves | Electric Sheep
Maribeth Back | Listen Reader + Speeder Reader
Vordo | Abletons Live Demo
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
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
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
Joshua Gourneau and Justin Jach - Biometrics Photobooth | http://josh.gourneau.com/ and http://vimeo.com/justinjach
David Normal - http://normal-design.com/
Eric Michaud - http://collegeoflockpicking.com/
Courtney Sexton - Trumpet Hero | http://www.behance.net/korntee
William Nye - Christmas Candles Digital Logic
Mang (Michael Ang) - Craig Dorety's Light Objects and Lunar Topologies | http://craigdorety.com/
Rachel McConngell - Awesome Foundation | http://www.awesomefoundation.org/
Evil Mad Scientists - WaterColorBot | http://watercolorbot.com/
Mitch Altman - Hackers in Residency | http://hackerspace.org/
Marc Powell - Everything is Networked and Nothing is Connected (Poems of Dot Com Dissidence)
Brady Forrest - Highway1
David Kendall - Self Balancing Robot
Marque Kornblatt - Game of Drones
Justin Quimby - BlueSprout