Sam Blanchard will show off his Polaroid Matrix Flipbook at fifth annual Maker Faire
New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th St., Flushing Meadows Corona Park
September 17-18, $10-$25
718-699-0005
www.makerfaire.com
www.nysci.org
The annual Maker Faire, being held this weekend at the New York Hall of Science, celebrates the cutting edge of creativity and innovation over the course of two days of talks, demonstrations, live performances, and workshops focusing on such topics as engineering, recycling, sustainability, and music. The DIY festival will feature hundreds of makers from all over the world showing off their latest projects, from Ayah Bdeir’s littleBits and Mark Perez’s Life-Size Mousetrap to Marek Michalowski’s BeatBots and Sean Casey’s Tornado Intercept Vehicle, from Tamar Ziv’s Projected Realities and Eben Upton’s Raspberry Pi to Patti Robinson’s Time Warp Souvenir and Lynn Pentecost’s Dogzilla. The schedule includes such programs as Custom Pet Applique Tote Demonstration and How to Sew a Skirt in One Hour at the Craft Demo Stage, Kinect Abnormal Motion Assessment System, Hacking Your Sleep, and PCR and DNA Barcoding at Health 2.0, Paul Rudolph’s percussive GLANK at the Music Stage, Coke Zero & Mentos Fountains, a deconstruction competition, acts from Circus Warehouse, and twi-ny fave Bill Shannon highlighting his Shannon Technique (in which he street-dances with crutches he needs because of a degenerative physical condition) on the Rocket Stage. Meanwhile, the Live Stage will showcase such projects as Christopher Olah’s Programmatic CAD and Its Future, Tim Lillis & Andy Turley’s Collaborative Gaming in the Twitter Age, Karen Kaun’s STEMGarden, and Hackerspaces: Schools of the Future. It should be quite a time for science geeks and computer nerds of all ages, and at heart, doesn’t that mean all of us?