Channel Title: Make: Channel Description: Make: brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. Make: is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. <video> Sound Foraging with Dogbotic - Kirk Pearson Description: Recorded Date: Saturday, 10/19/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA How can you sound design a technology that doesn't exist yet? How do movies make dinosaurs sound like... well, dinosaurs? We'll answer all your burning questions are in this presentation by Dogbotic – Berkeley's homegrown audio studio that makes weird and strange sounds for weird and strange people. They will show you how they built their own synthesizers for Rihanna's SavagexFenty show, how they used the sounds of pasta to bring a tentacle monster to life for Adult Swim, and how *you* can do it too. Dogbotic is one of North America's premiere audio studios--composing for animation, film, installation, theater, podcast, games, web, radio, and every other medium in between. We’re mad scientists of audio that relish in making sounds you haven’t heard yet. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/77087 </video> <video> Kind Humanoid, Inc. - Christoph Kohstall Description: Recorded Date: Sunday, 10/20/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA Christoph has single-handedly built the first intelligent humanoid that reaches human-level motion performance and leverages foundation models for reasoning. His background is experimental quantum physics at Stanford, and he dove into AI at Google Brain Robotics. Kind Humanoid is now building a humanoid at a BOM of $10k and developing a skill-learning pipeline to reach true general task capability. This will open up applications in fully unstructured environments, ranging from assistance with care in people's homes all the way to amplifying any human endeavor in the future. The founder Christoph Kohstall is a lifelong tinkerer. As a scientist, he was a researcher at Stanford and published his work in Nature. As an entrepreneur, he won Intel’s global competition on wearables, and he dove into artificial intelligence research at Google Brain. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/75879/ </video> <video> Fireside Chat with Steph Piper - Maker Skill Trees Description: Recorded Date: 12/3/24 Grab your copy of Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition in the Maker Shed! 👉 Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition (PRINT) - https://www.makershed.com/products/make-skillseeker-workbook 👉 Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition (PDF) - https://www.makershed.com/products/make-skill-seeker-maker-workbook-pdf Join Dale Dougherty and Steph Piper, author of Make: Skill Seeker Maker Edition, for a talk on tracking your growth and leveling up your skills. In a world where there are an overwhelming amount of things to do, Maker skill trees are the perfect way for makerspaces and individuals alike to represent and identify maker skills, from learning a new tech skill like 3D printing to traditional handiwork like sewing. What if we could gamify these parts of life and gain experience points for learning or doing something new? Skill Seeker does just that in a choose-your-own-adventure-style goal-setting guidebook. Video games are famous for skill trees: A mechanism to visually see your progress, calculating your experience points and showing your level, unlocking badges and new abilities. Skill Seeker puts the concept of skill trees into real life. Featuring pathways to leveling up across 15 skill areas, including 3D modeling, crafting, electronics, entrepreneurship, metalworking, robotics, and woodworking. Use powerful gamification techniques of badging and leveling to your advantage to motivate a new stage of growth in your chosen skill areas. Show off your Life XP (experience) score, a tally of every tile completed across key areas, plus a dashboard of progress for a birds eye view of your skill distribution. Are you more tech-skill focused, or well-balanced? Skill Seeker will identify your makeup, and chart a path toward whatever future you choose! Steph Piper is a creative technologist and maker, and serves as the library makerspace manager at th University of Southern Queensland. She also runs Maker Queen AU, a small business creating beautiful soldering kits to inspire others to learn electronics skills, as well as the GlowStitch line of machine-sewable LEDs. Steph created the Party Button art installation, a cross walk interface designed to play party music that was featured at Curiocity Festival in Brisbane. She is based in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. </video> <video> Meet the Makers from Maker Faire Shenzhen Description: https://www.shenzhenmakerfaire.com/ Check out one of the biggest and best Maker Faires in the world: Maker Faire Shenzhen! Organized by @ChaihuoMakerSpace, #MFSZ took place on November 16-17, 2024 at Vanke Design Commune, Nanshan, Shenzhen. Join David "ishotjr" Groom 格岱炜 (@ishotjrdotcom) and 程玮楠 as we walk you through some of the following highlights: 🔬 120+ exhibition booths showcasing cutting-edge tech applications including big names like Arm, NVIDIA Robotics, Raspberry Pi, Ultralytics, Seeed Studio 🎯 4 summit forums featuring insights from 30 industry leaders 🛠️ 23 hands-on workshops exploring emerging technologies 🌟 11 satellite events connecting innovation across the Greater Bay Area 💡 10 highlight projects demonstrating new tech-enabled interactions More info about Maker Faire Shenzhen 2024: https://www.shenzhenmakerfaire.com/ </video> <video> Prototyping Climate Action - Beth Ferguson Description: Recorded Date: Sunday, 10/20/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA Discover engaging prototypes from the UC Davis Design Department Makerspace, including innovations in sustainable transportation, renewable energy solutions, sustainable materials fabrication, and nature-based solutions. This talk provides valuable insights and practical tips on fostering innovation in climate adaptation strategies. Beth Ferguson is an artist and designer whose practice blends digital fabrication with sustainable transportation, solar engineering, climate resiliency, and public engagement. She is an Associate Professor of Design at the University of California Davis and the director of the Adapting City Lab (adaptingcity.org). Ferguson’s solar micromobility charging work can be seen at the Austin Energy Electric Drive and MacArthur BART Mobility Hub. Her interdisciplinary work has been exhibited at the Exploratorium Museum, Ars Electronica, and she is resident at the San Francisco Autodesk Tech Center. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/77135/ </video> <video> Demystifying Creativity - Bam Singhasaneh Description: Recorded Date: Saturday, 10/19/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA Creativity is a skill that anyone can benefit from having in their toolbox. Moreover, creativity is like a muscle that you can strengthen through exercise. In this presentation, Bam discussed what it means to be creative, the factors that affect your ability to think creatively, and ways in which you can foster your creativity. CrunchLabs offers monthly or bimonthly boxes for kids and teens to build, hack, and think like engineers. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/76712/ </video> <video> Make: Magazine Volume 91 Launch Party: 2025 Boards Guide Description: 👉 Subscribe to Make: magazine: https://subscribe.makezine.com/ In Make: Volume 91, we make friends — literally! From AI to the classroom, we've got the bots! And dev boards, reviewed and compared, by the bushel! Plus, over 38 projects, including an autotuned kazoo! Register now for a chance to chat with our expert panel, as well as to join us for the virtual after-party! Grab your copy of Make: Volume 91 and Make: Electronic Music From Scratch, today in the Maker Shed: 👉 Make: Volume 91 (PRINT): https://www.makershed.com/products/make-magazine-volume-91-print 👉 Make: Volume 91 (PDF): https://www.makershed.com/products/make-magazine-volume-91-pdf 👉 Make: Electronic Music From Scratch (PRINT): https://www.makershed.com/products/make-electronic-music-print 👉 Make: Electronic Music From Scratch (PDF): https://www.makershed.com/products/make-electronic-music-pdf </video> <video> Upskilling with Steph Piper Description: In this episode of MakeCast, Dale Dougherty interviews Steph Piper, a creative technologist from Queensland, Australia. They discuss her Maker Queen website, her Skill Trees project, and her new book, Skill Seeker Maker Edition. Steph shares insights into her role at a university library makerspace, her electronics kits for kids, and her GlowStitchLEDs project. The conversation also covers the development and application of skill trees as a tool for self-directed learning and maker engagement, as well as the importance of community in makerspaces. 00:00 Introduction to Steph Piper 01:32 Steph Piper's Journey and Maker Queen 02:59 Library Makerspace and Hands-On Learning 08:45 The Concept and Development of Skill Trees 20:57 A Fun Project -- The Party Button Book: http://makershed.com/skillseeker/ </video> <video> From OpenROV to Ocean Xplorers - Eric Stackpole Description: Recorded Date: Sunday, 10/20/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA Eric Stackpole, original designer of the OpenROV underwater exploration drone, co-founder of Sofar Ocean -- which connects the world's oceans to power a more sustainable future -- and co-star of National Geographic's OceanXplorers shared his experience in creating technology to explore the planet's unseen places. Eric Stackpole is a Co-Founder and the original designer of OpenROV now SoFar Ocean. Prior to OpenROV, he worked part-time for NASA at the Ames Research Center and studied mechatronics at Santa Clara University. An Exploration Technology Innovator, he is currently co-starring on the National Geographic show OceanXplorers. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/77165/ </video> <video> Kid Company-World's First AI Device for Children - Rob Locasio Description: Recorded Date: Saturday, 10/19/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA There’s a significant pain point between parents, their children, and the use of current mobile and tablet devices. Kid Company aims to transform that with KID (Keep It Dreaming), a powerful AI device designed to unlock children’s imaginations. KID empowers kids to become creators of games, music, images, educational content, and stories using the power of AI, rather than passive consumers of mindless content. The platform offers innovative AI creation tools for families, fostering creativity and learning in which parents can direct KID to focus on certain areas of creativity and learning. Kid Company, Inc. is a passionate team of creators and engineers, united in developing an AI device that empowers children to unleash their creativity. We’re thrilled to be here at Maker Faire, joining this incredible community of innovators and makers. Together, we’re helping shape the future by giving kids the tools to become their best creative selves 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/77138/ </video> <video> ROBOTIC OPEN-SOURCE SCALE DRESS Description: Anouk Wipprecht, a Dutch FashionTech Designer/Engineer teamed op with 3D printing company Elegoo on a series of 'Female Empowerment' engagements, which will take place during FormNext 2024 in Frankfurt next week; the biggest 3D Printing Fair of Europe. They will also be officially announcing a 'Female Empowerment Program' aimed at encouraging young girls and women to further embrace 3D printing! Part of this engagement is a new modular system that Anouk open-sourced for creators and makers that are busy with textiles and want to mount motors to their fabrics and designs; “Create your own robotic dress through the instructions on Anouk her Instructables channel with a step-by-step on how you can 3D print, assemble and construct this project!” Learn More Here: https://makezine.com/article/digital-fabrication/3d-printing-workshop/anouk-wipprecht-wants-you-to-build-her-open-source-robotic-dress/ </video> <video> Practical AI for Makers - Sridhar Rajagopal Description: Recorded Date: Saturday, 10/19/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA AI is the current buzzword, with deep learning and other models now capable of being run on Edge Devices, aside from the Cloud. As Makers, how can we take advantage of this burgeoning field to incorporate cool new functionality into the things we make? For the beginner, this can be a very daunting field. In this presentation, Sridhar takes a 30,000-foot view of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, especially as it pertains to Edge AI (translation-we won't get bogged down by nitty-gritty now!). He looks at the various practical applications they can be used for, the various tools and frameworks that are available to utilize, and practical considerations of how to build and deploy a robust (not toy!) model that can run on your Arduino, Raspberry Pi or other suitable MCUs/SBCs. Sridhar is an Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, Maker & Tinkerer. A seasoned tinkerer of bits and bytes, with his first ever Maker Faire experience in 2012, he was hooked on the Maker Movement and started getting his hands dirty in all things making. He was a finalist at "Reinventing Healthy Spaces" with his BreatheRight project. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/75883/ </video> <video> Sailing to the Moon in Search of Water - Andrew Filo Description: Recorded Date: Saturday, 10/19/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA Sailing to the Moon in Search of Water is a game changer for manned and unmanned missions to moon and beyond. Water is a critical substance for life and propellant.. FLEA (Femto Lunar Exploration Apparatus) is a low cost mission to deliver multiple passive seismic sensors on the lunar surface at greater frequency and covering more areas like the poles and far side of the moon. There are 3 main components to this program a Mothership, 4 solar Sails , each carrying a dozen Femto Landers or FLEAs. The Mothership when on orbit will deploy the sails. Traveling to and from the moon the sails will take advantage of the lunar and solar phase. On approach to moon the sail will release the FLEAs to create pattern of on the lunar surface. Data from the FLEAs is relayed t by the Sails Andrew Filo is a Silicon Valley Inventor and Production Engineer for a diverse range of products. A partial list Includes: Sound Bites, Hit Clips, Video Now, iCybie, Toothtunes, My 3D, and Monopoly Live. I conceive the product, build the prototype and supervise production of these product I am an early adopter of the latest tools, software and techniques 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/75974/ </video> <video> Designing Stuff for SPACE! - Sam Coniglio Description: Recorded Date: Saturday, 10/19/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA How do astronauts take a shower in space? That's one of many questions they get asked all the time. Listen to author Samuel Coniglio talk about his new book "Creature Comforts in Space": Designing Enjoyment and Sustainability for Off-World Living. A veteran of Maker Faires since 2009, Samuel has a dichotomy of experience in both the aerospace world and the Maker world. He worked on the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs as a NASA contractor in the 1990's and later became a space activist promoting Space Tourism. On the side, he is a Maker at Obtainium Works, an art car factory famous for the Neverwas Haul Victorian House on Wheels. Listen to him discuss how to turn the dangers of space travel into design constraints so that you can make future space stations more fun! Samuel Coniglio is a space futurist and technical writer. As a member of the Space Tourism Society, he researches off-world domestic concepts. His Zero Gravity Cocktail Glass and Cocktail-making robots won international acclaim. His new book “Creature Comforts in Space” guides designers to create an enjoyable and sustainable off-world lifestyle. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/75869/ </video> <video> Majoring in Making in College - Micah Lande Description: Recorded Date: Sunday, 10/20/24 Location: Maker Faire Bay Area 2024, Mare Island, CA Learn about college programs that encourage Making. In this presentation, Micah shared insights from engineering and STEAM programs nationwide that emphasize Making through hands-on and project-based learning. Discover how it is possible to major in Making. Creative tinkering through your studies can make you skilled and ready for STEAM majors and careers. Experience the value of project-based learning, where every semester involves hands-on projects. Learn how these programs integrate Making into the curriculum, helping you become a confident, innovative Maker. Micah Lande, PhD is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education at the South Dakota Mines. Dr. Lande teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply design thinking and making processes to their work. 👉Meet the Maker: https://makerfaire.com/maker/entry/76089/ </video>

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