CargoGrass Eric Ulteig
A self-contained personal patch of grass growing on a platform mounted above an automobile. The deck is strong enough to support people while parked or carry other heavy items while in motion. A soilless medium is used to grow the St. Augustine with a hydroponic system housed in the trunk.

General Applications Robotics L. Scott Hudson
"GALA Dolly" is an interactive humanoid robot. Her mechanicals include a wheeled base, and a pan-and-tilt head assembly with webcams. She is controlled by an on-board XP laptop with a DOTNET interface that is integrated with the Speech API, enabling her to synthesize Text-to-Speech as well as recognize voice-activated commands. With time and resources permitting, I hope to complete a robot arm attachment, as well as a second, identical "GALA Luna" version that will be written in Java rather than DOTNET.

Groovy CNC! The Robot Group
Recycling retro records into groovy keychains and guitar picks! Old 33rpm vinyl record albums are placed into the Probotix Fireball V90 CNC mill and then precision cut into new shapes with engraved text. G-CODE from a computer operates a circuit that controls stepper motors that guide a rotary tool as it both cuts and inscribes multiple items from a single record. This process not only produces new items, but also leaves behind an interesting shaped record.

Mechanical Flower Denise Scioli
Inspired by a stainless steel vegetable steamer, this flower opens and closes, lights up, and plays music and sounds when you move in front of it.

Micro RC Jousting Nyssa Hughes
My project combines the worlds of paper craft, micro RC cars, and Renaissance festivals. I transform ordinary micro-RC cars into action-packed jousters. I want to expand people's imagination by adding movement to paper craft. By using paper, you can build almost anything. With micro-RC cars, you can move your imagination.

Mini Sand Drawing Machine Gray Mack
This small inexpensive plotting system uses two servos and a mechanical linkage to doodle. The drawing stylus can reach a curved diamond shape and can adapt to plot with a pen or other interesting materials. It is a low resolution system that can be built with hand tools and inexpensive off-the-shelf parts. This project is part of The Robot Group projects.

Organ Pipe Cactus Pipe Organ Marvin Niebuhr aka Professor Conrad
The O.P.C.P.O. is actually a cluster of three sewer pipe organs run by three digital rhythm machines and a digital sampler. Also appearing is another pipe organ made with 13 musical toy recorders. These pieces are the latest members of the band called THE SCREAMIN' BABYHEADS WITH THE INSTRUMENTS OF MASS DISTORTION. The Screamers performed at last year's Maker Faire.

R0B0 or Yellow Bot Don Colbath
This is a mobile platform type robot made from a large yellow transit case. The wheel/motor assembly is from a kiddie Jeep and an aluminum scooter. It is currently unfinished, and I would like to bring him and try and finish the work at the faire. This is a tradition from our old RoboFests from the '80s, and I will have tools, wires, crimpers, soldering irons etc. available for those in need of on site repairs.

Robot with Silly String Shooter Bob Comer
We're demonstrating practical uses for a mobile robot that shoots silly string.

Robot-themed Bags and Serging Demo and Tutorial Miayawear
I have been sewing since I was nine. After the birth of my son I started a sewing business and bought a used serger. I quickly found out that there is a serging mafia out there that closely guards how to thread these things. My proposal is to teach fear-free serger threading to anyone willing to sit down with me. I was a Maker last year and won an award for my serging threading demo onstage presentation. This year, my husband, Scott Hudson, will be presenting his GALA Dolly project with The Robot Group, and I will be assisting him as part of his team. However, I would love to provide serger tutoring again. Since I am participating as a member of The Robot Group, I will be making Robot-themed Freebie Bags as part of my demo.

SanDraw Paul Atkinson
SanDraw is a computer operated mechanism which draws patterns in sand and is similar to a Zen garden managed by a microprocessor. SanDraw was inspired by the work of Bruce Shapiro and a work of art named Sisyphus.

Video Head Eric Lundquist
The Video Head Project was inspired by the amazing art project called Drum Head by Murat Konar. In a attempt to take it to the next level, the Video Head will have multiple mouth and eye expressions in order to display a wider range of emotions and interactions. The foam head gives the image an eerie lifelike 3-d appearance. My daughter Catherine is serving as the model to provide the range of expressions. A java program will control cutting and pasting the different eye and mouth images in real time to make the head appear to interact with the audience. In addition, sensor feedback will help determine the facial expression.