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Maker Faire 2011
Created: 05/23/2011
Video description: CNET's Donald Bell and Eric Franklin scour the 2011 Maker Faire in search of Crave-worthy tech -- preferably the stuff that shoots fire.

Maker Faire 2011 Video Transcript

And Volvo and and I'm Eric Franklin -- -- -- 111 maker Faire in San Mateo California. Today's celebration of inventors and their inventions. -- this is how practical stuff there's always uncle peck fifty. Let's go sign -- It's visit originally started as kind of a goofy Halloween -- project has -- shareware program. And models are available from Google's sketch up there's a halo -- Wiki what is this exactly. This is a kinetic sculpture Connecticut artists doing different from a wide range of genetic where there's a button here -- you can push -- hold. And when you do that job and now beautiful as they should be. -- here to show off. I also mean robots called -- only term we use kinetic sculpture my particular approach they have is to use only things that I can find -- covers ukulele. The whole head is a voltage meter that's been flipped upside down and -- out. This one's name is doubtful because that's the center line reading on this page here. I know the story behind how you got to come to create this IE disassembled typewriters exclusively. And I reassemble limited human figures. -- -- -- on -- I don't well little wired things together. It -- typewriters. And reassemble it. This is the plasma drive of the Reagan got the rockets -- It's -- the forty foot tall retro style rockets at its which is currently installed on the pier San Francisco -- science back. Is -- the platform for studying a high voltage phenomenon called but I electric barrier that -- as it turns this crackles with with high -- electricity and -- viewed Apple as right now -- off. Can't turn on the high voltage here not because -- By the way mainly emitted into it requires darkness and -- -- him and intimate affair but there's some great -- at videos up on my web page. -- -- -- -- It's kind of fun I never done anything. They really artistic in my life but this would send out we'll -- typical trash over an urban sprawl. The chassis is the Jewish four point eight runs of the barracks. A good -- -- pump. You don't want them functioning of the block. -- -- -- -- -- All the different cookies are stored in the Android that I and that's sending that information out news. Another micro controllers. -- -- a market that help fans aren't on the phone for about for the -- high Caroline -- I'm ready. And. -- We're showing here but -- -- so we're showing fire damages. Game rock experience using rock band which is a video game. Basically the way it works is out of my friend Johnny you're playing the guitar which -- -- -- -- to -- it sends data to come. Which is a little like a controller that basically controls. Anything you wanted to -- open -- consultant on takes out bibles that you got from that we don't have puts it on the intensity related widgets. Which makes up -- -- -- 120. We're 120 volts goes into one of these solar lights and the soul nights make it -- open up when vehemently electricity. -- -- -- -- -- -- --

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