Due to the fact that we don’t have a functional building for this season of Open MAKE events, we have reluctantly had to pass the opportunity to host them. But a host of other institutions have taken up the challenge, and put together amazing events, each with their own flavor! This Saturday, you can enjoy two Open MAKE events in the Bay Area:
Open Make @ the Hall
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, BerkeleyBikes
How can you use a bike for more than mere transportation? Come make bicycle hacks, like pedal-powered electronics and art, or learn how to fix your own bike. There will be opportunities to ride bikes, so make sure to bring a helmet! Featured Makers and activity leaders include:
- Join in an Energy Bike + iPad demo with Stephanie Chang from Bike-to-Scale.
- Create “bike frills” for your bike with the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse.
- Try out Young Makers Stavros Boutris and Jake Wallin’s “whacky bikes” made from recycled old bikes and other wheeled objects.
- Create pedal powered music and learn how Paul Freedman from Rock the Bike makes his bike installations.
- Make a fruit smoothie with a pedal-powered blender and the East Bay Bicycle Coalition.
- Join an electric bikes demonstration with the Hall’s resident astronomer Alan Gould.
- Ride one of 15 altered bikes built by Cyclecide on the plaza. Bring your helmet!
- Use Katharine-Ellen Jolda’s Cyclocarder to clean and card wool.
Open Make @ The Tech
10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, BerkeleyWearable Tech
Most Open Make activities are held downstairs in our innovative new space for making and learning, The Tech Studio. This month’s Meet-the-Makers talks will take place in New Venture Hall, on the ground level.
- Make your own “LED bling” with BJ Wooden from The Tech Summer Camps.
- Help build and play a conductive musical jacket with our Exhibit Developer Romie Littrell.
- “Code your kicks” by programming LED patterns with TinkerTags Makers Mo Akade and Mike Duong.
- Make an LED Wristband with Maker Grace Kim
The Tech will also host the Meet the Makers talks:
Meet-the-Makers Talks: Wearable Tech
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
New Venture HallMeet-the-Makers as they share their passions for making, followed by a Q&A session. The talks bring together Makers leading wearable tech workshops, Young Makers working on wearable tech projects for Maker Faire, and professional Makers from wearable tech industry.
- Grace Kim, Wearable Technology Designer, iamgracie.com
- Mo Akade, co-Founder, TinkerTags
- Shelten Yuen, Director of Research and Development, Fitbit, Inc.
- Alison Lewis, Author, Inventor, Designer, Entrepreneur, iheartswitch.com
- Team Folktails: Young Makers Sydney Murphy and Ksenia Medvedev
