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Author Archive
Steve Ward
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
ArcAttack is very pleased to announce a new permanent addition to our crew.
Meet Steve Ward from Chicago, Il.
www.stevehv.4hv.org/
Steve has been contributing to ArcAttack since it’s conception in 2005. He
has worked with us remotely for years. He also managed his own performance
group, “The Masters of Lightning”. He was previously an engineer at
FermiLab and is, in our opinion, the finest and most thorough solid state Tesla
coil designer in the world.
Though we manage to progress steadily and surely, keeping up with equipment
designs is hard work when you are constantly having to stop in the middle of
projects to drive for 20 hours and play shows. We are all very excited to
have Steve on the front line of our engineering process and can’t even
imagine the performance technology that we will fabricate with his help.
Amazing things on the horizon! Stay tuned.
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Home Appliance/Power Tool Dance Party!
Thursday, April 21st, 2011
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Maker Faire Celebrates 5th Annual Bay Area Festival “The Future Is in Your Hands”
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
SEBASTOPOL, CA–(Marketwire – April 6, 2010) – Maker Faire, the world’s premier DIY (Do-It-Yourself) event, celebrates its 5th annual Bay Area festival on May 22nd and 23rd, 2010 at the San Mateo County Event Center.
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Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 |
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Produced by the folks who bring you MAKE Magazine, Maker Faire celebrates things people create themselves — from rockets and robots, to DIY science and technology, to sustainable foods and upcycled clothes. |
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More than 600 Makers are scheduled to share their inventions. The festival is expected to draw 95,000 attendees from across the state, the country, and beyond. |
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New this year at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 will be the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, a kitschy, retro-futuristic 40-foot rocket that debuted this year at Burning Man. Also new this year: the Flaming Lotus Girls present Soma: a sculpture that translates the anatomy of neurons into metal, fire, and light, magnifying the microscopic world to epic scale; ArcAttack!, a truly ‘electrifying’ performance by the creators of the original Singing Tesla Coils; and The Orb, a spherical surface display that can project any image or video. |
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Other must-see Maker Faire attractions include: EepyBird showing off its Diet Coke and Mentos Mega Fountains; always a fan favorite, the Rube Goldberg-style Life-Size Mousetrap; Robotic Warship Combat in the battle pond; and lots of Tesla coils, robots, and rockets to wow the crowd. |
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Saturday, May 22nd – 10AM – 8PM |
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Sunday, May 23rd – 10AM – 6PM |
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San Mateo County Event Center |
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San Mateo, CA |
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Can be purchased online. And starting April 16th, tickets will be available at the following Whole Foods Market locations: San Mateo, Redwood City and Potrero Hill. |
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For more ticket information, please visit: www.makerfaire.com/bayarea/2010/tickets/ |
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Advance Purchase Price (through midnight 5/12/2010) |
Onsite |
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20.00 |
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25.00 |
| Student (13 to 20) |
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10.00 |
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15.00 |
| Youth (4 to 12) |
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5.00 |
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10.00 |
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Weekend passes are only available online or onsite at the full price. Special advance deals on weekend passes, group discounts, subscription specials and more can be found online before the May 12th deadline at: www.makerfaire.com/bayarea/2010/tickets/
About Maker Faire
Maker Faire is being held on May 22 & 23, 2010 at the San Mateo County Event Center. Started in San Mateo, California in 2006, and now expanding to Detroit and New York, Maker Faire is the premier event for grassroots American innovation. Held annually in each of these locations, the event may expand elsewhere in the future. Maker Faire is supported by MAKE Magazine and O’Reilly Media, the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies. The company’s books, conferences and web sites bring to light the knowledge of technology innovators. For more information about Maker Faire, please visit www.makerfaire.com.
About O’Reilly
O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making and evangelism.
PRESS CONTACT:
Bridgette Vanderlaan
Email Contact
Tel: 727-278-2888
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New Tesla Coil System!
Monday, March 1st, 2010
ArcAttack is proud to announce an upcoming project sponsored by FUEL:pdx on fire, to design and build a very large, and very experimental solid state Tesla coil system for display at their exhibition in September.
The best part about this deal, they are letting us keep the equip ment when the show is over!
Fuel has been a pleasure to work with thus far, and we very much appreciate the trust they have in us, to design this new and experimental system.
Check back with us for more updates on this project!
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