Instructables July 20, 2007 Build Night and Show and Tell

This is a brief recap of the Instructables Build Night and Show and Tell held on Friday July 20th, 2007.

We roughly followed our own How to Host an Instructables Show and Tell but added a Build night component.

Before the main Show and Tell event, people were encouraged to share a skill, help others make a short project, or show off something cool. In this Instructable, I am pushing the limit of the medium, and documenting what happened.

lkrasnow brought and demonstrated some of his Precision Puzzles.

canida built Harry Potter wands as described by KaptinScarlet. A few were also made using real sticks!

fungus amungus and noahw led a t-shirt stenciling table.

Mark Richards showed and signed copies of Core Memory, his book of fantastic photographs of vintage computers.

intoon showed how to build a marshmallow gun. The guns were than used as part of a major marshmallow offensive in the courtyard.

Universal Laser sent one of their new fire-engine-red Versa Lasers that we used to engrave cell phones, laptops, and an iPhone.

shoeBlade demonstrated the Gigapan a robotic device for capturing panoramic images over 1 billion pixels in size.

Chris Anderson and his son Daniel demonstrated a homemade unmanned aircraft built using Lego mindstorm. http://diydrones.com/

seedlingproject made and shared Hand-Crank Ice Cream.

17 people had things to share. They were:

ewilhelm: Welcome, introduction, and How to Dye your Sneakers Purple
canida: Hyperbolic crochet
shoeBlade: Gigapan device and String Tripod
Jon: Liquid Neon
'Bug & Janie: Flexagons
Sam of Octopart: Doublet Amplifier
Marc: Stick collaboration
Stig: How to Give a Massage with a Jigsaw
Charlotte: Start your own Didgeridoo factory
Mark Richards: Computer as art
trebuchet03: Batman Iron and Human Powered Vehicle
Gautam: TrytpoVision
Chris and Daniel: Lego Autopilot http://diydrones.com/
lkrasnow: minisaw
Patrick: Solar can stove
Joshua: Homemade black powder
tetranitrate: Giant Match

The homemade black powder and giant match demonstrations were held outside. If you plan to do after dark outside presentations, have a source of light ready. Fortunately, Tim had a bunch of lights hooked up to his new electric cars.