Here is the lion's share of events scheduled for Sunday at Maker Faire Detroit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI. Sunday's hours are 9:30 am to 5pm. For a complete schedule and links for more information, see the full event schedule. Here for the Program Guide [PDF].

ANDERSON THEATER (IN MUSEUM)

10-10:30AM Illuminatus 2.1 Laser Lightshow, Laser Lunch Box LLC
11:00AM New Appropriate Technology - Low Cost Renewable Energy and Clean Tech for Developing Countries, John Barrie
11:30AM Tearoom for Robots: Making an Interactive Environment, John Marshall
12:00PM Illuminatus 2.1 Laser Lightshow, Laser Lunch Box LLC
12:30PM Generations of Makers: Is the Past a Source of Inspiration or Is It a New World?, Ted Hall
1:00PM Wind Power on Buildings, Aerotecture International, Inc.
1:30PM My Personal Journey Thru Space and Time, Dewayne Hendricks
2:00PM Made By Hand, Mark Frauenfelder
2:30PM Illuminatus 2.1 Laser Lightshow, Laser Lunch Box LLC
3PM 3D Printing and Personal Fabrication, MakerBot Industries
4:30-5PM Illuminatus 2.1 Laser Lightshow, Laser Lunch Box LLC

DIY THEATER (AUTO HALL OF FAME)

10-10:30AM Green Crafting, Handmade Detroit
11-11:30AM Crafting with Wire, Deanne Neiburger
11:30AM - 12PM Sewing Fabric Flowers, Karen LePage
12-12:30PM Building a Business from Junk Drawer Common Sense, Sarah Hodsdon
1-1:30PMPM Hackerspaces, Mitch Altman
2-2:30PMPM Space as a Service: Adapting to the new system of work, Michael Kessler
2:30PM Crafting with Xyron's Creatopia, Brookelynn Morris
3PM Button Machines 101, Amanda Marie Edmonds
3:30PM Repair 2.0: Reinventing the way we fix things, Kyle Wiens
4:00PM DIY Garden Irrigation, Jaime Wolfe

CENTER STAGE

10AM-10:45 AM Unatronics, Michael Una
12PM-12:45PM bimber, Dave Kadlitz
1PM-1:45PM Hornet Gun, Hornet Gun
2PM-2:45PM CMKT4 - Making Music from Junk, CMKT 4
3PM-3:45PM Broken Arrow Blues Band, Broken Arrow Blues Band
4:15PM-4:45 PM Traeder, Traeder

LOCAL ROOTS

11AM-12PM Genesis Tea, Genesis Tea LLC.
12PM-1PM 80lbs of Chicken in 8 weeks on 1/4 acre, Chad Chenier
1PM-2PM BEE Aware!, Island Gold Honey
2PM-2:30PM Brother Nature Farms, Brother Nature Produce
3PM-4:00PM Local Food Map, Local Dirt

MAKE DEMO STAGE (Near MAKER SHED)

10AM-10:30AM Automated Web-Controlled Brewery!, Joe Szacon
11AM-11:30AM Rogue Engineering, The Open Organization Of Lockpickers (TOOOL)
12PM-12:30PM DIYLILCNC, Make Your Own Little CNC Mill, Chris Reilly
1PM-2PM Laser Lunch Box Demo, Laser Lunch Box LLC
3PM-3:30PM Matt Mets Makes, Matt Mets
4PM-4:30PM Quad Copters, Eric Merrill

METALWORKING AREA

10AM-11AM Metal Casting Demonstration, Rick Chownyk
2PM-3PM Metal Casting Demonstration, Rick Chownyk

**Additional Performances**

Power Racing Series events - 9:45am Final Qualifying Round, 1PM-3PM FINALE: Endurance Race
Coke Zero & Mentos -- 4PM (outside)

Note: We'll be tweeting a majority of the events on the Maker Faire Twitter channel 1/2-hour before the events start, so "hit your clip" (as the pager-era slang used to go) and check Twitter if you're at the Faire and looking for something to do.

On Let's Make Robots: This clever walking robot by George Collins of Sherman Oaks, CA, that uses a plastic shoebox as an enclosure.

Sterylite6000 is a large and somewhat unusual robot. Originally it was designed to use only six servos. This worked resonably well, but did not get good ground clearance on the back legs. Not it has four servos, one added to each ankle. So now it is big, fast, and can cover very rough ground. It weighs almost 11 lbs, which is pretty heavy for a walking robot.

Another unusual feature of Sterylite6000 is that its frame is a plastic shoebox. It gets its name from the plastic maker, plus "6000" because it originally had six servos. Another unusual feature is that it gets its ground clearance from two really stron robozone servos mounted on either side. For sensors, Sterylite6000 has a compass to help it go a particular direction.

Sterylite won second place in the walker challenge at Robogames in 2010.

Very much digging this classic clip of Herbie Hancock demonstrating a Fairlight CMI to some of the kids from Sesame Street. Guessing such technology may not dazzle today's youth quite as much.

It wouldn't be DEtroit without vats of molten metal as bright as the sun pouring and spitting into molds. Poet, painter, photographer, sculptor (AND bartender), Joe Sandor, is providing the hellfire at this weekend's Maker Faire Detroit. Joe's actually from Chicago, but we won't hold that against him. Tonight, at 7pm, he'll be at the Lost Arts stage, doing a live iron pour using creations from the earlier Scratch Block Workshop. Fresh-baked cannonballs on sale, too!

Joe has a great piece in the latest issue of MAKE, called "Slag Social: The art and community of the DIY iron pour." From the pictures in the article, it looks like a lot of fun, really hot, sweaty fun.

Chicago Crucible

From the pages of MAKE:

MAKE Volume 23, Gadgets
This special issue is devoted to machines that do delightful and surprising things. In it, we show you how to make a miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty see-through audio amp, a magic mirror that contains an animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine (as seen on The Colbert Report!). Plus we go behind the scenes and show you how Intellectual Ventures made their incredible laser targeting mosquito zapper -- yes, it's real, and you wish you had one for your patio barbecue. All this and much, much more.

One of my favorite features of Maker Faire Bay Area was the Maker Shed soldering merit badges and the Learn to Solder tent. It looks like it's a similar hit in Detroit. Marc de Vinck shares this great Maker Faire moment:

Marc (asking a kid): "Did you learn to solder? Was it fun?"
Kid: "Yeah! Mom, I want solder for Christmas."

Hear that, Santa? The kids want solder for Christmas!

Do YOU know how to solder yet? It's a lot easier than you think. We have tons of resources here on MAKE to get you started. Here are a few:

• Teach your family to solder MAKEcation series
• Soldering Tutorial - Make Video Podcast
• Soldering Tutorial PDF