MAKER’S CALENDAR
Our favorite events from around the world.
Compiled by William Gurstelle
Jan
Feb
Mar
›› DECEMBER
Apr May Jun
July Aug Sept
Oct
Nov Dec
›› NOVEMBER
Roboexotica: Festival
for Cocktail Robotics
Nov. 22–25
Vienna, Austria
Roboticists from around
the world try to develop
the latest and greatest
in automated drink-mixing technologies.
Event organizers
describe it as “an index
for the integration of
technological achievements in everyday
life, and … a means
of documenting
the creation of new
interfaces for man-machine interaction.”
It’s also a cool way to
get your martini made.
roboexotica.org
>>Shuttle Atlantis
Rocket Launch
Dec. 6
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Space shuttle Atlantis
will blast off on the 24th
U.S. mission to the Inter-
national Space Station.
The primary mission is
to deliver the European
Space Agency’s Colum-
bus Laboratory module.
makezine.com/go/
atlantis
›› JANUARY
>>New Year’s
Whistle Blast
Jan. 1, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Steam aficionados
from the Pratt Institute
let loose during their
annual steam-whistle
extravaganza celebrating
the arrival of the New
Year. “Pulling the lever
on the whistle from the
USS Normandy and being
enveloped in steam,”
say they, “is an experi-
ence not to be missed.”
›› FEBRUARY
Also, listen to the blasts
from railroad, riverboat,
and really big ocean liner
whistles. makezine.com/
go/pratt
» Related project
on page 88
>>Delta 4 Heavy
Rocket Launch
Jan. 25
Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The Delta 4 Heavy
features three booster
cores mounted
together to form a
gigantic, high-thrust,
triple-body rocket. This
mission will launch a
classified spy satellite
into orbit. makezine.
com/go/delta4
<< Discover Engineering
Family Day
Feb. 16, Washington, D.C.
This annual event
attracts more than
6,000 visitors to the
National Building
Museum to take part
in dozens of hands-on
activities sponsored by
national and local engi-
neering organizations.
eweekdcfamilyday.org
Photography by NASA (top two); F. T. Eyre, National Building Museum (middle); and Jacob Applebaum (bottom)
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