Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
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MPACT (Math and Computational Thinking Through 3D Making)
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: MPACT
Home: California, United States
Inclusive project-based learning through making helps youth develop mathematical understanding, computational thinking, and spatial reasoning. The MPACT (Math and Computational Thinking Through 3D Making) team developed projects for youth in grades 4-7 with hands-on, research-based, empathy-grounded making activities. We will have a hands-on activity from a 7th grade project but works for older & younger people with the right supports. Visitors will be invited to use low-tech making materials such as cardboard, tape, foam core, and felt to design a board game for the visually impaired. They will also contribute to a group project to modify a dice using CAD & a 3D printer. Open-source guides and handouts for all projects will be available for download & the MPACT team will answer questions.
3D Scanning as part of 3D printing work flow
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: HoneyPoint3D, LLC
Home: California, United States
Come listen to a fun talk about the uses for 3D scanning leading to 3D printing. 3D scanning is an easy way to generate a 3D model, then with free tools, that 3d scan can be edited and adapted into something that can be 3D printed, or can help an already-manufactured item be better. come listen to Liza Wallach and Nick Kloski, authors of Make.Co's 'Getting Started with 3D Printing' book (now in second edition) to learn about 3D scanning, 3D printing, and to ask questions on 3D model creation.
https://www.makershed.com/products/make-getting-started-with-3d-printing-2nd-ed-print
3D Printed Clocks
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Steve Peterson
Home: California, United States
I design 3D printed mechanical clocks. All of my designs are intended to be functional clocks with high accuracy and long runtimes. Most are weight driven with runtimes ranging between 8 to 32 days and an accuracy of 1-2 minutes per week. Other designs include motor driven desk clocks and motorized rewind clocks. My designs are published on Thingiverse, Printables, and MyMiniFactory.
Props and Costumes by Thorsson & Associates
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Shawn Thorsson
Home: California, United States
A wide array of costumes, props, and other pieces we've made over the past decade or so in the shop.
Why your next 3D printer should be a laser!
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Matt Stultz
Home: United States
Why should your next 3D printer should be a laser? A carpenter doesn't only use a hammer and you can take your projects further and faster by adding more tools to your resources.
Got Robots? Giant Skating Robot ‘Marauder’
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Nick Donaldson
Home: California, United States
Marauder is a giant (5' tall, 170 lbs) walking, skating and dancing hexapod robot, and is the fourth generation robot using Nick's locking linkage walking mechanism. The locking linkage leg mechanism holds the robot up against gravity so no motor energy is used while standing and very little to walk as the motors never see the mass of the robot.
The current RoboGames Best of Show Gold medalist, the robot was recently upgraded with a reactive rainbow lightshow on each leg. Passive wheels on the legs allow the robot to skate at a fast walking pace and Marauder can now deploy the smaller but similar robot Blader directly from its underbelly while skating. Blader is fifth gen and uses the same mechanism and so is code compatible with Marauder while being 1/4 the size.
Berbawy Makers
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Berbawy Makers
Home: California, United States
Berbawy Makers is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to enable all students to explore their interests in engineering and making, regardless of their race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
Save the planet with a 3D printed action figure of YOU!
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Itemfarm
Home: California, United States
Itemfarm will be 3D scanning attendees and printing figurines from biodegradeable or post-consumer plastic waste. Stop by, get 3D scanned, and help as Maker Faire and Itemfarm build a post-waste future! It will be a fun, enlightening, and educational step showing how Itemfarm is helping every community make what it needs locally from materials that would otherwise go to landfills. Your family will love this hands-on experience, leaving with a personalized keepsake. Stop by, get scanned, and join us in envisioning a post-waste world.
Layerless 3D printing in seconds, Computed Axial Lithography
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Design for Nano Manufacturing Lab
Home: California, United States
We will be showing a completely new type of 3D printing process called Computed Axial Lithography (CAL). CAL is a completely layerless 3D printing process, that can form parts in less than a minute. We will be demonstrating a printer we designed to fly on a zero gravity plane, as part of our space exploration research of the technology. We will also show our microscale prints, and other exciting projects we work on in the lab. We want to teach people about this new process, and give them resources to explore it on their own.
Making Math
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Nonscriptum LLC
Home: California, United States
We have written the books Make:Geometry, Make:Calculus and the upcoming Make:Trigonometry for Make's publishing arm. We will display many 3D printed, paper, and LEGO models that help teach and visualize hands-on math concepts and encourage participants to play with them and think about the concepts. For example, we teach the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus with a handful of 2×2 LEGO bricks and a baseplate. This will be a 'meet the authors' booth, with a chance for people to see the demos in our books live and interact with us.
PictoPocket
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Cameron Nawosad
Home: California, United States
PictoPocket is like a Polaroid picture except you can change from your phone! Stick to to your wall, fridge, or give it to your loved ones. It has a custom circuit board with an NRF52 BLE chip, 3D printed case, and an iOS app to select and upload your chosen photo.
UAVs@Berkeley AUVSI SUAS 2023/2024 Competition Drone
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: UAVs@Berkeley
Home: California, United States
These past two years, we have put our main focus on developing a heavy-lift long range multirotor drone for the AUVSI SUAS competition. Our drone was developed with autonomous navigation and payload delivery capabilities, centering around cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and custom carbon fiber frame components. We also have a first-person view subteam that flies and drives vehicles while viewing a live video feed from onboard cameras. Awesome!
You Can Learn CAD
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: CADclass
Home: United States
Learning how to make 3D models is the most powerful way to communicate your ideas to people and machines. Makers, engineers, inventors, and product developers all rely heavily on Computer-Aided Design software. Yet, most tutorials are difficult to follow leaving learners confused. In this talk, professional CAD teacher Jake Sugden will set you up for success in learning CAD by demonstrating how to make a scaled replica of the Saturn V Rocket!
Old Craft, New Tricks
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Billie Ruben
Home: United States
Billie demonstrates how to use modern technology such as laser cutters to have success at old crafts such as marquetry.
Buzz Rhino Productions
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Buzz Rhino
Home: California, United States
Buzz Rhino is a multimedia artist. EVERYTHING you see on his website is made from SCRATCH and made with MUCH ALOHA!
San Francisco Bazaar
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: San Francisco Bazaar
Home: California, United States
Bazaar Bizarre began in 2001 in the Boston-area as an offbeat entertainment extravaganza to showcase the DIY movement and handmade goods. It has spread across the nation to cities such as Los Angeles, Cleveland, Maker Faire Bay Area and Austin. San Francisco Bazaar is the west coast branch of this faire. Expect a Handmade market, Indie entertainment extravaganza and D.I.Y. Festival all under one roof!
Pachinko, Clocks and Bots – Art, Electronics and Restoration
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Yolo Maker Guys
Home: California, United States
We're a couple of people who enjoy building and creating interesting things. We have some original design clocks made from 3d printed parts, LEDs, cool neon and other accents. Also a restored early 1970s Japanese pachinko machine, which has all mechanical ball handling mechanism but has been augmented with an Arduino and programmed LEDs. People can try out pachinko and we can explain the history and popularity in Japan. We have 'Copperbot' which is a remote-controlled kinetic art, a sculpture built on a wheelchair base from soldered copper wire structures, large decorative vacuum tubes, over 200 programmed LEDs, several Arduinos, Raspberry Pi, screen, cameras and flapping wings. A few other sculptures and creations fill out the collection.
3D-Printed Electric Marble Mazes
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Gualala Gadget
Home: California, United States
We have a variety of battery-powered 3D printed marble machines that we'd like to exhibit.
Each model is 3D printed using PLA plastic on consumer FDM printers. This takes anywhere from six to fifteen hours, depending on each model's size and complexity. A model is made from two to seven PLA parts, which are inspected and cleaned of any residual plastic that's a byproduct of the printing process. (None of the models require support material, which simplifies the cleaning process). Once the PLA parts are prepared they, along with the electric parts are assembled into complete models. There's no painting — the plastic is the color it appears.
The models are designed in Blender. They use a variety of different mechanisms to lift the marbles.
Make: Magazine
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Make:
Home: California, United States
Meet the Makers behind Make: and get a subscription to Make: magazine at a special event price! Sign up at the Make: Booth, in the Maker Shed or the Maker Faire Merch Tent. Join the Maker Movement and dive into the first magazine devoted to DIY technology projects.
Steven Mosbrucker – The Green Engineers
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Steven Mosbrucker
Home: California, United States
I run a startup called The Green Engineers that focuses on plastic recycling technologies and products and focuses on maker education.
I will be mainly promoting the classes that i host on Udemy. Classes that have usually minimum 17+ hours of content. Class content includes Fusion 360 Mechanical design, Fusion 360 Simulation, Fusion 360 CAM, Resin 3D Printing, FDM 3D Printing, CAM, Game Design, Arduino Projects. ETC. For the recycling
I will have one of my in house designed plastic shredder (can shred otherstuff as well) that is used to create recycled plastic products. I may have a different companies filament maker (working on version 2 of my filament maker) to make filament out of recycled plastic. And i plan on having a little trinket injection manual trinket maker out of shredded pl
Centerville SteamPunks! Making our futures happen
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Centerville SteamPunks
Home: California, United States
We are creating 'useless' boxes comprised of 3d printed, laser cut, and cardboard models. The boxes will incorporate motors, switches, Arduinos, motors etc. We are hoping to show our work on Friday the 20th as a school field trip. We plan to be able to stay the whole day.
EZ Heat Gun controller
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: MagicBoxLabs
Home: Fukushima, Japan
EZ Heat Gun controller is a stylish, portable reflow machine that lets creators and makers easily, quickly, and professionally prototype circuits. Use it for your IoT device, wearable, small robot, or whatever project you’re working on.
Robotic Quadrupeds
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Laksh & Akshat
Home: California, United States
We plan to present an array of robotic legged animals including quadrupeds in the form of robotic dogs and spiders. These are fully 3D printed, wired, and coded from scratch. These also support remote control over wifi so you can control these with your phone. Previous versions of these robots have even supported on board robot arms capable to pick up small objects.
My Journey as a Young Maker, from Arduino to AI
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Omkar Govil-Nair
Home: United States
Omkar, a senior in High School looks back on his 10 years of making, exploring why we make and how the process of tinkering strengthens learning. Omkar will also discuss his thoughts on the rise of AI and its impacts on the future of making.
