Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
Projects
Found 9 Results
A LoRa-based Neighborhood Emergency Communications System
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Harry Saal
Home: California, United States
Sudden events, such as wildfires or earthquakes inevitably lead to outages in electric power, cell service, VOIP telephones, etc. So when the 'big on comes', how will your family be informed to prepare to evacuate or be able to send a call for emergency help? This project comprises a series of outdoor solar powered repeaters and in-home battery-backed up small devices with touch screen color display to receive and send short messages (think SMS) to neighbors and first responders. LoRa is used as the radio communications link among as many as 255 stations. Network management facilities enable administrators to see who is connected (or not), check battery voltages, ambient temperature, etc. as well as performing remote OTA software updates to those devices that also are WiFi connected.
Boards are Back! 2023 Dev Boards in Review
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: David Groom
Home: United States
2023 has been an exciting year for makers, with supply chain issues giving way to new flagships from Arduino and Raspberry Pi, in the form of the UNO R4 and Pi 5 respectively. We'll take a look at our favorites from the 2024 Boards Guide with Editor David 'ishotjr' Groom and hear about how almost 200 dev boards were whittled down to 14 New & Notables, from beast to bijou, homunculus to hybrid, during the editorial process.
Vintage Computer Festivalers
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Vintage Computer Festivalers
Home: California, United States
Our goal is to demonstrate our vintage computers and consoles ranging from the 1970's to the 1990's so that the public can understand the technology that paved the way for modern computers/cellphones/game systems. These vintage 8-bit/16-bit computers, with names such as Commodore, Tandy, Apple, Atari, Texas Instruments, and more, ran at speeds of 1 MHz. or slightly more in comparison to modern 64-bit systems running at multi-gigahertz with multi-gigabytes of memory. With our vintage computers, the public will learn how programming, gaming, word-processing, computer art, computer music, and more.was just in its beginning stages.
Space Palette Pro – A New Casual Instrument
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Tim Thompson
Home: California, United States
The Space Palette Pro is the latest iteration of the 'casual instrument' style of interactive installation that I've been developing for the last decade. Similar to casual games, casual instruments provide immediately entertaining and satisfying results, with the potential for deeply expressive exploration. This latest version uses the Sensel Morph, a multitouch surface with extreme pressure-sensitivity. By finger-painting on these pads, you simultaneously play music and generate visuals. No pre-recorded media, sequences, or loops are used – everything is generated in realtime by your hands. Much of the project has been open-sourced.
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.
Lemur Box
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: HAL51.AI
Home: California, United States
Lemur box is multi-utility 3D display device.
Just plugin in your smartphone or tablet and see it transformed as a:
a) High fidelity stereoscopic 3D display device that facilitates interactively working with pepper's ghost 'holograms'
b) A 'laptopifier' that turns your good ol' used smartphone or tablet into a passive monitor experience.
c) A holographic chat box to chat with your friends' holograms ( Remember Princess Leia's in the '77 classic 'A new hope' ?!)
d) A hybrid XR box with a secret door that will allow you to insert actual physical objects that'll interact with the projected holograms!
*Comes with 2 free edutainment apps preloaded with 3D assets that can interact with!
Anderson’s Famous Water Computer
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Glen Anderson
Home: California, United States
Buckets of water, lots of tubes, ping pong balls and flaps moving up and down, what can go wrong? This is an interactive outdoor exhibit that engages all ages: younger kids pour water buckets up to recharge the 'battery', older kids plug and unplug the logic gates on the demo table, and those up to the challenge can learn how NMOS digital logic functions in this faithful water-electrical transistor analogy (water height == voltage)
2019 Maker Faire: https://mfairedev.wpengine.com/maker/entry/69344/ 'How do computers add numbers? We will show you how, using a mechanical computer that uses only water as the power source. Follow the digital logic operations gate by gate as your input ripples through the tubes to compute the answer.'
We won I think 4 Editor Choice Awards and drew a big crowd!
Raspberry Pi
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Raspberry Pi
Home: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Makers will be able to get hands-on with Raspberry Pi Ltd's newest computer, Raspberry Pi 5. Talk to the Raspberry Pi team and perhaps grab a little piece of Raspberry Pi swag.
Git for Hardware
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Marcus Marshall
Home: United States
Allspice.io is a git platform for hardware engineers. Marcus will review the pros and cons of using Git for hardware projects and talk about best practices.
