Maker Faire Yearbook 2023
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Get On The Air: Learning how to use amateur radio and transmitter foxhunt
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Benicia Amateur Radio Club
Home: California, United States
The Benicia Amateur Radio Club is excited to set up a station people can use to 'get on the air' we will have information about how to get a license, how radio works and participants will be able to put their sleuthing skills to the test and find a hidden transmitter for a prize.
Personal Peltier-based tabletop air conditioner & tabletop cooler/warmer
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: AKIYOSHI KAWAGUCHI
Home: Saitamaken, Japan
Ever felt that mid-study or work slump and just wished for a warm drink? Enter our compact warmer box! Not only can it keep your coffee or tea toasty, but it's also a game-changer for your lunch. Bring it to work, and say goodbye to cold meals.
I was so stoked about the idea that I had to create one. But here's the twist: flip it over, and voilà, it's a tabletop air conditioner! Those little holes at the bottom? They pump out cool vibes, making summer desk sessions a breeze. And if you're the outdoorsy type, hook it up to a solar panel, and you're set for the comfiest camping trip ever, even in the scorching heat!
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.
Drone Cage and Piloting
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Drones of San Francisco/ SF Drone School
Home: California, United States
We will have one netted area for drone demo and drone simulator training. A second for Q&A on how to become a commercial drone pilot or a professional drone racer. The drone racers will sign autographs and give pictures to kids.
Combat Robots
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Bay Area Robotic Combat
Home: California, United States
Combat robot club on a mission to expand the sport by helping others learn all about sport. We also host events in the Bay Area to see if you robot has what it takes to compete against other amazing designs of engineering marvels. Lets us help you learn about 3D modeling to precision scale. Then taking those designs to the next level of 3D printing and CNC manufacturing. Next you can learn how to chose the perfect electronics like drive and weapon motors to power your creation. At our events you can compete against top level competitors. Some of our club members have even been on the show BattleBot.
D-Box
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: The Smile Makers
Home: California, United States
The 'D-Box” is an oversized RC car made from a power wheels car overhauled with a 160 foot-pound torque electric motor powered by two marine batteries, a linear actuator for steering, reinforced frame, aggressive pneumatic go kart tires, and an oversized 1400 watt car stereo.
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.
TriLeene
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Jana McKinny
Home: California, United States
A mutant vehicle collaboration between Elieen the Pearl Peacock and Grizz the Trimule MKIII. Grizz, the three-wheel base vehicle, is a unique mix of go-kart parts, hydrostatic ZTR commercial tractor powertrain and custom-fabricated components created by Billy Powell. Grizz may not be the fastest tripod at the race track, but he can spin in circles from zero to 60 faster than you can yell vomit! Making Grizz the perfect base vehicle to show off the gorgeous aluminum and LED feathers from Elieen the Pearl Peacock created by Kristen Hoard. Elieen, a fan favorite at Burning Man, takes a team of six a full eight-hour day to assemble with the completed vehicle often being too tall or wide for smaller venues. Elieen and Grizz have truely formed the perfect partnership.
Omnixie WiFi smart nixie clocks
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Omnixie
Home: California, United States
We would love to show our collections of Nixie tube clocks as well as clocks with other vintage tubes, as we did in previous maker faire events.
International Space Station ExoLab NEXT
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: ExoLab NEXT
Home: California, United States
Magnitude has built its own equipment (ExoLab) to connect learning centers around the world to the International Space Station. Would you like to join us? The platform to is being opened for third party development for work in controlled environments. In addition to our K-12 outreach, collaborators include university researchers and (informally) NASA scientists and engineers.
Visitors will have a chance to plant research seeds to take home in preparation for ExoLab-11 later this year.
In addition to the ExoLab, the exhibit will:
1) Have a live stream of Earth courtesy of the Raspberry Pi powered ISS Above.
2) Have the ISS Mimic on display. An open source model that receives live telemetry from the ISS.
3) STEM activities with STEMfinity
Enchanted Leaves | MicroDean Systems – Cu Electroforming Live Demo
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Enchanted Leaves & MicroDean Systems
Home: California, United States
Our project will showcase the copper electroformed nature jewelry that we create, along with an interactive live demo that highlights the fascinating process and techniques behind its creation. The demo will feature the functions of our smart MiniForm automatic current/voltage regulating power supply, which is designed specifically for electroforming. It is engineered and fabricated by us, everything from writing the code to hand soldering each one. With it, anyone can capture and preserve the elegance of the natural world in unique copper jewelry and artwork.
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.
Fairfax Dalek V2
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: The Maleys
Home: California, United States
The Dalek was first conceived back in 2013 as a White Hill middle school project to inspire and thrill a group of 7th grade Dr Who fans. It is fully remote controlled, can play voice lines and move its head around, originally made from all recycled materials and is designed to be able to roam freely and interact with crowds. We loved taking the Dalek to Maker Faire over the years, after hearing about Maker Faire starting back up we decided to resurrect him as a family project with a new design, more features, a voice-changer and AI (Computer-Vision for the eye-stalk). These new features are still under construction but the Fairfax Dalek V2 will be ready for its debut at Maker Faire!
The Dalek is still a work in progress but new photos, videos and updates will be made on the website
MicroBlocks Makes Physical Computing Fun!
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: MicroBlocks
Home: California, United States
MicroBlocks is a free, non-profit, open-source software project that enables young and old alike to learn how to program microcontrollers. These chips are the brains of small electronics devices like hands-free soap and water dispensers, 3D printers, assembly-line automation, and even giant robots. MicroBlocks is the only blocks-based programming tool that is LIVE — it's like Scratch for physical computing. As an educational programming language for the 'real world', it lets learners of nearly any age learn and do things faster, in any area of interest or study. And for those interested in pure fun, making electronically enhanced Halloween costumes and a smart Christmas tree becomes a whole lot easier to create!
GGLABS – Geiger-Müller Counter
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Gabriele Gorla
Home: California, United States
GGLABS designs and builds a wide variety of electronic devices. This year we introduce our newly designed radiation meter for Arduino. The board is compatible with Arduino Uno, Arduino micro and Arduino MKR. Exhibit has a live meter measuring background radiation plus samples of common items that exhibit weak radioactivity. All our projects are open source and open hardware.
Mermaid Glimmer’s Jellyfish Grotto
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Erin StBlaine
Home: California, United States
50 iridescent jellyfish hang silently over the heads of viewers. During the daytime the sunlight filters through the rainbow jellies, creating a beautiful play of light and shadow on the ground. At night, the jellies are illuminated with animated lights, connected and controlled via a wifi network. The swarm appears to come alive as lights play through the jellyfish with a beautiful array of colors and patterns. The jellies whisper, shout, giggle, and glow through light animations, delighting the viewers who walk underneath.
Erin St Blaine is a light artist based in Northern California. She creates sculptures, costumes and artwork with programmable LED lights, often including interactivity and data visualization to bring her creations to life.
You too can make an electric car
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Patrick Mackey
Home: California, United States
1992 Mazda Miata sports car converted to fully electric. Will discuss the principles of electric vehicles and how most gas cars and trucks can be converted to electric.
Cutting Records with Equipment of the Past and Todays Technology
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Razzy Records
Home: California, United States
We've refurbished 1950's era record lathes, originally used to record audio on acetate blanks by radio stations and courts in the era before magnetic tape and digital recording. By adding a modern sapphire stylus, modern amplifiers and computerized signal processing we can cut great sounding audio on polycarbonate discs (or squares) that play on any record player. Experience the fusion of technology and nostalgia as we guide you through process that creates each intricate groove, transforming raw sound into a tangible masterpiece. Time permitting, we will cut 7 inch 'single' records live for Faire attendees (for free, but only original, non-copyrighted sources).
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.
Watercolor Plotter
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Matous Vana
Home: California, United States
I have a homebuilt and designed plotter that paints with watercolor. Fairgoers are able to interact with the project by mixing watercolors in a series of plots and then seeing my plotter turn their selected colors into a generative art piece! I exhibited at Open Sauce this year and I had a really fun time and people seemed to enjoy my work, I'd love to reprise that at Maker Faire! I also work with pen and I plan to have a variety of post-card sized works for sale at my booth.
RayLights – Audio Activated Lumiere
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Craig Newswanger
Home: California, United States
This dynamic artwork produces ever-changing, mandala-like light patterns that are activated by ambient sounds. The fluctuating, animated light rays range from intense spectral colors to subtle pastels. A sequence of patterns repeats, but when you make sound—talk, sing, clap—the preprogrammed patterns are modified as the lights respond with non-repeating, complex variations of the colors and patterns.
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!
Chabot Game Lab – Interactive Video Games
Faire: Bay Area
Maker: Chabot Game Lab
Home: California, United States
Chabot Game Lab is the game development lab from Chabot College in Hayward, CA. showcasing our latest 2D/3D games, interactive art, and hardware. We will bring our hardware and showcase various games, such as a hand-gesture ASL video game that runs in Unity with our hand-capture software, a tabletop Anti-Anxiety Card Game, various 2D games that we've made for the Game Boy, to touch-sensitive Fruit Simon Says using microcontrollers. We will also be able to sell merch and various little trinket projects (USB-powered projects) that funds our lab at Chabot College.
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.
