Maker Faire Bay Area 2023

Castle Bravo

Home: California, United States

Castle Bravo is a floating bouncy castle! Bouncy castles are incredibly buoyant, so why not put one on the water? It turns out there are lots of problems with doing that, but we solved all of them with engineering. And now we have a floating bouncy castle. It even has a motor so we can drive it around. Originally powered by dinosaurs, Castle Bravo is currently being converted to run on 100% solar power by teenagers at Hack Club, a worldwide network of students who build awesome things with technology. We’ll probably make it remote-controlled too. The castle is the flagship of our nascent armada, which will eventually include hundreds of home-built vessels built by hack clubbers around the globe. Come join us if that sounds like your kind of thing.