Makers big and small, young and old, in giant cuttlefish and on electric giraffes, with robots and without, showed up on Mare Island all weekend long to play perform, participate, teach, and learn. There were familiar faces and first timers, but most of all there were smiles, busy hands, excitement, and a whole lot of inspiration. In the words of Mario the Maker Magician, "Do what you love! Use what you have! Never give up!" We'll see you next year!
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Featured Performers
Featured Makers
Mozeart Designz
Take part in an interactive and collective art experience with glass artisan and innovator, Chris Mosely. Each piece will reflect a connection made at Maker Faire.
Clay and Steel
Interested in playing with fire and tools? Head over to Clay and Steel, a woman owned and operated blacksmith business, for fiery forge demonstrations and metalsmithing.
Mechan 42
Makey might have some competition this year with Mechan 42, a giant seventeen-foot-tall robot created by Tyler FuQua Creations from Portland, Oregon.
Presentations
ROBOTICS
Companion Bots and Relationship
Jorvon Moss makes some of the world’s friendliest and cutest robots. Learn more about his journey to make and train these adaptive companions
Kind Humanoid, Inc
Come meet Mona, first intelligent humanoid that reaches human level motion performance and leverages foundation models for reasoning and her maker Christoph Kohstall! Learn about what it took to build.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Practical AI
for Makers
AI is all the rage, but as makers, how can we take advantage of this burgeoning field to incorporate cool new functionality into the things we make?
Wear It AI
Fashion Technologist Kitty Yeung has been taking pictures around the faire event all weekend. Come see her transform participants’ styles with her bespoke software AI for fashion(able) makers!
SPECIAL FX
Makers Invade
Hollywood
Makers are back from Hollywood to tell us what it's like making Special Effects on the frontlines of the Film and Television industry.
Creating Under Pressure
You just landed a job making the Ghostbusters look like, well, Ghostbusters...now what? Jesse Velez and Ben Eadie share tips on creative problem solving when time and budgets are a challenge.
CLIMATE ACTION(ABLE)
From OpenROV to Ocean Xplorers
Eric Stackpole, creator of the Open ROV underwater exploration drone and co-star of National Geographic's Ocean Xplorers will dsicuss creating technology to explore the planet's unseen places.
GIY Materials: Growing Fungi for BioFabrication
Who needs plastic or fiberglass when mushrooms can do the job! And are heat and water resistant, biodegradable, and great for climate reclamation
PLAYTIME AT CRUNCH LABS!
Demystifying Creativity
Learn to flex! Creativity is like a muscle that you can strengthen through exercise, says Crunch Labs maker Bam Singhasaneh, to foster your creativity.
Building Play
The Crunch Labs “players” will be on stage to discuss the art and science of toy design. Learn from specialists who decode deep play everyday into fun stuff you can do with your hands (and brain).
Thank you to our makers, ticket holders, and sponsors for making Maker Faire Bay Area extraordinary!
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