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Maker Faire Bay Area 2019 Highlights

Batella and CardBoard Dino

Cardboard Dino

TurfInc Dance Battle

Fabrication

Myriapoda

Tapigami

TurfInc Dance Battles

Adam Savage and Conen O'Brien

LED Games

Cadillac Rocket Car

Prothesis and the Cadillac

Maker Faire Bay Area 2019

Featured Makers of 2019

Zeke the Odd, the Next Great Maker

Zeke the Odd, the Next Great Maker is an original, family animated adventure in development. The story is all about the celebration of imperfection and the crucial role imagination plays in our lives, all across the globe.

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Zeke the Odd, the Next Great Maker

FIRST LEGO League - Elementary & Middle School Robotics

Youth teams of elementary and middle school students will be competing in a series of robotic autonomous robot game rounds for the FLL post-season competition for FIRST(R) LEGO League (FLL). Teams from NorCal will play the 2018-2019 "INTO ORBIT"

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FIRST LEGO League - Elementary & Middle School Robotics

SV EBIKES

High-powered electric bicycles made for long distance commuting as well as for lots of outdoor fun.

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SV EBIKES

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2018

2018 Featured Makers

Public Lab Community Science Space

Public Lab is an open community science project (PublicLab.org) that anyone can join. Makers from across our international network will be leading hands-on activities to build cardboard microscopes, paper spectrometers, and "humming" water sensors.

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Public Lab Community Science Space

BioLuminOids

BioLuminOids are interactive, light and sound animated artworks fabricated from glass, resin, and molds taken of plants and other natural elements. Participants may alter computer code on the fly to affect changes to the animations IN REAL TIME!

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BioLuminOids

Prosthesis: The Anti-Robot

Prosthesis is the world's first 100% human controlled, 100% electric powered off-road racing mech. It is a celebration of human skill in unison with high technology and is the flagship machine in a quest to make mech racing a reality.

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Prosthesis: The Anti-Robot

BayLUG (Bay Area LEGO Users Group)

An exhibit of LEGO creations by members of BayLUG (the Bay Area LEGO Users Group) and a play area for everybody.

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BayLUG (Bay Area LEGO Users Group)

Future Food

Future Food, an ecosystem that makes food innovation a key tool to tackle the great challenges of the future, connecting with world’s food hubs.

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Future Food

Burlap & Barrel: Single Origin Spices

Burlap & Barrel is a new kind of spice company. We're an activist enterprise, partnering directly with artisan spice farmers in a dozen countries to bring you the freshest and most flavorful spices anywhere.

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Burlap & Barrel: Single Origin Spices

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2017

2017 Featured Makers

The Crucible

Demonstration in Blacksmithing, Glass Blowing, Jewelry, Ceramics, Foundry, Harmonograph and Fire Effects. Hands on activities!!!!

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The Crucible

Maker Share @ the Show & Tell Stage

Stop by the Show & Tell Stage to discover Maker Share and learn how to create your own digital Maker Portfolio.

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Maker Share @ the Show & Tell Stage

The Exploratorium Light Play +

Explore light, shadows, and motion using rich materials to create your own kinetic vignette. Then take it to the next level with Scratch-based programming. Add your piece to a collaborative art installation.

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The Exploratorium Light Play +

Le Attrata

Le Attrata is a showpiece of metal and fire. The moths have been created to consume that which they are attracted to; light and heat. Le Attrata offers a beautiful place of gathering and visceral interaction with fantastic flame effects.

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Le Attrata

Lotus

Lotus is a experiential light based installation, it is meant to be a place of rest in a chaotic world. As people rest and relax with sculpture it envelops you waves of color and you can discover how to unlock the deeper levels of the sculpture.

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Lotus

Ken Berman Art/The Nexus of Urban Art & Design

Ken Berman Art - The Nexus of Urban Art & Design Combining the raw energy of the urban environment with the mechanics our modern age Ken Berman uses Autocad to feature his artwork on skateboards as an alternative form of artistic expression.

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Ken Berman Art/The Nexus of Urban Art & Design

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

2016 Featured Makers

Pacific Pinball Camp

Pacific Pinball Museum fun and learning campsite. We will bring the Lil' Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum, The Sir Francis Galton Pinball Probability Machine, The EM Music Box, The Bumper Box, The Freedom Project; EM and SS Visible Freedom and more.

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Pacific Pinball Camp

Howtoons

Howtoons provides engaging content that teaches kids how to build things, combining instructions with visual storytelling. Howtoons has a foundation of science and engineering education, inspiring creativity through art and imagination.

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Howtoons

RallyBowl / NIMBY

NIMBY, Oakland's Maker and industrial art space, provides people a place to create and innovate in a collaborative environment. Gaige Qualmann & Clody Cates' creation RallyBowl, combining the best of both bowling and mini-golf, was made at NIMBY.

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RallyBowl / NIMBY

The Pedal Powered Stage

Come pedal power live music performances from talented local bands and take part in our Energy Challenges, where you can go head to head with common electrical devices, trying to power them with your legs.

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The Pedal Powered Stage

Dragon Glow Forest

Enter the Astro Botanical Garden under the watchful eyes of the Guardian Dragon. You grow smaller like a pollinator in the flower domain. Be Kind to the Forest. Plant a magical memory in the garden of your mind.

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Dragon Glow Forest

Welcome to Amu City

A amusement including a carousel, Ferris Wheel, clowns, a roller coaster surrounding them. The rides will include yellow and red lights. In the background will be playing Carousel by Melanie Martinez. On top will be a circus tent with swings.

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Welcome to Amu City

Maker Faire Bay Area 2015 - Year of the Maker

2015 Featured Makers

Rhoeby the Navigation-Capable Hexapod

Rhoeby is a customized ROS-enabled hexapod. The robot supports SLAM, Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance

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Rhoeby the Navigation-Capable Hexapod

Sessilanoid

In our world nature and geometry called out to me. I am enamored by their beauty and find myself lost in there patterns. This sculpture started as a seed that would grow and propagate over an area, then coming to life in dark as people encounter it.

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Sessilanoid

Giant Cardboard Robots

Arm yourselves with Giant Cardboard Robot Arms! The revolution will be corrugated.

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Giant Cardboard Robots

The NeedleArts Zone

The NeedleArts Zone teaches needlearts: Crochet, Cross-Stitch, Knitting, Needlepoint and Spinning! Students go home with their learning supplies, and there is no cost for lessons or supplies. Look for our outrageously oversized knitting needles!

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The NeedleArts Zone

Applied Kinetic Arts

Applied Kinetic Arts is a community of artists working within the medium loosely defined as “kinetic”. Works incorporating motion, light, sound, and interactivity are represented by the group’s ever expanding member base.

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Applied Kinetic Arts

Bio-Spires by Crash Alchemy

Crash Alchemy produces interactive, immersive and experiential environments. The Bio-Spires are part of our Digital Arcade, where kids of all ages can interact with giant, intricate and imaginative art pieces in ingenious ways.

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