Maker Faire | Make: Space - Maker Faire

From projects that bring the cosmos to the classroom, to startups and venerable players pursuing innovative and beneficial commercial endeavors, the space community has new ventures happening on all sides. Takeaway: More people can get their projects orbital — or near to it — than ever before.

Here’s a sneak peek of some of the space programs and exhibits featured at this year’s Maker Faire.

Make: Space

Space Geek

Build, launch and explore stellar projects in the latest issue of Make: Magazine — grow plants in space, drive a floating robot on the space station, program an ISS pointer bot and more.

Melodie Yashar

Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+)

Melodie Yashar is co-founder of Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch+). In 2015 SEArch+ was awarded top prize in NASA’s Phase 1 Centennial Challenge for a 3D-Printed Habitat for "Mars Ice House," and maintains an ongoing collaboration with NASA Langley.

Free-Flying Space Robots

Jose Benavides / NASA

Free-flying space robots can be used when humans are present to off-load routine work, to increase astronaut productivity, and to handle contingencies. To help, NASA is developing and testing robotic free-flyers for use on the International Space Station.

International Space Station

Center for the Advancement of Science in Space

Connect with experiments running on the International Space Station! See a live view of earth from space. Investigate life and other research in microgravity. Make moon craters! Also: Can you survive the astronaut challenge?

Make a Telescope

Chabot Telescope Makers

The Chabot Telescope Makers is a public workshop in Oakland California associated with the East Bay Astronomical Society and the Chabot Space and Science Center. For the last 80 years, our workshop has provided a space for building telescopes.

Photobooth: LED Space Helmets

Jennifer Mann + Zachary Morriss

3... 2... 1... BLAST OFF! See the world from inside a custom-made LED space helmet. Press the Launch button to take photos of you and a friend on your adventure in space, at the Space Helmet Photo Booth!

Seeing is Believing

Ian Webster

The Power of Science Visualization

Why do meteor showers happen? What was your hometown like when dinosaurs roamed Earth? We've built breathtaking 3D visualizations to answer all this and more. Come see and learn how to build your own science visualizations with open source.

NorCal Mars Rover Project

NorCal Mars Society

Join this Bay-area volunteer group of people interested in Mars exploration, education, and settlement.

Let's Go to Space

Stanford Student Space Initiative

50 years after Apollo 11, a new space race is on: this time, between universities. Stanford’s secret weapon? Record-breaking balloon technolog. Visit Stanford’s largest project-based engineering group to learn more.

Classrooms in Space!

Magnitude.io

Connect with an experiment aboard the International Space Station, or learn more about Earth's atmosphere with a High Altitude Balloon launch!

Eureka 1 Rocket

Space Enterprise at Berkeley

Space Enterprise at Berkeley is UC Berkeley's Liquid Propulsion, space-shot rocketry team. From our composite work to our avionics and recovery system, we are going to show you just how we plan to take our Eureka-1 Rocket to space.

Variations on Telescopes

Norman Sperling

Variations on telescopes have fascinated me for several decades. Optimize a neglected factor, juggle others to rebalance. I designed a huge steampunk ray gun to vaporize a comet for a novel.

ISS-Above

Space Station Direct to Your TV

Did you know the ISS passes YOU by 5-8 times EVERY DAY? ISS-Above will be bringing the International Space Station live to the Bay Area Maker Fair. We'll be showing live views of the earth from space throughout the day.

Quest for Space

Experiments on the ISS

Do you want to run experiments out in space? Come to our Quest for Space Station and make experiments that are run on the ISS. What you make may be on a future SpaceX Rocket!

Chabot Space & Science Center

Astronaut Survival Challenge

Come by the Chabot booth to join a group collaboration creating a model of Moon surface by experimenting with asteroid impacts. We will also host an Astronaut Survival Challenge where we will make astronauts to test in the vacuum of space.

Space Station Explorers

ISS National Lab

Space Station Explorers, operated by the International Space Station National Lab, supports learners and explorers of all ages, as they design, develop, operate and interact with experiments on the ISS.

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