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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

Zephyr

CalSol is the UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team. We are a non-profit racing team that designs, builds, tests, and races fully solar-powered vehicles at an international level. We are showcasing Zephyr, our recently retired 8th generation solar car.

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Zephyr

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

Make: Learn to Solder

Makers of all ages can come learn or build on their soldering skills by making their very own blinky LED pin to wear proudly. Learn to Solder is sponsored by Google.

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Make: Learn to Solder

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Maker Faire Bay Area 2018

2018 Featured Makers

Sitting Ducks

'Sitting Ducks' is a is a mixed media piece. It contains a pleasant scene of tranquil victorian nature. Once there an astute observer will see an ominous symbol of destruction which should lead to the realization that we are all…..'Sitting Ducks'.

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Sitting Ducks

Cyclecide

Come Ride! We'll have the Bike Cyclorral, tall bikes, choppers, sidecar bikes, bumper bikes, swing bikes, shriner bikes, altered kids trikes, the 32 foot high Axe-Grinder, the Dizzy Toy, the Whirl-n-Hurl, the Kiddie Carousel, and more!!

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Cyclecide

The Traveling Spectacular

The Traveling Spectacular offers live entertainment complete with grand illusions, a sword swallowing prestidigitator extraordinaire, vaudevillian comedy, alluring dancers and the fire-breathing Devil himself with music by the Oddjob Ensemble.

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The Traveling Spectacular

Wondeful Idea Co.

Join Wonderful Idea Co, for a pop-up tinkering workshop where you can experiment with art, science and technology, get inspired by whimsical environmental elements and follow your own ideas.

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Wondeful Idea Co.

How to make an AI robot

AI combat robots: how to build and code your own. See functional AI robots and the materials, electronics, cameras, and tools used to make them. Also see the human controlled combat robots that battle the AI robots.

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How to make an AI robot

Lightning On Demand

We're building a pair of 120 foot tall Tesla towers for lightning research. Our 40ft high 1:3 scale model coil can throw lightning arcs over 60ft. We'll bring a 9ft Tesla coil to demonstrate various scientific principles and electrical effects.

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Lightning On Demand

See Maker Faire Editor and Educator Choice Winners

Maker Faire Bay Area 2017

2017 Featured Makers

The Traveling Spectacular

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The Traveling Spectacular

Tinker Kitchen

We’re a food hacking community building a maker space with all the cooking gadgets you can’t fit into your kitchen. Play with industrial culinary hardware like sous vide circulators, commercial pasta extruders, chocolate tempering machines, and more!

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Tinker Kitchen

Giant Cardboard Robots

Arm yourself with Giant Cardboard Robot Arms! The Revolution Will Be Corrugated.

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Giant Cardboard Robots

Steam-powered Gears

Learn about large wooden gear construction. Witness those gears driving a 110-year-old automatic pencil sharpener! Follow along as KSW demonstrates the multi-color printing process on a set of letterpresses.

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Steam-powered Gears

Swap-o-Rama-Rama

The ultimate clothing swap, DIY sewing lab, workshops that emphasizes reuse, recycling and re-purposing practices to reduce textile wastes with featured guest talks and Trashion Show on the Textile Lounge Stage.

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Swap-o-Rama-Rama

3D Stroboscopic Zoetrope by Peter Hudson

Kinetic sculptor and 3D Stroboscopic Zoetrope creator, Peter Hudson, takes the most primitive form of animation to an extreme level, incorporating creativity, art, engineering, technology, and fantasy into his delightfully captivating designs.

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3D Stroboscopic Zoetrope by Peter Hudson

See Past Faires Blue Ribbon Awardees

Maker Faire Bay Area 2016

2016 Featured Makers

Neon Art Shop

Peterson Neon is a neon art shop that creates custom neon and artwork. We also teach neon tube bending classes. We enjoy educating about the gases used in neon tubes and sharing the craft.

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Neon Art Shop

Kraut Source - Fermentation Made Simple

Kraut Source is an elegant, all-stainless steel fermentation device that fits on mason jars. It's now fun and easy to create your own live-cultured foods such as sauerkraut, kimchi, and pickles!

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Kraut Source - Fermentation Made Simple

CaraVellair Roadable Aircraft (a.k.a. flying car)

The CaraVellair is an experimental, amateur-built roadable aircraft (aka flying car) that you can build in your garage. It is a 100% street legal motorcycle, uses a stock motorcycle engine and when complete will fly like a typical light aircraft.

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CaraVellair Roadable Aircraft (a.k.a. flying car)

Dream Catcher

Dream Catcher is inspired by various patterns found in nature. This cavernous, immersive experience invites you inside to interact and discover the hidden beauty of light and form.

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Dream Catcher

Life-Size Mousetrap

The Life Size Mousetrap is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive kinetic sculpture set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board. This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a Vaudevillian style show.

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Life-Size Mousetrap

NorCal Mars Rover Project

The NorCal Mars Society is making better rovers for human planetary exploration.

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NorCal Mars Rover Project

Maker Faire Bay Area 2015 - Year of the Maker

2015 Featured Makers

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

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

Aquatrope

The AQUATROPE is a self powered and electric, pedal-assisted mobile art sculpture. Created to explore how intertwined we are to water, the Aquatrope has eight art discs with holistic message about how profoundly vital water is to our human existence

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Aquatrope

Celestial Mechanica

Celestial Mechanica is an immersive kinetic sculpture experience depicting our solar system. Eight unique planets twirl upon their own axes, simultaneously orbiting a fiery Sun, all driven by a uniquely designed machine of over 80 custom-made gears.

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Celestial Mechanica

gilly

This piece represents a decade anniversary of two previous sculptures I made called the "Twins". "Gilly" is significantly larger in stature and in fire than its predecessors. All of the materials for this sculpture have been reclaimed from six pr

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gilly

Rhoeby the Navigation-Capable Hexapod

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

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