Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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LED Front Skeleton Robot

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Hiroaki Suzuki

Home: Kanagawa, Japan

'LED Front Skeleton Robot' is a life-sized rod puppet skeleton. This skeleton acts a real behavier by manipulating it by puppeteers. This was inspired by Japanese ”Bunraku”.　This skeleton walks through the venue, dances to music and gives high five with people.

Robomobile

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Russell Wilcox

Home: California, United States

Robomobile looks like a giant version of 1960s-era tin toy robots, with a person inside pedaling an adult trike. It has lights, and can go anywhere and talk to anyone. Despite being boxy and simple, it looks friendly and kids delight in it. Everyone asks 'are you a real robot?' to which I answer yes. I built it out of steel and aluminum, foamcore and plywood, a licence plate holder and trailer lights. It's a hit at Halloween parties.

PINBOX 3000 ART-CADE by Cardboard Teck Instantute

Faire: Hudson Valley

Maker: Ben t. Matchstick

Home: Vermont, United States

The PinBox 3000 Art-Cade features 25+ unique custom games made from the PinBox 3000 cardboard pinball machine kit! Kinetic, hands-on fun for everyone! Flip the System!

Chase Makes

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Chase Baker

Home: Florida, United States

Chase has projects to show you! Come see ChromaRune, the light-show coffee table, and a Prince Robot IV costume with a functional TV helmet.

Make composite structures with low VOC materials

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Robert van de Walle

Home: California, United States

Composite structures are ubiquitous and typically require a significant investment before fabrication can begin. I demonstrate how to use foam, glue, kraft paper, and window screen (and other low VOC materials) to duplicate much of the formability and durability of fiberglass. Perfect for fabricating small boats, bike fairings, large art installations, giant robot puppets, teardrop trailers, and theater props, this technology is very well suited for school and community groups. I will teach good techniques for cutting foam, laying up skins, and designing the structure to be durable.

Heat Transfer Vinyl T-Shirts Without a Craft Cutter

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maker Block

Home: California, United States

I've had a lot of ideas for t-shirts that would have been perfect for HTV (heat transfer vinyl) but I don't have a craft cutter. Once I realized I could use a regular craft knife, I had a lot of fun making a variety of t-shirts for myself and my family. For a kid's birthday we made matching themed t-shirts for everyone for way less than it would cost to buy or have one made. It would be a fun and inexpensive way to update an old piece of clothing or add some neat personalization.

Abacus Theater – Steamroadsters

Faire: Eindhoven

Maker: Abacus Theater

Home: drenthe, Nederland

dreigend klinkt gerommel uit de buik van een mechanisch beest zuchtend en knarsend zet het gevaarte zich in beweging het geluid van de dampende machine gaat langzaam over in een hypnotische cadans de machinist, hoog op z’n steamroadster heeft geen oog voor de dingen om zich heen zijn gedachten tijdloos, zijn blik priemend in de verte zijn bestemming een ongewis avontuur terwijl de wereld onder hem door rolt een tijdperk van ooit geleden trekt voorbij en verdwijnt achter hem in zwarte roke

How to Make a Vacuum Former

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maker Block

Home: California, United States

People will learn how to build and operate a simple vacuum former for ~$35 in common parts to make props, soap/chocolate/candy molds, phone cases & more.

Máquina de mirar y escuchar

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Audiomáquinas

Home: CDMX, Mexico

Se trata de una instalación conformada de cuatro máquinas, donde cada una cuenta con un conjunto de flipbooks motorizados para dar vida y movimiento a una serie de imágenes que narran diferentes historias.

ValkyIrma

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Irma Harris

Home: California, United States

My robotic bird humanoid Valkyrie wearable art ensemble.

Pensacola Costumers Guild

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Pensacola Costumers Guild

Home: Florida, United States

This group is dedicated to the pursuit of costuming. We help each other sew, build things, make prosthetics, and anything else people need for their costumes. We cover a variety of genres from sci-fi-medieval-anime-fantasy-steampunk-furry-comic books-etc. Anyone is welcome to join from the novice to the master. There are no dues but you must be at least 18 or have a parent and/or guardian present at all events.

Schac Attack’s “Palace of Novelty”

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jennifer Schachter

Home: California, United States

Part storefront, part immersive museum installation, “Schac Attack’s Palace of Novelty” invites you to take a look behind the curtain of Jen Schachter’s creative process — from design and prototyping, through finished product! Sketchbook pages come to life as foam-core models, which evolve into dioramas of miniature worlds, enticing prop slices of fake cake, or the towering EVA foam wig that was featured on the latest issue of Make! Come meet the artist, pick up your own diorama kit to build at home, and get an up-close look at how all these “novelties” are made.

Woody the Electric Four Passenger Bicycle

Faire: Orange County

Maker: John Guy

Home: California, United States

Woody is our 3rd generation multi passenger ebike, configured as a 2+2 , with 2 forward riders with pedals and 2 rear facing passengers. The pedalers are assisted with 2 rear hub motors. Below picture is the plan, and construction is in process.

Let’s get Crafty: Fusing Cosplay and Maker Culture

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Crafty Sorceress

Home: California, United States

Want to make your Maker Faire experience shine, with a light-up LED you made? Get inspired to try cosplay? Need an emergency fix at Maker Faire? Hands-on activity: Educate people to get into cosplay and electronics skills! I teach the premiere Intro to Cosplay course in makerspaces; As a maker professor, visitors can make and take home LED throwies and light-up cards, and learn about electronics. Maker repair station: Things will fail. I've provided a fully-stocked cosplay repair station for anything a cosplayer & maker may need! Interactive exhibit: Fully interactive props and cosplays, like lightsabers & glowing clothing, all to empower a visitor's creativity.

Squirrellys Customs 3d Prints

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: David Lewis

Home: Florida, United States

I will be selling 3d printed objects and toys.

Costume Contest

Faire: Orange County

Maker: Nerd Mafia

Home: California, United States

Come Join us for a Costume Contest. Win awards in a number of categories. Adult and Youth categories. Judging starts at 3:30pm at the Main Stage. Sign up at the Nerd Mafia Booth.

Trashlantis

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: 3 Feet of Air

Home: California, United States

Trashlantis is a mobile performance & kinetic sculpture, a backdrop for deep, meaningful conversations with people about the myth of recycling and the hazards of living in a 'plastisphere.' We won this year's Kinetic Grand Championship in Humboldt Country, California. Trashlantis tells a story ripped from today's headlines: plastic is creating brand-new ecosystems in the oceans. Trashlanteans are strange half-human, half-fish and half-trash beings from an ancient oceanic civilization. They comb the beaches and byways, sidewalks and highways for more plastic to build a Trashlantean civilization. They offer humans a chance to explore their relationship to this amazing material– and maybe even provide a splash of hope to those who are already working towards a toxin and trash free future.

Humpbacks of Notre Dame: How to Use Your Project in Activism

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: 3 Feet of Air

Home: California, United States

'Humpbacks of Notre Dame' is our award winning kinetic sculpture entry for 2022. We created our art as a tool to open a wide array of 'entry' points into a discussion about climate change. Spectators interacting with this piece lead themselves on a journey of discovery towards taking action on climate change. Elements from the original work will be recomposited as a static display, showing an example of using an existing event –the Kinetic Grand Championship– to bring awareness to the most important issue of our time: anthropogenic climate change. Whatever you or your cohort are already doing, you can use an existing venue to get your idea into the minds and hearts of others. Come see how we accomplished this with 'Humpbacks of Notre Dame.'

Fractured Reality

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Amy Johnson

Home: Florida, United States

What initially started as propsmithing has evolved into various avenues of crafting, most especially drawing! Fractured Reality encompasses all my art forms, and I love to share my pieces with people around me. From wood burning to cosplay props to drawings, I want to be able to share my love of the arts with everyone.

Pensacola Droid Builders

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Pensacola Droid Builders

Home: Alabama, United States

The Pensacola Droid Builders bring your favorite science fiction characters to life. You can give the vital Death Star plans to R2-D2 or go in an adventure through time and space with K-9.

The Pearl Lion Circus

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: The Pearl Lion Circus

Home: Florida, United States

We are a small human circus performance troupe based in Pensacola specializing in group acrobats, flow props and circus arts and event production! Experience a short circus performance and then learn all about various circus arts and try new things!!

Walking Website: ALL THE THINGS!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maker Block

Home: California, United States

I've had so many projects and ideas the last few years that I want to share everything at once! My project is a lab coat / shirt (weather depending) with QR code(s) and samples for lots of different projects: * DIY travel ukulele hand carved from a plank of wood (https://youtu.be/wYp6B_BC05o) * DIY vacuum former (~$35 in parts) to make cosplay elements like goggles, light up Iron-Man arc reactors (https://youtu.be/9Prj04gPeLw), candy molds (chocolate Eiffel Tower), etc * Heat transfer vinyl clothing (

Knights of the Pub Table

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Knights of the Pub Table

Home: Florida, United States

Demonstration of knitting crafts, and selling 3D printed items, fantasy crowns and headdresses, freeze dried fruits and candies.

The Dalekorn and Friends

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Megan Colby

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Half Dalek, half unicorn. 100% Awesome

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