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.

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.

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

The Dalekorn and Friends

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Megan Colby

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Half Dalek, half unicorn. 100% Awesome

Samarpanam

Faire: Hudson Valley

Maker: Jeeno Joseph

Home: New York, United States

Bharatanatyam is an Indian dance form origninating from the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is a dance dating back several centuries which relies on the dancer's dynamic use of eye movements, facial expressions, mudras, and rhythmic footwork.

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.

Props and Costumes by Thorsson & Associates

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Shawn Thorsson

Home: California, United States

A wide array of costumes, props, and other pieces we've made over the past decade or so in the shop.

Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sahrye Cohen

Home: California, United States

Plastic pollution is an increasing problem in oceans worldwide. We can help end plastic pollution by reducing the amount of plastic we use and recycling or upcycling already existing plastics. This presentation and demo will show fashion and accessories made from upcycled ocean plastic as part of the Future Oceans International Design Collective. The demo will show how to make jewelry from everyday single use plastic food containers and upcycled ocean pollution microplastics.

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.

Arte en Metal

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Rodrigo Palma Arrieta

Home: CDMX, Mexico

Arte en Metal Cuenta con todo tipo de proyectos artísticos pero con finalidad de uso. Empleando diversas técnicas artesanales como forja, modelado en soldadura y lámina. Con enfoques tanto naturales como tradicionales de diferentes culturas.

The Royal Trumpets

Faire: Central Oregon

Maker: Adam Foster

Home: New York, United States

The Royal Trumpets are an EPIC series of 6 kinetic pyrotechnic sound sculptures that stand 15' tall, connected to a keyboard, you can make come play music!

Long Island ghostbusters

Faire: Long Island

Maker: Long Island Ghostbusters

Home: New York, United States

In 2003, two brothers set out to make a difference on Long Island. But, they couldn’t do it alone. Now, the Long Island Ghostbusters are back and better than ever, raising money, and delivering smiles everywhere they go.

You Are Not Here

Faire: Hudson Valley

Maker: Trouble

Home: New York, United States

In You Are Not Here Trouble proposes to extend their maze work into a metaverse environment, creating a 30 square meter virtual maze installation within a built maze. It will be accessible to viewers via VR headset, desktop, and cellphone.

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.

Lace and Laces

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Lace Museum

Home: California, United States

Come see lace, learn about lace, talk about lace and make some lace or a braid!

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.

ValkyIrma

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Irma Harris

Home: California, United States

My robotic bird humanoid Valkyrie wearable art ensemble.

Friendshippe

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Bus Club

Home: California, United States

It's tiny wooden pirate ship. Fully electric, it's the future of piratecraft. Fits up to 4 mateys. It's dubloon-operated so you need to keep pillaging if you want to keep pillaging. Scout for land through the eyeglass and keep a lookout for whales.

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.

Mousie and Hedgie

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Margaret Long

Home: California, United States

Mousie and Hedgie have been to a couple of maker faires- they're RC cars modified to be mobile puppets. They roam around the faire, interacting with all humans, particularly the kiddos. They're small, durable, and usually well mannered.

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!!

A Temple of Masks

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jason Gronlund

Home: California, United States

A collection of masks from this world and the next adorns a temple that is built for them. Not a church, but a multi-dimensional portal that has recorded the different disguises used by beings throughout the multiverse. In this place we can be what we truly are: shrouded in mystery.

A Thousand Ways to Wear / TShirt Upcycle

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Scatha Allison

Home: California, United States

THE RETURN OF MAKER FAIRE BAY AREA! 1000 Ways to Wear: miss velvet cream Neocouture presentation of wearable outfits made from upcycled Tshirts. The pieces are all made from past year's deadstock Maker Faire Bay Area shirts. These 5 outfits are presented on a series of femme sewing dressforms, sized from 4-12. Remake of deadstock (produced but unworn, unsold pieces) transforms waste into a garment given new life and a new story. These pieces are all wild, extravagant miss velvet cream creations, all upcycled- cut, stitched, ruffled, flounced, ripped, tied, layered, embellished, stretched, and stitched again. These outfits are all sustainable fashion, handmade, and infused with meaning and value from the simplest TShirts. Let's dream together what we could wear in the future, today!

Pensacon

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Pensacon

Home: Florida, United States

Pensacon is the Gulf Coast's largest pop culture fan gathering, taking place Feb. 23-25 in downtown Pensacola. During Maker Faire, a number of fans and participants will showcase their fandom and creativity via cosplay/costuming, original artwork, quilting and other visual arts.

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