Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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4-H ResistoJets Rocketry Club

Faire: Sussex County

Maker: ResistoJets Rocketry 4-H Club

Home: New Jersey, United States

Meet the 4-H ResistoJets Rocketry Club. See their accomplishments in the American Rocketry Challenge and NASA SLI. Try out why rockets have fins.

Airplane simulator

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jeff, Dave's, & Michaels crazy Fabrications

Home: California, United States

We built a home built airplane and it flies and we have a great time with it. But as a kid I could never get close to airplanes every time I went to the airport they would send me away. So I want to bring the airplane to the kids I want to let them get inside of it, touch it and digitally flight with the simulator we installed inside of it. I want to inspire future Generations.

Visual robotic programming with Pictorus

Faire: Central Oregon

Maker: Pictorus

Home: California, United States

Program robots in real time with a visual coding interface!

Embodied AI Agent with a real robotic platform

Faire: Rome

Maker: Machine Learning Reply

The talk will focus on a real implementation of Embodied AI agent. We will start with an overview of the Machine Learning models covered within Reply R&D, therefore DinoV2 for Object Detection (https://dinov2.metademolab.com/), PALM (https://palm-e.github.io/ ) as a starting point for VLMs (Visual Language Models) and be able to generalize a large number of tasks that require multimodal input (both with images and text). We will then move on to a focus on a robotic agent such as SPOT by Boston Dynamics, therefore its architecture, the potential of this agent and the sensors present in stock. From here we will have the basis to move on to an implementation of Embodied AI Agents controlled completely with voice in natural language. We will show an orchestrator who, by receiving voice commands in natural language as input, will be able to control a robotic agent such as SPOT by Boston Dynamics and use the Machine Learning models necessary to complete the individual tasks within the episode initiated by the user. We will then show current developments in the way related to the use of Visual Language Models, such as RT-2(https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/) for robotic agents and LINGO-1(https://wayve.ai/ ) for autonomous driving.

Apache, il Drone FPV Cinematico

Faire: Rome

Maker: Dynamic Shot SRL

The Apache is an FPV Drone designed and manufactured entirely in Italy. It was born for use in the world of cinema, allowing the creation of unique dynamic videos with the quality of today's films and TV series. Thanks to its 8 motors and a specially designed chassis, it can lift film cameras and remotely controlled heads.

Syracuse Area R/C Flying Clubs

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: Herb Ziegler

Home: New York, United States

Several local R/C flying clubs will be represented here. Many options for people wanting to try flying model aircraft. Options include Indoor flying, outdoor flying, Fixed wing, helicopters and multi-rotors. Most clubs offer flight training.

CyberSurfer

Faire: WNY Regional

Maker: Caleb Vaccaro

Home: New York, United States

Experience the ever evolving fusion of virtual and physical movement on a futuristic hoverboard. Fly at light-speeds through a cybernetic, mixed-reality world to gain glory, fame, and power. Will you be the fastest?

MiXR Media Streaming, LLC

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Anthony Wilson

Home: New York, United States

MiXR is a media streaming company. We provide STEM (science, tech, education and math) drone programs for high school youngsters and summer camps. We’ll be showcasing our DIY and FPV (first person view) drones and drone kits. Join us.

Large Inflatable Kites

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: David Hoggan

Home: California, United States

Flying large inflatable kites for Maker Faire.

The sustainability through the student Teams of the Politecnico of Turin

Faire: Rome

Maker: Politecnico di Torino

The Politecnico di Torino presents the most important students Teams involved in sustainability, ecological aspect, low consumption, mobility, recycle, reducing environmental impact and promoting circular economy. The Politecnico of Torino involves the students in Teams with a mission: “learning by doing” with the goal to grow up a new generation of engineers able to accept challenges and solve problems. The main goal of the teams is a practical training of the future engineer: to design means to compromise between an idea and what is actually buildable. The Politecnico would like to present 10 teams that from 15 years make innovation participating to international competitions and events. The Politecnico would like to have a big space to expose theire prototype; cars, bicycle, motorcycle, boats, mobile robot, scaled airplane, recycling computer and more other.

Wind Tube

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Rainbow Community School

Home: North Carolina, United States

Wind Tubes is an activity that allows visitors to explore moving air with a variety of everyday objects.

Solar Powered Paper Airplane Launcher

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: CCSF Engineering Club

Home: California, United States

Makers of all ages can come harness the power of the sun and take flight with The City College of San Francisco Engineering Club! Design your own paper airplane and put your engineering skills to the test. And watch as our sun powered plane slinger sends it soarin'! How far can you fly?

Build Your Own Air Gliders

Faire: Cairo

Maker: Mustafa Gamal

Home: Egypt, Egypt

Fascinated by airplanes, want to learn more about aviation. Then this workshop is just for you. You will be introduced to the world of aviation through the building and flying of model airplanes, starting from simple gliders. Join us.

Wifi bestuurde hovercrafts

Faire: Eindhoven

Maker: Yvon Masyn

Home: België

Bouw een luchtkussenvoertuig en bestuur het met je smartphone. Deze hovercraft heeft een wifi module waarmee je de motor en stuurvin bedient. De onderdelen al voorbereid, zodat je na 20 minuten bouwen al aan het spelen kan. Daarna maak je de onderdelen weer los voor de volgende maker. Deze gratis workshops zijn om: 11u30 12u15 15u00 15u45 Reserveren aan de stand. Wil je een eigen WiFi bestuurde hovercraft, dan kan je een kit kopen in de shop aan 35 EUR.

A Talk on Stark Drones: Changing the Way the World Communicates

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Andrew Kamal

Home: Michigan, United States

Stark Drones is an emerging startup with an intellectually diverse team of talent aiming to tackle some of the world's toughest problems. One of those problems involves the sustainability and environmental friendliness of cubesat and satellite deployment. Andrew believes modern day Aerostats and giant balloons can be the future of sustainable, cost-effective, low earth orbit deployments. Stark Drones is becoming a minor player in the Internet Balloon space and working on really disrupting the industry.

UWF RC Hydrofoil Sailboat

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: UWF R.C. Hydrofoil Sailboat

Home: Florida, United States

R.C. Hydrofoiling Sailboat Simulation Demo.

UAVs@Berkeley AUVSI SUAS 2023/2024 Competition Drone

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: UAVs@Berkeley

Home: California, United States

These past two years, we have put our main focus on developing a heavy-lift long range multirotor drone for the AUVSI SUAS competition. Our drone was developed with autonomous navigation and payload delivery capabilities, centering around cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and custom carbon fiber frame components. We also have a first-person view subteam that flies and drives vehicles while viewing a live video feed from onboard cameras. Awesome!

Just Back From Space: Perspectives of Earth From A Suborbital Space Flight

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ron Rosano

Home: United States

On October 6, 2023, Ron Rosano flew into space on Virgin Galactic's Galactic04 mission, fulfilling a childhood dream and gaining a unique perspective of our planet suspended in the black vastness of space. Join Ron for video and photo highlights from the mission, with descriptions of what it's like to have a rocket fire you through the sky, to float weightless in a spaceship, and to see our Earth from high above the thin blue line of our atmosphere; we'll also allow plenty of time for Q&A.

Syracuse Rocket Club

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: Syracuse Rocket Club

Home: New York, United States

Come see a huge variety of rockets: multi-stage, sci-fi, glider, scale models and more. Explore rocket motors from small single-use to large reloadables. See our launch system and other electronics. We’ll answer your questions about sport rocketry.

Control Line Model Airplane Maker

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: Mike O'Neill

Home: New York, United States

I make (balsa) model airplanes from both kits and scratch utilizing plans. These model airplanes are built for both flying and static display. When flying, they utilize Control Lines for in-flight control of the plane.

THE FOOD OF THE FUTURE, THE FUTURE OF FOOD

Faire: Rome

Maker: EltHub srl

How can food be produced in the future? How can food be produced in extreme environments? What does it have in common with future space food? These are some of the topics we want to "tell" at maker faire. Futuristic hydroponic crops within everyone's reach: - ROBOTFARM a hydroponic greenhouse the size of a washing machine - HYDROWALL a vertical farm the size of a planter - SOLE a future greenhouse ground demonstrator rack cabinet on the International Space Station - ROBOTLAMP new generation LED lamps for growing anywhere in the world and in space - MIG the vertical container farm to cultivate automatically even in the most extreme environments - NUTRI3D a 3D food printer to obtain nutraceuticals, vitamins and sources of antioxidants, starting from fresh raw materials or agri-food processing waste for the formulation of new generation food "inks", personalized foods, snacks-on-the-go , sports food, military, astronauts etc...

ARES

Faire: Rome

Maker: ITIS GALILEO GALILEI DI ROMA

ARES project was born 4 years ago from the idea of 4 students passionate about the aerospace world and dreamers of a human landing on Mars. They asked themselves a question: how will the resources necessary to survive on a desert planet be found? They developed a project to verify the feasibility of a plantation on the red planet, faithfully recreating the Martian biosphere. An electronic brain will manage the sensors and irrigation of each dome. Finally, all the data will be managed within a portal, implementing a procedure in relation to the IoT.

RoboButts by Project40

Faire: Rome

Maker: Denis Oliviero

RoboButts is a robot equipped with a robotic arm whose purpose is to collect butts. What we are presenting is the first working prototype of a project whose purpose is to be implanted in urban cleaning systems. Normally it takes about 30 years to dispel a stub but with our project we want to intervene immediately on this phenomenon. The robot is now controlled with the PC's keyboard but we are working on an AI to detect the cigarette butts and to make the robot completely autonomous

Amateur Radio Ballooning in the SF Bay Area.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: SF-HAB

Home: California, United States

We launch pico-balloons on weekends when possible and usually have something in the air at all times. Pico-balloons fly above 40,0000 We experiment with new technology and fly new things all the time. We developed a Raspberry PI RP2040 based for our adventures. We use several radio networks to track our balloons around the planet. We are planning more advanced flight using more technology.

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