Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Wyldcard

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jonah Stiennon

Home: California, United States

E-ink trading cards which can change! Wyldcards are small plastic cards with e-ink screens (like a Kindle). When placed onto a plinth, the image on the card can be changed by a hidden computer. The cards also contain a memory chip, so they can store stats, moves, and keep changes and status effects from one game to the next. Plug your plinth into your friend’s and play against them. I think these cards have the potential to unlock a new paradigm of tabletop gaming. They are rooted in the physical world, but can implement complex game mechanics Based on an idea I had in 2014 and built in my spare time over the past three years, Wyldcard was upvoted to #1 on Hacker News and I'm wrapping up a crowdfunding campaign for a devkit.

Interactive, Recursive, Automated Digital Photo Collage: Mirrors and Windows,

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Tommy Mintz

Home: New York, United States

Interactive algorithmic time lapse generation of viewers seen through wireframe drawings of people and mirrors and windows.

Microcade: Palm sized fully PCB arcade machine for STEM

Faire: Rome

Maker: microcade

Microcade is a build-your-own kit for making your own palm-sized retro arcade console. The kit includes all the tools needed, a "learn to solder" training board and video, and a custom library of pre-installed open-source games. It is fully made out of PCB and tries to push the limits of what can be done with PCB art by making fun-themed cabinets. We are working on a beta arcade-themed coding platform with 6 courses, from beginner to advanced, to teach coding and electronics through arcade games.

Otto Cardy robot

Faire: Rome

Maker: Claudio Gasparini

Otto Cardy, a low-cost walking cardboard robot that can be built and programmed using the videos and manual instructions. The instructions are designed to be easy to follow and do not require any special knowledge of electronics. Otto Cardy is a remake of the international Open Source project OttoDIY, using Google's Blockly for the Arduino. With micro:bit, Otto Cardy uses Microsoft MakeCode. The project aims to introduce primary and secondary school students to the world of coding and robot programming in a fun way, while also serving as an example of creative robotics. It's great to see initiatives like this that make technology more accessible and engaging for young learners. Otto Cardy can be built using both Arduino Nano and micro:bit.

3D Printing Professor

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Joe Larson

Home: Utah, United States

The 3D Printing Professor presenting PrintABlok, the toy of the future.

Lo que me empacaron y sigo cargando

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Montserrat Martínez

Home: Cuauhtémoc, Mexico

Recopilación de elementos visuales y sonoros que reflexionan en torno al desplazarse y desarraigarse. La no identificación como identificación, el viaje, no sentir ningún sitio como un hogar y las consecuencias de adaptarse.

LAMEMAKES

Faire: Rochester

Maker: Wesley Appler

Home: New York, United States

I'm Wesley Appler! I'm a professional software engineer, hobbyist hardware engineer, an artist, and generalist. lamemakes is the summation of me and my projects. Come see what it's all about!

LED Costumes by Erin St Blaine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Erin StBlaine

Home: California, United States

Come be inspired by the costume creations of Erin St Blaine. Erin is a light artist based in Northern California. She creates sculptures, costumes and artwork with programmable LED lights, often including interactivity and data visualization to bring her creations to life. Erin’s innovative creations explore the way LED lights and 3d printed objects interact with the human body in motion: onstage through dance and flow arts, connecting with audiences at events through interactive character costumes, or underwater with Glimmer, the world’s first fully submersible and swimmable LED mermaid tail.

Social and Autonomous robots: the MARRtino family

Faire: Rome

Maker: Fabio Ferrarin

Innovators by vocation, making use of the collaboration with the Department of Automatic and Management Computer Engineering of the La Sapienza University of Rome, we work for the growth of the MARRtino family. In the space of a few years the family has expanded and perfected it by creating prototypes of educational and "useful" robots. Everything is open source (hardware and software) so it can be extended in any direction without constraints, an evolutionary robot as we usually define it. Based on ROS, a professional software (ROS) used in the best MARRtino research centers has been implemented and tested to perform many typical Robotics and Artificial Intelligence tasks, such as intelligent navigation, human-robot spoken interaction, image analysis.

Workshop OpenScad

Faire: Delft

Maker: MakerSpace Delft

Home: Zuid Holland, Nederland

Leer in deze workshop de basis van 3D ontwerpen met het OpenSource programma OpenScad. Voor deze workshop is geen voorkennis van 3D ontwerpen nodig. Na deze workshop kun je eenvoudige modellen maken met OpenScad.

How to Train Your Robot

Faire: Central Oregon

Maker: Luke Bryan

Home: Oregon, United States

Intro to machine learning/AI, see how you can use some common computer recognition libraries to do things like see depth out of two camera's pictures, recognize objects and chat with a text chatbot.

Erogatore mangimi solidi e liquidi per volatili.

Faire: Rome

Maker: IIS Tito Sarrocchi

"Solid and liquid feed dispenser" was designed to solve the problem of feeding our domestic birds during the holidays and, therefore, away from our property. This electronic type device would be able to distribute a certain portion of feed per day, decided in advance by us and to supply the liquid container with water, from which the birds can drink.

Theremin Maker

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Rocio de los Ángeles Juárez García

Home: Ciudad de México, Mexico

El theremin es un instrumento musical electrónico que se toca sin necesidad de contacto físico con él. En Hacedores, creamos un diseño muy fácil de implementar, te invitamos a conocerlo.

De Maker a emprendedor

Faire: Mexicali

Maker: Andres Sabas

Home: Aguascalientes, Mexico

Como puedes iniciar una empresa con proyectos maker o de hobby. Desde mi experiencia al crear una empresa Maker basada en open source y hardware abierto hasta como otras personas podrían hacer lo mismo con sus proyectos

Slammer: Un robot rover autonomo, nato come progetto per imparare la robotica e ROS 2

Faire: Rome

Maker: Pizza Robotics

A rover robot built as a learnign platform for robotics. Based on several open source technologies (like ROS 2), it is also used as a development platform for uNav(https://blog.alessiomorale.com/unav2/), an advanced, open, motor control platform for robotic applications. This robot uses several sensors (Depth camera, lidar, IMU & GPS) to sense the surrounding environment, map and navigate autonomously, avoiding obstacles.AI Real-Time Object Detection algorithms are used to detect objects in the surrounding environment.

DIY RC Car Demo

Faire: Orange County

Maker: Collin Yong

Home: California, United States

This Maker Fair I would like to display and show my RC car that I made myself. It uses an Arduino as the brain to control one dc motor and one servo motor. There is a Bluetooth module that allows my phone to send commands to the car.

Mosquito swatter for gamer, low-tech irrigation with auto-filled ollas or porous capsules

Faire: Rome

Maker: Laurent Muzellec

low-tech automated irrigation : learn how to have a smart and sustainable watering system for your plant using ollas (clay pot) or porous capsule Mosquito swatter for gamer : with a few components, some mathematics, some 3D printing, learn how you could make your own mosquito hunting device. After this, you may even wish there are more mosquitos....

BirdWatch AI – Embedded Bird Watching Solution with TensorFlow

Faire: Rome

Maker: Enrico Stulin

BirdWatch AI is an innovative project that combines a passion for bird watching with the power of artificial intelligence. Our birdhouse with automatic recognition leverages TensorFlow to offer an unprecedented birdwatching experience. The BirdWatch AI project encompasses the mechanical design of a bird feeder equipped with a Full HD camera (a 12-megapixel IMX708 sensor with HDR), with the primary aim to capture images and videos of visiting birds. Using TensorFlow's automatic recognition algorithm and image manipulation with OpenCV, BirdWatch AI accurately identifies the bird species present, providing detailed and engaging information for birdwatching enthusiasts. As an open-source project, BirdWatch AI invites developers, enthusiasts, and the curious to collaborate, make modifications, and improvements. This open and collaborative aspect of the project encourages the sharing of knowledge and skills and contributes to the growth of artificial intelligence and birdwatching. BirdWatch AI not only offers the opportunity to observe and learn more about local avian wildlife but also makes a significant impact in several areas: Environmental education and awareness: Through our project, we aim to educate the public about bird species and their ecological importance. By presenting our sighting records and relevant information about bird behaviors, we strive to promote environmental awareness and care for biodiversity. Contribution to scientific research: In collaboration with ornithologists and researchers, we share data collected via BirdWatch AI to contribute to understanding migratory habits, distribution patterns, and bird population dynamics. Our technology provides a novel approach for efficient and effective data collection. Technological innovation: BirdWatch AI represents an interesting integration of nature observation and artificial intelligence. We are proud to demonstrate how the application of TensorFlow has enabled the automatic recognition of bird species, opening new perspectives for the use of AI in wildlife conservation and observation. At Maker Faire Rome, we will present a working prototype of our birdhouse, illustrating how we use TensorFlow for automatic bird recognition. We will also display a selection of recordings that demonstrate the effectiveness of our technology. We are excited to share our project with the audience at Maker Faire Rome, inspiring others to explore the universe of birds through technological innovation.

Open-source 4-shaft Weaving Loom

Faire: Delft

Maker: Asli Aydin Aksan

Home: Noord-Holland, Netherlands

This 4-shaft loom makes weaving textiles with more complex patterns available for experimental weavers and craftspeople because it is open source! You can change the tie-up pattern as you are weaving and collapse the loom to carry or store it.

Ternary Computer System

Faire: Rome

Maker: Claudio La Rosa

We design a new type of microprocessor, which works with ternary logic (instead of the usual binary). The immediate benefits of the ternary are: Compact information much better (than binary system); It reduces the size of the chips (especially the memory, which today occupies most of the surface). Our idea offers technological advantages that enable a great leap forward in traditional processing and supercomputing. It is optimally applied to the emerging fields of artificial intelligence and the brain-machine connection. Some neurobiological research groups are implementing neural networks with modeling of neurons using three states, because this better matches the activity of neurons. We design, write specifications (ISA) and implement ternary microprocessors.

I Can Feel My Legs

Faire: Rome

Maker: Gaetano Carlino

I Can Feel My Legs is a lower limb prosthesis whose purpose is to help people who have disabilities and/or difficulties in walking. What we present is the first working prototype showing toe movement that is done through the use of a wearable sock, for the initial acquisition of movement that will then be implemented through a self-learning neural network in order to improve its efficiency and responsiveness, which will be able to simulate toe movement.

Mittelab – Trieste’s Hackerspace

Faire: Trieste

Maker: Mittelab APS

Home: Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Mittelab è un hackerspace ovvero luogo dove appassionati di informatica, elettronica e tecnologia in generale si incontrano per condividere idee, progetti ed arnesi. Da noi troverete i progetti nati al nostro interno e persone entusiaste che ve ne parleranno!

MTsoil sensors

Faire: Trieste

Maker: Erika Ronchin

Home: Italy, Italy

Moisture and Temperature are two basic physical properties of soil used to monitor the health of the soils of our forests, to help detect big changes in soil conditions, and to assess the hazards of wildfires spreading. MTsoil is an inexpensive system of coupled moisture and temperature sensors. It is controlled via Telegram bot, can log the data into a Google sheet, and can easily be integrated into a dense network to monitor our forests.

ANT WORKFLOW: PCB FABRICATION @HOME

Faire: Trieste

Maker: The Ant Team

Home: Varese, Italy

Ant WorkFlow è la nostra idea di automazione della creazione di PCB a casa. E' composta da: The Ant, una compatta CNC ottimizzata per la fresatura di PCB, un progetto open in continua evoluzione. The Ant Farm, il nuovo software OPEN SOURCE da noi sviluppato che guiderà i makers nella realizzazione dei propri progetti dai file CAM alla scheda fresata. The Ant Queen, l'ultima versione dell'elettronica di controllo per piccole CNC (cuore della nostra The Ant)

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