Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Walworth County Beekeepers Association

Faire: Elkhorn

Maker: Walworth County Beekeepers Association

Home: Wisconsin, United States

The Walworth County Beekeepers Club will have informative display boards and experienced beekeepers on hand to discuss and answer questions regarding sustainable beekeeping techniques.

3D Clinostat for the Study of Mature Plants During Microgravity Simulation

Faire: Miami

Maker: iMater Research Knights

Home: Florida, United States

We developed and optimized a 3D clinostat to study the effects of simulated microgravity on mature plants focusing on varieties of edible plants tested through the Growing Beyond Earth (GBE) program for NASA.

BIOPLAnet by Institut EEI

Faire: Brussels

Maker: Institute of entrepreneurial education and innovation

Home: Croatia

BIOPLAnet is STEM engaging project

De Residuos a Bioplásticos

Faire: Lisbon

Maker: BioLab Lisboa

Home: Lisboa, Portugal

Neste workshop vamos ensinar a fazer plásticos biodegradáveis, vamos abordar a sua fabricação através de resíduos alimentares! Com materiais facilmente acessíveis. Vais ter a oportunidade de produzir os teus bio-plásticos e de os transformares num objeto, ficas ainda com a receita para depois fazeres em casa variações.

Ukraine Steampunk handmade jewelry from watches

Faire: Rome

Maker: Iryna Proskurina

Welcome to the world of Steampunk from the IrenFox SteamPunk workshop! One of the first Steampunk workshops in Ukraine with the widest range of jewelry in this direction. All items are handcrafted from genuine watch movements. Jewelry is created in small collections from watches that cannot be repaired. Some models cannot be replicated and are truly exclusive. All products are packed in a good branded eco box. Each product is filled with the spirit of the era of steam engines and elements of science fiction. You will find a wide selection of pendants, brooches, earrings, cufflinks and so on.

LUCIESP – Monitor display in tempo reale per inverter zucchetti-sofarsolar-voltronic e batterie pylontech, weco e seplos

Faire: Rome

Maker: giuseppe de lorenzo

Updated information about your inverter every 5 seconds ... at a glance!

Lionfish Huntress

Faire: Palm Beach

Maker: Christine Raininger

Home: Florida, United States

@lionfish_huntress_florida has exotic invasive lionfish fins and skins preserved and turned into wearable & giftable items. They are a conservation conversation starter created on all stages by an environmental activist spearing the species locally.

UW-Milwaukee EnQuest

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: UW-Milwaukee

Home: Wisconsin, United States

This summer, two groups of girls came to UW-Milwaukee's campus to participate in real-world projects. Stop by to see the portable renewable power stations they built for people in Guatemala and the research they did in the Biomedical Engineering lab!

BusyBeingAmazing

Faire: Baton Rouge

Maker: Busy Being Amazing

Home: Louisiana, United States

Busy Being Amazing hand makes uniquely crafted, soy wax candles and gifts curated to enhance healing during self care.

Nectar

Faire: Rome

Maker: posti s.r.l.

NECTAR is an innovative project aiming to create the first agrifood metaverse, providing an immersive experience in the realm of nutrition and healthy, sustainable eating. This environment combines cutting-edge technologies to offer users a unique experience that merges education, experimentation, and innovation. The main components of the project are blockchain-tracked products and metabolic avatars. The blockchain aspect includes a wide range of agri-food products from select Italian companies, allowing users to interact with them in an immersive experience. They can learn about the products' origins, nutritional characteristics, and make informed choices. Users can also connect with the producing companies, gaining insights into their sustainable production practices and the food supply chain. The metabolic avatar is a personalized digital representation of an individual's metabolism, created using information from wearable devices such as smart bands and impedance scales. It enables real-time and remote monitoring of physiological parameters, providing data used to deliver a customized quality index for food choices based on simulated metabolic effects. The avatar tracks user metabolism levels over time, offering a comprehensive view of metabolic variations and responses to consumed foods and supplements. The personalized metabolic avatar (PMA) employs a deep learning GRU (gated recurrent unit) model trained to predict weight changes, blood glucose, and other physiological variables tailored to macronutrient composition and daily energy balance. The model allows simulations and evaluations of dietary plans, facilitating the definition of customized goals for achieving ideal weight. NECTAR's platform integrates metabolic and sensory avatars, blockchain, and virtual reality technologies to create a metaverse dedicated to agrifood. Avatars interact with blockchain-tracked products, providing consumers with detailed information on the origin, quality, and sustainability of food products. By combining sensory and metabolic analyses with blockchain, NECTAR ensures transparency, sustainability, and food safety, meeting the needs of consumers, institutions, and companies. The ultimate goal is to promote sustainable agriculture, environmentally and human-health-friendly food production, circular economy, and the reduction of food waste, following the "One Health" approach. NECTAR addresses various industrial, economic, and social challenges. It tackles the lack of transparency in nutritional information and the presence of unhealthy ingredients in food products. It also aims to combat the global obesity epidemic by promoting balanced and healthy eating. Furthermore, NECTAR aims to address social issues by offering affordable access to nutritious and sustainable food. In conclusion, NECTAR is an innovative proposal that combines emerging technologies like the metaverse, metabolic avatars, blockchain, and NFTs to create a platform dedicated to agrifood, promoting sustainability and transparency in the industry. Despite not being realized yet, presenting this project to the public can generate interest, engagement, and potential collaborations while evaluating market demand.

Kali Mushrooms

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Sneha Ganguly

Home: New York, United States

Kali Mushrooms specializes in mycological arts and education. The table will feature art and educational resources on mycology and mushroom cultivation, wild mushrooms, and novel mushroom-based materials and pigments, for visitors to explore.

pdmcbride.com chandeliers and lamps

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Dave McBride

Home: Massachusetts, United States

I make chandeliers, lamps and other unusual lighting objects using metal, wood and resin. Many of the materials I use are discarded or used and I find repurposing shapes and objects into new uses to be great fun for me and to viewers. Persistent ideas that I work with are histories of objects and continuance of space through representations of separation and the impermanence of things. I especially like the challenges and new ideas that unknown flaws of used or recycled parts bring to the work, as these require creative solutions that only seem to come up when I think I have failed.

Costruzione locomotive elettriche a controllo digitale per trasporto persone

Faire: Trieste

Maker: RENATO FORZA

Home: UDINE, Italy

Progetto e costruisco locomotive elettriche a controllo digitale. Realizzo tutta la parte di comando e controllo dei motori elettrici (gli azionamenti) che servono per muovere le locomotive e il suo convoglio. Le locomotive trainano appositi carri per il trasporto di persone adulte e bambini. Il controllo digitale è fatto con gli stessi computer utilizzati da Arduino. Quest'anno anche i semafori !

Reparatón: supraciclaje de plástico y ropa

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Andrea Ramírez

Home: CDMX, Mexico

Vamos a conocer cómo reciclar plástico en creaciones atractivas y a reutilizar textiles con tinturas naturales.

SCCARTI 0: Studio di Compositi Cementizi Addizionati con materiali Riciclati e Transizione verso applicazioni ad Impatto 0

Faire: Rome

Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma

Use of recycled rubber from end-of-life tires and PVC pellets from the recycling of electric cables in the creation of lightweight cement mortars with improved thermal insulation, acoustic damping and vibration absorption performance. Use of carbon fiber recycled from composite materials for the development of reinforced mortars with high mechanical strength performance. Prototypes of sandwich bricks that combine the above materials in a single constructive solution: core made of rubber-mortar and PVC-mortar and sheets of fiber-reinforced mortar with recycled carbon.

Gieskes.nl

Faire: Eindhoven

Maker: gijs gieskes

Home: brabant, Nederland

I am a industrial-designer/artist from the Netherlands specializing in the design of electronic devices, for audiovisual use. The devices are often sold as kits but also pre assembled, check my store to see what is currently available.

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.'

MyEasyCarbon: the future of sustainable agriculture

Faire: Rome

Maker: MYEASYFARM

MyEasyCarbon is the first Label Bas Carbone certified tool capable of assessing the sustainability of agricultural businesses by calculating the balance between emissions and carbon storage in the soil. The advantage of using MyEasyCarbon lies on its interoperability, its ease of use and speed of analysis. The combined use of MyEasyFarm and MyEasyCarbon allows for the integration of data from agricultural machinery into the carbon calculation, making the final calculation more realistic and transparent, and providing more reliable data regarding Scope 3 emissions in the agri-food supply chain.

Strange! Weird! Unusual! Animal

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Samantha Sing

Home: New York, United States

Sam & Friends as we learn weird animal facts and celebrate what makes animals unique and special. Meet live animals, check out our Crankie Theater demonstration, and make your very own animal inspired puppets!

Tampu Project

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Iván Tapia

Home: New York, United States

The objective of Tampu is to protect and educate the knowledge-contributions of the Andean ancestral culture to humanity. Implementing multiple impact projects, promoting the development and integration of the indigenous in the America continent .

Life Pillars

Faire: Rome

Maker: Giulia Scalzo

Our value proposition is based on a product called LIFE PILLARS: a green infrastructure that can mitigate urban heat islands. Life Pillars operates in the sustainable building sector with the aim of providing a solution that is simple to implement and has a high environmental impact to face the challenge of climate change. Our initiative focuses on various actions, including the reduction of heat islands, the promotion of biodiversity and the construction of structures capable of absorbing CO2, in order to create systems that respond to current environmental problems. We offer customers three price ranges, each with different functionality and features. We provide a personalized assistance service that accompanies the customer at every stage of the process, we offer branding, marketing and communication services to help the company communicate the value of the project on its channels and we provide bureaucratic support. Our clients operate mainly in the B2B market. Our first objective will be to address the large companies which, starting from 2024, will be obliged to present the sustainability report. In Italy, these companies are around 3,000, as reported by the CSEA institutional website. These companies share values such as growth, innovation, sustainability and the concept of "kaizen", i.e. the continuous improvement of company processes and performance. Furthermore, they have objectives both in terms of environmental sustainability and in terms of turnover, business and marketing. They want to have a "green" image and a solution that contributes to having a positive impact on the environment and on their business. Finally, these are companies looking for strategic partnerships in order to improve positioning, growth, acquisition of new customers and consolidation on the market. We have identified several competitors that fill the same need for our product, both directly and indirectly. However, our solution stands out for its significant impact in effectively mitigating heat islands in urban centres, as well as the level of customization offered and the support provided to obtain the necessary certifications and achieve a sustainable balance sheet. Specifically, our value proposition delivers a number of benefits to customers, including: Brand positioning and recognition; Differentiation from competitors; Visibility, the possibility of forging partnerships and public relations; Access to GBC-Leed certifications; Rating of sustainability reports; Personalized offer based on budget and needs; Personalized support and customer assistance; branding, marketing and communication services relating to the project; bureaucratic support; Objectives of the 2023 Sustainable Agenda.

ERIE21 Maker Group – Mini Theme Park

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: ERIE21 Maker Group

Home: New York, United States

Blast off with Passport to the Future, a pop-up theme park by ERIE21 Maker Group, Budmen Industries + The Keenan Center. Discover future transportation, visit other planets + take on the robot obstacle course. Join us on this unforgettable journey!

Nighthawk Naturalist School

Faire: Central Oregon

Maker: Nighthawk Naturalist School

Home: Oregon, United States

Nighthawk’s mission is to provide quality wilderness education in the Bend area. We hold classes for youth and adults: camps, workshops, immersions and homeschool. During these courses we teach ecology, natural history and Ethnobotany.

fi.light39

Faire: Brussels

Maker: Phile François

Home: Belgium

Créateur de luminaires FI.LIGHT39 évolue dans un univers vintage et industriel pour des objets uniques. Fabriqués à la main et avec passion à partir de matériaux récupérés et d'objets insolites.

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