Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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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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How to Become a Drone Pilot

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Werner von Stein

Home: United States

As the owner of SF Drone School, Werner has been working with kids to teach them how to fly drones safely. He strongly believes that only a properly trained pilot is a safe UAS pilot. He will also talk about the kind of jobs there are for drone pilots today.
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Start2Fit

Faire: Rome

Maker: LDB consulting di Livio di Bartolomeo

 

Star2Fit with its pioneering functions is an opportunity to understand how much and how the sports sector is evolving thanks to the availability of innovative technologies such as body recognition, which through AI allows us to understand how correctly the user's exercises are carried out, rather than the use of YpsilonX smartglasses which allow real-time reception of data from those carrying out sporting activities or the adoption of wearables to record users' movements.
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The Art of Needlefelting

Faire: Calgary

Maker: Sara Young

Home: Alberta, Canada

Sara will be demonstrating needle felting on a larger scale piece, and is displaying both completed and in progress sculptures. In addition, patterns and sketches will be shown
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Exergaming in Realtà Mista per la Neuroriabilitazione Personalizzata di Pazienti Atassici Cerebellari

Faire: Rome

Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma

 

The proposed prototype is a mixed reality system, consisting of an optical viewer (HoloLens2) connected to the PC, specifically implemented based on suggestions from patients and neurologists for the neurorehabilitation of the upper limbs. The system will make it possible to customize virtual scenarios of occupational therapy rehabilitation exercises performed by the patient in real-time, allowing the doctor to remotely assist him during the exergaming. The exercise is implemented in the Unity and is a pointing exercise.
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Hand-Crafted Electronic Music: Eurorack DIY

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Karl Stamm

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Eurorack is musical synthesizer hardware. Come play with live music generation, and hands on analog electronics, to make sounds nobody has ever heard before. Let's explore how electricity makes sound, and the tools to craft any sound you can imagine.
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Ham Radio Testing

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Bay Area Ham Radio On Site Ham Exams (affiliated with the ARRL)

Home: California, United States

On-site Ham Radio exams – take your exam between Maker Faire events!
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Information Outreach

Faire: Rocklin

Maker: Jim Carnathan

Home: California, United States

Arts Council of Placer County - Providing information about how we promote artist, art and cultural events and administer grant money to many applicants throughout Placer County.
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NeoDigitos

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Inventoteca

Home: Puebla, Mexico

NeoDigito es una alternativa para los displays de siete segmentos convencionales y las matrices LED, principalmente para displays de gran tamaño. Con la ventaja de tener una apariencia mejor y ser fácil de usar.
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Frit skabende broderi

Faire: Aarhus

Maker: Rita Ballegaard

Home: Denmark

Workshop i broderi og stofcollage. En leg i farver, strukturer og sting. Kræver ingen særlige forudsætninger. Alle materialer er til din rådighed. Min stil kan ses på Instagram -Rita Ballegaard. Alle hjælpes på vej i et lille kunstværk.
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Old fashioned band organ on a trailer

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Rob Gregory

Home: Ohio, United States

Old fashioned band organ on a trailer
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hÜk Charcuterie

Faire: Orange County

Maker: Marc Anderson

Home: California, United States

I am an artisanal woodworker making upscale, creative kitchen and home accessories such as c-tables from bent wood, one-handed charcuterie boards, coasters, charcuterie knives, pizza access, and more. I try to bring an element of art, function, and s
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Pop-up City. Percorsi reali e virtuali di racconto del territorio

Faire: Rome

Maker: Sapienza Università di Roma

 

Pop Up City is a territory exploration project that through the use of personal devices adds, overlays, writes and reads virtual information to the physical context. The idea behind the pop-up, in book technology as in computer technology, is that of three-dimensional development, the opening of temporary windows that have the function of warning, help or advice for navigation. Augmented reality applied to cultural heritage and the cityscape offers a new way of telling stories rooted in local culture, creating an intergenerational collective imagination.
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Blacksmithing: a demonstration in forging techniques and why they developed

Faire: Long Island

Maker: SCA NY-Barony of An Dubhaigeainn

Home: New York, United States

We will be looking into the past and seeing how some items or trades evolved. Blacksmiths will be demonstrating forging techniques that developed through the centuries.
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Creative transformation of felting

Faire: Rome

Maker: Mariia Hrozdova

 

Our idea demonstrates that from natural, environmentally friendly materials, using old felting technologies, you can create innovative, stylish, modern products.
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3D Circuitry

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Reese Houseknecht

Home: Pennsylvania, United States

We offer revolutionary electronic kits! From our own struggles with soldering, we've created kits designed to make soldering fun and easy. Our kits provide hands-on experiences, complete with easy to read instructions and educational videos.
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Robotics, Science and Coding Education course for primary and middle schools.

Faire: Rome

Maker: corsi di formazione di robotica educativa, programmazione e STEAM per bambini dai 5 ai 14 anni

 

Code Academy provides education course for schools of robotics, technology and coding to cultivate the passion of the new generations to study sciences and create robots. We organize various workshop for children 6-8, 9-12 and 12-14 years old lasting 60 min. with our teachers. The kids will build and write codes for interactive robots such as: * electric bicycle with graph of energy consumption on different surfaces (Scratch programming) * earthquake simulator with earthquake solutions * experimentation with electric circuit through percussion on sensors and programming with Micro: bit * innovative energy sources such as wind turbine We exhibit the presentations of the various projects created by our students (age 9-14): * solar panels with light reflection sensors that follow the light source and modulated to follow the sun's shift cycle to produce more energy * robots that collect wave energy with variables coded to calculate the energy produced GRABER-robotic hand: allows you to collect garbage safely.
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Vortechs Robotics FRC 3257

Faire: Rocklin

Maker: Vortechs Robotics FRC 3257

Home: California, United States

WANT TO BUILD ROBOTS? Vortechs Robotics FRC 3257. Learn: Project Management, Programming, CAD, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineering. Build advanced robots, with sophisticated sensors, electronics, programming, & mechanical design. Open to high school students in South Placer, traditional, charters, and homeschoolers. Sponsors: NASA, HAAS, Intuitive, Apple, PG&E, Love of Learning, LightObject… Recruited by Yale, CALTECH, MIT, CAL POLY, Stanford… $20 million in FIRST college scholarships.
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8bit

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: SIProp

Home: Nerima, Tokyo, Japan

8 bit is an application work uses the operating principle of a superconducting quantum computer gate control microwaves with Chladni figure. Currently, there are a many applications works&interaction based classical computers architecture, but by using the quantum computers is few yet. In the future, many quantum computers applications will be created to emerge. Then I focus on superconducting quantum computers in qbit gate control microwaves, propose the interaction between qbit and human and everyone could touch and try this application.
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Je maakt het op de Haagse!

Faire: Delft

Maker: Haagse Hogeschool Makers

Home: Zuid-Holland, Nederland

Kom je kijken naar onze demo's van de handbike, de 'disassembly robot' of onze zelfgebouwde pick-and-place robots? Bij de technische onderzoekers en studenten van de Haagse Hogeschool op de campus in Delft draait het vaak om Maken! We laten je graag kennismaken met onze prototypes.
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AUTOMATED FILTRATION SYSTEM FOR WHIRLPOOL WATERMILL

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Ashiqul Tuhin

Home: New York, United States

Whirlpool Watermill's filtration system offers efficient water purification, prioritizing ecosystem conservation. Using actuators, the system efficiently removes debris, safeguarding hydroelectric turbines from damage. It's an eco-friendly approach.
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Red de Sensores de Bajo Costo para el Monitoreo de la Calidad del Aire-MONAIR

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Roberth Bautista

Home: Guatemala, Guatemala

MONAIR, Red de Estaciones de bajo costo para el monitoreo de la calidad del aire, desarrollado y ensamblado en Guatemala.
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CT River Valley Precious Plastics

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: CT River Valley Precious Plastics

Home: Massachusetts, United States

The Connecticut River Valley Precious Plastic Community is a collective group of design labs and colleges around the Valley determined to change how we have conversations around plastic in our local communities. We are passionate about using open-sourced machines for plastic upcycling purposes. Currently, we are working to recycle PLA plastic from 3D printers to turn it back into usable 3D printer filament. Come see our shredder and extruder machines in action!
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Glassy Day Studio

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: NULL

Home: Florida, United States

Glassy Day Studio gives new life to the waste material from the surfboard glassing process. Large chunks of resin, sourced from a local surfboard shaper, are cut into small blanks, which are then put on the lathe and turned into bangles, hoops, beads, and more. The material and way each design is handcrafted means no two pieces are ever the same. As a long-time surfer, using recycle surfboard resin to create unique pieces of wearable art for other water-loving women is a joy and privilege.
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