Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

Projects

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Stencil Stylz

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Darrell Thomas

Home: North Carolina, United States

Stencil Stylz is a fun and unique reusable sidewalk chalk stencil for children. Stencil Stylz allows for children and adults to create fun, colorful, and unique pictures and designs using sidewalk chalk, markers, color pencils, crayons, and paints.

Star Wars R2D2 droid

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Geoff Pavey

Home: North Carolina, United States

Everyones favorite Star Wars Droid! Its full-size, screen accurate, is remotely controlled and has all the great R2 sounds. The project was 3D printed and required over 25kg of filament and over 2600 hours of printing time.

Bookmark Looms with SCPL Spark Space

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Leanne Lawter

Home: South Carolina, United States

Using looms cut on our Glowforge laser cutter, create one-of-a-kind hand-woven bookmarks with the staff from Spartanburg County Public Library's Spark Space Makerspace!

Biomimic-NC!

Faire: Asheville

Maker: NC Arboretum Education

Home: North Carolina, United States

From bullet trains to umbrellas, humans have been copying plants and animals to solve problems for thousands of years! Join educators from the NC Arboretum to explore how local nature has inspired inventions and maybe even make some of your own!

Edwin Salas Art

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Edwin Salas

Home: North Carolina, United States

Puppets Mechanism and kids workshops

Firefly Valley Pottery Creativity Zone

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Ona Armstrong Armstrong

Home: North Carolina, United States

Come learn ceramic handbuilding techniques with Ona Armstrong, founder of Firefly Valley Pottery. Participants will be able to take home clay creations, and also store them at Ona’s booth safely while they experience other exhibits.

Asheville Museum of Science

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Asheville Museum of Science

Home: North Carolina, United States

This year AMOS is going retro and celebrating how we started- with rocks! Become a mineral detective, get your game on with conductive rocks at our own “Literal Rock Band”, or make your very own pet rock robot to add to your collection at home!

E-Target Electronic Target System

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Carson Couch

Home: Kentucky, United States

E-Target "Electronic Target System" originally created as an engineering project for school science fair. Uses arduino to control metal targets to fall once hit. At the maker fair we will_x000D_ be able to use nerf guns/bullets to demonstrate how it works.

Making’s SEW Fun!

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Mandy Bunnell

Home: South Carolina, United States

Come see how to create 2-dimensional paper patterns and use them to create 3-dimensional fabric art! You’ll see my “MineCraft”-style stuffed animals, pyramid chickens, cozies, quilts and other fun, miscellaneous creations!

First Tech Challenge Team 24789 Split Second

Faire: Asheville

Maker: FTC Team 24789 Splitsecond

Home: North Carolina, United States

The NCSSM Morganton Robotics team would like you to see what we've built this year, and learn how these projects tackle this years challenge. No matter your experience with robotics our booth offers wants to offer a glimpse into the process robotics.

Paper Rocket Make & Launch

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Tom Heck

Home: North Carolina, United States

Make a rocket out of paper and launch it using an industrial grade "stomp" launcher. Rockets fly high and far. You get to keep the rocket you make! Hosted by the YMCA of WNC.

WNC Repair Cafe

Faire: Asheville

Maker: WNC Repair Cafe

Home: North Carolina, United States

WNC Repair Cafe organizes pop-up repair events, where you can bring in your broken stuff and their volunteers help you fix it, for free._x000D_ _x000D_ Serving Buncombe, Henderson, and Haywood Counties in 2024. A full schedule is available on our website.

AlonSlide with electronic gadgets

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Catherine Johnson

Home: North Carolina, United States

The AlonSlide equipment provides whole-body work-out for stroke survivors, TBI people and seniors. Eventually, we will hook-it up to a BlueTooth microprocessor and the clients' data will be sent to a local therapist.

Purl’s Yarn Emporium

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Rik Schell

Home: North Carolina, United States

We'll be demonstrating a variety of fiber crafts, from raw fleeces fresh off the sheep to spinning into yarn, dyeing techniques (which we won't be demoing live because of potential mess), the design process, and knitting.

Geodesic Dome that makes music

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Tom Heck

Home: North Carolina, United States

An amazing 7 foot tall geodesic dome that acts like a piano only with this "instrument" the musician just touches one (or many) of the 25 struts of the geodesic dome to trigger musical sounds. It's a combination of art, geometry, and architecture!

Asheville Tool Library

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Asheville Tool Library

Home: North Carolina, United States

The Asheville Tool Library is a volunteer-powered, membership-based nonprofit that shares its tools and resources and offers educational opportunities to the Community of Western North Carolina.

Robots and Art

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Summer Dail

Home: North Carolina, United States

We will be using Sphero robots to create drawings and paintings. Through coding and navigating Spheros participants will be able to create their own robotic masterpiece.

Colonel Panic’s DIY hardware, hacking, and rapid prototyping space.

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Thomas Johnson

Home: North Carolina, United States

DIY hardware creation, rapid prototyping, and the hacker mindset.

ComputerSource,3D Printers TOO!

Faire: Asheville

Maker: ComputerSource,3D Printers TOO!

Home: South Carolina, United States

Come see 3d printers in action! You will also have the opportunity to purchase at lower than internet prices if interested.

Vintage 3D Printer Restomods

Faire: Asheville

Maker: James Montgomerie

Home: North Carolina, United States

3D printer history, updated for 2024! _x000D_ _x000D_ See (and hear!) a vintage MakerBot Cupcake - the OG 3D hobbyist 3D printer from 2009 - and a plywood Graber i3 from 2014, both updated for 2024!

Dr. Bob’s Sonic Interaction

Faire: Asheville

Maker: The Bob Moog Foundation

Home: North Carolina, United States

Ever wanted to play a theremin or sculpt sound with a synthesizer? Dr. Bob’s Interactive Sonic Experience will have synthesizers, theremins, and other awesome gear for kids and adults to play and enjoy!

Paper Roller Coasters

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Andrew Gatt

Home: North Carolina, United States

I build paper roller coasters, marble tracks made from cardstock and tape. I've built roller coasters that were over 16 feet tall, completely out of paper and tape. My paper roller coaster templates are used by thousands of schools around the world.

The Learning Community School

Faire: Asheville

Maker: The Learning Community

Home: North Carolina, United States

Visit the Learning Community Booth to see what the TLC makers have been up to this year. Check out projects made by K-8th grade makers.

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