Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Build a Bot Workshop Powered by Lectrify.it

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Make:

Home: California, United States

Stop by and grab a Shake-it Mini and customize your very own vibrobot! Open build and self-paced hands-on making!

The DynaMandala

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: DynaTeam

Home: Oregon, United States

The DynaMandala is a celebration of exploring the combination of Sight, Sound, AND Input. Input is a critical part of the work. When you play the DynaMandala, You complete the art. It is a rich and responsive instrument that each player will bring to a unique swirl of dazzling pattern and sound. The DynaMandala is a creative coding software project utilizing the latest generation Real-Time 3D technology. The DynaController is the custom built MIDI activated sculpture through which visitors interact with the lights animated on the screen before them and the sound animated in the quadrophonic speaker system surrounding the space. Animation is Visual Music > Music is Sonic Animation Life is the energy that animates.

Tonglen

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ryan Mathern

Tonglen, the Buddhist practice of receiving and accepting bad energy and sending out and letting go of one's good energy, is embodied in this prayer engine made of steel and wood.

Polyhedra Party

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Stacy Speyer

Home: California, United States

Come to color and construct your own geometric form from the collection of patterned nets called Cubes and Things. We will have scissors, markers, tape, and a polyhedra enthusiast to help you make these cool shapes!!

Shelly the Armadillo

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Muchos Amigos

Home: California, United States

Climb up and ride Shelly the Armadillo. She's an adult size rocking animal designed for fun. Unlock the child inside you.

AI Color Chocolate Sorting Machine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Riciery Santos

Home: California, United States

This project is an automated machine for sorting M&Ms by color, utilizing computer vision technology and automation. The key component is the Husky Lens, an artificial intelligence camera from DF Robot, responsible for identifying the color of each M&M. Once the color is detected, a servo motor is activated, directing the chocolates to the respective boxes based on color. The control core of the machine is the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board, which manages the interface between the Husky Lens and the servo motor. This system demonstrates the practical application of computer vision and automation in specific tasks, offering an efficient and precise method for sorting M&Ms by color.

Desktop CNC Machines – Maineer

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maineer

Home: Oregon, United States

At Maineer, we are passionate about empowering makers and creators with cutting-edge technology. As pioneers in the field of desktop CNC milling, we are thrilled to showcase our latest innovation at the Maker Faire. Revolutionize your crafting experience with our Desktop CNC Mill. Designed for versatility and precision, our machine allows makers of all skill levels to bring their ideas to life, whether you're a hobbyist, artist, or entrepreneur, our CNC Mill offers a seamless blend of power and simplicity, making it the perfect tool for prototyping, engraving, and small-scale manufacturing.

Try AI with Raspberry Pi

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Raspberry Pi

Home: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Come meet the Raspberry Pi team and experiment with the new Raspberry Pi AI kit. Installed on a Raspberry Pi 5, the AI Kit allows you to rapidly build complex AI vision applications, running in real time, with low latency and low power requirements. State-of-the-art neural networks for object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking (to name just a few) run entirely on the Hailo-8L co-processor, leaving the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU free to perform other tasks.

The Cosmic Messenger

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Miki Masuhara-Page

Home: Oregon, United States

The Cosmic Messenger is an interactive sculpture designed to spark joy and creativity. This life-sized Pegasus unicorn, lovingly called Peggy, is crafted from sheet metal and steel rod, adorned with rainbow-colored glass chakras and a rainbow-painted mane and tail. Peggy's body is coated in black chalkboard paint, inviting you to get creative with chalk messages. At night, white LEDs illuminate the glass, while color-changing LEDs create a rippling rainbow effect on her wings, mane, and tail. This year, Peggy sports a new mermaid tail, giving you even more space to draw, and offers postcards for visitors to send messages through the cosmos. Blending artistic beauty with interactive fun, Ms. Peggy is a whimsical, one-of-a-kind magical beast sure to bring smiles to all who meet her.

Lara Grant

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Lara Grant

Home: Oregon, United States

Lara Grant designs clothing and accessories that blend history, education, and fun. Pulling from her background in fashion, physical computing, and education, colorful designs are made into pins, patches, and one-of-a-kind textile designs. Garments and bags highlight sustainable practices while engaging the wearer by communicating history or teaching hands-on skills. Waste materials are minimized by using low-waste cut patterns during garment and bag construction. Natural and organic fibers are used and each item is packaged in recyclable or biodegradable material. Lara first demoed at Bay Area Maker Faire in 2008 and has been a long-time member of the e-textiles community. She is excited to be back this year!

Waterlight Graffiti

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Antonin Fourneau

Home: France

Waterlight Graffiti is an interactive light art installation that allows people to draw or write with water. The main idea behind the project is to merge the ephemeral nature of graffiti with technology and sustainability. When water touches the surface of the panel, it completes an electrical circuit that lights up LEDs embedded within. The result is a temporary, glowing artwork that fades away as the water evaporates, leaving no permanent mark. This project not only encourages creative expression and public participation but also promotes environmental awareness by utilizing water as a harmless, renewable medium for street art. It transforms public spaces into dynamic art galleries where everyone can contribute, altering the way people interact with urban environments.

The Lace Museum & Victorian Hairwork w Lucy Cadwallader

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Lace Museum

Home: California, United States

We will be demonstrating lace making and Have a very special make and take project. Under direction of Lucy Cadwallader, you can make a flower of synthetic hair. For a very personalized project you can even use your own hair!

Aqua Cherry

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Casey Thomas

Home: California, United States

Welcome to Aqua Cherry, where minimalist jewelry designs meet playful sophistication! Inspired by geometric shapes and Art Deco style, my collection showcases intricately laser-cut patterns infused with fun color accents. Discover the fusion of precision craftsmanship and vibrant colors in every piece.

A Song of Steel and Fire

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Clay and Steel

Home: California, United States

Clay and Steel returns for an fiery forging demonstration at Maker Faire. Projects will be tailored towards the Faire's creative, fantasy loving, LARPing, geeky audience. We'll be crafting items like hammers, knives, leaves, and charms, demonstrating the process while enjoying the craft. Visit our booth to observe a complete project demonstration, and for those over 18 in non-flammable attire, there will be limited hands-on opportunities available.

Spacebar Arcade

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Yarn Corporation

Home: California, United States

Spacebar Arcade is a Virtual Reality saloon arcade set in the wild west of cyberspace. You enter this virtual world by way of a real-world 16-foot-tall arcade cabinet. Play on the "outside" using game pads and the giant screen, or don a VR headset to go inside the Spacebar with your friends and family. Inside, one can find a variety of low-gravity games and digital refreshments to enjoy with the other patrons. You might find our ornery A.I. barkeep, Cyberspace Sam. The physical cabinet and the virtual game were both designed and built by creative technologist (and lifelong maker), Sam Mateosian, in his San Carlos garage studio with the assistance of his two daughters, various friends, and helpful neighbors. It was first exhibited at the Augmented World Expo Playground in June 2024.

Get On The Air: Amateur Radio is Still Cool!

Faire: Bay Area

We will be hosting many different kinds of radio exhibits covering what is happening in ham radio, expect to be amazed at one of the oldest hobbies is still going strong!",,,http://beniciaarc.com,,greggahorton@gmail.com,Benicia Amateur Radio Club ,The Benicia Amateur Radio Club (BARC) is a very active group of Ham Radio operators with emphasis on Emergency Communications.

Electric Hotdog Derby

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Andrew Leung

Home: California, United States

Come participate in a pinewood derby race with a twist. Choose a hotdog, give it wheels, and customize it for speed. As your racer rockets towards the finish line it will be cooked by the track to produce a snack that tastes like victory.

Wendy the Welder

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jean Cherie

Proposition to create monumental bronze sculpture honoring the Women who worked on Mare Island to help win World War ll in the Pacific.

The Reuse Alliance

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Reuse Alliance

Home: California, United States

Step right up and try your hand at small appliance repair while learning about opportunities to reuse! Even if you're not experienced, our volunteer Repair Coaches will work with you to diagnose, then tackle the problem of one of our donated items. If you've got something small you'd like repaired, you're welcome to bring something for us to take a crack at. If you can carry it in, we will try to fix it! Fixing the item with the Repair Coaches is a great learning opportunity as well so we require you to stick with us while your item is worked on. Some common items we fix include: Textiles Lamps Small appliances *We cannot guarantee your item(s) will be repaired, depending on the existing damage or breakage, ability of volunteer fixers, and availability of materials for repair.

Machine knitting – punchcards and Arduino hacks

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Machine Knitters Guild of the San Francisco Bay Area

Home: California, United States

Learn how knitting machines work, and how they can be programmed - either electronically, or mechanically using punchcards - to make colorful patterns and elaborate lace and other textures. See an open source hack for vintage 1980's knitting machines, giving them new Arduino-powered electronic patterning.

Wonderful Idea Company

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ryan Jenkins

Home: Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Join Ryan Jenkins and friends from the Wonderful Idea for a hands-on tinkering workshop where you can slow down, play with real materials and explore the intersection between art, science and technology. We'll take inspiration from Ryan's recently released book The Tinkering Workshop and engage a hands-on collaborative build project taken straight from the pages that uses scrap cardboard, gumdrop LEDs, copper tape and other everyday supplies.

GetChaMunchOn

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: RJ Pajarillo

Home: California, United States

Homemade Wafer Cookies. Thin, buttery, crisp and chewy at the same time! Half dipped in chocolate with variety toppings.

Hyperbolic paraboloid wind-proof Rain and Shade cover

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: TomSawyerLabs

Home: California, United States

Do you need a shade structure for a BIG project, event, or Burningman camp? This is a do-it-yourself project that any group can make out of off-the-shelf components. The Hyperbolic paraboloid "saddle" shape is easy to achieve and has special properties. A 40’ square flat tarp could be a disaster in windy conditions. The uplift force is enough to lift the whole tarp and slam it back down. But the downward corners of the saddle prevent this from happening. If it rains, all of the water is directed to these same two low points.

FOGTOWN: The Puppetry Reimagining of the World's Greatest Detectives

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Fogtown

Home: Oregon, United States

Fogtown is an in-development TV series (and videogame!) for the whole family, blending the old-school art of puppetry with the cutting-edge innovations of virtual production. Emulating a small-scale style of the Volume-staged filmmaking used in The Mandalorian, Fogtown uses tools like Blender and the Unreal Engine to mix 3D printed puppets & props with digitally handcrafted environments that evoke the spirit of 1800s London (but reimagined with a cardboard diorama look). At our booth, we'll demonstrate the process of filming scenes for Fogtown and let fairgoers try out our choice-based videogame A Rum Case in Fogtown, featuring branching interactive movie gameplay. If you love The Muppets, Wallace & Gromit, or Sherlock Holmes, we think you'll really enjoy what we're up to!

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