Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Ladybug Art Gallery

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Mare Island Art Studios

Home: California, United States

The Ladybug Art Gallery was transformed from a 1974 Boler camping trailer by Mare Island Art Studio’s Sherry Tobin Haney.

Captivating LED Sculptures Made from Recycled Metal

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kristen Hoard

Home: California, United States

Step into the "Captivating LED Art" exhibit, where sustainability meets artistry. LED sculptures crafted from repurposed metals await your exploration, each reflecting light on grinded surfaces, creating mesmerizing shadows and patterns. Greeted by an array of captivating sculptures, intricately cut and welded from recycled metal components, you'll discover discarded fire extinguishers, shelves, and buoys finding new life in the hands of Kristen Hoard. As you step inside, witness the transformative power of creativity and sustainability firsthand.

From a Tinkering Toddler to Collaborating with Mark Rober: My Maker Story

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: CrunchLabs

Home: California, United States

Things will go BOOM! "Science Bob" Pflugfelder (Jimmy Kimmel Live, Live With Kelly & Mark) brings his love of science and making to life through stories and some science demonstrations that will almost certainly require a cleaning crew. Part demonstration, part education, and hopefully part inspiration.

UC Berkeley Disability Lab – CripCraft Workshops

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: UC Berkeley Disability Lab

Home: California, United States

The UC Berkeley Disability Lab and the MadRadLab are presenting CripCrafts! Disabled people are some of the most crafty people in the world, come learn how to adapt your world to better suit your body and your mind. Come and consult with our team or make your own adaptations right on the spot. We hope to have something for everyone disabled from young to old. The UC Berkeley Disability Lab is the nation's first and only disability centered makerspace designed by and for disabled people.

Designing Stuff for SPACE!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Samuel Coniglio

Home: California, United States

How do astronauts take a shower in space? That's one of many questions they get asked all the time. Listen to author Samuel Coniglio talk about his new book "Creature Comforts in Space": designing enjoyment and sustainability for off-world living. A veteran of Maker Faires since 2009, Samuel has a dichotomy of experience in both the aerospace world and the Maker world. He worked on the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs as a NASA contractor in the 1990's and later became a space activist promoting Space Tourism. On the side, he is a Maker at Obtainium Works, an art car factory famous for the Neverwas Haul Victorian House on Wheels. Listen to him discuss how to turn the dangers of space travel into design constraints so that you can make future space stations more fun!

FIRST robotics

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Northern California FIRST Robotics teams

Home: California, United States

Teams of middle school and high school robotics teams will present their robots and interact with visitors. The FIRST LEGO League Challenge program is designed for middle school aged teams, FIRST Tech Challenge program is for junior high and high school aged teams and FIRST Robotics Competition is a high school team competition. Teams will show off their student-built robots! FIRST Teams do not have to be associated with a school or organization - they can be friends, scouts, neighbors, and more.

GIY Materials: Growing Fungi for BioFabrication

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Elizabeth Marley

Home: California, United States

This 'GIY Materials: Growing Fungi for BioFabrication presentation will introduce Grow-It-Yourself methods and projects that use the magic of mycelium, mushrooms, and other biological organisms to produce renewable materials that can be heat resistant, water resistant, and biodegradable…. and maybe even help clean the environment! Examples of projects involving fashion, electronics, and architecture will be shown along with some tips and resources on how you, too, can grow your own materials for future projects.

CrunchLabs

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: CrunchLabs by Mark Rober

Home: California, United States

Explore the innovative world of STEM with our Build Box and Hack Pack toys! Visitors of all ages can unleash their creativity by designing and assembling custom fidget toys with guidance from our CrunchLabs Product Designers. Experience the thrill as you move through interactive stations and build your very own creation. Plus, don’t miss out on our exciting swag giveaways!

Astro Botanicals Space Garden

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Stan Clark

Home: California, United States

A mystical garden of giant illuminated flowers welcomes you to explore your imagination! The healthy symbiotic shapes and the hypnotic shifting colors transport you to another world of undersea outer space relaxation. Being surrounded by harmonic and angelic sculptures elevates your mind and empowers your inner child. Create new memories in a pure sensory palace among the transcendent lotuses, magnolias and starships. It is wonderful to see families sharing an empowering adventure among giant symbols of pure imagination.

PixSwitch

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sam Freeman

Home: California, United States

A box full of blinky LEDs and chunky mechanical switches. Originally built for kids, hordes of adults find it surprisingly difficult to put down. With simple games and a short parts list, it makes a good beginner project.

Handmade caramels, caramel cookies, caramel apple sandwiches & caramel popcorn

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jeri Vasquez

Home: California, United States

Kindred Cooks Caramels is a woman-owned business specializing in making handmade caramels in classic and original flavors. We have created several flavors that you won't find anywhere else and are the inventors of the Caramel Apple Sandwich and Caramel Cookies.

The “Sample Mode” Experience

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sample Mode: Intro to Sound Design, Beat-making, and Creative Music Technologies

Home: California, United States

Learn. Build. Code. Play. Join us at Maker's Faire and explore the Art of Beat--making and MIDI Controller Design at The Sample Mode Experience. • Explore 3D printing and microcontrollers. • Learn how to curate samples using Splice. • Make beats using Serato Studio. • Participate in a community MIDI Controller build. No experience necessary. Sample Mode: Intro to Sound Design, Beat-making, is a 12-week course offered in collaboration with Berkeley Changemaker®, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, Serato Studio and Splice for Education. Students learn how to curate samples using Splice, make beats with Serato Studio, and explore digital fabrication equipment to design, build, and code a custom midi-controller. Class sessions will be complemented by community beat-making and desig

ArtAtomic

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kristin Henry

Home: California, United States

Science, Nature, and Mathematics are at the core of Kristin Henry’s work. While working in Science and Data visualization, Henry also developed a practice creating artworks, and showing them under the name ArtAtomic. Alternating between developing code and working with more traditional tools like an embroidery needle or a glass dipping pen, Henry is always experimenting. In addition to works on paper, she also works with other media, like computer projections, textiles, wearable art. This exhibit will show many of these. For those familiar with the GalaxyGoo’s Cell Project workshops at past Maker Faires, she will also be bringing pre-made organelle models, so that you can make 3D models of cells at home.

Animation Studio for junior makers by SnackNotes

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Brian Van Osdol

Home: California, United States

SnackNotes presents “Animation Studio for Junior Makers,” a space where kids can have fun making their own drawings come alive! This exhibit is an activity-focused experience designed for young makers. Kids (and grownups!) can try different ways of making animations. Kids learn how to make basic two-frame animations that they can create anywhere with just a pencil and paper. Kids can also make a multi-frame animation viewable on a spinning zoetrope that can be built at home. These activities come with accompanying educational materials, fun animation examples, and templates. This exhibit is part of a new project called SnackNotes, where Brian (dad of 2 and engineer) shares creative projects that kids and parents can try at home.

Justin Gray's Fire sculpture robots!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Justin gray

Home: California, United States

Justin Grays Fire Sculpture robots! Showing this weekend are Libby, Boris, Darwin and the H.M.W.L.R. (high mobility wheeled logistics robot). Libby the robot was repowered approximately 14 years ago with old telecom battery's but special for Maker Faire 2024 she has been repowered with all new lithium batteries. She has hydraulic tracks driven remotely with ethanol and propane fire. Boris the robot: Boris has also been repowered with lithium battery's! Originally built in 2009 with a debut show in Denmark Boris is built from and old tracked trenching machine. Darwin: An old soul, Darwin was built over 20 years ago, powered by dual 30hp dc motors with tons of power.

Kid Company-World's First AI Device for Children

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kid Company, Inc.

Home: California, United States

There’s a significant pain point between parents, their children, and the use of current mobile and tablet devices. We aim to transform this with KID (Keep It Dreaming), a powerful AI device designed to unlock children’s imaginations. KID empowers kids to become creators of games, music, images, educational content, and stories using the power of AI, rather than passive consumers of mindless content. The platform offers innovative AI creation tools for families, fostering creativity and learning in which parents can direct KID to focus on certain areas of creativity and learning.

Space egg

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Elemental studios

Home: California, United States

Space Egg is a reflection of the artists experiences and intended to let others have a moment of fun, community, reflection, and redirection. The egg shaped sculpture is constructed out of aluminum and stainless steel and will stand 10' tall by 5' in diameter. 48 different mirrors and translucent multicolored panels that will create the interior surface; panels will change colors and some will go on and on forever into space. Surrounding this is a stainless steel exoskeleton that will rotate around the center with lights that will shoot up into the sky and onto the ground. 2-4 people can climb or spin the sculpture.

Sound Foraging with Dogbotic

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Dogbotic

Home: California, United States

How can you sound design a technology that doesn't exist yet? How do movies make dinosaurs sound like... well, dinosaurs? We'll answer all your burning questions in this presentation by Dogbotic--Berkeley's homegrown audio studio that makes weird and strange sounds for weird and strange people. We'll show you how we built our own synthesizers for Rihanna's SavagexFenty show, how we used the sounds of pasta to bring a tentacle monster to life for Adult Swim, and how *you* can do it too.

Space Enterprise at Berkeley – Karman or Bust – Spaceshot Rocket Engine Hardware

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Space Enterprise at Berkeley

Home: California, United States

Space Enterprise at Berkeley is a liquid rocketry club aiming to be the first collegiate team to reach space with a liquid-bipropellant vehicle! We have launched UC Berkeley's first two liquid bipropellant rockets, successfully hotfired our first liquid bipropellant engine 'Lightbulb' over 20 times, were the first college team to successfully throttle a liquid bipropellant rocket, and were the first team to successfully complete the thrust vector control (TVC) portion of the Lander Challenge. We are currently developing our spaceshot engine, 'Heavybulb', which is UC Berkeley's first regeneratively-cooled liquid bipropellant engine. We'll be showcasing the first iteration of this engine at Makerfaire along with other critical system hardware that is in the works.

Ubo Pod: modular and hackable home pod for makers and developers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Mehrdad Majzoobi

Home: California, United States

Ubo Pod is an open source project aims at enabling makers and developers to build unique human machine experiences. It comes as a development kit that can be assembled into various configurations. You can uses it to deploy existing popular Raspberry Pi applications on it instantly include Home Assistant, Ollama Web UI, Pi Hole, or any other Docker containers. Come visit our table for demos and chit chat.

Heliotrope SF

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jonathan Plotzker-Kelly

Home: California, United States

We product skincare, bath & body, shaving & beard care, and aromatherapy products - in small batches - right here in the Bay Area. Everything starts out Fragrance Free - and is customizable. In our studio, we create a scent for each client - and add customized Essential Oil blends upon request - thereby making a personal, unique lotion or shower gel or hand soap, erc. We'll have a big assortment of fragrance-free products, as well as our large offering of essential oils - we'll work with visitors to choose a scent, and then mix into their chosen product.

Creatureish – What kind of creature are you?

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kathy Beight

Home: Oregon, United States

Artisan, bespoke fantasy creature wear - ears, tails, horns, and other creature bits conceived, designed, and hand made from the wild mind and hands of Kat Beight and Russell Smith. clip on ears (furry, fabric, leather, vinyl) , tails (furry, leather) , horns (eco-felt, clay, papier mache), antlers and antennae (papier mache), pierced elf ears, hair clips (sprouts, wings, insects, mushrooms)

Go Carts from Field Middle

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Field Middle

Home: California, United States

Prepare to be amazed as the students of Field Middle School, an all-boys institution, proudly showcase their remarkable go-karts. These incredible vehicles are the result of their dedicated exploration into the world of creation during their 7th-grade journey. Overflowing with passion and ingenuity, these budding innovators have transformed their visions into reality. Now, they're eager to share their masterpieces with the world. Visitors will have the exclusive opportunity to experience the thrill of these handcrafted go-karts firsthand. Step into the driver's seat and feel the adrenaline rush as you test these marvels of engineering.

THE HOLY BIKE

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Keith Young

Home: California, United States

It started as a 1975 Honda 550 supper motorcycle that I took the engine out of, put it on a bench then Drew a motorcycle around the engine using only my imagination, no Computers no programs. it has been hand built with just using assorted hand tools a drill press, and a welder, using steel, copper and brass as my medium, since it is a Honda 550, I have drilled 550 holes through the frame, swing arm, front forks and seven holes right through the gas tank (THE HOLY BIKE) from my cell phone using Bluetooth and Level Ride air suspension app the bike parks right on the ground no kickstand needed it will raise up about 8 inches to Ride Height, there is no paint on the bike, except for a Clear coat to enhance the natural colors of the copper, brass and steel

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