Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Laser Cutting with the Union College Maker Web

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Come learn about Laser cutting and assemble laser cut STEM kits with the Union College Maker Web Laser Lab! Laser cutters are a key tool in makerspaces, used for precise cutting, engraving, and etching on a wide range of materials such as wood, acrylic, fabric, and even metal. They operate by focusing a high-powered laser beam onto the surface of the material, which either vaporizes, burns, or melts the material along the specified design. Makers can create intricate patterns, custom shapes, and detailed engravings by controlling the laser's power and speed. This makes laser cutters ideal for creating prototypes, customized products, art, and educational projects, fostering creativity and rapid iteration in a community-driven setting.

Fiber Arts with the Union College Needlecraft Club

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Needlecraft Club

Home: New York, United States

Come learn about fiber arts with the Union College Needlecraft Club! Needlecraft refers to a variety of decorative and functional textile arts created using a needle, thread, and fabric. This broad category includes techniques such as embroidery, knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, quilting, and needlepoint. Needlecraft involves precise handwork to create intricate designs or patterns, often producing items like clothing, accessories, home décor, and artwork. It's both a creative outlet and a traditional craft with deep historical roots, blending artistry with practicality. In modern times, needlecraft is appreciated for its therapeutic benefits, encouraging mindfulness and fine motor skill development while allowing individuals to express their creativity through textiles

Print Making with Lego Press

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Allison Conley (Union College Visual Arts)

Home: New York, United States

Ever wonder how books were printed before digital printers? Come watch a demonstration on a simple, hand-built wooden press. Instead of printing type, we will be printing Legos! Ink your own and take it home!

The Royal Trumpets

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Adam Foster

Home: New York, United States

The Royal Trumpets are a series of kinetic propane flame effects that are computer controlled and wirelessly triggered. The pieces were hand crafted by the designer @AdamFoster.Art in his studio in Rochester, NY.

Beeswax Lip Balm Making with Maker Theme House

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Maker Theme House

Home: New York, United States

Make your very own beeswax lip balm with Union College's Maker Theme House! Customize your lip balm with an assortment of essential oils and containers. Beeswax was harvested locally from Union College's beehives.

Hands-on Plastic Recycling and Injection Molding

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Come see how the Maker Web is recycling plastic into raw materials for injection molding at this hands-on booth. See the process in action and take home your own injection molded keychain! Injection molding is a forming process using molds. Materials such as synthetic resins (plastics) are heated and melted, and then sent to the mold where they are cooled to form the designed shape. Due to the resemblance to the process of injecting fluids using a syringe, this process is called injection molding.

Tech Valley Center of Gravity (TVCOG)

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Tech Valley Center of Gravity

Home: New York, United States

Come learn about the Tech Valley Center of Gravity, the Capital Region's Makerspace!

Biomedical Engineering Society

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Biomedical Engineering Society

Home: Connecticut, United States

We will be displaying past Orthopedic Biomechanics joint projects as well as having an activity to make a "robotic hand".

Soft Robotics Union College Computer Science

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Computer Science

Home: New York, United States

Come learn about the soft robotics with the Computer Science Program at Union College! Computer science at Union takes place within an interdisciplinary environment that mixes theory and practice and encourages creative problem solving. Computer science is the study of computers and computational systems, encompassing both the theoretical foundations of computation and the practical techniques for implementing and applying these principles. Computer scientists solve complex problems by creating efficient systems, enabling innovation across various industries such as technology, healthcare, finance, and more. This field drives advances in computing technology and shapes the digital world we interact with daily.

Learn about CNC milling with the Union College Maker Web!

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

A computer numerical control (CNC) router is a computer-controlled cutting machine related to the hand-held router used for cutting various hard materials, such as wood, composites, aluminum, steel, plastics, glass, and foams. A CNC router is very similar in concept to a CNC milling machine. Instead of routing by hand, tool paths are controlled via computer numerical control. The CNC router is one of many kinds of tools that have CNC variants. A CNC router typically produces consistent and high-quality work and improves productivity. Unlike a jig router, the CNC router can produce a one-off as effectively as repeated identical production. Automation and precision are the key benefits of CNC router tables. It's an exciting new kind of tool that you can come experiment with!

Digital Fabrication Sculpture Exhibit

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Visual Arts Digital Fabrication Sculpture Course

Home: New York, United States

In this Visual Arts course, students learned to use sophisticated CAD, 3D modeling and other design software and developed complex physical objects of art or sculptures. The students explored the ways in which digital design and fabrication tools have expanded the possible search space for their work and have allowed for novel approaches to art and design. Come see the work and learn about the processes!

Tacos -N-Stuff

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Tacos -N- Stuff

Home: New York, United States

Delicious tacos made with fresh ingredients

Make buttons with the Union College Black Student Union

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Black Student Union

Home: New York, United States

BSU aims to enhance and solidify the diversity initiative on campus surrounding African-American issues. Their goals are to promote education on issues pertaining to black student life and black history through campus-wide events and discussions. The BSU works to enrich an already thriving college community full of diverse ideas, with the vision to leave a legacy not only for African-American students, but for all students.

Union College SAE Aero

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union Aero

Home: New York, United States

Union College's SAE Aero team is a student-run club that designs, manufactures, and competes with a custom RC model plane to solve a unique challenge each year. Come join us to learn about some of the bizarre things we do to build our planes!

Union College BAJA SAE Club

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Baja SAE Club

Home: New York, United States

Come learn about ATV design and construction with Union’s Baja Club. Baja SAE provides students with a challenging project that involves the designing, planning, and manufacturing of an all terrain automotive vehicle. Teams from colleges all over the world compete against one another in a series of tasks that push their creations to the limit. Students must function as a team to not only design, build, test, promote, and compete with their vehicle, but then do so with a series of constraints in place.

Bringing Mathematics to Life with 3D Printing at Union College

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Joy Wang (Union College Mathematics)

Home: New York, United States

This project aims to bring mathematical ideas to life through 3D visualization and making, and turn abstract concepts into engaging experiences for students. Mathematical models of quadratic surfaces are to be designed and printed. These are literal plots of equations studied in multivariable calculus. Seeing and touching the physical objects helps convey senses of spatial geometry, traces, level curves, and curvature of surfaces. Solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations can be effectively visualized and constructed through 3D printing, such as Lorenz attractor, chaos, time-dependent solutions, and so on. They allow for developing better understanding of the mathematical principles and physical behaviors of the solutions. 3D printing can also help illustrate mathematical proofs and theories.

Robots with Union College Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP)

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Science & Technology Entry Program (STEP)

Home: New York, United States

Join us to create a small robot of your own! Bristlebots are are small robots made up of a motor and the head of a toothbrush. Bristlebots are a fun way to learn about basic engineering, motors, circuits, and principals of balance. Experiment to find the best way for them to move! STEP has also competed in a VEX Robotics competition this year, winning the 3rd place prize! Come talk with the students who created it, learn about their process, and observe how it functions!

Pultrusion Plastic Recycling with Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW)

Home: New York, United States

Come check out how the Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW Club) are recycling plastic bottles into raw materials for their 3D Printer! ESW students created their own Pultrusion machine to recycle campus plastic. The machine is capable of recycling discarded plastic water bottles collected on campus into 3D printing filament. ESW uses the machine to turn these bottles into something people can use instead of going to waste. They take the recycled waste turned filament and make toys, keychains and other things with the 3D printer. Come and see how pultrusion works!

UNFOLDED LLP

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Audrey Larson

Home: Connecticut, United States

We are a clothing company that makes our own sustainable T-shirts and tote bags. Our work highlights local college artists. We also make sustainable jewelry too!

DJ RVMBA

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Sonia Sandoval

Home: New York, United States

multimedia artist born in the vibrant country of Colombia, Sonia has traveled the world exploring music and culture. She has performed in NYC, Australia, across the Capital Region in upstate New York, western Massachusetts, and Vermont. An artist who has been nominated for the last 3 years in a row for an Eddie Award, Sonia is obsessed with building community and promoting global art through her work to foster new connections. Most recently, she has focused on introducing Latin artists to our community through her musical curation as DJ RVMBA. “I love Love. There are no rules, anything is possible through love. Just dream wildly and work hard.”

3D Drawing with the Union College Maker Web

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Come use 3D pens to literally draw in thin air! A 3d pen is a handheld unique kind of drawing tool that works like a pen but spits out plastic. A 3d pen produces refined three-dimensional shapes which can draw on the surfaces or in the air and requires no computers or software. It uses ABS or PLA plastic, unlike a normal pen that uses lead or ink. The pen has a powered electric heater that has an extruder and a heating element that melts the plastic filaments. The ABS or PLA plastic filaments are fed in one end. Once the filaments melt, they are forced out through the extruder tip as warm thermoplastic that hardens within seconds. It's an exciting new kind of tool that you can come experiment with!

Engineering Spaghetti Structures

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Come and test your engineering skills and create a bridge out of spaghetti and marshmallows! Work with Union College students to refine your design and see how it holds up to others. Explore cantilevers, trusses and space frames as you build a bridge to span as far as possible! This project will engage basic structural concepts including: • That some shapes are stronger than others • That even weak materials can be made stronger with good design techniques • That distribution of mass is an important consideration when building a bridge • That compression and tension affect the stability of a structure • Why engineers consider tension and compression forces when designing a building or structure

STEAM Author Kathy Ceceri

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Kathy Ceceri

Home: New York, United States

Come color in and light up "squeeze cards" with award-winning writer, artist, and educator Kathy Ceceri, author of MAKING SIMPLE ROBOTS, BOTS, and PAPER INVENTIONS (new edition coming in 2025). Kathy will be bringing samples of her latest projects and copies of her books to autograph.

National Grid

Faire: Electric City

Maker: National Grid

Home: New York, United States

At National Grid, we are committed to building a qualified and successful engineering workforce. Through our corporate giving programs, employee volunteerism and internal leadership and development activities, we have created a comprehensive program dedicated to advancing this cause. National Grid has already invested more than $3 million in this program to target students of all ages and backgrounds to encourage them to study science, technology, engineering and math.

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