Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Learn to Solder with Schenectady High School

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Schenectady High School

Home: New York, United States

Come learn to solder by making your own night light! Schenectady High School STEAM teachers have all the tools, electronics and know how to get you soldering right away! Soldering is a fundamental skill that helps with electronics and crafts and will make you a more capable maker!

VR ZONE-Walk the Plank in VR

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Richie's Plank Experience was designed to invoke the strongest possible emotions in the shortest possible time. Test your fear of heights as you walk the plank 80 stories high and experience terrifying real fear, knees weak and palms sweaty! Get ready for a visceral virtual reality experience!

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.

Makers at Union College’s Music Department

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Music Department

Home: New York, United States

Come and see what we’re MAKING in the Music Department. From Recycled instruments to CNC milled signs and laser etched bachi for out Taiko drummers we are always busy building things! Union College offers a wide variety of courses in music theory, music technology, composition, music history, world music, and jazz studies. The music faculty are incredibly Interdisciplinary, and offer courses that intersect with other departments and programs across campus. Students enjoy many opportunities to perform in our numerous ensembles and develop musicianship through private lessons. We offer a Major, ID, Minor and a Global and Popular Music Minor.

Basic Wood Working with the Union College Maker Web

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Come and learn some woodshop basics with the Maker Web. Cut a piece of wood, drill a hole and become familiar with some common hand tools. Woodworking is the craft of shaping, cutting, and assembling wood to create functional or decorative objects, such as furniture, sculptures, or tools. In makerspaces, woodworking plays a crucial role because it offers hands-on experience with a versatile material, enabling creators to bring their ideas to life through physical projects. With access to tools like saws, sanders, lathes, and drills, makers can learn traditional skills while experimenting with modern techniques to build prototypes, customize designs, or produce artistic works. Woodworking fosters creativity, problem-solving, and craftsmanship, making it an essential medium for learning and innovation in collaborative maker environments.

GlobalFoundries

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Global Foundries

Home: New York, United States

Come to the GlobalFoundries booth to see how we make the chips that power the things you use every day. Then make an LED Helicopter with GF! Toss your helicopter and watch it spiral, all while lit up by LED lights made from a simple circuit!

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.

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!

The Templeton Institute (TI)

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Templeton Institute

Home: New York, United States

The Templeton Institute (TI) promotes and strengthens transformative activities in engineering and computer science within a liberal arts educational environment. The TI is a hub for innovation, a place for teachers, scholars, learners, and practitioners to come together to work collaboratively and find support through resources and expertise necessary to take risks, foster integrative thinking, encourage problem-solving, and promote discovery.

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.

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.

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.”

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!

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!

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!

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.

VR ZONE-Virtual Reality Painting with Tilt Brush

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Use Virtual Reality to experience painting as you have never before. Tilt Brush is an application for our VR headsets that lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. The room is your canvas. Your palette is your imagination. The possibilities are endless. From ink and smoke to snow and fire “brushes”, explore the wonders of a virtual palette. With an intuitive interface, you can be a doodler or expert – and 3D virtual painting allows you to unleash your creativity in no time! Come digitally paint with us and explore the possibilities of Virtual Reality and Visual Art!

Historic Cannon Gantry – Cole Randall

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Cole Randall

Home: New York, United States

Come learn about traditional craft and advanced fabrication with Cole Randall’s cannon gantry project. As part of his scholars research program, Cole constructed a ⅓ scale cannon gantry based on the field cannons of the Civil War. The goal of the project was to explore history through hands-on machine shop time by creating something that is historical but also takes advantage of modern machining technology. The design for the cannon gantry employed segmented wheels assembled in the keystone fashion, the conventional fourteen spokes, and used a typical hardwood (oak). The Gantry project is at the intersection of traditional craft skills like wood and metal working and more contemporary tools like CNC milling. It is historic and at the same time cutting edge!

Alex Recycles and Creates

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Alex Graziano

Home: New York, United States

I collect used, single-use HDPE (i.e bottle caps, milk and shampoo containers) plastics and recycle them into shapes suitable for creating more long-lived products, such as planters, coasters, and keychains.

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.

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".

Axe Throwing with Mechanical Engineers!

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Union College Maker Web

Home: New York, United States

Come check out an axe-throwing set designed and manufactured independently by a mechanical engineering student! This hands-on activity allows visitors to take a few throws at the target while gaining insight into the engineering design and manufacturing processes behind targets and axes. Learn how student innovation can combine safety, functionality, and fun in a project that brings together competition and engineering design!

Making & Constructing Dougong Brackets with Assistant Professor Sheri Lullo

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Sheri Lullo (Union College Visual Arts)

Home: New York, United States

Sheri Lullo is using 3D Printing to create reproductions of traditional Chinese wood structures. Load-bearing timber-framed structures with dougong bracketing are emblematic of traditional Chinese architecture, and their design, construction and variation are prominent themes of Professor Lullo’s course, AAH 204: Chinese Architecture. This project focuses on dougong brackets, a distinguishing feature of traditional palaces, temples and dwellings. Evidenced as early as the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), they are important structural elements made of dou (wooden blocks) and gong (bow-shaped arms or brackets) that serve to support the weight of the roof and to hold all components of the building together.

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