Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

Projects

Found 39 Results

Page 2 of 2

Newer posts

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

Modufly

Faire: Electric City

Maker: Mert Tureli

Home: New York, United States

Modufly is a company focused on creating innovative, easy-to-assemble hobby rockets. Our goal is to make rocketry accessible and fun for people of all ages by offering rockets that are customizable and reusable. We prioritize durability and education, providing kits that allow users to explore the world of flight.

Page 2 of 2

Newer posts