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Cricut Corner

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Adhya Garlapati

Home: Illinois, United States

Cricut makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app to help you design and personalize almost anything. In this Maker Faire, I would like to present my Cricut Maker and provide a demo on how easy and interesting it is to use!!
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DIY Cyberdecks, Magnetic Board Game, and 3D Printer

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Daniel Power

Home: Illinois, United States

3D printed 3D Printer, Cyberdecks (DIY computers), magnetic board game, and other fun projects. Stop on by and try some games, computers, and chat about projects!
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The Hub at the Grayslake Area Public Library

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Grayslake Area Public Library

Home: Illinois, United States

Gather to create with the Grayslake Area Public Library in our mobile maker space, The Hub. We will be demonstrating our Embroidery Machine and offering 3D cards to make. Show us your library card to enter our drawing to win a Hub-created project!
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Engineering Club Trebuchet

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Engineering Club

Home: Illinois, United States

Watch the Engineering club trebuchet throw soccer balls across the front lawn of the Technology building.
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Build-a-Blinkie Learn-to-Solder Workshop

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Build-a-Blinkie

Home: Illinois, United States

Build-a-Blinkie Learn-to-Solder Workshop
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Automated Prize Dispenser

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Watch your prize go for a rollercoaster ride after you activate the sensors.
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Henry Martin's Marvelous Machines

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Henry Martin

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Henry Martin is a 8th grader with a passion for development, engineering and all things tech. Henry's stem fair projects and won local, state and national awards
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NIU College of Engineering – Robotics & Rover

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Gary Smith

Home: Illinois, United States

The Robotics and Mars Rover competition teams, will be bringing their latest competition vehicles. These teams are 2 of six competition teams at Northern Illinois University College of Engineering, are perennial favorites to finish in the Top 3 at c
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Make a Paper Circuit

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Learn how to create a simple circuit to light up an LED. Take your creation home with you.
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NIU STEAM Outreach

Faire: Lake County

Maker: NIU STEAM Outreach

Home: Illinois, United States

Spark your curiosity with NIU STEAM and learn about our programs and services we provide to help inspire others in the big wide world of STEAM!
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Waggish Works presents, “3d printing props and replicas, the artistic side of additive manufacturing”

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Evan Ruffolo

Home: Illinois, United States

Interested in costume and prop design? Have you ever seen something in a piece of media that you thought you just had to have to hold in your own hands? Then come by and let us from Waggish Works show you how it's done!
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Joe K’s Workshop

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Joe K

Home: Illinois, United States

Various useful and not-so-useful shop creations including musical instruments and mechanical contraptions, along with unique repaired items.
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Park Campus STEAM Team

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Park Campus STEAM Team

Home: Illinois, United States

We make imagination into reality! We've asked second grade students from our school to place toy orders. Please stop by our booth to see what toys we made!
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Make-a-Thon

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

What do you get when you combine microcontrollers, coding, cardboard and glue guns? More than you could ever imagine. Makers of all ages came together for our fourth annual Make a Thon on Sat. Jan 27. Vote for your favorite project.
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Meccanoid XL 2.0 Robot

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Lilyanne (Redacted)

Home: Illinois, United States

Meccanoid robot kit (hopefully) brought to life with articulating head, arms & motorized feet. Meccanoid is almost 4 ft tall & features voice recognition, LED eyes, & smart device communication, with 3 ways to program & 3000+ pre-programmed phrases.
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FTC Center stage Robotic event

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Code Blue

Home: Illinois, United States

Code Blue will join Spare Parts, Golden Ratio, and Robotic Lions in a Center Stage robot scrimmage as well as displaying our engineering process at our booth.
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Paper Rocket Build Station

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Personal Enrichment

Home: Illinois, United States

Stop by to get your rocket ready for launch and learn more about summer camp programs for grades 1 to 12.
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The Invisible World of Radio Waves

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Ralph Iden

Home: Illinois, United States

Radio waves are all around us, including radio, television, and cellular signals. Visit us to see some less common examples of radio including amateur radio and satellite communications. Send and receive messages to other attendees using radio.
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Leather Working 101

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Samantha McDonald

Home: Illinois, United States

The earliest known leather working happened as far back as the Stone Age in 5,000 BC. This workshop will showcase old and knew leather working techniques that can be used on all types of leather based projects. Cowhide will be used during this demo.
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FTC Robotics team # 11848 Spare Parts Robotics

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Spare Parts Robotics

Home: Illinois, United States

First Tech Challenge team # 11848 Spare Parts Robotics from Lake Villa, IL
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FLL Robotics

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Akhil Kora

Home: Illinois, United States

We are Dream Builders, middle schoo FLL robotics team based out of Buffalo Grove, IL. We came 3rd in Robot Run in Illinois State championship and invited to Nationals in May 2024. We would like to show case our robot runs and educate our community.
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Practical Uses for Raspberry PIs

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Jeff Sliwa

Home: Illinois, United States

Raspberry Pis are inexpensive, single-board computers. Since 2013, they have evolved from being used to teach basic computer science to serving a multitude of uses. See how Pis are used for Home Automation, Retro Gaming, as a Media Server, and more.
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Lake County Robotics Competition

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Engineering Transfer Dept

Home: Illinois, United States

Participants in the Lake County Robotics Competition will demonstrate their robots, running them through the same paces that will occur during the competition. Attendees may get the chance to drive the robots and check out the coding.
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Make All the Things! @ the Round Lake Library!

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Round Lake Area Public Library

Home: Illinois, United States

Explore all the cool ways the Round Lake Area Public Library can boost your tech skills. Learn how you can spark your creativity (for free) in our X-Lab with the Cricut, Glowforge and more. We will have samples, demos and take-homes for all ages.
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