Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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ACL RoboLoco Outreach Team

Faire: NoVa

Maker: ACL RoboLoco

Home: Virginia, United States

Academies of Loudoun RoboLoCo, team 5338, demonstrates our 2024 FIRST Robotics Competition robot Rock'N'Rivets. Read our 2 children's books focused on robotics and STEM and learn how we impact our community through workshops and mentoring.

Cubewich: A Servo Arm Learning Game

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Brian Merski

Home: Maryland, United States

Cubewich is a block coding game in which you get to create different types of cube sandwiches with the use of a robotic servo arm. You can either use a preprogrammed Micro:Bit controller or program it yourself with simple coding blocks.

Alexandria Library: Lego Mindstorms and More!

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Alexandria Library

Home: Virginia, United States

Did you know the library has sewing & embroidery machines, LEGO mindstorms, and more? Learn about maker opportunities at the library and take our LEGO Mindstorm robots for a test drive.

Woodson High School Robotics Team

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Cavbotics, the Woodson High School Robotics Team

Home: Virginia, United States

Cavbotics is a student-led FRC team that teaches students STEM principles. In six weeks, students build a robot from an empty frame to a fully-functional robot. For this year's game, the robot is able to shoot rings into a goal and climb on a chain.

Nova Labs

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs

Home: Virginia, United States

Nova Labs is a vibrant makerspace where members learn, create, and collaborate. With access to tools, advanced machining, and technology, it's the perfect workspace for hobbyists, engineers, artisans, and entrepreneurs to craft, make, and prototype.

GMU's Blimp Squad

Faire: NoVa

Maker: GMU's Blimp Squad

GMU’s Blimp Squad is a group of engineering students and researchers who design and construct lighter than air self-driving ships. Stop by the Blimp Squad booth to see some of their most recent creations graciously fly to accomplish their mission.

FTC Mecha Minds Robotics

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Mecha Minds

Home: Virginia, United States

Visit First Tech Challenge Robotics Team 26394 Mecha Minds booth! We will consist of hands-on engineering activities, with common items and candies, lego robot programming stations, and a large field to drive our FTC robot.

Design and Build Lab @ American University

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Design and Build Lab

Home: District of Columbia, United States

The Design and Build Lab (DaBL) is a digital fabrication / rapid prototyping / experimentation space at American University (AU). DaBL serves as an educational resource for all student, staff, and faculty makers and creators at AU.

Lego Bricks in Motion

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Ian Ratiu

Home: Virginia, United States

Have you played with Lego bricks as a child or seen sets that made you smile? Come visit my booth to see the Old Town Alexandria Fair as a moving custom Lego creation. You can watch a Ferris wheel turn and let your imagination soar.

Handmade leather journals and paper

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Jazmine Torres

I hand stitch leather journals. I hand dye, hand cut, & hand sew papers. I create lined pages with a stamp. After the journal is made I laser engrave my own digital art onto them. I use a pyropen as well to burn intitals.

Youth FIRST Robotics Program

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs Youth Robotics Program

Home: Virginia, United States

FIRST Robotics is a project-based, hands-on program that introduces students to engineering. Under the guidance of mentors, students learn to design and build a robot. They learn practical skills in fabrication, CAD design and programming.

Nova Labs Woodturning Demonstration

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs

Home: Virginia, United States

Woodturning is fun! It's the process of by shaping a piece of wood as it spins on a lathe. Not sure? Visit us at Maker Faire, check out our turning demonstration, and learn all about the Nova Labs woodturning program.

MIX – Mason Innovation Exchange @ George Mason University

Faire: NoVa

Maker: George Mason University - Mason Innovation Excange (MIX)

Home: Virginia, United States

Visit the GMU MIX booth at Maker Faire! Build draw-bots and navigator-bots, see live demos of our Voron and Bambu Labs 3D printers, explore PCB milling, and check out projects like a 6-axis robotic arm, a 4-foot trebuchet, and more innovations.

Filament Poop Vonnegut

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Vicky Somma

Home: Virginia, United States

Celebrating the author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. by recreating one of his self-portraits using 3D Printing and upcycled "filament poop".

PicoBall – Mini Basketball Game for Micro:bit

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Wil Myrick

Home: Virginia, United States

PicoBall transforms your micro:bit into a mini arcade basketball game. It comes with a presoldered Raspberry Pi Pico and IR sensor that provides proximity information associated with the mini basketball as it passes through the basketball hoop.

Mathnasium

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Mathnasium

Home: Virginia, United States

At Mathnasium we teach math so that students learn it, master it and love it. We work with students in 1st grade through 12th grade to help them catch up, keep up or get ahead.

Kinetic Harmony: Transformative Art for Meditation, Distraction, and Anxiety Reduction

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Marc Rosenkranz

Home: Virginia, United States

I'll be presenting a series of operational kinetic art rotating sculptures. Observers will be captivated and mesmerized by the rotation, maintaining their attention and experiencing the advantages of reduced anxiety, stress reduction, and pain relief

Circuit Breaker Labs

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Amanda Preske

Home: District of Columbia, United States

Circuit Breaker Labs, based in Adams Morgan in DC, transforms electronic waste into science-themed art and gifts. Stop by to see our spin on science art and learn how we use old and new production techniques to make our art!

Sip With T's Tumblers and More, LLC

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Tanisha Judkins

Home: Virginia, United States

Sip With T's Tumblers and More LLC specializes in creating custom functional art using glitter, rhinestones and vinyl. Our goal is to provide each customer with an exceptional, high-end custom product that was created with a lot of love.

Fairfax County Master Gardeners

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Fairfax County Master Gardeners

Home: Virginia, United States

Master Gardener volunteers work in the community to promote research-based horticulture. Master gardeners provide public education related to creating and managing home landscapes, vegetable gardens, turf, and more!

Nova Labs Drone Zone

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Sam Winkelstein

Home: Maryland, United States

Learn about designing, making, and flying drones at Nova Labs. Experience flying a racing drone or try one of the RC flight simulators.

Wobbly Robot

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Fabiana Cesa

Home: Virginia, United States

Come build a wobbly robot with us. You will get to assemble and wire this cute toddling toy plus you will give it a personality using all sort of art supplies. Activity funded by an Arts 275th Commemorative Program Grant (City of Alexandria, NEA).

Gravity is Optional

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Gravity is Optional

Hands on science that will blow your mind! Come experience things that most people will never see in another venue.

Engineering with Maker Tool

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Marymount University Engineering

Home: Virginia, United States

Understanding a variety of maker-style projects can provide an amazing engineering foundation for people of all ages. Marymount Engineering will share 3D printed prosthetics, robotic pets and virtual-reality experiences for anyone to try!

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