Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Pixel Reboot

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Jesse Lively

Home: NJ, United States

The Mobile Gaming Unit, or M.G.U. (pronounced “MaGoo”), started as a USPS delivery truck. In 2019, it transformed into a solar-powered video game studio. Now, it entertains crowds in NYC and beyond, bridging online gaming with sidewalk audiences!
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Audio Electronics projects from the School of Music (MBET Major) at The University of the Arts

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: The University of the Arts: School of Music - Music Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology Department

Home: PA, United States

The Music Business, Entrepreneurship & Technology program at The University of the Arts encompasses basic electronics curriculum and training to enable students to create their own cables, guitar pedals, microphones, and oscillators.
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Philadelphia Beekeeper's Guild Hive Display and Sales

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild

Home: Pa, United States

The Philadelphia Beekeepers Guid has been supporting bees, beekeeping, and beekeepers since 2009. We'll be showing off the tools of the trade along with some of our fuzzy little friends and selling local raw honey from our member beekeepers.
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Amateur radio

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Delaware Valley OMIK

Home: Pennsylvania, United States

Amateur radio (ham radio) is a popular hobby and service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People use ham radio to talk across town, around the world and into space, all without the Internet or cell phones.
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Positivity and Inspiration Spinner Coloring and DIY Art Activity Workshop

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Paul DiCamillo

Home: NJ, United States

In this one-of-a-kind workshop, individuals will be creating their own personalized positivity spinner. Attendees will be coloring in the design of their choice, choosing your favorite words & intentions, and spinning your way to a wonderful day!
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WASTEWORLD

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Brett Houser

Home: PA, United States

Robots, mutants, cults, trucks, rockets, fire, harpoons, and arcade games! Our bleak future as zany RC fun!
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Mycelerator Systems: Optimized Mushroom Grow Kits for Beginners

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Mycelerator Systems

Home: PA, United States

Mycelerator Systems has designed it's latest Mushroom Growing System: the Mushroom Explorer Grow Kit v2! This system allows beginners to select and grow the varieties of their choice using custom pre-measured, hydrated organic supplies.
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MicroKits: Synths and Theremin Kits

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: David Levi

Home: Virginia, United States

You can build your own electronic musical instruments with MicroKits! Use our kit to build your own Theremin, or connect everyday objects to our synthesizer to build your own keyboard. We’ll have a banana keyboard out that you can play!
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Walk Around Philadelphia

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Walk Around Philadelphia

Home: PA, United States

Learn about the walk around the city's border that happens twice a year in February & September. Explore the city's furthest reaches and help us make this unique experience of the city more equitable, inclusive & accessible to all!
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Wordplay: Poetry Collage with GrioXArts

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Kara Mshinda

Home: PA, United States

In honor of National Poetry Month, GrioXArts will provide demonstrations and facilitate activities on how to create poetry collages. Guests will learn about short poetic forms while developing their own unique collage.
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The Big Shuffle: A Film Noir Card Game

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Kenneth Oum

Home: PA, United States

The Big Shuffle is a competitive 2-4 player film noir card game, where you play as unique characters, each with their own agenda and unique abilities.
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TOOOL PHL

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: TOOOL PHL

Home: PA, United States

TOOOL PHL is coming to the Maker Faire! Whether you're a novice who just stumbled upon Lockpicking Lawyer, a seasoned safecracker, or somewhere in between, come join us for an afternoon of fun as we pop some locks.
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Fair Use and Building Labs NJ's first makerspace

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Fair Use Building and Reserch (FUBAR) Labs

Home: 8902, United States

Fair Use Building and Research (FUBAR) Labs is NJ first Makerspace located in North Brunswick NJ. Our featured projects include Combat Robots, Power Racing Series (PRS) DIY electric carts, AI study, electronic music and Micro-controller meetups
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Mid-Atlantic Droid Builders

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Mid-Atlantic Droid Builders

Home: PA, United States

The Mid-Atlantic DroidBuilders are a group of individuals who share a love for Star Wars through the building of life-size replicas of Star Wars droids such as R2-D2, Mouse Droids, and BB-8.
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Cybergecko Games Demo Area

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Alex Strang

Home: PA, United States

Plays Games with Cybergecko! Local game designer and publisher Alex Strang will host a continuous series of ongoing game demonstrations, featuring unique board games and card games for all ages. Stop by and play with us!
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Coney Island Maker Faire and Elijah Horland present: The Worst Game Controllers, Ever.

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Elijah Horland

Home: New York, United States

Drop by for maker-mischeif fun, MythBuster's style. Can you levitate matter with sound? OK, so spoiler - YES, and it's a LOT of fun. Play with the worst video game controllers, ever designed - see if you can break a record, or just an egg or two!
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Scrappy Circuits

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Michael Carroll

Home: PA, United States

Explore Scrappy Circuit bricks and use them to build your video game controllers.
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HugMatch Dream

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Chloe Koo

Home: NJ, United States

Hugmatch is an EduTech project dedicated to creating inclusive educational content, particularly apps, VR games, and merchandise, to support the development of all children, including those with disabilities.
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3D Photo Booth

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Andy Modla

Home: PA, United States

The 3D Photo Booth is an open source software project that lets you take 3D pictures of yourself. It uses a stereo webcam to capture two images at once, and then shows them together in 3D. You view 3D pictures with red-cyan glasses, or 3D tablet.
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Custom Burnt Bookmarks with the Please Touch Museum

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Please Touch Museum

Home: PA, United States

Use a heat gun and special markers to burn a custom design into a wooden bookmark! Brought to you by the Albert M. Greenfield Makerspace at the Please Touch Museum.
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The Legacy Experience

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Steve The Legacy

Home: Pennsylvania, United States

The Legacy Experience created by Steve The Legacy will show the various creations that he has innovated such as his board games Dictionary Daddy, Support Black Inventors, 2N1 Card Game and his latest children's book "The Little Inventor That Could".
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Elliot Wilson Design

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Elliot Wilson

Home: PA, United States

Interactive art involving sound, light, mechanics & nature.
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TrailOff: Immersive audio off the beaten path

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Swim Pony

Home: Pennsylvania, United States

Come check out TrailOff, the FREE app from Swim Pony with immersive dramas by incredible BIPOC and LGBTQ+ authors. With the magic of GPS-triggered audio, cutting-edge sound design and storytelling, it drops you right into the center of the story.
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Zah Yest Tabletop RPG Campaigns

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Hierosoft LLC

Home: Pennsylvania, United States

Hierosoft LLC, by public-licensed software contributor Jake "Poikilos" Gustafson, designs software and books, such as the Zah Yest RPG campaigns & the school-tested "Expert Multimedia" eBooks on free open source design & development software.
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