Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Clockwork Tech LLC

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Clockwork Tech LLC

Home: Zhejiang, China

Our team is small and we come from a variety of backgrounds, including the Internet, communications, mobile phone, industrial design, and advertising industries. We currently have a staff of seven, plus two part-time employees. For the MFBA, we are coming with our current projects, GameShell, DevTerm, and uConsole. Also, two upcoming projects might come as well. We'd love to meet our customers and any one who is interested in coding, retro gaming, geek gadgets and cool designs. We are also open for discussions about business opportunities.

AI Color Chocolate Sorting Machine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Riciery Santos

Home: California, United States

This project is an automated machine for sorting M&Ms by color, utilizing computer vision technology and automation. The key component is the Husky Lens, an artificial intelligence camera from DF Robot, responsible for identifying the color of each M&M. Once the color is detected, a servo motor is activated, directing the chocolates to the respective boxes based on color. The control core of the machine is the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board, which manages the interface between the Husky Lens and the servo motor. This system demonstrates the practical application of computer vision and automation in specific tasks, offering an efficient and precise method for sorting M&Ms by color.

3D Printed Wall-E

Faire: Miami

Maker: Andres Velasquez

Home: Florida, United States

Meet my 3D-printed Wall-E! Inspired by the beloved character, this 3D-printed creation showcases my passion for robotics, machine learning, and DIY creativity. Come see how Wall-E comes to life at the Maker Faire!"

ETIPADO: Extremely Tall Image Processing And Display Object

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Grant Patterson

Home: California, United States

ETIPADO: Extremely Tall Image Processing And Display Object is a startling demonstration of the persistence-of-vision effect: Shake your head "no" at a strobing column of light and images appear out of nowhere. Interact with the work by making faces in the work's camera, while friends see you in the strip of LEDs in real time. What's happening? The LEDs display vertical slices of images in fast succession. As your eye moves across the piece, the two-dimensional image “burns” into your retina, one column at a time. Sophisticated processing software takes real-time imagery from the attached digital camera and broadcasts them to the LEDs. ETIPADO is unexpected art: It’s easy to walk by and not notice it. Once discovered, participants are inspired to share the “secret” with those around them.

TD-1/HueForge

Faire: Orange County

Maker: AJ Spencer

Home: Colorado, United States

Showing off both HieForge and TD-1 and how they work together. Come by and ask any questions and see a few prints.

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.

Spider Bot

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Sam Kammerer

Home: Florida, United States

The “Spider Bot” is a novel prototype being developed to prove that a new leg configuration can increase the robustness of legged robots in the field.

tscann16: A 5k 16mm film scanner

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Catilya

Home: California, United States

tscann16 is a home-brew high quality film scanner. It uses stepper motors to move optical film like a cassette tape player would, and takes hi res photos of each frame with a macro lens on a DSLR, which is controlled with computer vision running on a Raspberry Pi5. It yields a 5k scan of 16mm film, or 4k scan of 8mm film, and can handle damaged film, warped film, film with damaged or misshapen sprockets, delicate films, and handmade films. Tscann16 offers an alternative to lower quality flickering telecine scans, poor quality consumer scanners with cheap lenses and sensors, and unattainably expensive vintage commercial scanners. Tscann16 duplicates can be built at low cost, given a lens and a DSLR. Most parts are 3D printed, and stepper motors from a 3D printer drive the film.

Elijah Horland from MythBusters Jr.

Faire: Miami

Maker: Elijah Horland

Home: New York, United States

You've seen Pi-upgraded consoles. You've seen plug-n-play controllers with a pi or arduino built in, and games preloaded. What is "Counterintuitive Retrogaming?" How do you follow up a scrap upcycled 8-bit game controller? Tune in and find out!

Mario The Maker: Retro Arcade

Faire: Miami

Maker: Mario Cruz

Home: Florida, United States

A fun, hands-on electronic playground featuring a Life Sized BMO that you can play arcade games on, various retropie video gaming systems using raspberry pi's, An auto-tweeting photobooth, gifcams, and a 2XAlexa talking bot.

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!

Petoi Robots

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Petoi LLC

Home: California, United States

Petoi is the maker of futuristic bionic robot pets for adults and kids, with applications in robotics, STEM, coding, AI education, and human companionship. The robots are open source, high-performance, remote/app-controlled, and highly programmable. The robotics kits are built on top of Arduino and ESP32. They can be extended with popular open source hardware such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino modules, and sensors to make robots sense and interact with surrounding environments. Petoi is also the creator of OpenCat, a popular open-source quadruped(four-legged) robot platform where all Petoi robots run.

Yolo Maker Guys with robotics, 3d printing, clocks, kinetic art, lights, pachinko and more

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Yolo Maker Guys

Home: California, United States

We are some creators from Yolo County and bring a wide variety of projects and interests to share. Dave's Copperbot is a robotics project that evolved into kinetic art with large vacuum tubes, hundreds of LEDs, cameras, sensors, stereo sound, a cup holder and flapping wings. The Explorer is a life size humanoid found art sculpture. Doug's original clock creations bring together 3D printing and cool neon lighting to mark time with beauty and whimsy. We have a 70s era Japanese pachinko machine, enhanced with an Arduino and new colored LED lighting. We enjoy working with many materials - wood, metal, plastics, wire, and learning how to step up our crafts.

Practical AI for Makers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sridhar Rajagopal

Home: California, United States

AI is the current buzz word, with deep learning and other models now capable of being run on Edge Devices, aside from the Cloud. As Makers, how can we take advantage of this burgeoning field to incorporate cool new functionality into the things we make? For the beginner, this can be a very daunting field. In this presentation, we'll take a 30,000 foot view of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, especially as it pertains to Edge AI (translation-we won't get bogged down by nitty-gritty now!). We will look at the various practical applications they can be used for, the various tools and frameworks that are available to utilize, and practical considerations of how to build and deploy a robust (not toy!) model that can run on your Arduino, Raspberry Pi or other suitable MCUs/SBCs.

Bits 'n Bytes: AI and Sensor Driven Vending Machine by Computer Science House

Faire: Rochester

Maker: Computer Science House

Home: New York, United States

Bits 'n Bytes is a next generation vending machine concept made by Computer Science House. It uses AI and sensors to make informed decisions.

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

Constructing and Tracking a Cubesat Satellite

Faire: Rochester

Maker: Radio Association of Western New York

Home: New York, United States

Learn how to build a miniature satellite and have it flown into space. Simple hardware and software will allow you track it and receive live telemetry from an assortment of sensors you decide to include in your construction.

Bafoulio – Du streaming et du versus

Faire: France

Maker: Baptiste FRESNAYE

Home: France

Bafoulio sévit sur les internets depuis l'époque de Dailymotion et de sa période de gloire. Il a fait pas mal de chose comme de la radio local, de la webradio, de la vidéo sur YouTube et maintenant du streaming sur twitch. Il aime partager sa passion comme ces avis sur différents sujets.

Rhode Island Computer Museum

Faire: Providence

Maker: Rhode Island Computer Museum

Home: Rhode Island, United States

Geek out at our Learning Lab! Browse some tech toys, such as Arduino microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi computers, breadboards, and retro video games. It is a great place to get tech help, research resources, learn about gaming, music, the Web, and more!

PiCade

Faire: Rochester

Maker: Johnathan Fountain

Home: New York, United States

Homemade Arcade for playing retro video games based on a Raspberry Pi4.

Octo-Capitol by RoBasement

Faire: Orange County

Maker: Alex Shlyakhovyy

Home: California, United States

Meet Octo-Capitol, a walking US Capitol octopod! It is powered by Raspberry Pi and is able to 'walk' back and forward, make turns, and it has a 360 degrees video surveillance system called Uncle Sam.

FireWatch

Faire: Orange County

Maker: FireWatch

Home: California, United States

FireWatch uses drones equipped with AI-powered fire detection systems to assist firefighters in early detection and monitoring of wildfires. We will have some interaction with audiences and let them detect fires through photos with our project.

Laser Maze by Benicia Makerspace

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Benicia Makerspace

Home: California, United States

You’ve seen in in the movies, the security system with a field of crisscrossed laser beams, break a beam and the alarm goes off. This is your opportunity to test your skills against a high-tech laser security system, just for fun. Can you successfully step over, under, and around the laser beams without tripping an alarm? The Laser Maze is a timed game based on real security system design details. Skilled guests can navigate through it in a few seconds, but be careful, every time you break a beam it adds three seconds to your time. Feel free to ask us about how it works, with a Raspberry Pi, two Arduino Micros, and eight ESP8266 microcontrollers, every laser is modulated at a different frequency and the laser receivers look for only that specific frequency.

Drop of a Hat Zone

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: James Steinberg

Home: New York, United States

I am using AI to automatically drop hats onto your head. At a moment's notice. At the drop of a hat.

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