Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Go Carts from Field Middle

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Field Middle

Home: California, United States

Prepare to be amazed as the students of Field Middle School, an all-boys institution, proudly showcase their remarkable go-karts. These incredible vehicles are the result of their dedicated exploration into the world of creation during their 7th-grade journey. Overflowing with passion and ingenuity, these budding innovators have transformed their visions into reality. Now, they're eager to share their masterpieces with the world. Visitors will have the exclusive opportunity to experience the thrill of these handcrafted go-karts firsthand. Step into the driver's seat and feel the adrenaline rush as you test these marvels of engineering.

Infento Electric Vehicles & Riders Robotics League

Faire: Miami

Maker: Max Ringelheim

Home: Florida, United States

Learn how students build life-size electric vehicles with Infento. Think of Infento as similar to LEGO meets Tesla! Learn about an Educational ESports League called Riders Robotics League where students partake in virtual robotics/coding hackathons!

RoboMachines and Aircraft Models

Faire: Tashkent

Maker: Muxammadaziz Yo'ldashaliyev

Home: Namangan, Uzbekistan

An automatic robocar that runs on a specific track without getting out of the line. Robomachines, and plane models.

UNAM Aero Design

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: Carlos Eduardo Torres Anaya

Home: Ciudad de México, Mexico

UNAM Aero Design es un equipo multidisciplinario representativo de la máxima casa de estudios, que diseña y manufactura aeronaves no tripuladas, operadas por radio control. Anualmente se representa a México y la UNAM en competencias de SAE AeroDesign

Cie Nomad Nomad

Faire: Lille

Maker: Cie Nomad Nomad

Home: France

Vous entendez au loin des percussions. Deux percussionnistes, incantent Wairua, l’esprit de la terre. Face à face, ils jouent sur une même batterie acoustique Hot Rod, à bord d’un tricycle déjanté. C’est la BATT MOBILE !

Obtainium Works

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Obtainium Works

Home: California, United States

Obtainium Works is a makerspace in Vallejo, California that specializes in producing small art cars for events such as Burning Man, Truckee Roundhouse Maker Space, Visions of the Wild Festival, and the Mad Hatter Holiday Festival and Parade. We've demonstrated our work at all the Maker Faire events from 2006-2019. In 2023, we introduced our newest exhibit, the Robot Rumble. Using trash can robots, participants will be able to use remote controllers to create a battle with the robots in 3 minute segments. We will be displaying a number of our art cars, some of them mobile, and will have a variety of steampunk and upcycled clothing crafters selling their wares.

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.

Bike powered maze challenge

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Joe Donoughe

Home: Florida, United States

It's a race! Challenge your friend or family member on the bicycle powered mazes. You need to concentrate to move a marble through the maze by pedaling a bicycle forward or backwards. You must keep your eye on the ball though because every corner is a blind corner, upping the degree of difficulty

Baja

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: UWF SAE Baja

Home: Florida, United States

We will be presenting the fully assembled Baja car from previous years, as well as our progress thus far on this year's entirely new car, including the subframe and a partial roll cage. We will be showing what our future plans with it are going to be and what steps we are taking to get there.

Faire Cycling Transportation via Erie Canal – Afternoon

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: Onondaga Cycling Club

Home: New York, United States

Onondaga Cycling Club will provide a no-drop afternoon bike ride for attendees interested in returning to Reed Webster Park. The ride will leave the Fairgrounds at 2pm. *Helmet Required*

Drone Media Chicago

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Troy Walsh

Home: Illinois, United States

Drone Media Chicago specialize in aerial and ground based video production in addition to providing in-house post-production services.

Crazy Vehicules

Faire: Luxembourg

Maker: Lars Rüddel

Home: wer, Luxembourg

Lars, bekannt von den YouTube Kanälen "Nobel Hobel" und "Benzin im Blut" bringt eine ganze Reihe von selbst gebauten, verrückten Fahrzeugen mit.

Ladybug Art Gallery

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Mare Island Art Studios

Home: California, United States

The Ladybug Art Gallery was transformed from a 1974 Boler camping trailer by Mare Island Art Studio’s Sherry Tobin Haney.

Green Speed! – An Electric Formula Style Race Car & Hands On Activity

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Formula Racing at UC Davis

Home: California, United States

Du Du Du! Do you like Formula Racing? Want to know they best way to get involved while in university? Visit our booth to see UC Davis' lastest competitive electric race car built entirely by undergraduate college students. This car was built in just one year and brought to an international competition to race against 70+ universities. Stop by to interact with the car and learn firsthand the engineering, dedication, and passion that went into building this competitive car.

UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: CalSol

Home: California, United States

Join us as we race cross country on highways and roads, relying on ONLY on solar energy to power our custom-built 10th generation vehicle, Excalibur! Come check out our carbon fiber shell, custom battery pack, and our one-of-a-kind solar array, all put together by our talented team of undergraduate students!

Navarre High Electrathon

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Shock and Awe

Home: Florida, United States

Navarre High School’s Electrathon race car. Meet the drivers and crew, and have the opportunity to sit in one of our student built race cars! Spark some interest and inspire the next round of EV racers!

Acme Muffineering

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Acme Muffineering

Home: California, United States

We are a group of folks who build cupcake and muffin cars. The vehicles are about 4 feet in diameter and are capable of speeds up to 15 MPH. Most are battery-powered, but some are pedal-powered. Come see the inner workings of our 18:1 scale cupcake vehicles! Our cupcake cars are delicious, mentally nutritious, highly-maneuverable, and built from scratch using only finest new and re-purposed ingredients

RumiCar, autonomous driving algorithms development platform

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: RumiCar

Home: Tokyo, Japan

RumiCar aims to make autonomous driving development accessible to everyone. Developing autonomous driving systems with full-sized cars is expensive and requires public road permits, making it challenging, especially for individuals. With RumiCar, users can develop autonomous driving systems at low cost using 1/24 scale cars, all within the convenience of their homes or school classrooms. As RumiCar users help each other worldwide, the advancement and realization of autonomous driving technology will become more achievable.

Grandpa's Train

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Brad Silva

Home: California, United States

Grandpa's Train is based on a heavy-duty wheel chair platform. It has two cars and can carry (in addition to the driver), four or so kids or two adults.

FS-2 — A Formula Style Electric Racecar

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Formula Slug

Home: California, United States

FS-2 is a Formula-style vehicle designed by students at UC Santa Cruz for participation in the Formula SAE Electric competition. It’s equipped with a single Zero Motorcycles ZF 75-10 motor that drives the two rear wheels with up to 80 kW of power. The battery pack and its associated electronics are also designed and assembled in-house, with a capacity of 5.2 kWh. The vehicle features a welded chromoly frame, a custom outboard assembly with a floating brake rotor design, and a combination of a pushrod and rocker arm system for suspension. The electronics system resembles one you might see in a real consumer vehicle, with custom-designed PCBAs, an electronic throttle control system, precharge/discharge circuits, battery management, telemetry, and rigorous safety standards.

Promoting Electric Propulsion

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Michael Briscoe

Home: Virginia, United States

The Office of Naval Research's collegiate competition Promoting Electric Propulsion has 36 universities building electric-powered boats for a five-mile race each spring. Stop by to see how these boats are built and explore how to build your own.

Vehicul autom (AgroBot) și seră inteligentă

Faire: Chisinau

Maker: Valentina Astafi

Home: Moldova

AgroBot - un Vehicul Autonom pentru activitățile pe terenul agricol. Sera Intelegentă - o automatizată care funcșionează printr-un sistem integrat de tehnologii care monitorizează, controlează și ajustează condițiile de mediu.

From OpenROV to OceanXplorers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Eric Stackpole

Home: California, United States

Eric Stackpole, original designer of the OpenROV underwater exploration drone, co-founder of Sofar Ocean -- which connects the world's oceans to power a more sustainable future -- and co-star of National Geographic's OceanXplorers will share his experience in creating technology to explore the planet's unseen places.

Driftie Monster – Power Wheels Racer

Faire: Miami

Maker: Andrew Rudolph

Home: Florida, United States

Driftie Monster has been a staple of the Power Racing Series for 7 years now, covered in blue fur and powered by an 1800w scooter motor, come check it out and learn how you too can learn how to build a fun pint sized race car!

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