Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Machine knitting – punchcards and Arduino hacks

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Machine Knitters Guild of the San Francisco Bay Area

Home: California, United States

Learn how knitting machines work, and how they can be programmed - either electronically, or mechanically using punchcards - to make colorful patterns and elaborate lace and other textures. See an open source hack for vintage 1980's knitting machines, giving them new Arduino-powered electronic patterning.

Waymo

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: Waymo

Home: California, United States

Waymo is a self-driving technology company with a mission to make it safe and easy for people and things to move around.

Pete's Prints

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Pete Prodoehl

Home: Wisconsin, US Minor Outlying Islands

Check out my unique printing process where I make my own paper from scrap, 3D print printing plates, and then make prints! I can tell you about my process and I'll have a bunch of different sample prints on display.

Pensacola Cyber Army

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Pensacola Cyber Army

Home: Florida, United States

A group of people whose only crime was curiosity. Have you wondered if you have been hacked? Do you lay awake at night wondering why DNS exfiltration is so easy to perform? Have you watched Sneakers and thought, those guys are amateurs? What is a white hat/black hat/gray hat hacker? Has your business been getting strange emails? Did you ever want to learn how to lock pick? What is a bug bounty? Are you Red Team or Blue Team? Whether you are new or old, young or ancient, script kiddy or L33T H@XX05. See the internet through the eyes of curiosity. Armed with the knowledge to untangle any knot.

HiveBoston Makerspace

Faire: Providence

Maker: HiveBoston

Home: Massachusetts, United States

HiveBoston is a 6,000 square foot, full-featured makerspace near Boston in southeastern Massachusetts with 3D FDM and resin printing, laser cutting, electronics, woodworking, and metalwork, and is a Massachusetts Public Benefit Corporation.

PhilTel: Bringing back payphones without the “pay”

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Mike Dank

Home: PA, United States

PhilTel is an amateur phone collective in Philadelphia that is refurbishing and installing payphones, but making them free to use by harnessing the power of open-source software, commodity hardware, and Voice-over-IP services. No coins required!

Geometric Jungle

Faire: NW Arkansas

Maker: Fitz Fitzgerald

Home: Arkansas, United States

Geometric Jungle is a place to explore shapes and their reflections. Can you figure out where to step to light up all the areas? Pop into the lab to make your own led switches!

DEFCON225

Faire: Baton Rouge

Maker: DEFCON225

Home: Louisiana, United States

DEF CON 225 (DC225) is a local DEF CON group for the 225 area code and surrounding areas composed of students, professionals, researchers, and hobbyists that meet and discuss current trends, topics, and research in the fields of computer security.

Hypermedia

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: Christian Morrow

Home: New York, United States

"Hypermedia is a nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks." Explore the wonderful world of hypermedia art with plenty of projects and artworks to explore!

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.

Impresora 3D de ceramica

Faire: CDMX (Mexico City)

Maker: erik moran

Home: Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico

No solo se puede imprimir plastico, ven y ve una impresora de ceramica

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.

Tips for Affordable Printing on the HP DesignJet T210 Wide Format Printer

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Phil Shapiro

Home: Maryland, United States

Learn how you can use the relatively affordable HP DesignJet T210 wide format printer ($700) to print your original math games and other creative output. When used wisely, the ink and paper are not expensive. Be bold - think big.

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.

Lego Spirograph Machines

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: The Hewitt School

Home: New York, United States

7th grade girls at The Hewitt School in Manhattan created drawing robots out of Micro:bits and old Lego robotics motors. Their robots can draw designs like a spirograph, play music, and show fun pictures, too! Come draw with our machines!

Scare Makers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Scare Makers

Home: California, United States

Our exhibit is a unique collection of home brewed radio controlled/roving/animatronic props, compressed air driven contraptions and 3D video displays all with a Halloween theme. We present these props and displays in an interactive fashion, with the goal of providing all Faire goers young and old with an entertaining, hands-on and educational experience. As in our prior Maker Faire showings, we hope to educate Faire attendees about our builds and how they might create their own versions. We allow them to use hand held R/C units to control the multiple props themselves, providing an immersive, enjoyable (and sometimes scary) experience.

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!

Learn to Solder with PCBWay, Elijah from MythBusters Jr., & Long Island Explorium!

Faire: Long Island

Maker: PCBWay

Home: New York, United States

Make your own MFLI light-up badge & learn how to use a soldering iron to attach components to a simple circuit board. It's taught by Elijah Horland from Mythbusters Jr Class of 2019. Sponsored by PCBWay. Free with entry while supplies last!

PCBWay (PA not needed)

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: PCbway

Home: Zhejiang Province, China

With more than a decade in the field of PCB prototype and fabrication, we are committed to meeting the needs of our customers from different industries in terms of quality, delivery, cost-effectiveness and any other demanding requests. As one of the most experienced PCB manufacturers in the world, we pride ourselves to be your best business partners as well as good friends in the every aspect of your PCB needs.

Sebastopol Makers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sebastopol Makers

Home: California, United States

More kinetic whatsits and 3D printable mechanisms from those characters in Sebastopol Makers. This year's exhibits will include: --Steamboat Ed's -Cap-tivator: the Socket Head Cap Screw holder -Emergency Lighting Improvements -Many 3D printable motorized mechanisms: -Improved 3D printable Drill Press -Benchtop DC motor and gearbox for experimenters -DC Wind Generator --Consulting Chemist Wayne's Aids to Microscopy

Scrapyard Challenge: Arcade Controller Design Workshop

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Home: New York, United States

Join an interactive, classic arcade game controller design workshop where participants will build wacky controllers for classic arcade games out of discarded materials and junk! No skills or experience necessary to participate!

Teletypes and other things that consume electricity

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Bob Coggeshall

Home: Virginia, United States

Come check out our prehistoric teletype machine!

DEXTER : des outils ludiques ?

Faire: Lille

Maker: Alban SEULIN

Home: France

Dexter propose des gammes complètes d'outils électroportatifs, outillages d'atelier, outillages à main, accessoires et équipements de protection. Le stand Dexter propose sur le stand de détourner des outils en jeux pour s'amuser en toute sécurité.

SLICEWORX

Faire: City of STEM + Los Angeles

Maker: SLICEWORX

Home: California, United States

Sliceworx based out of Simi Valley,CA is your gateway to premium 3D printing innovation. We offer a spectrum of high-quality unique filaments in a variety of materials and resell affordable 3D Printing technology for enthusiasts and professionals.

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