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High-Quality Home-Built Humanoid Robotic Arms

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kelvin Amador

Home: California, United States

Come explore our stand featuring three life-size humanoid robotic arms, all hand-built at home using accessible materials and tools. These arms showcase a wide range of realistic motion and precise articulation. Two of the arms are fully interactive, allowing visitors to control them and experience firsthand how responsive and dynamic DIY robotics can be. This project aims to demonstrate what's possible in the world of humanoid robotics when creativity meets accessible technology. Whether you're a maker, a student, or just curious, you'll see that cutting-edge robotics doesn't always require a lab—just passion, persistence, and a garage.

HydroCUBE

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: HydroCUBE

Home: California

A Mini 3D Printed Hydroponic Garden Over the last 4 years, I have designed and built a futuristic garden that gives you control over lighting, humidity, and airflow, with the ultimate goal of complete environmental control through your phone to set and test growth environments of your liking. Come visit my booth to see the progression of my hardware, software, and product design!

Yolo Maker Guys

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Yolo Maker Guys

Home: California

We're a group of creators from Yolo County, coming together to showcase a diverse mix of practical projects, creative tech, and artistic exploration. Highlights include: Doug's Clocks, Lamps and 3D prints - Unique timepieces combining 3D printing and vivid neon-style lighting, turning time display into something playful and beautiful. Lamps that will be admired by gearheads and art enthusiasts. Sophisticated examples of 3d printing from different tech and colors The Explorer - A life-sized humanoid sculpture made entirely from found objects, blending storytelling and sculpture in an eye-catching form. Copperbot - Dave's always-evolving robotics-meets-art creation is built on hand-bent copper wires, including antique vacuum tubes, hundreds of LEDs, cameras, sensors, stereo sound, a few Arduinos, a Pi, a cup holder, and kinetic flapping wings — all merging into a captivating piece of interactive kinetic art. How to build a bot - find out how to build a remote controlled bot, from an electric wheelchair base, adding motor drivers, remote control and more.

SF BayArea Japan Maker Community / Challenge Club / Karaage Empire

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: SF BayArea Japan Maker Community / Challenge Club / Karaage Empire

Home: California

Learn Python with a Falling Block Puzzle Game and Tetris Block Art! We're excited to showcase updated versions of the projects we presented at Maker Faire Kyoto 2024. Experience an AI-powered puzzle game inspired by Tetris! Our club makes programming fun by using games as a gateway to learning. Enjoy our collection of pixel art made from Tetris blocks! These playful and colorful pieces were created using an automated system we developed to generate Tetris-based artwork. We'll also be exhibiting collaborative projects made with our club and friends from Japan. Come visit our booth—we'd love to see you!

Chetna’s Crafting Creations

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Yashi Jain

Home: California

Discover handmade crochet products at Chetna's Crafting Creations. From vibrant flower bouquets to cute plushies, keychains, jewelry, and much more, each product is crafted with love. Also you can engage in a fun hands on activity to make a beautiful pendant.

For the Love of Wieners

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Tenaya Conklin

Home: California

Why does she do it? Collecting trash year round and soldering LEDs? For the love of wiener dogs of course! Contemplate our society's single-use plastic trash in these LED and upcycled sculptures by Tenaya Conklin. Wiener dogs are the best and we love these terrific topiary hounds, which is your favorite? Tenaya is a wife, a mother, a teacher, an actress in local productions, and a singer in a band with her mom and dad.

XTool

Faire: Bay Area

Home: United States

Empowering makers of all skill levels, XTool delivers intuitive laser engravers, cutters, and multi-mode craft machines designed to make creation easier, more precise, and a lot more fun. Whether you’re just getting started or running a side business, their tools help you do more than scissors or knives ever could.

On Site Ham Radio Exams

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: VE's Of Silicon Valley

Home: California, United States

Take your Ham Radio Exam while at this year's Maker Faire. Technician, General and Amateur Extra Exams will be given on site; including Friday's the Maker Faire is open (please RSVP for Friday test times). Candidates younger than 18-years old will pay a reduced exam session fee of $5. Make sure you have an FRN: https://apps.fcc.gov/cores/user

Jester Art Bike

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jim Dyke

Home: California

Is it an upside-down insect? A Lost Burning Man 'burner bike' that found a portal to Vallejo? No one knows, so you decide what this highly rideable, 30' tall art bike is supposed to represent.

SpaceframeSCAD: Large-scale light-up sculptures, 3D printed, portable in a ziploc bag

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ken Wronkiewicz

Home: California

I wanted to make illuminated sculptures, but I only have so much room to work with. Thus, I asked myself "How would I make something that looks neat but fits into a ziploc bag?” Around the same time, I'd been browsing through the NASA Tech Report Server to look at the wealth of papers from the 1980s. I realized that the classic concept art renditions of Space Station Freedom was only really scratching the surface of NASA's ambitions to build giant structures in orbit, all in trusses and with great consideration to the size and weight of the structure. These helped me make SpaceframeSCAD, a tool to build parametrically defined pieces to build a variety of structures that can be assembled into site-specific illuminated sculptures. Surprisingly, my tool extended beyond light-up sculptures and artwork the node system lets build tomato cages that can transform into a greenhouse when spring arrives, making my garden look more like out of the set of Star Trek.

Props and Costumes by Thorsson & Associates

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Shawn Thorsson

Home: California

Shawn Thorsson and his crew build all manner of costumes, props, set pieces, and art installations for film, television, advertising, and private collectors. Stop by the booth and see what's new.

The Pedal Powered Stage

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Rock The Bike

Home: California

Pedal shoulder to shoulder with other Faire goers to power a bumping sound system, amplifying amazing local live music acts all day long at Maker Faire.

Microchip

Faire: Bay Area

Home: United States

Microchip Technology Inc. is committed to making innovative design easier through total system solutions that address critical challenges at the intersection of emerging technologies and durable end markets. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio support customers throughout the design process, from concept to completion. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support and delivers solutions across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets.

Go-Carts from Field Middle

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: 8th graders Field Middle

Home: California

Built by our 8th graders at the end of the 2024-2025 school year, these go-karts are a Field Middle favorite. Students designed, measured, cut, and assembled these sturdy, playful vehicles while honing their engineering, problem-solving, and craftsmanship skills. At Maker Faire, our students love giving visitors rides in these colorful carts—come by and let them push you around!

Lose Yourself

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Rahim Adatia

Home: California

This installation aims to immerse users into a meditational experience through the use of Arabic Sufi music and Islamic geometry, which reflects a faith-based art practice. By taking the user into an immersive experience of sound and light, the user's current state of mind is encouraged to enter a trance-like state. The change in mind states is captured through the biometric signals from the EEG device, and can in turn alter the colors and geometric art displayed.

Lego Robotics and Sugar Printing By FLL BrainBots #64638

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: FLL Brain Bots #64638

Home: California, United States

A FLL robotics team of sixth-graders from San Jose is showcasing their Lego creations. Their main exhibit is a sugar printing machine powered by Lego robotic kit.

Fingers on Wheelz

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Fingers on Wheelz

Home: California

We are a finger skateboard company founded by 3 7th graders in 2024. We have created fingerboard decks with all kinds of materials.

Raspberry Pi

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Raspberry Pi

Home: United Kingdom

Come meet the Raspberry Pi team and learn about all the latest maker-friendly tech including computers, microcontrollers, AI accelerators, and cameras.

Solar Telescopes and the Robert Ferguson Observatory

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Robert Ferguson Observatory

Home: California, United States of America

Observe the sun like never before! Safely too. The Robert Ferguson Observatory is offering free solar viewing for curious minds of all ages. Using specialized equipment, you'll be able to safely observe the Sun with your own eyes—no sunglasses needed! Right now, the Sun is in an active phase of its solar cycle, meaning we have a better chance of spotting cool, dark sunspots and witnessing towering arcs of plasma called prominences. These dramatic solar features are the building blocks of powerful solar flares—and even the auroras we see here on Earth! Additional information will be provided for enthusiastic stargazers who would like to visit the observatory for themselves! Located in Kenwood, CA, the RFO offers public programing on a weekly basis—come see the cosmos!

Let’s Write and Share News Cards!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: AfterAI

Home: Japan

Everyone can become a maker! At our booth, you're invited to read heartwarming news cards written by fellow visitors and to write your own. Let's hang our news cards and decorate the booth. We publish a weekly handwritten newspaper every week. We believe that handwriting allows us to compose genuine and truly original piece of art.

Glass Blowing Glasses/Make It and Take It

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: douglass brown

Home: California

Come blow glass with us during the festival. If we are using out FATCAT annealer you will be able to take your work home with you the same day Choose from one of 6 blown projects and a dozen stamped coin designs

Western Pyrotechnic Association

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Western Pyrotechnic Association

Home: California

The Western Pyrotechnic Association is dedicated to promote and encourage the safe, legal and artful use of pyrotechnics.

Grandpa’s Train.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Brad Silva

Home: California

Grandpa's Train is a two car electric train. I can give rides to four kids or two adults. It's built on a heavy-duty wheelchair platform and is the result of when your wife asks: "What are you going to do with that?"

Captain Rex Mini – Star Tours @ Home

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Connor T

Home: California, United States

Captain Rex Mini is a fully 3D printed animatronic robot capable of dynamic character performance using motors, lights, and sound. At 10" tall, he is a desktop-sized version of Captain Rex, the RX-24 pilot droid on the original 1987-2010 Disneyland Star Wars ride, Star Tours. At Maker Faire, he will be taking guests on a miniaturized flight to Endor. Come by and re-experience the ride! Captain Rex Mini has 7 degrees of freedom, blinking eyes, a "talking" mouth, and light up dashboard buttons. All components, including structure and geartrains, are fully FDM printed. He can either be manually remote controlled or perform prerecorded animations, including his Star Tours performance. Built in just under 2 months, this project pushes the limits on what's possible with consumer-level resources, utilizing the latest in high precision 3D printing, affordable electronics, and AI-assisted software development.

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