Maker Faire Yearbook 2025

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WASTEWORLD TOYS

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Brett Houser

Home: PA, United States of America

Animatronic RC vehicles & FPV action figures that zoom, fly, float, shoot, launch, and whatever the verb is to use a flamethrower! All figures & vehicles come from the WASTEWORLD of one person's imagination. (All ages welcome to play with the toys.)
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Walk Around Philadelphia

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Walk Around Philadelphia

Home: PA, United States of America

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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Sad Kid Studios

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Sad Kid Studios

Home: NJ, United States of America

Sad Kid Studios creates a wide variety of items, including prints of hand made art, wood burning art, candles, stitch work, and unique stickers. Every product is designed with the spirit of honesty and authenticity in mind.
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Egg Dyeing using the Ukranian traditional technique of Pysanky

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Cassies Craft Coven

Home: pa, United States of America

Join Craft Coven organizer Cassie Jones in a demonstration of the traditional Ukrainian egg art of Pysanky. Using special tools, a flame, and a steady hand Cassie will show the process from start to finish of how to 'write' onto real egg shells.
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The Legacy Experience

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Steve The Legacy

Home: Pennsylvania, United States of America

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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Knot Tying with the Independence Seaport Museum

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Independence Seaport Museum

Home: PA, US Minor Outlying Islands

Join the Independence Seaport Museum to learn about the history of rope making in Philadelphia and practice tying knots yourself! We'll be demonstrating the bowline, a foundational boating knot, and sharing some examples of historical knots!
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Learn about Kitebuilding with the American Kitefliers Association

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: American Kitefliers Association

Home: PA, United States of America

Kitebuilding is for makers. If you work with textiles, paper, wood, carbon fiber, 3d printers, or many other mediums stop by to see how your skills might be put to using in making a kite.
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Maker Buoy is an open source design for a low-cost ocean tracking buoy.

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Wayne Pavalko

Home: MD, United States of America

Maker Buoy is an open source buoy design that provides low-cost ocean data collection to researchers and educators. Visit the Maker Buoy booth to see how off-the-shelf hardware can travel around the world helping us better understand the ocean.
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Utility Works MakerSpace

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Utility Works Maker Space

Home: PA, United States of America

Utility Work's MakerSpace is a non-profit run co-working space that encourages learning, creativity and collaboration by providing the community with low-cost access to an array of equipment, technology, and services.
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Light Bird Crafts

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Lynette Rodriguez

Home: PA, United States of America

Hand crafted ceramics, primarily food-focused functional wares as well as clay jewelry. Most of my work is slip casted porcelain from handmade molds, and then hand-painted with underglaze.
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Non-Motorized Vehicles

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Warren Tucker

Home: New Jersey, United States of America

Our group is testing Non-Motorized Vehicles designed for the commercial transportation market. These cycles can moves heavy payloads up to 30,000 pounds using Supercomputers, Flywheels and Human Power. The maximum speed for these NMV's is 50 MPH.
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ChompShop: A Kid-Safe Power Tool for Cutting Cardboard?!

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: ChompShop, Inc.

Home: Pennsylvania, United States of America

Come to ChompShop's booth to try out a prototype of our kid-safe power tool for cutting cardboard, build some fun cardboard projects, and learn all about how we are prototyping and manufacturing our successful Kickstarter product!
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The Myelin Board: The Successor to OpenBCI’s Cyton

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Michael Recine

Home: NY, United States of America

The Myelin board is intended to collect large quantities of high quality EEG data at an affordable price, with additional upgrades over its predecessor. Aimed at neuroscience research, neurotech device R/D, educators, and (eventually) hobbyists.
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ColonialLUG –

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: ColonialLUG

Home: Pennsylvania, United States of America

Hands-on building experience for all ages hosted by ColonialLUG, a Southeastern Pennsylvania family-friendly LEGO User Group.
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The Screwdriver for Makers by a Maker

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Andres Alzate

Home: DE, United States of America

The Bit-Grip Pro 6 is a multi-bit screwdriver designed and built for makers, by a maker. Using standard bits, you can quickly load your own and get to work, allowing you to focus on the task at hand without missing a beat.
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Playful Engineers: Artful Mechanisms

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Playful Engineers

Home: MA, United States of America

Make your own crank or linkage-driven toy that tells a story, sets a scene, or brings a character to life, at our Playful Engineers/Traveling Maker Space workshop. Tools & materials provided, no experience needed. Kinetic art from ordinary materials!
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Saika Cafe Clubhouse

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Anya Laudenslager

Home: PA, United States of America

Saika Cafe Clubhouse is a local third space that features clubs, activities and small events for the Philadelphia nerd community. We will be running recurring events such as a manga library, language club, TTRPG one-shots and more!
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Spirit Lab

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Casey Tabor

Home: Pennsylvania, United States of America

Spiritlab is an art collective specializing in laser-cut wood and acrylic. Our multidisciplinary visionary art extends to vibrant paintings, optical illusions, custom made clothing, kinetic sculptures, and decor for parties and events.
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XOOM FOODS in the nation’s first restaurant meal subscription service delivering high quality, heat & eat, restaurant-cooked meals that are ready in 2 minutes.

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Suresh Annappindi

Home: Delaware, United States of America

XOOM FOODS is the #1 subscription service for heat-and-eat, restaurant-cooked meals—ready in just 2 minutes. No prep, no cooking, and no high delivery fees! Visit our booth, grab a flyer with a coupon, and enter our raffle for a free meal box!
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Oasis-X

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Oasis-X

Home: Pennsylvania, United States of America

Oasis-X is a Philadelphia startup using technology to help build resilient local food systems. We build smart tools to help even smarter growers be more productive, sustainable, and efficient.
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“Radio Denali” is a 3d-printed, video-mapped, arduino controlled interactive artwork

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Jeff Brown

Home: PA, United States of America

"Radio Denali" is an interactive meditation on climate change and human control. Packaged in "old technology" and driven by new technology, the work invites viewers to try their hand at controlling the sun and wind in a microcosm. Is it a hologram?
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Rocketship Games

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Rocketship Games

Home: PA, US Minor Outlying Islands

Roxborough's fastest growing aerospace company, ROCKETSHIP GAMES is back to talk model rockets and present its line of micro and mini rocket kits that use tiny black powder motors and can fly on very small fields. Swing on by and reach for the stars!
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Penn Assistive Devices and Prosthetic Technologies (ADAPT)

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: Penn Assistive Devices and Prosthetic Technologies (ADAPT)

Home: New York, United States of America

Penn ADAPT is excited to showcase our six biomedical device projects at the Philadelphia Maker Faire! Visit our booth to interact with our prototypes, learn about engineering concepts, meet our passionate members, and hear more about our journey!
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TOOOL PHL

Faire: Philadelphia

Maker: TOOOL PHL

Home: PA, United States of America

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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