Maker Faire Yearbook 2025

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Cedar Creek Pottery

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Andee Warren

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Techies meet Muddites; even bots need pots! We take a milennia old tradition of handmade pottery into a high tech world. Featuring our speaker pot & more, Cedar Creek Pottery welcomes makers, engineers, artists, robots, and all lovers of pottery!

Imperial 3D Printing & Design, LLC

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Jason Cummings

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Ignite creativity with Imperial 3D Printing & Design! From custom prints to kid-friendly collectibles, we blend fun, STEM learning, and local craftsmanship. Perfect for gifts, fidgets, and inspiring young makers.

Pewaukee Road LEGO Train LIne

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Gregory Blau

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

All aboard for a magical adventure! Bring the kids to explore our Disney-inspired LEGO train layout, packed with beloved Disney character minifigs and trains rolling through a whimsical world of bricks.

Mystery Machine

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Marshall Scholz

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Silly Power wheels go-kart modeled after mystery machine

Creating your Chinese zodiac anima.

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Wisconsin Falun Dafa Assoc.

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

We will help you determine your birth year and then find the corresponding animal in the Chinese 12-year cycle. Look up your birth year, match your birth year to our list of animals in the Chinese zodiac. Choose the color paper and ink you want to use and create your picture to take home. We will also help your find a word you like to create such as LOVE.

Gearbox Labs

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Peter Haydock

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Gearbox Labs is the producer of the Maker Faire Milwaukee and publishers of Arduino-based curriculum for education.

How to Automate Anything At Home With Ignition Maker Edition

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Adrienne Harvey

Home: Illinois, United States of America

See how to use the free version of Inductive Automation's powerful industrial SCADA/MES program, Ignition to automate just about anything in your home! Ignition Maker Edition is a fully featured version (with minor limitations) of the software that allows you to control and automate non-commercial projects ie: a home automation project that could expand into IoT, robotics, and more. And you can collect data to display however you wish! I'll share a few of my own Ignition Maker Edition projects to show how this software isn't just for factory/industrial automation with my inventory system for DIY project components, and my Meshtastic MQTT data project that lets me track my nodes on a map (and save location info) from radio adventures. Build Ignition experience for your career too.

CNC Fabrication for Robotics

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: GEarheads Robotics

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

The GEarheads are an FTC robotics team that is focused on building technical skills for design and fabrication, we will highlight three CNC router platforms we have constructed. We will demonstrate the use of one open source CNC router, share information on how you can build one, and demonstrate using the CNC. We will showcase building the hardware as well as the CAD and software tools used to operate it. We will also show an example FTC competition robot that used a CNC router to construct many of it parts and be giving opportunities for visitors to drive this robot.

Milwaukee Makerspace

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Milwaukee Makerspace

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Check out our member-made projects and activities, such as 3D printing, Stained Glass, Laser Engraving and more! Learn about the Milwaukee Makerspace and the exciting things our members have been working on!

Cayla The Painter

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Cayla Mrnik

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Cayla the Painter is a Milwaukee-based artist blending fine art with live, interactive experiences. At Maker Faire Milwaukee, she’ll showcase original paintings inspired by nature and everyday beauty, high-quality prints for accessible collecting, and live watercolor portraits created in minutes for guests to take home as keepsakes. Her work ranges from custom portraits to commissions, offering meaningful, one-of-a-kind art pieces. Visitors can expect a booth that celebrates creativity, connection, and the joy of bringing art into daily life.

Wisconsin Scale Boating Association

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Wisconsin Scale Boating Association

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

The WSBA is a club dedicated to fostering interest in the hobby of building static and radio controlled scale ships and boats. Our membership is open to anyone interested in the model shipbuilding hobby.

David Delectable Daleks

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Dalek Asylum Milwaukee

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

This year I will be with Dalek Asylum Milwaukee and be showing some really incredible examples of human ingenuity. Scary giant creatures that can turn grown men into mere snowflakes. My philosophy is let the Wookie win. If tested, Dalek technology would prevail over Wookies every time...you'll see. Stop by our booth and ask me about gen Z's culinary shortcomings, or the maybe the advantages of bread pudding over kidney pie. I'm always up to a good discussion on most obscure topics.

Chiro One Wellness Centers

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Chiro One Wellness Centers

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Chiro One Wellness Centers offers a unique care model that consists of a combination of chiropractic adjustments and active therapies that help provide relief from pain and discomfort, increase your physical functionality, and improve overall wellness.

WOOSH Rocketry- AIR ROCKETS and Model Display

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: WOOSH- Wisconsin Organization Of Spacemodeling Hobbyists

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

The Wisconsin Organization Of Spacemodeling Hobbyists- WOOSH has a strong history of exhibiting at various Maker Faires throughout Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Elkhorn, Pleasant Prairie and others. . Our exhibit is an informative introduction to the exciting hobby of model rocketry. Our outreach team explains building materials, techniques, and launch procedures. We bring an assortment of rockets ranging in size between a few inches to as tall as 15 feet. We also have a hands-on Air Rocket Build and Fly component which teaches kids basic rocket building skills and allows the kids to actually launch their rocket from our hand pumped air rocket launch pad.

Soul Spin

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Justin Stone

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Soul Spin is an interactive art experience where attendees create their very own work of art using a recycled vinyl record, paint, and the magic of centripetal force! After dripping paint onto the record and giving it a spin, an array of beautiful designs are created for a one of a kind piece of art to take home!

Milwaukee Makerspace Forge

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Milwaukee Makerspace

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Items wrought from steel and other metal

WisLUG

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: WisLUG - Wisconsin LEGO User Group

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

WisLUG is a group of adult Lego® enthusiasts, who use Lego® elements to explore our creativity, solve engineering challenges, and love to share our passion for building with others.

The Ant – Compact CNC for PCB & DIY Prototypes

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: The Ant Team

Home: Varese, Italy

The Ant is a compact CNC machine designed to prototype printed circuit boards (PCBs) and create small parts in various materials, ideal for makers and personal projects. Easy to build, The Ant is a DIY project, featuring accessible hardware, electronics, and software. At the Milwaukee maker faire, we’ll showcase the unreleased second version of the machine, redesigned for even better performance. This new version builds on everything we learned during the development of the first one and incorporates valuable feedback from the small community that has grown around the project over the years. Small and precise, The Ant brings digital fabrication and prototyping within every maker’s reach.

Lazarus Leatherworks

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Don Haynes

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Lazarus Leatherworks repairs, refurbishes and re-purposes leather products and we provide custom crafted leather goods and services.

John’s Chair Caning

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: John's chair caning/ JW cane & rush

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

We are a three generation family business specializing it the weaving of chair seats. We do traditional caning, rushing, Danish cord, and splinting. We started in 1972 and are still helping people make their heirlooms usable and beautiful!

PINKrov

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: sfrobotics

Home: Wisconsin, United States

A robotics team from St. Francis, WI has partnered with an Underwater Archaeologist and other organizations on a transformative three-year journey, uniting educators, researchers, students, and industry professionals in a mission where the ROV is no longer the destination but a milestone in a much larger exploration and learning experience. Watch as we fly the ROV in the Great Lakes Aquarium, as well as try out our simulator and test your own flying skills.

Big and small Daleks!

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Chris Adams

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Stop by our booth to see Daleks and possibly other robots and creations.

Dalek Asylum Milwaukee

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Dalek Asylum Milwaukee

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Dalek Asylum Milwaukee has been building screen accurate replicas Of the robotic bad guys from the British sci-fi series Doctor Who for a decade. Some of our members, longer than that. Come see us and find out how you can build one for yourself

DIY Music Synthesizers

Faire: Milwaukee

Maker: Karl Stamm

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Music Synthesizers are often too expensive for kids to play and learn on, so home-made DIY kits are an option to introduce live electronic music to everyone. We have circuit bending and electric modulation, and a few eurorack synths to play on.

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