Maker Faire Yearbook 2025

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Lake County Robotics Competition

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Engineering Transfer Dept

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Participants in the Lake County Robotics Competition will demonstrate their robots, running them through the same paces that will occur during the competition. Attendees may get the chance to drive the robots and check out the coding.
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Make-a-Thon

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States of America

What do you get when you combine microcontrollers, coding, cardboard and glue guns? More than you could ever imagine. Makers of all ages came together for our fifth annual Make a Thon on Sat. Feb. 22. Vote for your favorite project.
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Engineering Club Trebuchet

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Engineering Club

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Watch the Engineering club trebuchet throw soccer balls across the front lawn of the Technology building.
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Musical Tesla Coil

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Samuel Catania

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Come see a live musical Tesla Coil! This device plays music using visible lightning! See us play short musical demos every 30 mins throughout the faire!
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Make All Things @ Round Lake Area Public Library

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Round Lake Area Public Library

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Discover everything you can create in the X Lab at the Round Lake Area Public Library! Enjoy games, prizes, and a coloring station—fun for all ages!
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Moss Enterprises

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Tom Bohr

Home: Iowa, United States of America

Come check out the "ROBOT DOG." This is the same robot that preformed at the Super Bowl. Our quadbot works in manufacturing, agriculture, law enforcement, and and entertainment. Come learn more about the future of robots!
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Live Entertainment’s Tables Mazes and Games

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Department of Live Entertainment Production and Technical Theatre

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Come and play table games and mazes designed and built by students in CLC's Live Entertainment Production program. Race against the clock or your friends to solve the mazes. Play Plinko for prizes. Learn about Live Entertainment and CLC Theatre.
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The Workshop at Warren-Newport Public Library

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Warren-Newport Public Library

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Welcome to The Workshop! Learn more about WNPL's new makerspace and enjoy creating a paper craft.
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Build-a-Blinkie Learn-to-Solder Workshop

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Build-a-Blinkie

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Build-a-Blinkie Learn-to-Solder Workshop
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Reach for the Stars: Amateur Radio Satellites, Meshtastic Networks, and Your DIY Adventure

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Ralph Iden

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Explore the world of amateur radio, satellite communications, and Meshtastic networks. Build a project to take home to inspire your own DIY adventures. Perfect for curious minds and radio enthusiasts alike!
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Ela Area Public Library – Forge Makerspace

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Yolanda Prado

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Explore Ela Public Library’s Forge Makerspace, where creativity meets technology! See live 3D printing and laser cutting demos, and get hands-on with fun crafts like color-in stickers and emoji medallions.
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Park Campus STEAM Team

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Park Campus STEAM Team

Home: Illinois, United States of America

We like to make toys that spin and light up. We hope you can come play with us!
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String and Simple Mechanics

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Alex Koscica

Home: Illinois, United States of America

See and try for yourself a few of my favorite simple mechanisms, made with string, sticks, and (on occasion) a 3D printer and modern CAD. These mechanisms are simple to keep in mind, and powerful when used in the right places.
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Cricut Corner

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Adhya Garlapati

Home: Illinois, United States

I love Cricut and making different projects and arts with it. Will be sharing my Cricut machine and the possibilities.
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Ken’s Garage

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Ken Kolman

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Ken's Garage is literally Ken in his Garage making things. through the use of 3D Printing and CNC Laser, waterjet, routers and milling. All to showcase how these things can be made in Ken's Garage or anyone's maker space.
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Henry Martin’s Marvelous Machines

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Henry Martin

Home: Wisconsin, United States of America

Henry Martin is a young make with a passion for development, engineering and all things tech. Henry's stem fair projects have won local, state and national awards.
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Make a Paper Circuit

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Learn how to create a simple circuit to light up an LED. Take your creation home with you.
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Hatt Bott

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Stop by and stroll with Hatt Bott or maybe take a selfie. This semi-autonomous robot was designed to interact with people. He is built using Tetrix robotic components and programmed using the Arduino IDE.
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Bristle Bot and robot demonstration interaction

Faire: Lake County

Maker: got robot?

Home: Illinois, United States of America

See FTC team got robot? 5037 promoting FIRST inspires and STEAM products and information. got robot is also looking for team members in the Elgin area but welcome students from all areas. We are a club team that is not affiliated with any school
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Chuck’s Woodshop

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Chuck Boucek

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Chuck will show a number of projects he has built in his shop including a Bluetooth player in the style of a 1950’s era radio. His larger projects will be shown via an iPad presentation.
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Make and Take – 3D Printed Bluetooth Speaker Drivers

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Chris Bruce

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Come hand-wind and test a working 3D printed speaker driver for free, or even build and take home a complete working bluetooth speaker!
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Pneumatic Rocket Launcher

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States of America

Interested in rockets? Stop by the pneumatic rocket launcher exhibit and get some hands-on experience with building and launching a paper rocket using air pressure. You can experiment with aerodynamics and basic rocketry principles.
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