Maker Faire Yearbook 2025

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Tesseract

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Nicky Alice

Home: California, United States

Tesseract is an interactive light installation that explores the enigmatic nature of the fourth dimension. While a tesseract—a 4D hypercube—can be described mathematically, it remains visually elusive. This piece offers a conceptual window into that abstraction through a precise arrangement of specialty mirrors and LEDs housed within a cube. The internal design creates a multidimensional light experience that invites viewers to step into the unknown. As they engage with the illusion, audiences are immersed in a visceral appreciation for higher dimensions, blurring the boundaries between science, art, and imagination.

Syracuse Rocket Club

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: Syracuse Rocket Club

Home: New York, United States of America

See a huge variety of rockets (2-stage, sci-fi, glider, scale models), motors, launch systems and electronics. We’ll answer your questions about sport rocketry. Free hands-on rocket to build and take home for the first 50 kids to register.

Brooklyn Tech FTC Team 27705

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: The Brooklyn ByteKnights from Brooklyn Tech HS

Home: New York, United States of America

We are The Brooklyn ByteKnights from Brooklyn Tech HS. We are an FTC (FIRST Tech Challenge) team in our second year. We have our rookie bot for display and for attendees to try out, as well as prototypes and process pieces as we build toward the 2025-2026 robotics season challenge: FIRST AGE: DECODE! Inspired by archaeology, every artifact we uncover holds a story. Each tool, each innovation, each work of art connects us to the people and ideas that came before us. Using STEM skills and teamwork, today we can dig deeper into discoveries than ever before.

Kam Sats

Faire: Prague

Maker: Jiří Novák

Home: Czech Republic

Představíme vám náš CanSat, pravidla soutěže a povíme vám na co se připravit. I přestože jsme zcela nový tým, tak již máme mnohé co nabídnout.

The rocket body recovered during the 2024 launch test.

Faire: Tokyo

Maker: Kanagawa University Space Rocket Club・Takano Laboratory

Home: Japan

2024年に打上試験を実施し、高度10kmまで飛翔後、洋上回収に成功した機体の実物を展示いたします。昨年度に打ち上げし、ハイブリッドロケットの日本記録である最高到達速度マッハ1.5を達成した機体を是非ご覧ください。回収した機体以外にも開発の軌跡をご紹介できればと思っております。学生の宇宙への挑戦を是非体感してください。

Origami Rocket Evolution: Systematic Learning Through Aviation Principles

Faire: Coney Island

Home: New York, United States of America

Learn systematic origami through aviation principles! Participants fold their own origami rocket using the foundational waterbomb base. We teach the FAA's 5 Hazardous Attitudes for decision-making. I demonstrate craft stick control showing pitch, yaw, and roll concepts—participants take home completed rockets. Advanced models (Jet, Personal Flyer) displayed but require book/video for full instruction. Founded by Brooklyn educator Jay Jay Greene using crisis intervention expertise and STEM education. Free "How It All Began" comic via QR code. Special Maker Faire pricing: Complete book + video bundle $40 (regular $72-82). Ages 6+ with adult helper for younger children.

Project Empire

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jon Sarriugarte

Home: United States

PROJECT: EMPIRE - a captivating blend of art car mastery, avant-garde costuming, and spellbinding performance art, brought to life by the ingenious visionaries behind The Golden Mean and The Serpent Twins. Prepare to embark on an extraordinary voyage into uncharted realms of creativity, where Empire of Dirt draws inspiration from the illustrious era of science fiction concept art, the enigmatic narrative of a NASA mission that never came to be, and the boundless optimism and chic vibes of the 1960s Apollo Rocket Age. PROJECT: EMPIRE, an abbreviation for Early Manned Planetary-Interplanetary Roundtrip Expeditions, serves as the tangible embodiment of a mythological spacecraft, and we proudly introduce a groundbreaking genre known as AEROSPACEPUNK. Meet our sonic virtuoso, Kyrsten Mate, also known as Jet Girl, as she weaves an auditory masterpiece like no other. Armed with a formidable arsenal of 13 Meyer sound speakers, she invites you to immerse yourself in an auditory odyssey like n

La Vitrage studio

Faire: Tashkent

Maker: La Vitrage studio

Home: Mirzo Ulugbek, Uzbekistan

Stained glass studio, we create handmade colored glass products, dishes, decor, jewelry, household items. We work in Tiffany and fusing technology, we use Murano glass, as well as Tiffany glass

Jorge Cham – Oliver’s Great Big Universe

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Jorge Cham

Home: California, United States

Award-winning and best-selling cartoonist Jorge Cham engages kids and families with the wonders of the Universe in this fun and fact-filled event that is both creative and hilarious, featuring characters from his "Oliver's Great Big Universe" books.

Southern California Home Shop Machinists

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Southern California Home Shop Machinists

Home: California, United States

Southern California Home Shop Machinists (SCHSM) are volunteer machinists eager to share our knowledge and experience, exchange ideas, information, techniques, and sources of tools and supplies, and have fun discussing our hobby.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Los Angeles Section (AIAA LA Section)

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: American

Home: California, United States

With nearly 30,000 individual members from 91 countries, and 95 corporate members, AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. Created in 1963 by the merger of ARS/AIS and IAS (founded in 1930s).

UofL’s River City Rocketry

Faire: Louisville

Maker: River City Rocketry

Home: Kentucky, United States of America

We will display 2 projects, one is our liquid DPF engine that will be used for the DPF challenge, something we have been working on for the past year. The second project is one of our previous year large-scale competition rockets that we will showcase. We are River City Rocketry, a nationally ranked collegiate rocket team that designs, manufactures, and launches high powered rockets in a rocketry competition. Founded in 2011, we are a creative RSO dedicated to the creation and engineering of high powered competition rockets. We work on these rockets and compete at a collegiate level in the annual International Rocket Engineering Competition, the largest collegiate rocketry competition in the world. All majors are welcome to apply at rivercityrocketry.com

Noisebridge Hackerspace

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Noisebridge

Home: California

Noisebridge Hackerspace is a community center and makerspace in San Francisco, CA that serves anyone and everyone in the community who is interested in technology, art, and everything in between. Members of our community are constantly making creative projects for personal and communal use - we will have a number of these projects on display at our booth this year. Come play the COFFEE TABLE ARCADE - complete with bespoke, handcrafted games made just for it! See the SPACEBRIDGE TEAM BALLOON LAUNCH livestream! Participate in a miniaturized version of our BEGINNER-FRIENDLY CIRCUIT-HACKING and GUITAR PEDAL CREATION WORKSHOPS that we regularly host at our San Francisco facility!

LaSPACE MARS Truck

Faire: Baton Rouge

Maker: Louisiana Space Grant Consortium

Home: Louisiana, United States of America

The MARS Truck, operated by LaSPACE at LSU, will be on hand, providing space and physics-related demonstrations and hands-on activities. If weather permits we will have solar observations available to view sunspots and other solar phenomena.

Innovative projects of TTPU

Faire: Tashkent

Maker: Turin Polytechnic University in Uzbekistan

Home: Almazar, Uzbekistan

Projects developed by students of the Turin Polytechnic University. All these projects were developed in the special laboratories and technopark of our university.

Girls in STEM Club

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Girls in STEM Club

Home: California, United States

Guests will engage in a hands-on learning experience. Come learn about the Girls in STEM Club founded by Columbia Memorial Space Center!

YSpace

Faire: Brno

Maker: Karolína Šteffanová

Home: Czech Republic

Studentský tým YSpace z VUT představí své vesmírné mise, družice KOSTKA a CIMER. Obě mise tým vyvíjí ve vlastní režii: od prvotního návrhu přes výrobu a testování až po řízení družice na oběžné dráze. Návštěvníci se dozví spoustu zajímavostí ze světa vesmírného inženýrství, jak se navrhuje a staví satelit a co všechno je potřeba pro úspěšnou kosmickou misi. Součástí expozice bude i mini workshop pájení, kde si můžete vyrobit vlastní svítící klíčenku, která se rozsvítí po zapojení do počítače.

LASAR – Laser-Assisted Satellite Re-entry

Faire: Prague

Maker: Richard Nikel

Home: Czech Republic

Začalo to úspěchem českých středoškoláků v celosvětové soutěži Conrad Challenge minulý rok. Od té doby se tým LASAR rozrostl z pěti na několik desítek členů a jeho hlavním cílem je výzkum v oblasti laserů ve vesmíru. Pro tyto účely vypustil v prosinci 2024 vlastní satelit typu 1U Cubesat (10x10x10cm), který je tak ideálním terčem pro testování laserového paprsku ze Země. Kromě toho se tým zabývá popularizací kosmických aktivit v ČR, úzce spolupracuje s projektem Česká cesta do vesmíru a prostřednictvím přednášek školám a veřejnosti se snaží ukázat, že vesmír je pro každého.

Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering

Faire: Delft

Maker: Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering

Home: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Founded in 2001, DARE is one of Europe's oldest and most advanced student rocketry teams. Having launched over 200 rockets, we aim to give our members unique hands-on experiences while developing ground-breaking rocket technologies.

Experience piloting a space elevator robot

Faire: Tokyo

Maker: Kanagawa University Space Eleveter Project

Home: Japan

宇宙エレベーターロボットの展示や操縦体験などを行います。大会などに出場している大きなロボットと同じ機構を持つ小型のロボットをプロポを用いて操縦体験をすることができます。垂直に張ったロープを小型ロボットが昇っていく様子や、近くで観察したり触れたりすることで宇宙エレベーターロボットの機構を学ぶことができます。また、実際に大会に出場したロボットの展示や大会の様子などの映像も見ることができます。

Miami Dade College Makers Lab

Faire: Miami

Maker: Miami Dade College Makers Lab

Home: Florida, United States of America

The Miami Dade College Makers Lab will be exhibiting student projects from multiple campuses. Projects will include rocketry, rovers, autonomous vehicles, and electric vehicles. the Architecture department and Miami Fashion Institute will also be in

Carnegie Observatories

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Carnegie Observatories

Home: California, United States

Join astronomers from the Carnegie Observatories for an interactive demonstration and a view of the sun through a solar telescope.

STEP Program at City Tech

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: STEP Drone Team

Home: New York, United States of America

The Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) is a New York State Education Department (NYSED) grant-funded initiative aimed at increasing the participation of underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students in STEM fields and licensed professions. Serving students in grades 7 through 12, STEP offers free STEM workshops at New York City College of Technology (CUNY). At the Maker Faire, the STEP Drone Team will showcase the fundamental principles of drone design, operation, safety, and real-world applications. They will also lead hands-on demonstrations using a variety of educational drones.

CleverClocks

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Dougals and Eva Workshop

Home: California, United States of America

We try to portray time and it's passage in different ways. Our clocks are less invasive, more descriptive, accurate and totally silent.

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