Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Portable Cloud Generator

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Ian Baillie

Home: North Carolina, United States

Watch fun-shaped clouds form and float off into the skies, right in front of your eyes! A first time appearance at Asheville Maker Faire, the portable cloud generator promises fun for all, but no guarantees that there won't be meatballs.
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Purl’s Yarn Emporium

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Rik Schell

Home: North Carolina, United States

We'll be demonstrating a variety of fiber crafts, from raw fleeces fresh off the sheep to spinning into yarn, dyeing techniques (which we won't be demoing live because of potential mess), the design process, and knitting.
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Western North Carolina Woodworkers Association (WNCWA)

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Western North Carolina Woodworkers Association (WNCWA)

Home: North Carolina, United States

WNCWA is a woodworking group promoting interests in making things out of wood. We hold monthly meetings that include a featured topic or go on shop tours or field trips to educate our members in all facets of the woodworking hobby.
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DuinoKit.com & TinkerCode.us

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Daniel Alich

Home: North Carolina, United States

Learn Coding and Electronics. Arduino-based learning kit and online curriculum.
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Lee-Magination

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Ayran Lee

Home: North Carolina, United States

Ayran Lee was introduced to drafting in high schoolat which time he began designing 3D creations. His fascination with architectural building, functional creations and unique designs bring imagination to tangible objects that can be enjoyed.
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501st Legion Carolina Garrison

Faire: Asheville

Maker: 501st Legion Carolina Garrison

Home: North Carolina, United States

The 501st Legion is an international costuming organization dedicated to celebrating STAR WARS™
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RAWtools South

Faire: Asheville

Maker: RAWtools South

Home: North Carolina, United States

Watch old gun parts forged into a garden tool. We will have the forge roaring and will give folks an opportunity to pick up the hammer or just come talk to us about how you can help make your home and our town safer for everyone.
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Rally Race Car: Start to Finish

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Keenan Phillips

Home: North Carolina, United States

Check out a real BMW rally racing car and it's distant cousin that is the bare shell it began as. Talk to builder/driver Keenan about all the Maker skills put into this project and how much fun he has racing all around the country!
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SynergyMill Makerspace

Faire: Asheville

Maker: SynergyMill Makerspace

Home: South Carolina, United States

SynergyMill Makerspace in Greenville SC shares the famous Teleidoscope. It's a big interactive kaleidoscope-ish machine where you and your friends can create mesmerizing patterns of swirling colors.
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Wooden Chair Making

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Hanger Hall School

Home: North Carolina, United States

Hanger Hall School's 8th grade class partners with the SkillSet team at UNCA for two 8 week sessions each school year. This past 2022 fall session (and during this upcoming Spring) 13 students designed and constructed 13 foldable wooden chairs.
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Syntax Terror, FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Team

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Syntax Terror FTC Robotics Team

Home: North Carolina, United States

Syntax Terror is a robotics team of ten homeschooled students in grades 9-12 who share a passion for brainstorming and problem-solving. We believe that our talents and skills can be used to make a positive impact on the world around us.
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Astronomy Club of Asheville

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Astronomy Club of Asheville

Home: North Carolina, United States

The Astronomy Club of Asheville is a non-profit, educational organization, with an average membership of over 200 people, that is open to visitors and is dedicated to helping people of all ages understand and enjoy astronomy at all levels.
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Carolina Mountain Woodturners

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Anne Ogg

Home: North Carolina, United States

Carolina Mountain Woodturners is a 501(c)3 organization that provides woodturning education, meeting monthly at The Folk Art Center for woodturning demonstrations that are free and open to the public. We have a state of the art facility in Arden, NC.
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3D printed life-size remote controlled R2D2

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Geoff Pavey

Home: North Carolina, United States

Every ones favorite Star Wars Droid! Its full-size, screen accurate, is remotely controlled and has all the great R2 sounds. The project was 3D printed and required over 25kg of filament and over 2600 hours of printing time.
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Asheville Art Museum

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Asheville Art Museum

Home: North Carolina, United States

I am the Adult Programming & Community Outreach Manage at the Asheville Art Museum
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Odyssey School Vertical Arcade

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Odyssey School

Home: North Carolina, United States

Middle School students from the Odyssey School will showcase their design projects from this spring's hard problem. Vertical Arcade is a series of wall mounted marble games to interact with that include woodworking, metal working, design and physics.
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MicroKits: Synths and Theremin Kits

Faire: Asheville

Maker: David Levi

Home: Virginia, United States

You can build your own electronic musical instruments with MicroKits! Use our kit to build your own Theremin, or connect everyday objects to our synthesizer to build your own keyboard. We’ll have a banana keyboard out that you can play!
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Wind Tube

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Rainbow Community School

Home: North Carolina, United States

Wind Tubes is an activity that allows visitors to explore moving air with a variety of everyday objects.
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The MerTails | Elixirs as Mixers

Faire: Asheville

Maker: The NOHM Collective

Home: North Carolina, United States

Join us! Fresh harvested herbs for touch and smell, variety of infusions for smell, taste, and mixing to experience different flavor profiles and herbal energetics. Live herbal mixology with our elixirs sold by the cup, accompanied by free samples
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Hydraulic Lifts with AMOS

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Asheville Museum of Science

Home: North Carolina, United States

Join the Asheville Museum of Science for a hands-on investigation of hydraulic lifts! Fellow makers will have a chance to see how hydraulic lifts are used in the industry and create their own hydraulic lift to take home!
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Mythos VR Experience

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Peter Von Buskirk

Home: North Carolina, United States

Step into a character role in this fully immersive VR performance simulator as others spectate the unfolding action. Mythos is still in early production, and this is an exclusive first public demo of the concept in progress.
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Stencil Stylz

Faire: Asheville

Maker: Darrell Thomas

Home: North Carolina, United States

Stencil Stylz is a reusable sidewalk chalk stencil that gives children and adults the ability to create fun colorful works of art with a mosaic style design using sidewalk chalk, color pencils, markers, crayons, and paint.
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3D printers

Faire: Asheville

Maker: kevin van deusen

Home: South Carolina, United States

Come see 3d printers in action! You will also have the opportunity to purchase at lower than internet prices if interested.
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Tape Art with TJMS

Faire: Asheville

Maker: TJMS Tape Art Club

Home: North Carolina, United States

Come join students from Thomas Jefferson Middle School as we create a collaborative art project from masking tape. Students will be teaching the basics of masking tape art and helping participants make pieces to add to the project.
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