Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Robomov: Soccer Robots for Teens

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Robomov

Home: New Jersey, United States

Do you like to play soccer? Our robots love to! Come play with our soccer robots, or try your hand at programming one yourself! Our motto is "Real Robotics for Teens". Our PIC and Arduino based educational robot kits are easy to get started, with a few visual blocks of code. But the sky is the limit - add your favorite AI camera system to the UART serial port. Our students have won 5 US national competitions and placed second at the world RoboCup in 2022. Robots are autonomously programmed to play soccer with an infrared emitting ball on a 6x8' field, 2 vs. 2 robots. We make robotics fun! Come over and give it a try, program an autonomous robot to put push the ball into the goal!

Grandpa's Train

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Brad Silva

Home: California, United States

Grandpa's Train is based on a heavy-duty wheel chair platform. It has two cars and can carry (in addition to the driver), four or so kids or two adults.

The 44 Daughters Make Your Own Doll Workshop

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sam Montgomery

Home: New York, United States

The 44 Daughters workshop is a hands-on sewing and crafts experience that gives people a chance to make their original doll art. The 44 Daughters are a recognition and celebration of what it's like to be different and accepted for who they are, not how they look. Each felt doll is handmade by the artist Sam Montgomery, and adults and children can use their imaginations and creativity to make their own dolls through their artistic voices. The workshop is an opportunity to slow down, take a pause and disconnect. As a doll maker, you become an artisan giving life to Sam's dolls through your own personal expression.

Ladybug Art Gallery

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Mare Island Art Studios

Home: California, United States

The Ladybug Art Gallery was transformed from a 1974 Boler camping trailer by Mare Island Art Studio’s Sherry Tobin Haney.

California State University Maritime Academy Student Projects Exhibit

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: California State University Maritime Academy

Home: California, United States

California State University Maritime Academy (Cal Maritime) is one of the 23 CSU campuses. Located in Vallejo, CA, Cal Maritime is one of seven degree-granting maritime academies in the United States — and the only one on the West Coast. The university has undergraduate degree programs in Business Administration, Facilities Engineering Technology, International Strategy and Security, Marine Engineering Technology, Marine Transportation, Mechanical Engineering, and Oceanography. The exhibit includes Oceanography and Mechanical Engineering projects, such as a student-built wind turbine for the Collegiate Wind Competition, prosthetic arm prototype, and underwater remotely operated vehicle. Faculty and students will be onsite to answer your questions about the projects and Cal Maritime.

Wonderful Idea Company

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ryan Jenkins

Home: Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Join Ryan Jenkins and friends from the Wonderful Idea for a hands-on tinkering workshop where you can slow down, play with real materials and explore the intersection between art, science and technology. We'll take inspiration from Ryan's recently released book The Tinkering Workshop and engage a hands-on collaborative build project taken straight from the pages that uses scrap cardboard, gumdrop LEDs, copper tape and other everyday supplies.

The DynaMandala

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: DynaTeam

Home: Oregon, United States

The DynaMandala is a celebration of exploring the combination of Sight, Sound, AND Input. Input is a critical part of the work. When you play the DynaMandala, You complete the art. It is a rich and responsive instrument that each player will bring to a unique swirl of dazzling pattern and sound. The DynaMandala is a creative coding software project utilizing the latest generation Real-Time 3D technology. The DynaController is the custom built MIDI activated sculpture through which visitors interact with the lights animated on the screen before them and the sound animated in the quadrophonic speaker system surrounding the space. Animation is Visual Music > Music is Sonic Animation Life is the energy that animates.

Full Contact Engineering – Interactive Guitars, Robots, and More.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Dorian Todd

Home: California, United States

Full Contact Engineering encapsulates the interactive, educational, and most importantly fun projects by Dorian Todd. Dorian is a student studying mechanical engineering, and has a passion for the details that keep our world running. At the Full Contact Engineering booth you can play tunes on a custom-designed Electric guitar fitted with sound-reactive neopixel LED lights, get brainwashed by a 15-pixel LED matrix display, inspect a battle-worn 15lb Combat Robot that recently competed at SXSW 2024, and even wave hello to a friendly dynamic and reactive Hexapod Robot. These projects are the culmination of years of messing with electronics and are a blast to interact with and talk about. Come and see some awesome projects by Dorian Todd at this interactive and fun booth.

Creatureish – What kind of creature are you?

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kathy Beight

Home: Oregon, United States

Artisan, bespoke fantasy creature wear - ears, tails, horns, and other creature bits conceived, designed, and hand made from the wild mind and hands of Kat Beight and Russell Smith. clip on ears (furry, fabric, leather, vinyl) , tails (furry, leather) , horns (eco-felt, clay, papier mache), antlers and antennae (papier mache), pierced elf ears, hair clips (sprouts, wings, insects, mushrooms)

High Altitude Ballooning in the Bay Area

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: sf-hab

Home: California, United States

We are a community of interest for amateur radio and ballooning in all forms. We design, build and fly balloons when weather permits, please join us!

The Electric Giraffe Project

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Frank Lawlor

Home: California, United States

Having been operating for 19 years, Russell, the Electric Giraffe has enjoyed being the unofficial mascot of the Maker Faire since 2006. This year we hope Russell himself, our project's programmer, will fly out this year to attend the show!

Puzzle Game AI : Let's control a falling block puzzle game with AI, and block artworks.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Challenge Club / MakerFaire BayArea Japan Community / MakerFaireベイエリア付近在住Japanコミュニティ

Home: California, United States

Puzzle Game AI : Let's control a falling block puzzle game with AI, and block artworks. We exhibits.. - AI-driven Puzzle Game like Tetris. - AI dot artworks using Tetris blocks. - Photos about MakerFaire Tokyo 2023/MakerFaire Kyoto 2023/MakerFaire Kyoto 2024. - 3D Printer Items.. etc Enjoy our collection of pop and cute artworks. Our club focuses on making programming enjoyable by using TV games and other creative ideas.

Meet the Maker: Cecilia Hillway

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Cecilia Hillway

Home: Washington, United States

Meet maker, illustrator, and dreamer Cecilia Hillway. Making projects that combine art and technology, she hopes to inspire new generations. She loves working with fellow educators and teaching students, so come chat with her and ask any questions. Cecilia has created projects for various Ed-tech companies including Make:, Chibitronics, Birdbrain Technologies, Lectrify, Pinbox 3000, Brown Dog Gadgets, and Design Spark. She has also won various Instructables prizes with her detailed behind the scenes of projects.

ADSBee 1090 – Open Source Low Cost Embedded ADS-B Receiver

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: John McNelly

Home: California, United States

ADSBee 1090 is an open source embedded ADS-B receiver that decodes 1090MHz aircraft transponder transmissions, including ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast) and Mode S. ADS-B signals from aircraft can be used to gather aircraft location, flight status, weather reports, and so much more! Standalone embedded ADS-B receivers have been expensive and closed source for decades. The ADSBee project, and its first product, the ADSBee 1090, aims to change that! The ADSBee 1090 uses the RP2040's PIO peripherals to decode ADS-B packets, enabling a fully self-contained low cost design that doesn't need an FPGA or external compute to function. Best of all, its firmware and schematic are fully open source under a GNU GPLv3 license. Let's make something cool together!

Western Pyrotechnic Association

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Western Pyrotechnic Association

Home: California, United States

Western Pyrotechnic Association is a fireworks club where Makers and professional pyrotechnicians promote safe practices and share knowledge. At our conventions, we have nightly fireworks displays with shells up to 24” built onsite by members. Our members are focused on the West coast, but we have members across North America and around the world.

Imagineer's Playtime with Mobile Experiences

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Frank Cohen

Home: California, United States

From the imagination of Terri Hardin, Disney legendary Imagineer, and Frank Cohen, Silicon Valley maker and engineer come an interactive entertaining and heart warming experience you wear. He's also the first experience built on the open-source Reflections hardware and software platform. Come play individually and as a group playing together. It's all free. And hopefully the beginning of a friendship and an invitation to make your own experience.

PurrfectLee Crochet

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Lee Ragones

Home: California, United States

One of a kind crochet gifts and accessories, and learn-to-crochet kits, along with hands-on learning to crochet

Kid Company-World's First AI Device for Children

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kid Company, Inc.

Home: California, United States

There’s a significant pain point between parents, their children, and the use of current mobile and tablet devices. We aim to transform this with KID (Keep It Dreaming), a powerful AI device designed to unlock children’s imaginations. KID empowers kids to become creators of games, music, images, educational content, and stories using the power of AI, rather than passive consumers of mindless content. The platform offers innovative AI creation tools for families, fostering creativity and learning in which parents can direct KID to focus on certain areas of creativity and learning.

aWear & The Feedback Loop

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Chase Anderson

Home: California, United States

Wearable technology offers some real benefits when it comes to interactive feedback. Whether for the allures of health or enhancing communication, these devices can track data continuously, giving you real-time insights. I’ve been diving into this space with two key projects. First is aWear, an open-source wearable cardiac monitor, and second is The Feedback Loop, an interactive game designed to teach about homeostasis. Both of these projects reflect my growing passion for combining hardware and biomedical technology, and they’re just the beginning. I’m always excited to chat about hardware and biomedical technology, so feel free to check out my website to see more of what I’ve been working on!

EleNa

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Tomas Salcedo

Home: California, United States

Latin pop reggae band that does reggae en Español, as well as a whole repertoire of boleros that have been turned into reggae

Water and Fire and Steam in between

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kinetic Steam Works

Home: California, United States

Kinetic Steam Works will be demonstrating the primitive yet powerful forces of steam power. Our 26,000 pound steam traction engine will be powering a large centrifugal pump that will drive a large water sculpture. We'll bring back the 1906 Chandler & Price letterpress, steam engine powered of course, and print commemorative works of art. Lastly, we'll be doing a reprise of live metalcasting in gray iron, aluminum, and bronze.

Doug's Drawbot

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Doug Biehl

Home: California, United States

A scrapped together polar drawing robot in action, powered by Raspberry Pi and Arduino, along with some fun examples of using Processing.org in the development of photo filters and image translation algorithms.

Companion Bots: ED-E and Friends

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Companion Bots: ED-E and Friends

Home: California, United States

A family with their companion robots!!! Dexter Starfighter brings the companion-bot inspired by ED-E from Fallout New Vegas; MakerBlock is bringing a cephalopod robot/creature living in a dome. Both will be wearing Fallout themed costumes. MakerKnit brings her octopus companion-bot made from knitted yarn and electronics. Kim'dael LightningSlayer is bringing her wearable electronics code pendant.

Cryptidzoo Interactive

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Julian Meyer

Home: California, United States

Cryptozoological-inspired original art, hand screen printed by the artist powered by Augmented Reality.

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