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NLAB: The Mini Electronics Lab (late)

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Nick Marchuk

Home: Illinois, United States

NLAB: the mini electronics lab, is a STEM toolkit used to teach circuit design, building, testing, and debugging. At our booth attendees will be invited to sit down and learn how to build a circuit. We will have 4 stations, each with a laptop, lab kit with wire, wire strippers, breadboard, resistors, LEDs, and other electronic components. We will have 2 instructors to guide attendees and answer questions, as well as headphones and videos to watch. Attendees will build a circuit that turns on an LED and reads from a light sensor, all from scratch. Advanced users will be invited to build even more complicated circuits. We expect each person to spend 5-10 minutes building.
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Mishler Weaving Mill – Smithville Community Historical Society

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Mishler Weaving Mill - Smithville Community Historical Society

Home: Ohio, United States

Weaving (woven rugs & towels), demonstration on tabletop weaving loom, paper plate weaving, God's Eye & other make & take crafts.
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TechZone@Main

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: TechZone

Home: Ohio, United States

Custom Sticker Prints
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Orrville Community Theater

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Orrville Community Theater

Home: Ohio, United States

The booth will be giving out information about our theatre, upcoming events, and how people can get involved. There will also be coloring pages, and a craft children can participate in.
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Dewald Holiday Lights – LED Lights Sequenced to Music

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Chris Dewald

Home: Ohio, United States

Dewald Holiday Lights is a holiday light show located in Massillon, OH. The show uses over 2,900 individually addressable LED lights, called pixels, sequenced to music to create an engaging holiday light display. Using an FM transmitter, the show audio can be heard by guests in their cars.
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Wilderness Center Woodcarvers

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Wilderness Center Woodcarvers

Home: Ohio, United States

We will be demonstrating woodcarving as well as showing our completed projects. We teach all modes of woodcarving and enjoy promoting this hands-on artform. We will answer any woodcarving questions you may have.
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PCBWay (PA not needed)

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: PCbway

Home: Zhejiang Province, China

With more than a decade in the field of PCB prototype and fabrication, we are committed to meeting the needs of our customers from different industries in terms of quality, delivery, cost-effectiveness and any other demanding requests. As one of the most experienced PCB manufacturers in the world, we pride ourselves to be your best business partners as well as good friends in the every aspect of your PCB needs.
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Creative Toys

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Vir Shroff

Home: Michigan, United States

I will be bringing a variety of physics toys and experiments like mechanical clocks, ramp walkers, and walk along gliders. I will also be bringing handmade boomerangs for people to trial.
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HighElkBeading

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Mary Lopez

Home: Ohio, United States

I have a variety of Native American Crafts. Will have some sort of beaded related hands on activity. I will demonstrate dreamcatchers.
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Model Rocketry

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Ben Ault

Home: Ohio, United States

Model rocketry is for all ages and experience levels. Come see what model rocketry is all about and what it takes to get a model rocket from design to flight and recovery. Rockets from 10 inches to 10 feet will be on display along with all the inner workings.
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Homesteading in Ohio Freeze Dried Candy

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Cari Dunn

Home: Ohio, United States

We sell freeze dried candy, ice cream, and fruit. Freeze dryer makes candy pop and gives it a satisfying crunch. It also intensifies the flavor. https://freezedried.homesteadinginohio.com/
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CO2 powered Go Karts

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Tim Davis

Home: Ohio, United States

I have 2 "go karts" made for the Jimmy Fallon show that are powered by CO2 charged fire extinguishers. Each cart has 2 large CO2 canisters. It follows the Newton principle that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Mark's Handiwork – Live Edge Furniture

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Mark Tomassetti

Home: Ohio, United States

We will bring a collection of Mark's live edge pieces including a variety of finished woods and some with epoxy fills. Mark creates scenes in his epoxy in some of his most artistic and unique pieces.
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Emily's Jewelry

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Emily Nulph

Home: Ohio, United States

I will be bringing the jewelry that I have made and will be demonstrating how to make necklaces or bracelets. I will also bring paintings that I have made.
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Akron Makerspace

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Akron Makerspace

Home: Ohio, United States

Provide a staffed booth with information about the Akron Makerspace.
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Flintknapping stone into Art with Rainbow Obsidian

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Steve Kitchen

Home: Ohio, United States

I will be bring various artworks I have made by knapping mostly colorful Rainbow Obsidian. I will have the tools I use and will demonstrate some of the techniques used to shape the stone.
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PRC-Saltillo

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: PRC-Saltillo

Home: Ohio, United States

Bring a robotic arm along with a desktop to demo to automation testing of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ACC) software and hardware. Will be bringing some fixtures to show how we put components together and will be also be bringing our first generation devices along with current shipping devices. We may have a hands on activity, putting together fixtures and possibly with the 2-1/2' tall robotic arm. The robot arm will be enclosed and will not pose a risk to children.
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Sears think[box]: “Let's a Go Yoshi!”

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Sears think[box]

Home: Ohio, United States

Join us at the Sears think[box] table where we will walkthrough how to laser cut and assemble an animated Yoshi, Mario’s reliable dinosaur mount from Super Mario World! They have a big appetite and are ready to munch! Visitors will also have an opportunity to see the Xtool M1 in action, a hybrid laser cutter and vinyl cutter, as we demo how to make these at home or at think[box] on our Epilogue Fusion Pro laser cutters.
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Using a 3D printer and a CNC router to make useful items such as custom tool holders

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: John J Bazaar

Home: Ohio, United States

Using a 3D printer and a CNC router to make useful items such as custom tool holders
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Metal Foundry and Casting

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Jonathan Fedak

Home: Ohio, United States

Booth exhibit displaying foundry, crucible, casting equipment, and items cast out of aluminum and copper. Learn the basics of metallurgy the smelting process along with casting (green sand and lost wax process).
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Ozobot Adventures!

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Orrville Public Library

Home: Ohio, United States

Playing along with our summer reading theme “Adventure Begins @ Your Library”, Orrville Public Library is providing a fun, hands-on activity using Ozobots. These little robots are designed as an introduction to coding. Color combinations move the Ozobot on a path from one location to another, or from one adventure to the next! The possibilities are endless. All ages are welcome.
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Zips Racing Electric

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Zips Racing Electric

Home: Ohio, United States

Zips Racing Electric is a student design team at The University of Akron. We are bringing two fully electric formula one style student built cars. They produce 80kW/107 hp using an Emrax motor and produce 230 N-m of torque. They are powered by a custom 378V battery.
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Megathirio Studios

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Rob Howard

Home: Ohio, United States

I make dice, game pieces and other gaming accessories for card games, board games, tabletop games etc. I use a 3D resin printer and a laser cutter make things out of leather, acrylic and resin.
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Large CNC machine

Faire: Wayne County

Maker: Scott McCrady

Home: Ohio, United States

Over the past few years I have hand built a roughly 4ft x 4ft CNC machine that is on wheels and portable. I will bring it to the show and have it occasionally running doing large patterns in pieces of wood.
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