Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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The Rag Tones Garden: A Sensory Textile Experience

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Amanda Jarvis

Home: Virginia, United States

The Rag Tones Garden showcases the art of reimagining textiles by featuring interactive musical instruments crafted from reclaimed fibers. These unique pieces invite touch and sight, revealing the hidden beauty and potential of old fabrics.

MoCo Makers

Faire: NoVa

Maker: MoCo Makers

Home: Maryland, United States

Learn what it takes to be a maker - take a project and bring it to life with a community of other creatives, inventors, and engineers. Join one of the largest DIY tech and science communities in Montgomery County, Maryland.

GMU's Blimp Squad

Faire: NoVa

Maker: GMU's Blimp Squad

GMU’s Blimp Squad is a group of engineering students and researchers who design and construct lighter than air self-driving ships. Stop by the Blimp Squad booth to see some of their most recent creations graciously fly to accomplish their mission.

Astray Productions

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Joe Carabeo

Home: Virginia, United States

Joe Carabeo of Astray Productions is a filmmaker, director, writer, and producer of films, photography, and commercial work for several clients. Joe is Program Director of the Awesome Con Short Film Festival and DC Shorts International Film Festival.

Learn to Solder by Nova Labs

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs

Home: Virginia, United States

Learn to Solder! Make your own electronics project to take home.

Takeapart activity!

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Nova Labs

Home: Virginia, United States

Attendees can disassemble common household appliances, printers, and computers to see what makes them tick. Components and pieces will be sorted and recycled appropriately. You can get some hints about how tools work and what you need at home.

Design and Build Lab @ American University

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Design and Build Lab

Home: District of Columbia, United States

The Design and Build Lab (DaBL) is a digital fabrication / rapid prototyping / experimentation space at American University (AU). DaBL serves as an educational resource for all student, staff, and faculty makers and creators at AU.

Interactive art

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Paul Carlson

Home: Virginia, United States

We have all heard, "Don't touch the art", but that is exactly what I want you to do! Come explore interactive art where you are encouraged to touch and explore.

The Royal Trumpets

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Adam Foster

Home: New York, United States

The Royal Trumpets is a series of 6 kinetic pyrotechnic sound sculptures that stand 15' tall and are rendered after the medieval trumpets that greeted kings and queens in the royal courts of the past.

Powered Exoskeleton Arm

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Benjamin Strassmann

Home: Virginia, United States

I made a wearable robotic arm that increases your strength. A real piece of powered armor, that actually works! Come and learn how!

Teletypes and other things that consume electricity

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Bob Coggeshall

Home: Virginia, United States

Come check out our prehistoric teletype machine!

Theresa Sondra Jacobs Foundation

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Felix Tao

Home: Virginia, United States

At the Theresa Sondra Jacobs Foundation, we aim to inspire minds, uplift spirits, and create lasting memories with our unique approach of promoting the learning of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics (STEAM).

Woodson High School Robotics Team

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Cavbotics, the Woodson High School Robotics Team

Home: Virginia, United States

Cavbotics is a student-led FRC team that teaches students STEM principles. In six weeks, students build a robot from an empty frame to a fully-functional robot. For this year's game, the robot is able to shoot rings into a goal and climb on a chain.

ACL RoboLoco Outreach Team

Faire: NoVa

Maker: ACL RoboLoco

Home: Virginia, United States

Academies of Loudoun RoboLoCo, team 5338, demonstrates our 2024 FIRST Robotics Competition robot Rock'N'Rivets. Read our 2 children's books focused on robotics and STEM and learn how we impact our community through workshops and mentoring.

RABID – Richmond Area Bot Instigated Destruction

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Richmond Area Bot Instigated Destruction

Home: Virginia, United States

Experience the excitement of combat robotics! Witness thrilling battles, ingenious designs, and even get a chance to drive one yourself at Maker Faire Nova. Don't miss out on the ultimate robotics adventure!

Jill Schmid

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Jill Schmid

Home: Virginia, United States

My booth will showcase and teach about a variety of makerspace projects with a focus on musical instruments, both analog and digital. Makers will be able to create their own cardboard instruments, and experiment with digital instruments.

STEAM in the Night World

Faire: NoVa

Maker: DMV Petri Dish

Home: Vermont, United States

Our exhibit will showcase various natural scenes inside of an immersive multisensory experience. Explore natural themes through 3D-printed lithophanes, complementary mural work, and a controller to help make the experience yours.

Hack.RVA Makerspace

Faire: NoVa

Maker: HackRVA

HackRVA is a member-run and organized non-profit makerspace in Richmond, Virginia. HackRVA is a space filled with tools, computers, and people who like to build, invent, tinker, expand their minds, and learn and share new skills.

Cubewich: A Servo Arm Learning Game

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Brian Merski

Home: Maryland, United States

Cubewich is a block coding game in which you get to create different types of cube sandwiches with the use of a robotic servo arm. You can either use a preprogrammed Micro:Bit controller or program it yourself with simple coding blocks.

PicoBall – Mini Basketball Game for Micro:bit

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Wil Myrick

Home: Virginia, United States

PicoBall transforms your micro:bit into a mini arcade basketball game. It comes with a presoldered Raspberry Pi Pico and IR sensor that provides proximity information associated with the mini basketball as it passes through the basketball hoop.

Gravity is Optional

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Gravity is Optional

Hands on science that will blow your mind! Come experience things that most people will never see in another venue.

Hampton Roads Droid Builders

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Hampton Roads Droid Builders

Virginia-based group of makers and Star Wars enthusiasts who have come together to build all manner of droids, including R2-D2. We cherish the opportunity to share our efforts with the community through conventions, maker faires, and charity events.

MicroKits: Synths and Theremin Kits

Faire: NoVa

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!

Wobbly Robot

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Fabiana Cesa

Home: Virginia, United States

Come build a wobbly robot with us. You will get to assemble and wire this cute toddling toy plus you will give it a personality using all sort of art supplies. Activity funded by an Arts 275th Commemorative Program Grant (City of Alexandria, NEA).

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