Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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3D-Printed Electric Marble Mazes

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Gualala Gadget

Home: California, United States

We have a variety of battery-powered 3D printed marble machines that we'd like to exhibit. Each model is 3D printed using PLA plastic on consumer FDM printers. This takes anywhere from six to fifteen hours, depending on each model's size and complexity. A model is made from two to seven PLA parts, which are inspected and cleaned of any residual plastic that's a byproduct of the printing process. (None of the models require support material, which simplifies the cleaning process). Once the PLA parts are prepared they, along with the electric parts are assembled into complete models. There's no painting — the plastic is the color it appears. The models are designed in Blender. They use a variety of different mechanisms to lift the marbles.

Pamela Parker’s Fantastic Machine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Pamela Parker's Fantastic Machine

Home: California, United States

Pamela Parker’s Fantastic Machine creates rock n’roll chemistry by blending sultry soulful vocals with powerful rock anthems. Pamela’s voice is described by Program Director of CHLY, Steve Levington, as a combination between Ann Wilson and Axl Rose. The band has built a sound on their dynamic stage presence and commanding vocals that can drive you, make you dance, or take you on a journey. Pamela Parker’s Fantastic Machine creates a fresh rock n'roll landscape with a wide range of surprising touchstones like Aretha Franklin, Thin Lizzy, Funkadelic and Heart. The live band together presents an addictive and monumental force, bringing the sounds of nu-funk, pop & psychedelic rock n’roll music all together into one creating a new sound that will make your heart swell and your fist pump.

Simply Shelter and the microShelter

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Simply Shelter Team

Home: California, United States

We, at Simply Shelter, are a Bay Area grassroots non-profit organization. We enable people facing urgent housing insecurities to obtain safe shelter and support. We bring together volunteers like yourself along with fellow service providers to construct and provide microShelters for those experiencing homelessness. During our microShelter Build Days, a wonderfully diverse group of adults and children join forces, bringing a wide range of experiences in order to expand the possibilities for those in need. We invite you to visit our microShelters and learn about the progress of our growing community!

Kind Humanoid Mona, making the chatGPT Moment for robots

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Christoph Kohstoll

Home: United States

THE TALK: I will share my thoughts that went into designing the body of a humanoid robot that reaches human level strength and speed, that is extremely lightweight, and that is highly compliant. I will share my approach on how to leverage LLMs to choose actions. I'd also love to discuss how these new capabilities can help humans in the future. THE PROJECT: At Kind Humanoid we build Intelligent humanoid robots to do the work we don’t do, but should do. We have built a low-cost humanoid robot body with human level motion performance from scratch and we are integrating multimodal LLMs into the humanoid's brain so it can reason about arbitrary tasks. See the prototype in action. Going forward, such an embodied intelligence will allow us to broaden access to health/elderly care, build products in more sustainable ways, and build out the renewable energy system.

Sebastopol Makers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sebastopol Makers

Home: California, United States

We have about 100 projects posted by our members to Printables, Thingiverse and Flickr. Steamboat Ed Haas designs 3D printed benchtop power tools for Makers that are powered by wall warts and small DC motors. He's currently working on an R/C rowboat that he hopes to release in time for Christmas. Mark H is working on electric motors that can fabricated from common hardware store items. Kris Magri, (who designed the Makey robot) is our robotics expert and she will be demoing her scratch built walkers. Steve 'Dillo' Okay will be demoing his highly modified 'Sawppy Rover' with enhanced radar and custom software. We'll also have our MIDI glockenspiel playing a few tunes

Cello Joe – Beatboxing Looping Cellist

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Joseph Chang

Home: California, United States

Joey Chang aka CelloJoe is an anomaly in the world of cellists. Cello + beatboxing + vocals + live looping = Cello Joe Cello Joe plays the cello while beatboxing, looping, and singing. It's Classical Hip Hop. He creates fat beats with a cello and his mouth and he does it live! His lyrics weave together sustainability, environmental justice, and social awareness. They entertain, inspire, and make you wonder. By beatboxing, throatsinging, singing, plucking and bowing the cello, CelloJoe can mimic many styles of music from dubstep to folk to rock to classical to hip hop. CelloJoe is the world's first long distance musical bike touring cellist. He has ridden his bike over 10,000 miles in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australia.

Squishy Circuit with a Light Switch

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Aurelius Prochazka

Home: California, United States

My project will teach kids the basics of electric circuitry. I will show how ordinary store bought play doh conducts electricity and how you can add a light switch to the circuit to turn the LED light on and off. I will bring additional materials so that other kids can create the circuit at my table. I will also present a colorful schematic of the electronic circuit to show how the electricity flows through the circuit. This will be a fun activity that kids and parents will enjoy creating.

RayLights – Audio Activated Lumiere

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Craig Newswanger

Home: California, United States

This dynamic artwork produces ever-changing, mandala-like light patterns that are activated by ambient sounds. The fluctuating, animated light rays range from intense spectral colors to subtle pastels. A sequence of patterns repeats, but when you make sound—talk, sing, clap—the preprogrammed patterns are modified as the lights respond with non-repeating, complex variations of the colors and patterns.

Art of Natalie McKean

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Natalie McKean

Home: California, United States

Original designs and science fiction illustrations on art prints and pins!

NorCal FIRST robotics

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: NorCal FIRST robotics

Home: California, United States

Teams of middle school and high school robotics teams will present their robots and interact with visitors. The FIRST LEGO League Challenge program is designed for middle school aged teams and the FIRST Tech Challenge program is for junior high and high school aged teams. Teams do not have to be associated with a school - they can be friends, scouts, neighbors, and more.

Bekonix: Concept to Creation with No-Code

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Bekonix, Inc.

Home: California, United States

A New Way to Make Technology: Bekonix makes it easy to create smart and connected IoT devices, accelerating your journey from concept to prototype to final product. It doesn't matter if you're a hobbyist, an entrepreneur, an experienced engineer, or all of the above – Our no-code, drag-and-drop platform will help you achieve your product goals faster than ever by breaking down the traditional technical barriers and democratizing who gets to participate in the product-making world. Join us to learn more and be part of an exclusive unveiling of our new Bekonix Connect controller.

Microchip

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Bob Martin

Home: Arizona, United States

Microchip Technology Incorporated is a leading provider of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs, which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market. The company's solutions serve more than 125,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

Make an LED ‘Neon’ sign!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maker Nexus

Home: California, United States

Come and make your own LED 'neon' sign to take home and add unique pizzaz to your home or office! Select from a selection of 3D printed shapes, and we will coach you through adding LED rope to the tracks in the shape, soldering where needed, so that you end up with a functional light to take with you. This fun, hands on workshop is offered at a special rate for Maker Faire attendees only.

Freehand Fabricator: An industrial-grade 3D pen.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Timothy Keller

Home: California, United States

The Freehand Fabricator is what you would get if a 3D printer and a MIG welder had a baby. It is a high-temperature, high-flow 3D printer hot end with a comfortable handle and spool-fed extruder base station. People who have used '3D pens' know how slow they are, and how quickly they break. This is the solution those makers have been waiting for: the Freehand Fabricator is capable of extruding engineering-grade plastics and is more than twice as fast as existing solutions. The project is in the late prototyping stage at the moment and will be launched on Kickstarter in the coming months. We are currently looking for people to play with the prototypes and tell us what they think!

Mermaid Glimmer’s Jellyfish Grotto

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Erin StBlaine

Home: California, United States

50 iridescent jellyfish hang silently over the heads of viewers. During the daytime the sunlight filters through the rainbow jellies, creating a beautiful play of light and shadow on the ground. At night, the jellies are illuminated with animated lights, connected and controlled via a wifi network. The swarm appears to come alive as lights play through the jellyfish with a beautiful array of colors and patterns. The jellies whisper, shout, giggle, and glow through light animations, delighting the viewers who walk underneath. Erin St Blaine is a light artist based in Northern California. She creates sculptures, costumes and artwork with programmable LED lights, often including interactivity and data visualization to bring her creations to life.

Orthrus

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: SJSU Robotics

Home: California, United States

Our project is a three wheeled and modular mars rover. The rover is expected to complete tasks such as inserting USB's, picking up 10Kg, traverse terrain autonomously, detect aruco tags, avoid obstacles like rocks, goto set GPS locations set up by a map, traverse rough terrain, and be controlled from up to 2Km away in an open field. There are also some science tasks like detecting life on our rover that we will have to accomplish as well.

Raspberry Pi

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Raspberry Pi

Home: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Makers will be able to get hands-on with Raspberry Pi Ltd's newest computer, Raspberry Pi 5. Talk to the Raspberry Pi team and perhaps grab a little piece of Raspberry Pi swag.

Munespice

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Nicole Weedo

Home: California, United States

Hi! I'm a bay area based illustrator and designer whose art is largely inspired by the creatures and plants of our natural world. I draw, design, and/or handmake everything I sell. For my apparel and totebags, I handpress everything myself in house.

Personal Peltier-based tabletop air conditioner & tabletop cooler/warmer

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: AKIYOSHI KAWAGUCHI

Home: Saitamaken, Japan

Ever felt that mid-study or work slump and just wished for a warm drink? Enter our compact warmer box! Not only can it keep your coffee or tea toasty, but it's also a game-changer for your lunch. Bring it to work, and say goodbye to cold meals. I was so stoked about the idea that I had to create one. But here's the twist: flip it over, and voilà, it's a tabletop air conditioner! Those little holes at the bottom? They pump out cool vibes, making summer desk sessions a breeze. And if you're the outdoorsy type, hook it up to a solar panel, and you're set for the comfiest camping trip ever, even in the scorching heat!

Steamy Tech

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Greg and Lora Price / Steamy Tech

Home: California, United States

Steamy Tech invents, designs, creates, and sells laser cut art and DIY kits for the maker community. What started as a small hobby in a local maker space has become a 10-year-old company making cool kinetic art, electronics, robotic hats, and other incredible inventions for ourselves, the steampunk community, and the Bay Area. We started out building and selling our pre-built projects but soon discovered that we couldn't keep the joy of making to ourselves. Most of our art is available not only pre-built but as kits for everyone to make and enjoy at home. We also sell subscription boxes for the ongoing maker experience and provide events for people to come to make a project with us at local bars and restaurants. Our Maker Faire booth will show all the products that we sell as well as p

44 Daughters

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sam Montgomery

Home: New York, United States

I bring lots of my handmade dolls and the supplies for people to make their own versions of the 44 Daughters. They choose the buttons for faces, and yarn for hair and I help them create their own visions. Everything is done by hand. The workshop is like a quilting bee; we talk, share ideas, slow down and celebrate our art.

Cognitive Flow Design

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Anne Pauley

Home: California, United States

I create 3D printed light art from recycled plastics. My lights explore how light diffuses in the layered 3D prints, and process development for working with clear materials.

My Heart Will Go On

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Double X, Carlsbad, Daedalus, Rabbitovski, laëiou

Home: California, United States

Exhibited on the Burning Man Playa this year, “My Heart Will Go On” is a 10ft kinetic sculpture that dances with the rhythm of life and love, lighted up by string of LEDs, powered by the sun and wind. Drawing inspiration from the timeless song, “My Heart Will Go On,” this piece recaptures the spirit of enduring love and courage. Amid a world recovering from pandemic, a world with wars and economic downturn, it stands as a symbol of hope and resilience. As you witness its rhythmic pulse, we hope you find love: love for others, love for our shared world, and most importantly, love of yourself. Artist Group: Double X, Carlsbad, Daedalus, laëiou, Rabbitovski

Printed Wonders, Limitless Dreams: Perky 3D Prints

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Fatimah Hussain

Home: California, United States

These products are perfect for room and birthday decorations, and gifts and presents for friends and family. Many of my products can be customized, which means they come in various colors, shapes, and sizes. Customers can also paint, draw, and color the figurines and gifts for an additional fun factor. I always prioritize my customer’s wants, which has led to my business being a Star Seller on Etsy, with fast shipping, speedy responses, and 5 star reviews across the board.

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