Maker Faire Yearbook 2023

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Remote Controlled Tricycle-Riding Puppet

Faire: Aarhus

Maker: Donald Bell

Home: Denmark

I modified a tricycle so that it can be remotely controlled with a small puppet riding on top. The project uses a combination of robotics, crafting, and 3D printing.

Local author of Children’s picture books

Faire: Rocklin

Maker: Terri Dorow

Home: California, United States

Local author of children's picture books! Something for everyone, ages 0-10. Great gifts for baby showers, the holidays.. and even Easter baskets, as two of the books feature bunnies!

Light Painting Stick

Faire: Orange County

Maker: Richard Truong

Home: California, United States

Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a light source while taking a long exposure photograph. The Light Painting Stick uses an array of densely packed RGB LEDs to produce vibrant and realistic images.

Starving Artworks and Q-Bot Cosplay

Faire: NW Arkansas

Maker: Quentin Daniel

Home: Arkansas, United States

Talk about how you can utilize 3d printing, laser cutting to make amazing costumes just in time for Halloween! Learn the basics of photogrametry to scan a subject in full color 3d using only your phone/camera and software that's often free.

How do loudspeakers work?

Faire: Rocklin

Maker: NULL

Home: California, United States

Learn how loudspeakers work! Have you ever wondered how all those moving parts in a speaker system reproduce audio/music so well? What does a woofer, midrange, or tweeter do? How do all these strangely named, oddly shaped parts take electricity and turn it into sound? How do today's smaller, consumer loudspeakers sound so good and how do large, commercial PA systems cover every seat in the house? Come out and see how loudspeakers are built and then hear what happens when everything’s just right!

Kachinga

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Andre Valenzuela

Home: California, United States

Kachinga is an intuitive allowance, chore, and savings app with a secure parent-managed spend card for kids. Our mission is to bring financial literacy to the next generation by helping parents teach their kids to be smart with money.

VIP BEAR and Friends from Stony Brook University

Faire: Long Island

Maker: VIP BEAR

Home: New York, United States

Come by to innovate biomedical applications with us! You will learn how simple craft, 3D printing, and circuits can help innovate biomedical applications to improve human health and quality of life.

Schulich Sound Stage

Faire: Calgary

Maker: Schulich Sound Stage

Home: Alberta, Canada

Schulich Soundstage promotes music on campus by providing a collaborative environment for individuals to gain experience and skills. They host events, collaborate with the Department of Engineering, and received the Student Life Club of the Year Award. Find them on Instagram: @soundstage_uofcalgary.

SnappyXO

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Mechanismic Inc.

Home: New York, United States

SnappyXO is a design driven platform consisting of hardware for physical prototyping, web-based apps for virtual design of linkage mechanisms and curriculum to assist instructors teach students the engineering principles behind the SnappyXO projects.

Insetti, il Cibo del Futuro – Small Giants

Faire: Rome

Maker: Small Giants srl

Made with insect flour, our award-winning products are mega tasty and packed full with planet-positive protein, fibre and vitamins. We want to lead the transition to a new phase where eating insects is part of our daily eating habits. We are a young team highly motivated to break the edible insects taboo with unruly tasty snacks and make the weird wonderful!

Podcasting & Broadcasting with Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP Louisville

Faire: Louisville

Maker: Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP Louisville

Home: United States

Make media that matters with us! Louisville's grassroots, volunteer-powered community radio station wants to get YOU behind the microphone! Learn how to become a regular on-air programmer or just a one-time Access Hour host to share your passions!

Engineering with Maker Tool

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Marymount University Engineering

Home: Virginia, United States

Competitive High School Robotics (FTC)

Faire: Long Island

Maker: Portledge School Robotics

Home: New York, United States

Students from the Portledge School Robotics program would like to share our love of robots, and specifically the FIRST Tech Challenge, with Maker Faire attendees. Come learn about engineering design and get a chance to practice driving an FTC robot.

Scorch Works – Homemade Tools and Toys

Faire: Des Moines

Maker: Scorch Works

Home: Minnesota, United States

Homemade injection molding machine producing small plastic trinkets during the fair. Pick up an injection molded object made from plastic that was recently something else (i.e. recycled). Various other homemade tools and toys will also be on display.

Marine Mammal Care Center

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Kelsey Wong

Home: California, United States

The Marine Mammal Care Center is LA County's only year-round hospital for seals and sea lions that strand along our coastline. Come visit our booth to learn more about California's pinnipeds, wildlife rehabilitation, and release back to the ocean.

Needle Felting with Talia Lefton

Faire: Pioneer Valley

Maker: Talia Lefton

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Intro to Needle Felting 12:30 - 1:30 Ages 10-110! Needle felting is a craft that can be used to create 2-D or 3-D works of art with wool. Through repeatedly poking the wool with a specialized felting needle, you can attach the fibers together to create amazing things! In this workshop you will be introduced to needle felting in 2-D and 3-D to create a piece of wearable art, a 2-3 inch felted pin. Participants will receive a needle felting tool kit with a felting pad and some needles to take home for further exploration. $10 workshop fee

Plante Sensorium

Faire: Aarhus

Maker: Margrete Lodahl Rolighed

Home: Denmark

Hvis moder jord kunne synge, hvilken sang vil hun synge? I denne interaktiv installation vil du opleve planter, som synger og levendegøres. Du kan bevæge dig rundt blandt planterne, røre ved dem, og gå på opdagelse i deres symfoni.

History Box

Faire: Rome

Maker: Jacopo De Benedictis

History Box is an interactive multimedia project created to enhance and facilitate the usability of archival documents. Inspired by the microfilm reader, the installation brings together some historical materials on the life of Giuseppe Di Vagno, a Socialist Party parliamentarian who was the victim of a fascist assassination attempt in 1921. Through a physical interface consisting of knobs, sliders and a handset, the user can consult the archival materials in an unconventional way. Features such as audio-reading and document enlargement are designed to ensure greater accessibility.

BPLP live on the Rock the bike stage

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: BPLP

Home: California, United States

We’re bike people. We’re inventors and advocates working away in a sweet workshop in Oakland, California, pushing the limits of bike culture. Our mission is to get people in touch with their ability to make a real, lasting impact in the ongoing climate crisis, through Pedal Powered event activities and products that help Bike People shine in their communities. We want lots more people to think “Pedaling is cool. I want to ride a bike.” Our dream is to help spread the spirit of the bike into the broader culture by organizing, entertaining, inspiring, educating, and inventing new ways to get the message out there. And more importantly, we help our customers spread the message in their communities.

Piece by Piece

Faire: Los Angeles

Maker: Piece by Piece

Home: California, United States

Design and create your own mosaic art work with Piece by Piece!

3D Printing Paganini’s Famous Violin

Faire: Rome

Home: Rome, Italy

Embarking on a remarkable journey of innovation and cultural heritage preservation, 3DiTALY, Italy’s leading 3D printing organization set in Rome, is revolutionizing the restoration and replication of Guarnieri’s iconic ‘Il Cannone di Paganini’ violin. With cutting-edge 3D scanning and printing techniques, this groundbreaking project ensures the enduring legacy of this legendary instrument, exemplifying the fusion of artistry, technology, and historical significance. In collaboration with the esteemed Genova Municipality, the project showcases the harmonious blend of tradition and state-of-the-art capabilities,

Heretik Leathercraft

Faire: Chisinau

Maker: Radu Butuc

Home: Moldova

Demonstrație a lucrului manual cu pielea naturală în toate etapele - de la schița pe hartie, la elaborarea tiparului, tăierea materialului și pregătirea pentru cusut, dar și coaserea acestuia până la final.

Craft Buffet for All Ages

Faire: Elkhorn

Maker: Elkhorn Mini Maker Faire

Home: Wisconsin, United States

We will have tables of craft supplies for you to use your imagination and create your own craft to take home with you! Craft supplies will be available for all ages to make and take their creation!

Garrattmaker, model locomotives 1:22,5

Faire: Trieste

Maker: Helmut TELEFONT

Home: Trieste, Italy

My latest project was a 1:22,5 full 3D printed Garratt model. All print files are available for free on my website. also a 100-page book on the original historic locomotive, the surviving locomotive in the Nairobi Museum and instructions on how to assemble the model. In the first 3 weeks the book was downloaded 18,000 times.

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