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FTC Center stage Robotic event

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Code Blue

Home: Illinois, United States

Code Blue will join Spare Parts, Golden Ratio, and Robotic Lions in a Center Stage robot scrimmage as well as displaying our engineering process at our booth.
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Musical Tesla Coils

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Samuel Catania

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Have you ever seen lightning up close? And better yet... lightning that plays music? Come check out our Musical Tesla Coils and experience this rare phenomena!
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Meccanoid XL 2.0 Robot

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Lilyanne (Redacted)

Home: Illinois, United States

Meccanoid robot kit (hopefully) brought to life with articulating head, arms & motorized feet. Meccanoid is almost 4 ft tall & features voice recognition, LED eyes, & smart device communication, with 3 ways to program & 3000+ pre-programmed phrases.
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CBM SX-64 Ultimax

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Eric Kudzin

Home: Illinois, United States

A fully functional tribute to the 40th anniversary of worlds first color portable computer - the Commodore SX-64. The CBM SX-64 Ultimax sports a larger that life 5ft long qwerty keyboard along with an LCD monitor that folds down into portable case.
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Vans RV12iS Light Sport Aircraft Fuselage Build

Faire: Lake County

Maker: James Martin

Home: Illinois, United States

Learn how to build Vans RV12iS Light Sport Airplane. Showcasing engineering assembly drawings with step-by-step instructions for building your own Light Sport Aircraft. Current state of the 2 seat aluminum fuselage and aviation radio weather tests.
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Mundelein Tool Library

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Mundelein Tool Library

Home: Illinois, United States

What is a Tool Library? A Tool Library is just like a book library -- you can "check out" hardware tools, free of cost. If you don't want to spend the money to buy a tool that'll be used lightly, this is perfect for you. Please check us out online.
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DIY Cyberdecks, Magnetic Board Game, and 3D Printer

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Daniel Power

Home: Illinois, United States

3D printed 3D Printer, Cyberdecks (DIY computers), magnetic board game, and other fun projects. Stop on by and try some games, computers, and chat about projects!
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Ela Area Public Library Forge Makerspace

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Ela Public Library

Home: Illinois, United States

Stop by Ela Public Library's booth to learn about our Forge makerspace, a place for you to create freely, explore new technologies and discover do-it-yourself solutions.
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NIU STEAM Outreach

Faire: Lake County

Maker: NIU STEAM Outreach

Home: Illinois, United States

Spark your curiosity with NIU STEAM and learn about our programs and services we provide to help inspire others in the big wide world of STEAM!
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Make-a-Thon

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

What do you get when you combine microcontrollers, coding, cardboard and glue guns? More than you could ever imagine. Makers of all ages came together for our fourth annual Make a Thon on Sat. Jan 27. Vote for your favorite project.
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Multi Step Contraptions to Accomplish Something Trivial

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Paul Skelley

Home: Illinois, United States

Like to show whimsical mechanical machines, created from odds-and -ends. Hope a few people will be curious about the details and how I solved problems to make them work.
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Lake County Radio Control Club

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Lake County Radio Control Club

Home: Illinois, United States

Founded in1973, LCRCC is a club of RC enthusiasts who promote the building and safe flying of Remote Control planes, helicopters and quadcopters at a dedicated Lake County Forest Preserve location.
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7715 Robotic Lions

Faire: Lake County

Maker: 7715 Robotic Lions

Home: Illinois, United States

We are team 7715 Robotic Lions, a FIRST Tech Challenge team from Rockford, IL. We can’t wait to demonstrate our CENTERSTAGE robot as well as share our love of FIRST and robotics through our booth and an interactive robot challenge!
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Build-a-Blinkie Learn-to-Solder Workshop

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Build-a-Blinkie

Home: Illinois, United States

Build-a-Blinkie Learn-to-Solder Workshop
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FIRST Robotics FTC Demo

Faire: Lake County

Maker: FIRST Robotics - Newton Busters 10138

Home: Illinois, United States

FIRST FTC Robotics (grades 7-12th) will present robot solutions to the Centerstage game challenge.
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Make All the Things! @ the Round Lake Library!

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Round Lake Area Public Library

Home: Illinois, United States

Explore all the cool ways the Round Lake Area Public Library can boost your tech skills. Learn how you can spark your creativity (for free) in our X-Lab with the Cricut, Glowforge and more. We will have samples, demos and take-homes for all ages.
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Cricut Corner

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Adhya Garlapati

Home: Illinois, United States

Cricut makes smart cutting machines that work with an easy-to-use app to help you design and personalize almost anything. In this Maker Faire, I would like to present my Cricut Maker and provide a demo on how easy and interesting it is to use!!
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Henry Martin's Marvelous Machines

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Henry Martin

Home: Wisconsin, United States

Henry Martin is a 8th grader with a passion for development, engineering and all things tech. Henry's stem fair projects and won local, state and national awards
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Leather Working 101

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Samantha McDonald

Home: Illinois, United States

The earliest known leather working happened as far back as the Stone Age in 5,000 BC. This workshop will showcase old and knew leather working techniques that can be used on all types of leather based projects. Cowhide will be used during this demo.
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Lake County Robotics Competition

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Engineering Transfer Dept

Home: Illinois, United States

Participants in the Lake County Robotics Competition will demonstrate their robots, running them through the same paces that will occur during the competition. Attendees may get the chance to drive the robots and check out the coding.
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Pneumatic Rocket Launcher

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Interested in rockets? Stop by the pneumatic rocket launcher exhibit and get some hands-on experience with building and launching a paper rocket using air pressure. You can experiment with aerodynamics and basic rocketry principles.
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nScope: learning electronics has never been easier

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Nick Marchuk

Home: Illinois, United States

nScope is an electronics lab that fits in your backpack. We designed nScope to help people learn electronics with fun, hands-on activities. At our booth you will learn the basics of circuit design, and build some circuits from scratch.
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Recycle Represent Runway

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Sustainability Club & Latino Alliance

Home: Illinois, United States

Watch the making in action as college organizations create one of a kind recycled fashions.
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Acrylikhan's Workshop

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Frank Krug

Home: Illinois, United States

Building props and cosplay parts from movies from T.V. shows, showcasing scratch building and 3D printing, and some various finishing techniques.
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