Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Circuit-Bent Sounds and Selfies

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Alex Perry

Home: California, United States

Capture your own selfie at our Glitch Photo Booth, feat. the finest vintage CRT and karaoke tech the 2000s had to offer! If electronic music is more your speed, jam out with Nintendo midi controllers and other toys bent with our custom PCBs. Meeeowza!

Full Contact Engineering – Interactive Guitars, Robots, and More.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Dorian Todd

Home: California, United States

Full Contact Engineering encapsulates the interactive, educational, and most importantly fun projects by Dorian Todd. Dorian is a student studying mechanical engineering, and has a passion for the details that keep our world running. At the Full Contact Engineering booth you can play tunes on a custom-designed Electric guitar fitted with sound-reactive neopixel LED lights, get brainwashed by a 15-pixel LED matrix display, inspect a battle-worn 15lb Combat Robot that recently competed at SXSW 2024, and even wave hello to a friendly dynamic and reactive Hexapod Robot. These projects are the culmination of years of messing with electronics and are a blast to interact with and talk about. Come and see some awesome projects by Dorian Todd at this interactive and fun booth.

Efabless lets Makers design and create custom chips easily and affordably

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Efabless

Home: California, United States

chipIgnite Mini chipIgnite Mini offers an affordable and efficient solution for bringing your ASIC designs to life. At just $3,500 per project, we divide our proven 'Caravel' design space into four independent projects, ensuring that each chipIgnite Mini customer receives a development kit with 25 QFN-packaged parts. TinyTapeout - Learn to Design Your First Chip for Only $300 Tiny Tapeout is ideal for students, makers, university members, or anyone curious about chip design. Tiny Tapeout simplifies the complex world of chip design and makes it accessible for everyone.

Mass Customization with 3D printed systems

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ken Wronkiewicz

Home: California, United States

It may be tempting to 3D print the same thing again and again, but it is cheaper and faster to make the same thing using molding techniques. In order to really use the unique advantages of 3D printing, printed objects should be unique. They should be customized to an person or small group of people's needs. At the same time, getting good at CAD isn't easy. However, there are physical systems, generated by code or parametric modeling, that work with 3D printing's core advantages and are easier to use. I'd like to show off some of the community-generated systems for organization that take advantage of this mass customization such as the Honeycomb Storage Wall and the Gridfinity system, along with metal extrusions, as an example of how to take advantage of 3D printing's unique advantages

High Altitude Ballooning in the Bay Area

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: sf-hab

Home: California, United States

We are a community of interest for amateur radio and ballooning in all forms. We design, build and fly balloons when weather permits, please join us!

Hands-On PCB Engineering and Micromouse

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: UC Berkeley Student IEEE Branch

Home: California, United States

The Berkeley IEEE branch hosts two student-run classes, HOPE Hands-on PCB Engineering and Micromouse! Come drop by to see the projects their students have been up to. In HOPE, students learn effective printed circuit board (PCB) design and develop the skills to build custom electronics for classes, personal projects, student teams, and more. At the end of the semester, we combine all of our projects in a student design showcase. The UC Berkeley IEEE Student Branch’s Micromouse DeCal is a hands-on course aimed at undergraduates with an interest in robotics. In the class, teams of ~2 students are formed to build and program autonomous, maze-solving cars that follow the standards set in IEEE’s Micromouse competition.

$Making Math - Maker Faire Bay Area 2024$

Making Math

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Nonscriptum LLC

Home: California, United States

Maker technologies like 3D printing enable new ways to teach math. We will demonstrate models and activities from our books Make: Geometry, Make: Trigonometry and Make:Calculus and show how they make math more accessible.

Verilog Meetup – Get into FPGA Programmable Logic and Learn How the Chips are Designed

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Verilog Meetup

Home: California, United States

“Verilog, ASIC, FPGA” are not exactly household words, but they are at the very heart of the microelectronics revolution that brought us smartphones, fast internet, 3D graphics and AI acceleration. For the last 40 years, the Verilog hardware description language has been used to design the logic of chips. An ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) is the chip itself, and an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is a chip used to prototype an ASIC. Verilog Meetup is a community that meets every Sunday at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View, California, and over Zoom - with participants on all continents. We create Verilog examples used by more than 25 universities worldwide. We run seminars, help to prepare for job interviews, and explore new chip design methodologies.

Video Clocks

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ken Wilkinson

Home: California, United States

Video Clocks. These are clocks like you’ve never seen before. Freed from the limitations of physical clocks, these clocks use video to show the time. Artful, crafty, humorous, and sometimes just head scratching. Come see what they are like. Learn how you can make your own video clocks. And think about what your video clock would look like? I’ll have some free video clock thumb drives to help you get started.

Seeed Studio

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Seed Studio

Home: Texas, United States

Seeed Studio is a leading Open Hardware company since 2008, empowering more than half a million global developers from different verticals to co-create and make their solutions available for diverse markets. As the AI hardware partner, Seeed provides industrial-ready modules and devices, along with Fusion services of prototype, produce and promote.

Co-create Solution for Hazard Response

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Seeed Studio

Home: Texas, United States

The Hazard Response Mission Pack is an on-going open-source AIoT solution designed to efficiently manage and mitigate different hazard scenarios. This compact system combines a range of technologies, including sensor networks and edge computing, to enable effective remote sensing, data transmission, processing, inference, and analysis. In this workshop, participants are invited to collaboratively create innovative, sustainable solutions for hazard response. They will explored various hazard scenarios and identified gaps in current security systems, learn to used AIoT hardware and Node-RED to develop and implement reproducible hazard response solutions. They will also engage in hands-on projects, such as building resilient local warning systems and deploying advanced hazard sensors.

Ubo Pod: modular and hackable home pod for makers and developers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Mehrdad Majzoobi

Home: California, United States

Ubo Pod is an open source project aims at enabling makers and developers to build unique human machine experiences. It comes as a development kit that can be assembled into various configurations. You can uses it to deploy existing popular Raspberry Pi applications on it instantly include Home Assistant, Ollama Web UI, Pi Hole, or any other Docker containers. Come visit our table for demos and chit chat.

Maslow CNC

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maslow CNC

Home: Washington, United States

We build big weird open source CNC routers!

Virtual Pinball Machine!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jason Reynolds

Home: California, United States

Dive Into Virtual Reality Pinball with PinSim! Discover PinSim at Makerfaire, where we merge classic pinball with VR technology. Using an Xbox 360 controller modified to mimic the front of a pinball machine, connected to an Oculus headset, you get the full tactile experience of arcade pinball in a virtual setting. Our setup includes flipper buttons, a ball plunger, a joystick, and arcade buttons for a variety of games. Come play, explore, and be inspired to build your own. Join us to push the boundaries of gaming!

xrover, candy collector

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: techtreespace

Home: Gwangjin-gu, Korea, Republic of

Meet "xrover", a 3D-printed robot for coding education. Making and using "xrover" is super fun and satisfying for kids and teens! In our candy collection game, you can gather your favorite candies from a map within a limited time. Playing with friends or family will make it even more fun. You will also get to take "xrover" apart and put it back together. These activities will make you excited about coding and making things. We can’t wait to see you enjoy this awesome experience!

Graphite (open source 2D art & design app)

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Keavon Chambers

Home: California, United States

Graphite is a new volunteer-run open source software project making a free art and design app for the creative community of makers ranging from students to hobbyists to professionals alike. The built-in visual scripting system (called the node graph) makes it easy to create interactive designs that build themselves while you draw, letting artist-engineers come up with clever procedurally generated artwork. Just like Blender has revolutionized the 3D creative process for millions of makers, Graphite is doing the same for 2D digital content creation. Meet the team of designers and developers behind the project and learn how to use it to Make your arts and crafts.

VDBX.io – Open Source Off-Grid Automation Hardware

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: VDBX.io - Open Source Off-Grid Automation Hardware

Home: California, United States

Voidbox Industries (VDBX.io) designs and makes open hardware for interfacing off-grid and DC systems with Home Assistant. Our first flagship product the PwrTool 500 is a 500 amp DC power shunt meant to monitor batteries, inverters, and other high power 12-48v systems via ESPHome. It's based on our FLIP_C3 microcontroller platform which will be the basis of a whole host of automation and monitoring hardware. The PwrTool 500 has been accepted to do a crowdfunding campaign with Crowd Supply in 2024 with deliveries expected by early 2025. VDBX was created by Chloe Madison (@clomads) as the forward facing brand of her art & hardware. Having experienced housing instability for several years, she now lives in a converted school bus where she designs & tests her automation hardware.

UAVs@Berkeley 2024-25 AUVSI SUAS Competition Drone

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: UAVs@Berkeley

Home: California, United States

After a successful showcase at the 2024 AUVSI SUAS competition in Maryland, we have begun development of a completely new heavy-lift VTOL drone to compete next year. Swing by to see what we've accomplished so far, talk with our wonderful engineers about this project, try your hand at our FPV drone simulator, and more! We will also be showing off our competition hexacopter, which was developed with autonomous navigation and payload delivery capabilities, centering around cutting-edge computer vision algorithms and custom carbon fiber frame components.

How to Add AI to Almost Everything

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Seeed Studio

Home: Texas, United States

Hosted by Seeed Studio, this hands-on workshop is specifically tailored for AI beginners and Arduino fans. Dive into the transformative world of AI using our XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, a thumb-sized yet powerful MCU. This workshop will provide you with a practical, easy-to-understand introduction to machine learning while demystifying the world of AI. Workshop Highlights: - The prospect of AI: Discuss the future of AI, including the role of Large Language Models in enhancing device intelligence and user interaction - Interactive Demonstrations: Experience real-time applications of Vision AI through engaging demonstrations. - Hands-On Training: Learn the basics of sound and vision model training. Participants will actively engage in collecting and training models using the XIAO ESP32S3 Sense.

Meshtastic

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Meshtastic

Home: California, United States

Meshtastic is an open-source, decentralized mesh network using low-cost LoRa radios to power an off-grid network of sensors, text communication and location sharing. Ideal for outdoor activities, festivals and offline communication.

Petoi Robots

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Petoi LLC

Home: California, United States

Petoi is the maker of futuristic bionic robot pets for adults and kids, with applications in robotics, STEM, coding, AI education, and human companionship. The robots are open source, high-performance, remote/app-controlled, and highly programmable. The robotics kits are built on top of Arduino and ESP32. They can be extended with popular open source hardware such as Raspberry Pi, Arduino modules, and sensors to make robots sense and interact with surrounding environments. Petoi is also the creator of OpenCat, a popular open-source quadruped(four-legged) robot platform where all Petoi robots run.

Hyperbolic paraboloid wind-proof Rain and Shade cover

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: TomSawyerLabs

Home: California, United States

Do you need a shade structure for a BIG project, event, or Burningman camp? This is a do-it-yourself project that any group can make out of off-the-shelf components. The Hyperbolic paraboloid "saddle" shape is easy to achieve and has special properties. A 40’ square flat tarp could be a disaster in windy conditions. The uplift force is enough to lift the whole tarp and slam it back down. But the downward corners of the saddle prevent this from happening. If it rains, all of the water is directed to these same two low points.

Imagineer's Playtime with Mobile Experiences

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Frank Cohen

Home: California, United States

From the imagination of Terri Hardin, Disney legendary Imagineer, and Frank Cohen, Silicon Valley maker and engineer come an interactive entertaining and heart warming experience you wear. He's also the first experience built on the open-source Reflections hardware and software platform. Come play individually and as a group playing together. It's all free. And hopefully the beginning of a friendship and an invitation to make your own experience.

Machine knitting – punchcards and Arduino hacks

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Machine Knitters Guild of the San Francisco Bay Area

Learn how knitting machines work, and how they can be programmed - either electronically, or mechanically using punchcards - to make colorful patterns and elaborate lace and other textures. See an open source hack for vintage 1980's knitting machines, giving them new Arduino-powered electronic patterning.

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