Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Park Campus STEAM Team

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Park Campus STEAM Team

Home: Illinois, United States

We make imagination into reality! We've asked second grade students from our school to place toy orders. Please stop by our booth to see what toys we made!
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Milled Print Block

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Grab a roller and some ink to create a print using one of the blocks milled in the Baxter Innovation Lab.
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I AM HER Designs and more

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Elyannie Insurriaga

Home: Illinois, United States

I AM HER Designs and More. I AM HER, learning about good and bad business decisions. I AM HER, powerful girl creating my own legacy. I AM HER, Strong. I AM HER, Powerful. I AM HER, Intelligent. I AM HER, Unstoppable. Creating and Designing for you!
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NIU College of Engineering – Robotics & Rover

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Gary Smith

Home: Illinois, United States

The Robotics and Mars Rover competition teams, will be bringing their latest competition vehicles. These teams are 2 of six competition teams at Northern Illinois University College of Engineering, are perennial favorites to finish in the Top 3 at c
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Electromagnetism Projects

Faire: Lake County

Maker: North Chicago Community High School - Physics Students

Home: Illinois, United States

Our proud North Chicago Community High School physics students are pleased to display and explain their electromagnetism projects. Projects include an electric motor, a generator, and a telegraph, all made from scratch parts.
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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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Ken's Garage

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Ken Kolman

Home: Illinois, United States

Ken's Garage is literally Ken in his Garage making things. through the use of 3D Printing and CNC Laser, waterjet, routers and milling. All to showcase how these things can be made in Ken's Garage or anyone's maker space.
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Leather working with Custom Creations by Zayn

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Zayn Schmeling

Home: Illinois, United States

My name is Zayn and I'm a 20-year-old self-taught maker who has learned many a medium. Today I'd like to show you all leatherworking and help you all try your hand at carving your very own keychain or bookmark.
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4H Robotics Showcase

Faire: Lake County

Maker: 4 - H

Home: Illinois, United States

Students participating in the 4H Robotics program across Lake County will showcase their robots at an upcoming event on April 20th. Stop by the booth to learn more about this program, the robotics technology and the challenges that teams complete.
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Baxter Innovation Lab Tour

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Interested in lasers, 3D printers, custom printed circuit boards, CNC mills or any other prototyping equipment? Come tour the Baxter Innovation lab. It is a student run lab and the central hub for engineering students on campus.
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FLL Robotics

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Akhil Kora

Home: Illinois, United States

We are Dream Builders, middle schoo FLL robotics team based out of Buffalo Grove, IL. We came 3rd in Robot Run in Illinois State championship and invited to Nationals in May 2024. We would like to show case our robot runs and educate our community.
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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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Practical Uses for Raspberry PIs

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Jeff Sliwa

Home: Illinois, United States

Raspberry Pis are inexpensive, single-board computers. Since 2013, they have evolved from being used to teach basic computer science to serving a multitude of uses. See how Pis are used for Home Automation, Retro Gaming, as a Media Server, and more.
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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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Engineering Club Trebuchet

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Engineering Club

Home: Illinois, United States

Watch the Engineering club trebuchet throw soccer balls across the front lawn of the Technology building.
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FTC Robotics team # 11848 Spare Parts Robotics

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Spare Parts Robotics

Home: Illinois, United States

First Tech Challenge team # 11848 Spare Parts Robotics from Lake Villa, IL
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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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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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Waggish Works presents, “3d printing props and replicas, the artistic side of additive manufacturing”

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Evan Ruffolo

Home: Illinois, United States

Interested in costume and prop design? Have you ever seen something in a piece of media that you thought you just had to have to hold in your own hands? Then come by and let us from Waggish Works show you how it's done!
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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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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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Paper Rocket Build Station

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Personal Enrichment

Home: Illinois, United States

Stop by to get your rocket ready for launch and learn more about summer camp programs for grades 1 to 12.
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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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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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