Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Art hut

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sean Lee

Home: California, United States

This portable art structure, draws the perfect point to any small ritual gathering, and often features the live, music and performance of Sean Lee, the one-man banjo and lead singer, chief composer of the tattooed orange band and ritual eyes

Animation Studio for junior makers by SnackNotes

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Brian Van Osdol

Home: California, United States

SnackNotes presents “Animation Studio for Junior Makers,” a space where kids can have fun making their own drawings come alive! This exhibit is an activity-focused experience designed for young makers. Kids (and grownups!) can try different ways of making animations. Kids learn how to make basic two-frame animations that they can create anywhere with just a pencil and paper. Kids can also make a multi-frame animation viewable on a spinning zoetrope that can be built at home. These activities come with accompanying educational materials, fun animation examples, and templates. This exhibit is part of a new project called SnackNotes, where Brian (dad of 2 and engineer) shares creative projects that kids and parents can try at home.

Posables

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Robert Browqn

Home: California, United States

Posables are life-sized wooden stick figures that can be arbitrarily posed to make a statement, scene, or tell a story. They have been a staple at Bay Area Maker Faires almost since the beginning, and are a favorite of many attendees. The exhibit is fully interactive, comprising many characters or different sizes as well as pneumatic animatronics - controlling a character on a trampoline or climbing a pole, for example.

bubble bot

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: lucian novosel

Home: California, United States

Feast your eyes as this garage-contraption casts monstrous bubbles! Thanks to a secret bubble juice recipe the bubbles are able to form up to 4 feet in diameter! At first they are undulating tails of iridescent film –then suddenly– like the first amoebas, they separate and take spherical shape! We have chairs so that you may take a break and enjoy the splendor of this aerial lava lamp. Come see bubbles as you've never seen them before! Transcendent hulking marvels of physics!

DRAWING WITH A SEWING MACHINE

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: PAUL NOSA

Home: Arizona, United States

I’m an artist who draws with a sewing machine. With a solar powered sewing machine I make collaborative custom patches on the spot. I move the fabric around the needle with my hands, without automation or a template.

Meet the Maker: Cecilia Hillway

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Cecilia Hillway

Home: Washington, United States

Meet maker, illustrator, and dreamer Cecilia Hillway. Making projects that combine art and technology, she hopes to inspire new generations. She loves working with fellow educators and teaching students, so come chat with her and ask any questions. Cecilia has created projects for various Ed-tech companies including Make:, Chibitronics, Birdbrain Technologies, Lectrify, Pinbox 3000, Brown Dog Gadgets, and Design Spark. She has also won various Instructables prizes with her detailed behind the scenes of projects.

Learn Needle Felting: Workshop and Meet the Giant Felt Dragon

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jackie Huang

Home: California, United States

Unlock your creativity with our needle felting workshop and create your own Woolbuddy masterpiece! Whether you're new to felting or a seasoned crafter, you'll find endless joy in transforming wool into adorable, handmade figures. Spots fill up fast—don’t wait to join the fun! Get ready to be inspired by the magic of needle felting, and marvel at our breathtaking 10-foot felt dragon. This is your chance to explore a craft where the only limit is your imagination. Come see what you can create!

GIY Materials: Growing Fungi for BioFabrication

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Elizabeth Marley

Home: California, United States

This 'GIY Materials: Growing Fungi for BioFabrication presentation will introduce Grow-It-Yourself methods and projects that use the magic of mycelium, mushrooms, and other biological organisms to produce renewable materials that can be heat resistant, water resistant, and biodegradable…. and maybe even help clean the environment! Examples of projects involving fashion, electronics, and architecture will be shown along with some tips and resources on how you, too, can grow your own materials for future projects.

Make: Magazine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Make:

Home: California, United States

Meet the Makers behind Make: and get a subscription to Make: magazine at a special event price! Sign up at the Make: Booth, in the Maker Shed or the Maker Faire Merch Tent. Join the Maker Movement and dive into the first magazine devoted to DIY technology projects.

Scare Makers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Scare Makers

Home: California, United States

Our exhibit is a unique collection of home brewed radio controlled/roving/animatronic props, compressed air driven contraptions and 3D video displays all with a Halloween theme. We present these props and displays in an interactive fashion, with the goal of providing all Faire goers young and old with an entertaining, hands-on and educational experience. As in our prior Maker Faire showings, we hope to educate Faire attendees about our builds and how they might create their own versions. We allow them to use hand held R/C units to control the multiple props themselves, providing an immersive, enjoyable (and sometimes scary) experience.

TriLeene

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jana Mckinny

Home: California, United States

TriLeene is a collaboration between Elien the Pearl Peacock and Grizz the Trimule—the perfect combination of brilliant programable LED tail feathers on a nimble three-wheel base with comfy seating for three. The vehicle chassis is constructed from 1-1/2" and 2" tubular frames. It is powered by a 10 hp Tecumseh TVXL220 motor with Zt3100 hydrostatic transmissions driving the front axle. A third swivel caster behind the front axle provides maneuverability and stability.

Sepia Lux

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The CooLab

Home: California, United States

Sepia Lux and is the creation of a number of artists and was build in Santa Rosa CA. It is a 36’ long, 15’ wide animatronic, inflatable cuttlefish. The balloon portion of the project was designed and made by Bill Kennedy (Inflatabill)The lighting design, programming and integration was done by Brian Willison. Mechanics, robotics, electronics were done by Loren Crotty of Santa Rosa. Contributions were made by over a dozen other individuals over the course of its build. The car is powered with 2 lithium battery banks with onboard generator power as well. There are multiple moving systems including 4 cam driven fin arrays and 9 linear actuators control head tentacles using Arduino +switches. Thousands of LEDs are controlled via computer, and 2 hemispherical LED monitors serve as eyeballs.

Intersection ( Sculpture, Design, and Media in the digital age)

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Michael Walsh

Home: California, United States

Artist Michael Walsh will Exhibit artworks, design, and a new media work driven by innovative digital technologies. Those technologies to include, additive manufacturing, Virtual Reality rendering, and Machine Learning animation.

Elements Puzzle Box

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab K-12

Home: California, United States

Assemble a light-emitting puzzle box using pieces that feature Berkeley Lab's discovered elements. (wooden boxes available for the first 250 students)

Melty Cube

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Daniel Young

Home: Oregon, United States

Melty Cube is a magical spinning cube that can seemingly defy physics with its bouncing multidimensional colors. It can be found roaming the grounds, especially in the dark room. An early version debuted at the 2019 maker faire and received a peoples choice ribbon. It's a sight to behold! hardware design, software and idea by Daniel Young. Art by Keenan McCune and Daniel Young

Makey's Automata Workshop with Cecilia Hillway

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Cecilia Hillway

Home: Washington, United States

Making projects that combine art and technology, Cecilia hopes to inspire you by sharing her knowledge in this hands-on cardboard Automata Workshop using the Maker Faire robot as your muse. An automaton generally refers to a moving, mechanical device, usually constructed to look like a human, animal or even a robot! Automatons are built to give the illusion of acting as if by their own power, despite comprising only of mechanical systems. There is a materials fee for this workshop.

Expanse

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Laurence Renzo Verbeck

Expanse delves into the profound exploration of geometry, humanity's primal language. In paying homage to Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, Expanse both embraces and extends his legacy, breaking free from the traditional constraints of geometric definitions. It honors the narratives of our history while propelling us beyond these boundaries, ushering us into a realm of fresh, organic, and ethereal evolution. Hand-carved from two solid, fire-salvaged redwood logs over a two year period, this female form expands beyond the representative geometry ( depicted here by a steel ring with ten interial facits) such geometry by previous generations. Expanse was publicly displayed for the first (and only) time at Burning Man in 2023 before its debut in Mare Island.

Constraints as a Catalyst: Creative Engineering Under Pressure

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Raptor House FX LLC

Home: Colorado, United States

You just landed a job to make something no one has ever made before... now what? Jesse Velez (Raptor House FX) and Ben Eadie (Star Trek Beyond, Ghostbusters Afterlife) discuss the do's and dont's of creative probelm solving when time and budgets are a challenge. How do you assemble the right tream? How do you prioritize one task VS another? How do you provide estimates to a client when the final product is a working prototype? What do you tell your clients when things go "wrong"?

Behind the Scenes at The Tinkering Workshop

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ryan Jenkins

Home: Germany

Join author Ryan Jenkins for a look at his new book, The Tinkering Workshop which presents a wide variety of ways to play and create with art, science and technology using everyday materials. In this talk Ryan will share the behind-the-scenes process of putting together the book and talk about ways that the images and text can support a tinkering mindset for kids, parents and educators. Using the book as a jumping off point, we'll explore the value of tinkering in STEAM education and how it's possible to get started in a classroom, with a museum or library makerspace, or around a kitchen table.

Doug's Drawbot

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Doug Biehl

Home: California, United States

A scrapped together polar drawing robot in action, powered by Raspberry Pi and Arduino, along with some fun examples of using Processing.org in the development of photo filters and image translation algorithms.

Biomaterials 101 for Designers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sabrina Merlo

Home: California, United States

We are the Biogirls! Trying to create a Bioworld! Our project aims to create an exploration kit for novice designers looking to learn more about crafted biomaterials and biopolymers. We guide you through hands-on experiments that explore the novel properties and affordances of biomaterials with instructions, materials and simple tools. The kit not only teaches basic techniques but also inspires new possibilities by showing how biomaterials can be uniquely designed for functional purposes by leveraging its degradability, texture, and tunable properties.

Shrine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ezra Livingston

The Shrine celebrates traditions, storytelling, comedy, and narratives on the cycle of death, embodying survivorship. The piece is meant to encourage, to venture within, relishing in the fortitude of what embodies the will to survive from birth to death. Originally built with 4 steel “legs” that lifted the artwork up 25’ into the sky, the Shrine is now an opportunity for public interaction. Take a photo sitting on the front windowsill or step inside with the Napa River and the hills of Vallejo as your backdrop. Share your photos with us on Instagram! @mareislandcompany @localeditionmktg

Raptor House FX – Design and Engineering for Storytellers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Raptor House FX LLC

Home: Colorado, United States

Raptor House FX is a multidisciplinary practical effects studio serving clients in film, television, and other creative industries.

Love Tree: An Interactive Experience

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Erin St Blaine's Mermaids & Magicians

Home: California, United States

Love Tree is a captivating mirror illusion that fuses art, reflection, and human connection. Nestled within a beautifully sculpted fiberglass tree, this interactive piece invites you to align your eyes with a companion, blending your reflections into a shared face. As your features merge, the installation softly plays words of love, deepening the emotional experience and creating a mesmerizing moment of unity. Love Tree explores the beauty of human relationships, offering a playful yet profound reflection on love, identity, and togetherness. Inspired by TANZER. Created by Erin St Blaine with Shane Romick, Quirky Corky and Valentin Rotar. Fiberglass, LED lights, WLED, Adafruit QT Py Pico, Two-way mirror, Audio In memory of Tree Riley Rhodes. Miss you baby.

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