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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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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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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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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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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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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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String Art: Community Project

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Pick up a hammer and help make our community art 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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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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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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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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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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The Invisible World of Radio Waves

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Ralph Iden

Home: Illinois, United States

Radio waves are all around us, including radio, television, and cellular signals. Visit us to see some less common examples of radio including amateur radio and satellite communications. Send and receive messages to other attendees using radio.
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Make a Paper Circuit

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Learn how to create a simple circuit to light up an LED. Take your creation home with you.
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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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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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Joe K’s Workshop

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Joe K

Home: Illinois, United States

Various useful and not-so-useful shop creations including musical instruments and mechanical contraptions, along with unique repaired items.
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Dogwartz Homeschool Robotics Team

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Kevin OKeefe

Home: Illinois, United States

This is Dogwartz's team's 3rd year of competing in the Lake Country Robotics Competitions. It has been an incredible experience. Come learn more about how our robot works and what we've learned from participating in this program.
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Automated Prize Dispenser

Faire: Lake County

Maker: CLC Baxter Innovation Lab & Engineering Transfer

Home: Illinois, United States

Watch your prize go for a rollercoaster ride after you activate the sensors.
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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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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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Golden Ratio Robotics, First Tech Challenge demonstrations

Faire: Lake County

Maker: Golden Ratio Robotics

Home: Illinois, United States

Golden Ratio Robotics is a First Tech Challenge (FTC) competitive robotics team for 7th through 12 graders. Student-made robots will be available for hands-on interaction and demonstrations.
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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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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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