Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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Yolo Maker Guys with robotics, 3d printing, clocks, kinetic art, lights, pachinko and more

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Yolo Maker Guys

Home: California, United States

We are some creators from Yolo County and bring a wide variety of projects and interests to share. Dave's Copperbot is a robotics project that evolved into kinetic art with large vacuum tubes, hundreds of LEDs, cameras, sensors, stereo sound, a cup holder and flapping wings. The Explorer is a life size humanoid found art sculpture. Doug's original clock creations bring together 3D printing and cool neon lighting to mark time with beauty and whimsy. We have a 70s era Japanese pachinko machine, enhanced with an Arduino and new colored LED lighting. We enjoy working with many materials - wood, metal, plastics, wire, and learning how to step up our crafts.

WilliesPaintNPrint

Faire: Syracuse

Maker: William Faram

Home: New York, United States

WilliesPaintNPrint is an influencer on TikTok with 32k+ viewers where he teaches and shows the process of 3D printing to makers of all ages. He prints and paints with the goal of showing that you can do it too if you put your mind to it.

Practical AI for Makers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sridhar Rajagopal

Home: California, United States

AI is the current buzz word, with deep learning and other models now capable of being run on Edge Devices, aside from the Cloud. As Makers, how can we take advantage of this burgeoning field to incorporate cool new functionality into the things we make? For the beginner, this can be a very daunting field. In this presentation, we'll take a 30,000 foot view of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, especially as it pertains to Edge AI (translation-we won't get bogged down by nitty-gritty now!). We will look at the various practical applications they can be used for, the various tools and frameworks that are available to utilize, and practical considerations of how to build and deploy a robust (not toy!) model that can run on your Arduino, Raspberry Pi or other suitable MCUs/SBCs.

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.

Free Selfie – Tardis and Weeping Angel

Faire: Tulsa

Maker: Jim Welch

Home: Oklahoma, United States

Free Selfie - Tardis and Weeping Angel Costumes and Sonic Screwdrivers props to borrow.

RumiCar, autonomous driving algorithms development platform

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: RumiCar

Home: Tokyo, Japan

RumiCar aims to make autonomous driving development accessible to everyone. Developing autonomous driving systems with full-sized cars is expensive and requires public road permits, making it challenging, especially for individuals. With RumiCar, users can develop autonomous driving systems at low cost using 1/24 scale cars, all within the convenience of their homes or school classrooms. As RumiCar users help each other worldwide, the advancement and realization of autonomous driving technology will become more achievable.

Spider Bot

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Sam Kammerer

Home: Florida, United States

The “Spider Bot” is a novel prototype being developed to prove that a new leg configuration can increase the robustness of legged robots in the field.

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.

R2 Builders Club e.V.

Faire: Luxembourg

Maker: R2 Builders Club e.V.

Home: Hessen, Germany

We represent the german group of the international community R2 Builders club. Our goal is to build our own astromech from the Star Wars universe and to share our knowledge with people, who also want to build their own droid.

Connect 4 Clock

Faire: Orange County

Maker: Carlos Barcelo

Home: California, United States

This is a clock I built that spells out the time using Connect 4 boards. It uses the red and yellow chips to display the current time spelled out in numbers like a digital clock.

Arachnyd

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Swanky Studios LLC

Home: New York, United States

We're creating a multiplayer game that we have a demo for, which we will publish on steam later this year – also we have a smaller raspberry pi project that generates passive income.

Scrapyard Challenge: Arcade Controller Design Workshop

Faire: Coney Island

Maker: Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Home: New York, United States

Join an interactive, classic arcade game controller design workshop where participants will build wacky controllers for classic arcade games out of discarded materials and junk! No skills or experience necessary to participate!

tscann16: A 5k 16mm film scanner

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Catilya

Home: California, United States

tscann16 is a home-brew high quality film scanner. It uses stepper motors to move optical film like a cassette tape player would, and takes hi res photos of each frame with a macro lens on a DSLR, which is controlled with computer vision running on a Raspberry Pi5. It yields a 5k scan of 16mm film, or 4k scan of 8mm film, and can handle damaged film, warped film, film with damaged or misshapen sprockets, delicate films, and handmade films. Tscann16 offers an alternative to lower quality flickering telecine scans, poor quality consumer scanners with cheap lenses and sensors, and unattainably expensive vintage commercial scanners. Tscann16 duplicates can be built at low cost, given a lens and a DSLR. Most parts are 3D printed, and stepper motors from a 3D printer drive the film.

Hacksburg

Faire: Lynchburg

Maker: Hacksburg

Home: Virginia, United States

Hacksburg is a makerspace in Blacksburg, VA. Hacksburg members will be showing off projects completed in our workshop, including a robotic eyeball, ultrasonic levitator, tabletop arcade cabinet, foam armor, and more.

Bafoulio – Du streaming et du versus

Faire: France

Maker: Baptiste FRESNAYE

Home: France

Bafoulio sévit sur les internets depuis l'époque de Dailymotion et de sa période de gloire. Il a fait pas mal de chose comme de la radio local, de la webradio, de la vidéo sur YouTube et maintenant du streaming sur twitch. Il aime partager sa passion comme ces avis sur différents sujets.

Clockwork Tech LLC

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Clockwork Tech LLC

Home: Zhejiang, China

Our team is small and we come from a variety of backgrounds, including the Internet, communications, mobile phone, industrial design, and advertising industries. We currently have a staff of seven, plus two part-time employees. For the MFBA, we are coming with our current projects, GameShell, DevTerm, and uConsole. Also, two upcoming projects might come as well. We'd love to meet our customers and any one who is interested in coding, retro gaming, geek gadgets and cool designs. We are also open for discussions about business opportunities.

PicoBall – Mini Basketball Game for Micro:bit

Faire: NoVa

Maker: Wil Myrick

Home: Virginia, United States

PicoBall transforms your micro:bit into a mini arcade basketball game. It comes with a presoldered Raspberry Pi Pico and IR sensor that provides proximity information associated with the mini basketball as it passes through the basketball hoop.

Complete Access Control Solution for Communities and Condos

Faire: Miami

Maker: Wanchai Siriwalothakul

Home: Florida, United States

We offer a complete access control management for multi-tenant residential properties such as gated communities, condos, and apartments. Our solution includes: Video Intercom Callbox for Visitors Fob/Card/Phone Entry Controller for Residents etc.

Voron Design

Faire: Orange County

Maker: Voron Design

Home: California, United States

VORON Design is a group of volunteers passionate about creating cool parts and machines that others can build.

Drop of a Hat Zone

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: James Steinberg

Home: New York, United States

I am using AI to automatically drop hats onto your head. At a moment's notice. At the drop of a hat.

Cornell Hyperloop Project Team

Faire: Syracuse

Home: New York, United States

Cornell Hyperloop Project Team seeks to spearhead the development of Hyperloop technology. We believe that the time has come for the transportation industry to be revolutionized, and we want to be the ones to do it.

Homebrew Robotics Club

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Homebrew Robotics Club

Home: California, United States

HBRC is a club of robotics enthusiasts from families with middle school kids to retirees who like to experiment with all different kinds of robots. From small table top based robots to full-size humanoids, from rovers to robotic arms. We have some members who work for robotics companies but we see it as a hobby and a way to learn and educate each other. Some members have fun at competitions like RoboGames or the club also has a couple of exhibition meetings every year, where members can present their robots. HBRC is participating in the BA Maker Faire for many years (and different members in other Maker Faires as well).

Try AI with Raspberry Pi

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Raspberry Pi

Home: Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Come meet the Raspberry Pi team and experiment with the new Raspberry Pi AI kit. Installed on a Raspberry Pi 5, the AI Kit allows you to rapidly build complex AI vision applications, running in real time, with low latency and low power requirements. State-of-the-art neural networks for object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking (to name just a few) run entirely on the Hailo-8L co-processor, leaving the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU free to perform other tasks.

Making Music with CircuitPython and the Raspberry Pi Pico!

Faire: Pensacola

Maker: Cooper Dalrymple

Home: Florida, United States

Ever dream of making your own synthesizer, drum machine, sampler, or MIDI controller? Come explore and experiment with digital synthesis using the simple yet capable programming language CircuitPython and the inexpensive yet powerful Raspberry Pi Pico.

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