Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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DIY Pinball with Maker tools (laser cutter, 3D printer, micro:bit)

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: K-12 Maker Lab at MIT Edgerton Center

Home: Massachusetts, United States

Originally conceived as a Maker skill-building activity for MIT students, this adaptable tabletop pinball game is blast to assemble, customize and play! Come try out our sample games, add your own features like bumpers, ramps, lights and sounds, or go head-to-head with a friend in 2-player mode. Take home plans to make your own pinball machine from common hardware. This is a great starter project for Makers in and out of the classroom: laser-cut the plywood playfield; use shop tools to cut lumber and assemble the base; 3D print your own set of flippers and buttons; design and fabricate any number of creative obstacles, features and decorations; express yourself through the theme for your machine; collaborate with others for 2-player mode.

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.

Shelly the Armadillo

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Muchos Amigos

Home: California, United States

Climb up and ride Shelly the Armadillo. She's an adult size rocking animal designed for fun. Unlock the child inside you.

Laser Maze by Benicia Makerspace

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Benicia Makerspace

Home: California, United States

You’ve seen in in the movies, the security system with a field of crisscrossed laser beams, break a beam and the alarm goes off. This is your opportunity to test your skills against a high-tech laser security system, just for fun. Can you successfully step over, under, and around the laser beams without tripping an alarm? The Laser Maze is a timed game based on real security system design details. Skilled guests can navigate through it in a few seconds, but be careful, every time you break a beam it adds three seconds to your time. Feel free to ask us about how it works, with a Raspberry Pi, two Arduino Micros, and eight ESP8266 microcontrollers, every laser is modulated at a different frequency and the laser receivers look for only that specific frequency.

Vintage Computer Festivalers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Robert Bernardo

Home: California, United States

We educate the public in regards to classic computers and consoles from the 1970's to the 1990's. These classic computers (Commodore, Atari, Apple, Tandy/Radio Shack, etc.) show the technology and software of those times, and were stepping stones to modern-day computers, tablets, cell phones, and more. Even today, homebrew hardware designers and software programmers are creating new products for the classic machines.

The Cosmic Messenger

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Miki Masuhara-Page

Home: Oregon, United States

The Cosmic Messenger is an interactive sculpture designed to spark joy and creativity. This life-sized Pegasus unicorn, lovingly called Peggy, is crafted from sheet metal and steel rod, adorned with rainbow-colored glass chakras and a rainbow-painted mane and tail. Peggy's body is coated in black chalkboard paint, inviting you to get creative with chalk messages. At night, white LEDs illuminate the glass, while color-changing LEDs create a rippling rainbow effect on her wings, mane, and tail. This year, Peggy sports a new mermaid tail, giving you even more space to draw, and offers postcards for visitors to send messages through the cosmos. Blending artistic beauty with interactive fun, Ms. Peggy is a whimsical, one-of-a-kind magical beast sure to bring smiles to all who meet her.

Kid Company-World's First AI Device for Children

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Kid Company, Inc.

Home: California, United States

There’s a significant pain point between parents, their children, and the use of current mobile and tablet devices. We aim to transform this with KID (Keep It Dreaming), a powerful AI device designed to unlock children’s imaginations. KID empowers kids to become creators of games, music, images, educational content, and stories using the power of AI, rather than passive consumers of mindless content. The platform offers innovative AI creation tools for families, fostering creativity and learning in which parents can direct KID to focus on certain areas of creativity and learning.

Astro Botanicals Space Garden

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Stan Clark

Home: California, United States

A mystical garden of giant illuminated flowers welcomes you to explore your imagination! The healthy symbiotic shapes and the hypnotic shifting colors transport you to another world of undersea outer space relaxation. Being surrounded by harmonic and angelic sculptures elevates your mind and empowers your inner child. Create new memories in a pure sensory palace among the transcendent lotuses, magnolias and starships. It is wonderful to see families sharing an empowering adventure among giant symbols of pure imagination.

Giant Lyte Bryte By Maker Faire Orange County

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maker Faire Orange County

Home: California, United States

Step into nostalgia with our giant Lite Bryte! These 4 ft x 4 ft boards bring back the joy of creating colorful designs, but we've upscaled it in a big way! Instead of tiny pegs, you'll use vibrant water bottles to craft your masterpiece. Whether you're revisiting your childhood or trying it out for the first time, the Lyte Bryte offers a fun, larger-than-life experience for all ages. Come play, light up the board, and let your creativity shine in our Glow Village!

Electric Hotdog Derby

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Andrew Leung

Home: California, United States

Come participate in a pinewood derby race with a twist. Choose a hotdog, give it wheels, and customize it for speed. As your racer rockets towards the finish line it will be cooked by the track to produce a snack that tastes like victory.

Moving Gunpla & Figure

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jihyun Ko

Home: Gyeonggi, Korea, Republic of

The basic plastic models once assembled can only stand in the set positions. I wanted to make the models into more than a statue. I figured that if I was able to transform the models into a moving statue I would enjoy them a lot more. The project remodeled a plastic model kit with a servo, LED, USB camera, controlled by Arduino Board and Raspberry Pi Board. Also, we used the Gundam Plastic model, Zaku Plastic model and others for the display of the project.

Physical AI Avatars

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Aditu Technologies

Home: Lagos, Nigeria

Aditu is exploring physical installations of AI-powered conversational avatars. Given the recent explosion in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, it is known for a fact that AI is poised to transform our day-to-day lives in a myriad of ways. Aditu is exploring how LLMs embodied in physical installations and represented by animated 3D characters responding in real-time, could infuse the wonder of AI and LLMs into physical interactions. A software demo of this technology is accessible online. It is an AI Curator which guides website visitors through Open Access artworks at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. It leverages AI and LLMs as a medium for fostering public engagement with art. Visit it here: https://aditu.tech/digitalculturepromotion/met-avatar

Sound Foraging with Dogbotic

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Dogbotic

Home: California, United States

How can you sound design a technology that doesn't exist yet? How do movies make dinosaurs sound like... well, dinosaurs? We'll answer all your burning questions in this presentation by Dogbotic--Berkeley's homegrown audio studio that makes weird and strange sounds for weird and strange people. We'll show you how we built our own synthesizers for Rihanna's SavagexFenty show, how we used the sounds of pasta to bring a tentacle monster to life for Adult Swim, and how *you* can do it too.

Building Play: The Art and Science of Toy Design

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: CrunchLabs

Home: California, United States

Join CrunchLabs toy designers: Danielle Gleason, Mason Landon Smith, Evan Barnes, Dan Tompkins and Bam Singhasaneh for a engaging panel discussion at the Bay Area Maker Faire! These creative minds will share insights on what inspired them to become makers, where they find inspiration, and how they take ideas from concept to finished product. Learn about their process of prototyping, iteration, and the challenges of designing toys for mass production. Whether you're a budding inventor or a seasoned maker, this panel will offer valuable takeaways for your next project!

PixSwitch

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Sam Freeman

Home: California, United States

A box full of blinky LEDs and chunky mechanical switches. Originally built for kids, hordes of adults find it surprisingly difficult to put down. With simple games and a short parts list, it makes a good beginner project.

Chabot Game Lab – Interactive Video Games

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Chabot College Game Lab Club

Home: California, United States

Chabot Game Lab is the game development lab from Chabot College in Hayward, CA. Showcasing our latest 2D/3D games, interactive art, and hardware. We will bring our hardware and showcase various games, such as a hand-gesture ASL video game that runs in Unity with our hand-capture software, a tabletop Anti-Anxiety Card Game, various 2D games that we've made for the Game Boy, to touch-sensitive Fruit Simon Says using microcontrollers. We will also give away keychains and stickers from Chabot Game Lab and our maker space, the forge.

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.

Battlebound AR Cards: Tank Wars

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Andrew Hyun

Home: United States

"BattleBound AR Cards: Tank Wars" blends Augmented Reality with a collectible Trading Card Game. Introducing BattleBound: Tank Battle, an innovative augmented reality card game that combines the tactile experience of a collectible card game with cutting-edge AR technology. This game transforms your tabletop into an exciting battlefield where the cards come to life. Players use their smartphones to scan unique playing cards, which animate tanks, upgrades, and tactical assets on the screen, setting the stage for dynamic and immersive tank battles right before your eyes.

Lune – Gaming Console For Music Instruments

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Lune Acoustics

Home: California, United States

Lune is an interplay of hardware and software which brings a new way to game with musical instruments. We’ve created an experience that makes playing music less frustrating by focusing on a gaming-first approach. You come for the fun but stay for the learning. Did you know 90% of people who tried playing a music instrument quit within the first year because it’s hard to stay motivated and gets boring? Moreoever people are now discovering that you don't have to be a musician or a student of music to enjoy playing an instrument. We wanted to build something fun and hence Lune was born. Imagine a Gaming Console but for Musical Instruments. This for the gamers who like to play music and all the musicians who like to game.

Build a Bot Workshop Powered by Lectrify.it

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Make:

Home: California, United States

Stop by and grab a Shake-it Mini and customize your very own vibrobot! Open build and self-paced hands-on making!

BlotRoom, Light Box Collection and Game Arcades from the CADRE New Media Lab, SJSU

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: CADRE Student Organization and The CADRE Laboratory for Digital Media

Home: California, United States

Blot Room is an innovative art installation that uses projection technology to create an interactive visual experience. The visuals will respond and change based on the number of people present in the space. This immersive piece is designed to be accompanied by various types of music and will feature a specially created song specifically for the project. The project's style aims to recreate the distorted visuals of a glitching CRT (cathode-ray tube) television, where different visual elements clash together, accompanied by music frequencies, to enhance the overall effect.

Reef Race

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Lisa and Joy

Home: California, United States

Compete against your friends or challenge a stranger, in our underwater-themed, black light, marble maze. Steer a ship’s helm to spin a vertical maze and race to the finish line. Beat your opponent and you’ll free the bubbles! Fun for the whole family.

Spacebar Arcade

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Yarn Corporation

Home: California, United States

Spacebar Arcade is a Virtual Reality saloon arcade set in the wild west of cyberspace. You enter this virtual world by way of a real-world 16-foot-tall arcade cabinet. Play on the "outside" using game pads and the giant screen, or don a VR headset to go inside the Spacebar with your friends and family. Inside, one can find a variety of low-gravity games and digital refreshments to enjoy with the other patrons. You might find our ornery A.I. barkeep, Cyberspace Sam. The physical cabinet and the virtual game were both designed and built by creative technologist (and lifelong maker), Sam Mateosian, in his San Carlos garage studio with the assistance of his two daughters, various friends, and helpful neighbors. It was first exhibited at the Augmented World Expo Playground in June 2024.

CrunchLabs

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: CrunchLabs by Mark Rober

Home: California, United States

Explore the innovative world of STEM with our Build Box and Hack Pack toys! Visitors of all ages can unleash their creativity by designing and assembling custom fidget toys with guidance from our CrunchLabs Product Designers. Experience the thrill as you move through interactive stations and build your very own creation. Plus, don’t miss out on our exciting swag giveaways!

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