Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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LightBurn Software

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: LightBurn Software

Home: Connecticut, United States

LightBurn is layout, editing, and control software for laser cutters and engravers. Lasers are versatile machines, with utility in an endless variety of projects, including photorealistic engravings, jewelry, 3D models, signs, and art installations. LightBurn was founded by makers and is developed with those diverse creations in mind — our goal is to make sure that inadequate or unwieldy software is never the barrier to jumping into the world of laser crafting, and realizing whatever amazing project you can think up.

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.

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.

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.

R.O.B.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: OrbitusRobotics

Home: California, United States

ROB is the first droid with all Mac hardware. Using only Apple sdk's and api's I am able to create magic between components. Thanks to the new networking.framework, I am able to auto connect with bonjour services between my droid, the controllers, and even other bots. I wanted to make the simplest and most affordable Droid, I wanted to bring all of our imaginations to life and I wanted to push the boundaries of technology just a bit further and beyond reach. ROB is a Droid with toddler level neural network intelligence. His chat server was built with a python CakeChat neural emotion engine which gives him lots of interesting things to say! R.O.B. runs on OSX and has LiFePO4 80 Ah batteries for hours mobility with the finest BLDC motors that Shenzhen, China has to offer.

Meshtastic

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Meshtastic

Home: California, United States

Meshtastic is an open-source, decentralized mesh network using low-cost LoRa radios to power an off-grid network of sensors, text communication and location sharing. Ideal for outdoor activities, festivals and offline communication.

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.

Rokland Technologies

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Rokland Technologies

Home: Florida, United States

We are a leading retailer and developer of WiFi, 4G, Helium, and Meshtastic network IoT products in Gainesville, Florida. In 2000, we were one of the first e-commerce computer parts retailers, joining eBay and Amazon only a few years after their launch dates. Today, we retail, wholesale, and develop Wi-Fi parts for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and Linux platforms. Whether you are an individual looking to buy popular brands, a developer in search of specific parts, or you are a corporate or government buyer looking to buy wholesale/bulk long-range Wi-Fi solutions and accessories, we offer competitive pricing and top-level support.

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.

Beer2D2

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Steven Nelson

Home: California, United States

Beer2D2 is a Homebrewed Robot built using a 5 Liter Heineken mini beer Keg. He was originally built in 2010 for RoboGames. He is now on a second rebuild. The Robot uses 4 drive train motors (Hacked Servos) two Vantec rdfr motor speed controllers a 2.4 Ghz Radio control for basic maneuvering. He also runs in Autonomus Mode using a Huskylens Video camera and an Arduino. He has a 15 Watt Stereo sound system a Bluetooth Audio reciever. A Color Organ that blinks Leds to the Audio signals. He has 15 sensors read by an a second Arduino that Talks to a Android Phone through another Bluetooth connection and a custom app using Voice Recognition and Text to Speech. He's basically a Talking Tricorder and entertainment Robot But that's not all he even has a brand new Trailer

The DynaMandala

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: DynaTeam

Home: Oregon, United States

The DynaMandala is a celebration of exploring the combination of Sight, Sound, AND Input. Input is a critical part of the work. When you play the DynaMandala, You complete the art. It is a rich and responsive instrument that each player will bring to a unique swirl of dazzling pattern and sound. The DynaMandala is a creative coding software project utilizing the latest generation Real-Time 3D technology. The DynaController is the custom built MIDI activated sculpture through which visitors interact with the lights animated on the screen before them and the sound animated in the quadrophonic speaker system surrounding the space. Animation is Visual Music > Music is Sonic Animation Life is the energy that animates.

Co-create Solution for Hazard Response

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Seeed Studio

Home: Texas, United States

The Hazard Response Mission Pack is an on-going open-source AIoT solution designed to efficiently manage and mitigate different hazard scenarios. This compact system combines a range of technologies, including sensor networks and edge computing, to enable effective remote sensing, data transmission, processing, inference, and analysis. In this workshop, participants are invited to collaboratively create innovative, sustainable solutions for hazard response. They will explored various hazard scenarios and identified gaps in current security systems, learn to used AIoT hardware and Node-RED to develop and implement reproducible hazard response solutions. They will also engage in hands-on projects, such as building resilient local warning systems and deploying advanced hazard sensors.

Get On The Air: Amateur Radio is Still Cool!

Faire: Bay Area

We will be hosting many different kinds of radio exhibits covering what is happening in ham radio, expect to be amazed at one of the oldest hobbies is still going strong!",,,http://beniciaarc.com,,greggahorton@gmail.com,Benicia Amateur Radio Club ,The Benicia Amateur Radio Club (BARC) is a very active group of Ham Radio operators with emphasis on Emergency Communications.

Seeed Studio

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Seed Studio

Home: Texas, United States

Seeed Studio is a leading Open Hardware company since 2008, empowering more than half a million global developers from different verticals to co-create and make their solutions available for diverse markets. As the AI hardware partner, Seeed provides industrial-ready modules and devices, along with Fusion services of prototype, produce and promote.

AI Music and Flat Panel Speakers

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Allen Ajello

Home: California, United States

Visitors will be able to make their own songs by working with AI song creation tools like Suno and Udio. They can then listen to them on Flat Panel Speakers (Distributed Mode Loudspeakers) as we exhibited at Maker Faire 2019 and won 2 Editor's Choice awards for.

LemurBox 2.0

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: HAL51 AI

Home: California, United States

LemurBox is a customizable diorama device framework that converts your smartphone or tablet into an interactive AI powered 3D XR device. The device supports talking to an AI powered pseudo-hologram, enables 2 way holographic chats, empowers visualizing and generating 3D models and can also be used as a teleprompter device or as a secondary passive monitor as well. The hardware ships with a suite of smartphone apps that include an AI-powered holographic avatar, a 3D model viewer and much more! Using this framework, we are inventing a radically novel way for humans to interact with Al and has broad implications across EdTech , AdTech, CommTech, ToyTech & of course, the general Consumer Tech markets.

Graphite (open source 2D art & design app)

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Keavon Chambers

Home: California, United States

Graphite is a new volunteer-run open source software project making a free art and design app for the creative community of makers ranging from students to hobbyists to professionals alike. The built-in visual scripting system (called the node graph) makes it easy to create interactive designs that build themselves while you draw, letting artist-engineers come up with clever procedurally generated artwork. Just like Blender has revolutionized the 3D creative process for millions of makers, Graphite is doing the same for 2D digital content creation. Meet the team of designers and developers behind the project and learn how to use it to Make your arts and crafts.

Video Clocks

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Ken Wilkinson

Home: California, United States

Video Clocks. These are clocks like you’ve never seen before. Freed from the limitations of physical clocks, these clocks use video to show the time. Artful, crafty, humorous, and sometimes just head scratching. Come see what they are like. Learn how you can make your own video clocks. And think about what your video clock would look like? I’ll have some free video clock thumb drives to help you get started.

Astrolander

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Maximus Trest

Home: British Columbia, Canada

Astrolander is a PlayStation 5™ indie exclusive game developed by Max Trest, a 14-year-old indie game developer that launched a game studio called Lost Cartridge Creations. Astrolander is an action-packed local co-op game featuring dramatic cinematics, intense action, and lush levels. Two players work together to control Haptic and their sidekick Feedback, adventure seeking cute robots on a mission to save the MVP’s (Most Valuable Programs)! Manipulate and sense the world around you with innovative immersive uses of the DualSense™ Wireless Controller. Astrolander has been featured on BBC News, CBC News, and on other news programs. Playable Astrolander demos have appeared at Emerald City Comic Con, GeekGirlCon, Washington State Summer Con, Seattle Indies Expo, and at many other events.

The Retro Roadshow

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Retro Roadshow

Home: California, United States

The Retro Roadshow is a pop-up museum which creates opportunities for the public to get hands-on with our extensive collection of vintage video games and computers. Our goal is to preserve the history of the future. We help our attendees understand and appreciate the evolution of technology which has created the modern world. For the 2024 Maker Faire, our exhibition is called “Racing Through Time!” Visitors will experience the stunning evolution of video game design and technology by playing and learning about a variety of innovative, influential, and exciting racing-themed video games across four decades of video game consoles and vintage computers. Join The Retro Roadshow at the Bay Area Maker Fair 2024 as we hit the gas and race through time!

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