Maker Faire Yearbook 2024

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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.

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.

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.

AI Color Chocolate Sorting Machine

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Riciery Santos

Home: California, United States

This project is an automated machine for sorting M&Ms by color, utilizing computer vision technology and automation. The key component is the Husky Lens, an artificial intelligence camera from DF Robot, responsible for identifying the color of each M&M. Once the color is detected, a servo motor is activated, directing the chocolates to the respective boxes based on color. The control core of the machine is the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board, which manages the interface between the Husky Lens and the servo motor. This system demonstrates the practical application of computer vision and automation in specific tasks, offering an efficient and precise method for sorting M&Ms by color.

Kind Humanoid, Inc.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Christoph Kohstall

Home: California, United States

Christoph has single handedly built the first intelligent humanoid that reaches human level motion performance and leverages foundation models for reasoning. His background is experimental quantum physics at Stanford and he dove into AI at Google Brain Robotics. Kind Humanoid is now building a humanoid at a BOM of $10k and developing a skill learning pipeline to reach true general task capability. This will open up applications in fully unstructured environments, ranging from assistance with care in people's homes all the way to amplifying any human endeavor in the future.

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.

How to Add AI to Almost Everything

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Seeed Studio

Home: Texas, United States

Hosted by Seeed Studio, this hands-on workshop is specifically tailored for AI beginners and Arduino fans. Dive into the transformative world of AI using our XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, a thumb-sized yet powerful MCU. This workshop will provide you with a practical, easy-to-understand introduction to machine learning while demystifying the world of AI. Workshop Highlights: - The prospect of AI: Discuss the future of AI, including the role of Large Language Models in enhancing device intelligence and user interaction - Interactive Demonstrations: Experience real-time applications of Vision AI through engaging demonstrations. - Hands-On Training: Learn the basics of sound and vision model training. Participants will actively engage in collecting and training models using the XIAO ESP32S3 Sense.

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

Leonardo InMoov: 3D Printed Interactive Humanoid Robot

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Turing Laboratory Galileo University

Home: Guatemala, Guatemala

Leonardo InMoov is an interactive humanoid robot that integrates advanced AI technologies with a physical 3D printed robotic body based on the open-source InMoov Project, creating an intelligent robot with a personality powered by ChatGPT. The robot uses OpenAI's latest technology, including Vision, Speech-to-Text, and Text-to-Speech, enabling it to understand and respond to voice commands, describe what it sees, and generate thoughtful answers. The InMoov design, originally created by French sculptor Gaël Langevin, incorporates Arduino and servos to enable the robot to execute specific gestures such as counting, saluting, and grabbing objects. This project showcases the potential of AI and robotics to create interactive and intuitive machines.

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.

Busy Buzzy Bots

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Busy Buzzy Bots

Home: California, United States

Busy Buzzy Bots is a non-profit organization focused on STEM education that ignites the passion of learning in today's youth. The company was founded in 2020 by Saahithi and Saaketh Madhuvarsu, who were inspired to start Busy Buzzy Bots after discovering how much they enjoyed learning programming, robotics, and logical thinking. They offer a variety of STEM kits and educational resources, as well as online courses and workshops. Our mission is to help inspire and educate 10,000 children by 2030. We believe that STEM education is essential for children in today's world, and we want to make it fun and accessible for everyone.

Jeff, Dave, Michael's and Tomer Crazy Fabrications

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jeff, Dave, Michael's and Tomer Crazy Fabrications

Home: California, United States

We are group of professionals who put our skills together to make a fully functioning airplane. We then decided to build a simulator in the plane with a AI generated haptic feedback simulator. Our gold is to inspire young Pilots to build projects and enjoy airplanes as much as we do.

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.

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.

Adam AI CAD Generator

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Adam AI CAD Generator

Home: California, United States

Adam is a browser-based CAD (Computer-Aided Design) application that leverages AI to transform natural language descriptions into precise, manufacturable 3D models. This tool allows users to create complex CAD designs quickly and intuitively, without the need for extensive software knowledge or powerful hardware. Key features of Adam include: - Conversational interface for easy model generation - Rapid prototyping capabilities - Compatibility with existing CAD workflows - Accessibility for both novice users and experienced designers

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.

Companion Bots LLM and Relationship

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Jorvon Moss

Home: California, United States

Come listen to tales of a man on a mission to make robot best friends, Jayy who has been working on multiple versions of his wearable robots, finally made some good moves towards making his dream a reality. With new age of AI, the possibilities to make a real robotic best friend.

Wear It AI

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Wear It

Home: Germany

During Maker Faire, we will walk around and take photos of cool wearable tech and maker-made outfits. They will be featured on Wear It's website and everyone will be able to wear them digitally. You get a photo of yourself wearing them, enabled by computer vision and generative AI. The makers' work gets amplified when you post your outfit photos on social media. Ask the maker for their handle and use hashtag #WearItMakerfaire and tag both on social media. Together we promote makers and their amazing wearable tech!

NYXA

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Meaghan Zore

Home: California, United States

NYXA crafts genderless and size-inclusive sterling silver jewelry that stands as modern artifacts, embodying innovation and sophistication for art and design enthusiasts who seek attainable luxury with an edge.

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.

Puzzle Game AI : Let's control a falling block puzzle game with AI, and block artworks.

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Challenge Club / MakerFaire BayArea Japan Community / MakerFaireベイエリア付近在住Japanコミュニティ

Home: California, United States

Puzzle Game AI : Let's control a falling block puzzle game with AI, and block artworks. We exhibits.. - AI-driven Puzzle Game like Tetris. - AI dot artworks using Tetris blocks. - Photos about MakerFaire Tokyo 2023/MakerFaire Kyoto 2023/MakerFaire Kyoto 2024. - 3D Printer Items.. etc Enjoy our collection of pop and cute artworks. Our club focuses on making programming enjoyable by using TV games and other creative ideas.

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.

VoxHead, a creative commons 3D printed life-sized humanoid robot

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Michael Brady

Home: Indiana, United States

This is a demonstration of VoxHead 3.0, a 3D-printed humanoid robot. The robot is for makers and hobbyists to build and to customize themselves. It is meant as a low-cost tool for robotics software developers, and for human-robot speech interaction developers. The robot's plastic parts can be downloaded and 3D printed with FDM (hobby) printers. The other parts are common components - such as servo motors and cameras and electronics - that can be purchased over the internet and delivered the next day. The robot is controlled by a choice of Raspberry Pi 5, or a Jetson [Orin] Nano. This embedded device may then interface with a smart phone, and other computer(s) on the cloud. Please find out more by visiting the project's web site at: https://voxheadrobotics.com

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.

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