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Reflections for making mobile entertaining experiences

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Frank Cohen

Home: California

ESP32 and Arduino-based Internet-enabled watch project and reference architecture to make your own entertaining experiences. Many times I imagine making a mobile application connected to the Internet. For example, a watch that shows videos of my children growing-up on my wrist. And the same project is re-used for creative makers to build their own entertaining experiences. Reflections is the architecture and the wrist watch is the first application. Reflections integrates video displays, Bluetooth, Wifi, SD flash storage, sound, and a bunch of sensors (compass/magnetometer, gestures, accelerometer, time of flight TOF sensor). It is battery powered, powered managed from software, and charges from USB. It is small in size (34 mm round) and powerful from an ESP32-S3 dual core processor. Reflections software, hardware, and cloud components are open-source (GPL v3) so anyone can use it and they must contribute improvements back to the project.

Petoi

Faire: Bay Area

Home: United States

Petoi brings robotics to life with programmable, lifelike robotic pets designed to inspire creativity, learning, and innovation in STEM education

The Lab with Doc Dave

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Dr. Dave Martin

Home: California, United States

Doc Dave is going to share how he makes props for his haunted Halloween cemetery. Props include headstones and grave markers (some animated), upholstered coffins, and realistic skeletal material all made from new materials that are mechanically distressed, painted and webbed to make them look very old and decayed. A few simple, but effective, homemade animatronics will also be on display. He will also share how he makes inexpensive atmosphere effects like "critter eyes," ground fog, lighting effects and his "Ghost Gun" (vortex cannon) made out of a 55 gallon drum. Doc Dave places emphasis is on spooky and creepy and fun rather than gore to make a family friendly haunt!

ChompShop

Faire: Bay Area

Home: United States

A kid-safe power tool for cutting cardboard! Bring ideas to life and transform ordinary cardboard into extraordinary projects. Chompshop empowers young makers with the ChompSaw—a kid-safe cutting power tool that turns cardboard into creative canvas. Whether it's forts, costumes, or prototypes, Chompshop helps imaginations take shape in a hands-on, STEAM-friendly way.

The Electric Wrecker

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Keith Johnson and Merrilee Proffitt

Home: California

The Electric Wrecker was built in 2008. Modeled created from scratch, starting with the wheels and ending with the base, and everything in between this piece was transformed from a pile of parts to a beautiful electric vehicle. This vehicle is not large, showy, or loud — it is the opposite, sort of subtle in its construction and operation, but the subtlety is a feature — the more you look, the more there is to appreciate. This vehicle is hugely popular with the engineering set. We find that we receive a lot of admiration for this vehicle because of the variety of engineering challenges that it addresses.

The Retro Roadshow Pop-Up Museum of Vintage Technology

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: The Retro Roadshow

Home: California, United States

The Retro Roadshow Pop-Up Museum of Vintage Technology creates opportunities for the public to get hands-on with our extensive collection of classic video games and computers. Our goal is to "preserve the history of the future," by helping attendees understand and appreciate the evolution of the technologies which have created the modern world. For the 2025 Bay Area Maker Faire, our exhibition is called “ Fly To The Future!” Visitors will experience the stunning evolution of video game art, design, and technology by playing and learning about a variety of innovative, influential, and exciting flying-themed video games across four decades of video game consoles and vintage computers. Join the award-winning Retro Roadshow and fly through time at the 2025 Bay Area Maker Faire!

LeARnLab

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Shawn Wasim

Home: Texas, United States

Welcome to LearnLab, the place where learning comes to life and minds are blown! Step in and get ready to explore roaring dinosaurs, spinning planets, and amazing science that jumps off the page. Pick up a tablet or headset and try out our AR and VR books for yourself. Whether you are a curious kid, a parent, or a teacher, you will find hands on adventures that surprise and inspire. Come see what happens when learning comes to life.

Giant Derby Skates!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Carquinez Quad Squad Roller Derby

Home: California

Built on 2 motorized wheelchairs are 2 giant roller skates ready for Roller Derby! The skates were built as a collaboration with team members from the Carquinez Quad Squad Roller Derby Team, based in Vallejo! Come and learn about both roller derby and the art cars!

KidCo

Faire: Bay Area

Home: United States

The Creative Companion to replace their tablet. Built by parents, certified safe, powered by AI. Watch your child create stories, music, and magical worlds with Assisted imagination that unleashes creativity. KidCo.AI builds KID, a safe, interactive AI device that turns kids from passive viewers into creators: telling stories, designing characters, and exploring worlds where their imaginations lead the way.

For the Love of Wieners

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Tenaya Conklin

Home: California

Why does she do it? Collecting trash year round and soldering LEDs? For the love of wiener dogs of course! Contemplate our society's single-use plastic trash in these LED and upcycled sculptures by Tenaya Conklin. Wiener dogs are the best and we love these terrific topiary hounds, which is your favorite? Tenaya is a wife, a mother, a teacher, an actress in local productions, and a singer in a band with her mom and dad.

Lupine Instruments AP-1 | The Acoustic Drum Machine and Metronome

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Lupine Instruments

Home: California, United States

Come make music and play all sorts of fun percussion instruments using robots! The Lupine Instruments AP-1 is an acoustic drum machine usable as an instrument or metronome. It can play nearly any percussion instrument using any mallet or drumstick. The AP-1 is the first acoustic drum machine/metronome to feature dynamics and accurate velocity response. It can be controlled via any MIDI controller or interface. The device will also playback .MIDI files and function as a standalone metronome/drum machine for practice or performance. See more of the Lupine Instruments AP-1 at LupineInstruments.com or find us on kickstarter.com/projects/lupine/ap-1 to get your own!

Berkeley Labs

Faire: Bay Area

Home: United States

At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, our mission is to expand the frontiers of knowledge and deliver solutions for science and humankind.

Prusa

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Prusa Research by Josef Prusa

Home: United States

Prusa Research was founded as a one-man startup in 2012 by Josef Prusa, a Czech hobbyist, maker, and inventor, and has become one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the Czech Republic in recent years. Currently, more than 900 people work at Prusa Research, and every month over 10,000 printers are shipped worldwide directly from the Prague.

Gadget Geocaches and Puzzle boxes

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Chad Champion

Home: Washington

Bringing urban geocache hides to a new level. Often hidden in plain sight, my geocaches use Arduino technology along with 3D printing and woodworking to elevate the game of geocaching. Come see my booth full of puzzle boxes that showcase what you can put out into the world as a gadget geocache.

AI Mirror

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Aditu Arts

Home: Lagos, Nigeria

AI-generated art has become a huge phenomenon over the past couple of years. Very recently, AI-generated Ghibli-style versions of pictures have sparked a prominent conversation on social media about AI and its artistic capabilities. Aditu intends to bring this conversation to the Maker Faire. The AI Mirror brings AI-styled art to a real-time "Mirror" interface: Participants stand in front of the Mirror and see an AI-modified reflection of themselves. People will see themselves being reflected in Ghibli, Anime, cultural, etc styles. The reflection mimics their movements and gestures (like looking in a normal mirror), but its visually modified by AI in ways that spark curiosity and conversation.

Student-Built Offroad Race Car

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Spartan Racing Baja

Home: California

We are a collegiate engineering team from San Jose State University, composed of a small team of engineering students who design, build, and race off-road vehicles each year as part of the international Baja SAE competition. This competition pits us against universities from around the world. The Spartan Racing Baja car is a lightweight, single-seat, off-road vehicle built for extreme durability and performance in harsh environments. Engineered by SJSU's Baja SAE team, the car is designed to handle mud, sand, rocks, and steep inclines with ease.

Precision Automatic Titration System (PATS)

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: PATS

Home: California, United States

PATS brings to life an autonomous system capable of titrating chemicals with micro-liter engine movements by integrating high accuracy mechanical structures and electronics. Our system is a solution to the problems faced by traditional manual titrations, such as results that are less accurate, less precise, and prone to human error. Mastering chemistry, Arduino boards, pH sensing technology, and 3D printing designs allowed us to create an autonomous and consistent method of titration. Utilizing an LCD display, PATS can also display real-time data on temperature and pH reading to the user. Our project is motivated by the Flint Water Crisis where titration played a vital part in detecting lead in residents' drinking water. But beyond water safety, PATS has extensive applications in agriculture, food safety, healthcare, even the automobile industry, and much more. Key Components: - Precise stepper motor movements for injection of reagent (0.66 micro-liters per movement step) - Custom

TheraPals

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Chloe Hong

Home: California

Cousins, Chloe and Adrienne Hong and Amelia Holley, have joined their passion for the arts and for helping children battling mental health concerns by creating "Therapals". Therapals are hand-made crocheted stress-relief animals or crocheted keychains, that you can customize and stuff with your very own selection of essential oils to be used as aromatherapy to help with stress relief, anxiety, mood boosting, improving sleep, or any other concerns. They are selling these products to raise funds for children's mental health organizations, which they feel passionate about.

Rift Zone: Contact

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Boosted Reality, inc.

Home: California, United States

Ever wondered what happens when a board game collides with an app and explodes into an AR battlefield? That's what we're cooking at Boosted Reality. Our first game, Rift Zone: Contact, lets you drop troops onto Proxima Centauri b and fight it out without a rulebook in sight. Minis scan into your phone, the battle comes alive in seconds, and at Maker Faire you'll unlock something wild: a create-your-own-character mode we built just for this event. Build your fighter, throw them straight into the chaos, and see if they survive. If you're into games, gadgets, or just like blowing stuff up in style, come test it, break it, and help us make the future of play.

Dectect Your Chaos

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Commander Lamp

Home: California, United States

“ Dectect Your Chaos” is the first body-heat-powered wearable electronics project from Commander Lamp. This project takes users on a mission to build a wearable strobe light that uses their own body heat as a power source. The device shows the wearer how cool their environment is by strobing faster as it gets colder. The project is sold as a kit with an online video tutorial designed to provide a video game-like experience.

Sasean Workshop

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Alex Cole

Home: California, United States

Resin jewelry utilizing natural and up-cycled mechanical parts. Customers favorites include favorites include one of a kind necklaces, brooches, bolo ties, rings and earrings. These are suitable for both casual daily wear as well as to make a statement paried with formal wear. Unlike mass-produced items, each item is handmade and has its own individual identity.

XTool

Faire: Bay Area

Home: United States

Empowering makers of all skill levels, XTool delivers intuitive laser engravers, cutters, and multi-mode craft machines designed to make creation easier, more precise, and a lot more fun. Whether you’re just getting started or running a side business, their tools help you do more than scissors or knives ever could.

DIY Energy Tube: Light it Up!

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Aurelius Prochazka

Home: California

Join us for a hands-on activity and learn to build an energy tube using simple materials: construction paper, tape, clay, alligator clips, a 9V battery, and multi-colored LED lights. Learn how to complete a circuit using your body—and experiment with other everyday objects like water, utensils, cans, and even food to test what conducts electricity! This interactive project introduces the science of open and closed circuits, conductors and insulators, in a way that's visual, memorable, and fun. Kids and families will create their own circuit stick, then watch it light up when they become part of the circuit themselves. It's a one-of-a-kind STEM activity that brings science to life.

Kite Making with Fortuna Found

Faire: Bay Area

Maker: Fortuna Found

Home: Washington

Come join the crew of Fortuna Found and make your very own kite! Explore the wonderful world of kites, kite flying, kite design, kite making and more!

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