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Bay Area Droid Builders
by Bay Area Droid builders
We’re a motley crew of makers, tinkerers, and droid wranglers, trading secrets from across the galaxy to bring our favorite Star Wars droids to life—R2 and R5 units, BB-8, Chopper, and plenty more rolling off the workbench. The Droid Builders Bay Area don’t just build—we deploy!
Polydact: A Flexible New Finger
by Miguel
Polydact is a wearable robotic sixth finger that gives its user greater dexterity than they have with the natural hand. The flexible digit has options for motorized and body-powered control. This project is a proof of concept before fully emulating a cephalopodic doctor I read about once. Details at tmpegues.github.io/projects/polydact
Control a DIY Surgery Robot Arm
by Chandler
Want to try your hand at operating a real microsurgery robot? Come see real DIY reverse-engineered surgery arms made by Intuitive Surgical (the same kind used for the viral They Did Surgery on a Grape video)!
The World's Most Advanced Pokédex
by BigRig Creates
With hardware designed by Mr. Volt and software programmed by BigRig Creates, this Kanto Pokédex brings all of the screens, buttons, and features from the original Pokémon games and anime to life. Test out its ability to recognize any plushie, card, or art for any of the 1,025 Pokémon. It even recites a Pokédex entry just like the anime. Bonus points if you can get it to recognize your own drawing!
Drive a Combat Robot & Explore Awesome Parts with Just 'Cuz Robotics
by Seth Schaffer
Just 'Cuz Robotics brings you a unique robot driving experience and a showcase of our many amazing custom components. Our booth will feature an arena where attendees can drive our SSP 3lb Combat Robot Lifter Kits in a simulated battle, learning to drive their very own bot for the first time! We also will have an array of parts and robots on display and demonstrations of their capabilities, like a motor lifting 10000 times it's own weight, and a 5 axis robot arm using our own actuator designs!
Bobby+ | World's Largest Mechanical Pencil + Other Projects!
by Bob Seif
Come by and test out the world's largest mechanical pencil, try on cosplay, find your favorites in the stamp zoo, and see a giant Lego Star Wars set in action! Here the motto is make things, break things and call projects done!
Musical Floppy Drives!
by Garrett
An array of twelve floppy disk drives controlled by Moppy2 software that translates MIDI sequences into mechanical movement data, driving the read heads to produce musical tones at different frequencies.
RAT-A2E
by John
Based on a popular kids film with a similar sounding name, this is a robot chef whose limbs can be controlled only by pulling on his hair in different directions. Come on over and see if you would make it in the culinary world as a rat piloting an aspiring cook.
Backyard Railroading! Ride on Model Trains
by JT Engineering
I design and build model trains for my backyard railroad! These trains are large enough and have more than enough pulling power to pull you, and 20 of your friends around the backyard track. Come check out my booth for more information, and learn how you can build one of these yourself!
Alleycat Asset Acquisitions
by Elli
Alleycat is an open-source cyberpunk toolset that brings the video game experience into the real world. Once a year, our team joins hundreds of players amongst a population of thousands in the Mojave desert to live in a pop-up neon city — where strangers become characters and unexpected stories unfold. The hardware and firmware powering it is built in the open. We invite the community to help shape the future of in-person play.
Open Hardware Induction-Heated Soldering Iron
by Calvin Holmes
Open source design of a 470kHz induction-heated soldering station, including power supply and handle. Think “DIY Metcal.”
Experimental Division | Combat Robotics Club
by Experimental Division
The Experimental Division is a Combat Robotics Club from the University of Texas at Austin. We build robots designed to fight and destroy one another, in the 1lb and 3lb weight classes. Come and watch us fight!
Smell a Survival Game - Akiiwan, a scent enabled game
by Little Buffalo Studios
Akiiwan: Relaxing Survival is a scent-enabled openworld survivalcraft game with a talking fire and minor roguelike elements. Thanks to the OVR Omara device, you can also smell up to 16 unique smells while you play!
Saddleback Rocketry - Argo & Barracuda
by Saddleback Rocketry
Argo is Saddleback Rocketry's first high-powered rocket. It served as a test bed for team capabilities and critical systems that will be incorporated into future competition rockets. Argo has a custom-built self-contained avionics bay, camera system, and a custom GPS. Barracuda is the team’s next rocket, with supersonic capabilities, and an altitude goal of 20,000ft. It will feature a carbon fiber fuselage, aluminum fins, a custom long-range telemetry system, and a live camera.
Nintendo Switch Menu Photo Booth Featuring Cheezit the Game
by Diflic
Step right up! and take a photo to be featured in the open sauce Nintendo switch menu timelaps! Be featured on the Nintendo switch take a number and become your own Nintendo Switch game. A timelapse of all photos taken will be created after the even has ended and posted onto Youtube and TikTok Physical photos are available, and there is also copies of Cheezit the game to purchase. A second Nintendo switch will be there ready to play Cheezit the game on (please ask permission before playing)
OSU Overclocking Club
by Zander
We are the OSU Overclocking Club. We compete internationally in extreme overclocking using liquid nitrogen. We build projects relating to XOC and for the general fun of the PC hobbyist space.
Neobotics: Autonomous Racing Cars
by Koneshka
We're bringing NeoRacers, a 1:12 scale autonomous race car that you can program to drive on its own. It can follow walls, lines, and roam around. Think of it as a mini Waymo! NeoRacer comes along with a twin simulation where you can see the car perform in both the real world and on the sim at the same time! Get ready for some human vs machine races along with other challenges and activities throughout the day too :)
Poseidon Robotics 27497
by Balaji
We are a high school team eager to teach everyone about robotics. We will be having constant demos of our robot while also letting attendees drive it through an obstacle course and have them shoot balls into a goalpost. We will also be selling 3D-printed fidgets and toys.
Gunstoppable - Indie FPS Game
by Salaar Kohari
Play the demo of a solo dev's new game: Gunstoppable is a momentum-fueled Roguelite FPS where speed is damage. Dual-wield overpowered weapon combos and bend time to obliterate hordes of robots and billionaire bosses!
Exo Bronco Two Stage Rocket - Cal Poly Pomona
by Nathan
Exo Bronco is a two-stage rocketry team from Cal Poly Pomona with the goal of reaching space at 330k feet. We are showcasing are various mechanism test demonstrators which have been flown to iterate and validate new designs and methods to help us achieve our goal. Additionally, we aim to develop all components from scratch by the students including our flight hardware, propellant, and staging mechanism. Come check us out!
Muscle Kingdom Limitless Fighting
by Milai Swan
Muscle Kingdom Limitless fighting is a steroid fueled cocktail of all our favorite things. The pageantry of wrestling, the action of 80's anime and the aura of Mad Max are combined to make the game we wish we had when we were young. Come stop by our booth to play the demo!
Puck It
by Kenny Wakeland - Lewis Wakeland
We turn a shuffle board table into an arcade game with lights, sounds and scoring. Two teams alternate sliding their puck down the shuffle board table and when a puck hits an opponents puck the opponents score is reduced. With each puck networked to all the other pucks and each with an IMU, lights, speakers and haptic transducers, look for many different games to challenge and entertain.
Grommet Chod
by Slaw Man Games
Grommet Chod is a whimsical PVP creature battler currently in development. Our unique battle system blends elements from Pokémon VGC, Magic The Gathering and auto battlers. Come by our booth to face off in a live 1v1 match and see what all our game has to offer!
Dance Interface Device
by Matt London/DashPum4
Grab a friend (or make a new friend!) and team up to dance your way through Minecraft! Also try out vacuuming up a small mess with a Roomba controlled by a Wii Fit!
Intentional Bugs
by Art
The computer's got bugs!!! Great! :D Use a view-finder device to search the monitors for hidden bugs and name the new species that you find!
Roverdrive: Learn to Code
by Jeff
Roverdrive is a hands-on project designed to teach programming to children in a fun and educational way, no experience required! Players can control a robotic rover with Bluetooth control by a drag-and-drop code block system, and custom modules that modify the rover's functionality.
Manaclysm: Massive Magic Mayhem
by Dustin
Manaclysm is a chaotic PvP brawler where up to 60 mages battle with an upgradeable arsenal of arcane spells. Defend with a timely Crescent Shield to close the distance for a savage Mana Blast, blockade enemy movements with Void Mines and punish their approach with Seeker Bombs, or charge devastating long-range Shockwave Spikes while a Plasma Storm covers your position. We'll have a multiplayer match setup in the booth - bring your friends and blast each other to bits!
Sentradel Beer Robot
by Q
Turrets are cool, war is less cool, what if war was more cool? This turret was converted to shoot beer!
Engineering Art Show
by James Mertke @Painting_With_James
James Mertke is both an artist and engineer! He has combined his two passions to create a collection of engineering themed paintings featuring things like science experiments, electronic components, and other STEM imagery. @Painting_With_James
tscircuit - Design Electronics with React
by Seve Ibarluzea
AI is really good at Typescript- can we harness that Typescript knowledge to design REAL electronics? YES!!!! THEY WORK!!!! Check out our vibe-coded electronics created by friggin WEB DEVELOPERS!
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