| The AJAX Exosuit is a powered exoskeleton designed to allow the wearer to life 400lbs with little or no effort. It is currently in progress (visit exosuit.org) and will debut at Maker Faire 2015. | |
| This is a piece of furniture that houses equipment necessary for a home entertainment center. The cabinet is made of cherry and bird's eye maple in a modernized shaker style. We wanted to be able to control the devices with the doors closed, so we created an Arduino-based control system that communicates with a custom iPhone app over Wifi. The website contains full step-by-step instructions for how to build one or your own. We'll be exhibiting this and a few other projects at Maker Faire 2013. Be sure to stop by and say Hi. | |
| The Viper is a full motion flight simulator inspired by the TV show Battlestar Gallactica. It is capable of rotating a full 360 degrees on both the roll and pitch axes.
It was built by 5 high school students (Sam and Joseph DeRose, together with John Boyer, Sam Frank, and Alex Jacobson) along with adult mentors (Tony DeRose, David Jacobson, Jessica Cole, Paul Novak, and Mark Boyer). It was first exhibited at Maker Faire 2012 where it received 7 Editor Choice ribbons, and garnered considerable media coverage, including being named in Popular Mechanics' "Backyard Genius" awards. | |
| Project Varia is a wearable recreation of the Varia suit worn by the character Samus Aran from the Metroid video game series. It required over 8 months of effort and was first exhibited at Maker Faire 2011.
It has been featured in numerous blog posts, as well as on the PBS Newshour. | |
| Saphira is an 8 ft tall animatronic fire breathing dragon that was first exhibited at Maker Faire 2010. She was created in collaboration with Alex and David Jacobson as part of the first year of the Young Makers program.
Originally conceived of as Halloween prop, we named it Saphira after the dragon from the book Eragon. The project was a great opportunity to learn a bunch of new techniques, including welding, oxy-acetylene cutting, pneumatics, flame effects, and it was our first project to use an Arduino for low level control. Saphira was well received at Maker Faire 2010 and 2011. In 2013 she returned to Maker Faire after having been significantly improved by the Silicon Valley Young Makers.
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| This is a Gatling gun version of the classic potato cannon as published in the book Backyard Ballistics written by William Gurstelle.
It is capable of auto-firing all six barrels in well under a second, and will launch potato about 400 ft. It was first exhibited at Maker Faire 2009, and was featured in a Weekend Projects video that has been viewed more than 2.5 million times! |
