In 2025, The Philly Maker Faire Finds Its Groove
Oct 19, 2025
Check out this fabulous write-up from Tom Nardi at Hackaday.
What is Maker Faire?
Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these "makers" to show hobbies, experiments, projects.
We call it the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth - a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness.
Glimpse the future and get inspired!
Meet the 2025 Philly Makers
The Positron 3D Printer, an upside down, ultra portable 3D Printer.
Positron 3D & LDO - Positron 3D is an open source design group based out of Philly, we designed The Positron! The world's most compact 3D Printer (and the most portable!) that just so happens to print upside down. Come see what we've been working on!
Maker Buoy is an open source design for a low-cost ocean tracking buoy.
Maker Buoy is an open source buoy design that provides low-cost ocean data collection to researchers and educators. Visit the Maker Buoy booth to see how off-the-shelf hardware can travel around the world helping us better understand the ocean.
ChompShop: A Kid-Safe Power Tool for Cutting Cardboard?!
Come to ChompShop's booth to try out a prototype of our kid-safe power tool for cutting cardboard, build some fun cardboard projects, and learn all about how we are prototyping and manufacturing our successful Kickstarter product!
Philadelphia Beekeeper's Guild Hive Display and Sales
The Philadelphia Beekeepers Guid has been supporting bees, beekeeping, and beekeepers since 2009. We'll be showing off the tools of the trade along with some of our fuzzy little friends and selling local raw honey from our member beekeepers.
WASTEWORLD TOYS
Animatronic RC vehicles & FPV action figures that zoom, fly, float, shoot, launch, and whatever the verb is to use a flamethrower! All figures & vehicles come from the WASTEWORLD of one person's imagination. (All ages welcome to play with the toys.)
Non-Motorized Vehicles
Our group is testing Non-Motorized Vehicles designed for the commercial transportation market. These cycles can moves heavy payloads up to 30,000 pounds using Supercomputers, Flywheels and Human Power. The maximum speed for these NMV's is 50 MPH.
TOOOL PHL
TOOOL PHL is coming to the Maker Faire! Whether you're a novice who just stumbled upon Lockpicking Lawyer, a seasoned safecracker, or somewhere in between, come join us for an afternoon of fun as we pop some locks.
Hive76
We’re a Philly makerspace dedicated to teaching creative skills and fostering innovation. Woodworking, electronics, laser-cutting, 3D-printing and much more – we support all kinds of maker endeavors. Whether you’re experienced or brand-new to making,
