The staff of MAKE and Maker Faire award Maker Faire Editor's Choice Ribbons to the Makers that have demonstrated great creativity, ingenuity and innovation for their Maker Faire project. These ribbons are handed out at each event and signify the highlights of Maker Faire. Maker Faire Editor's Choice Blue Ribbon Winners embrace the DIY Spirit and inspire Makers of all ages! We congratulate them on their achievements and participation in the Maker Movement.
Note: If you received an Editor's Choice Blue Ribbon and don't see your project/name on the list, please email us at makers@makerfaire.com, with the subject line of: Blue Ribbon UPDATES and let us know your name, project name, maker number and Maker Faire event city and year and we will update the list.
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- Agnes Makes - Agnes Niewiadomski
- Reverse Engineering and Analysis of Henry Ford's First Engine - James Hendrickson
- Great Lakes Garrison/Rebel Legion/R2 Builders - Mike Lica
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- Brooklyn Aerodrome - Breck Baldwin
- DetroitGT - christopher gorski
- Darren Landrum - Darren Landrum
- East Side Riders - Dywayne Neeley
- E-Go-Kart - Harish Chander
- SeeMeCNC - John Olafson
- Mind Flame - Matt Oehrlein
- 3-D Printed Humanoid Robot - Michael Overstreet
- EMG Interfaces - Paul Sampson
- Compressed Air Rockets - Make and Launch! - Rick Schertle
- Portland Machinist Guild - Ron Groce
- Madpixel Art and Design - Ronald Jasin
- Paper Connections Bracelets - Sarah Hodsdon
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- GIANT Games - Aaron Steele
- WEC World Exihibition - Andre Renier
- Kwartzlab Society Incorporated - Andrew Mackie
- Cyberoptix Tie Lab - Bethany Shorb
- Underwater ROVs - Bill Grimm
- Mega Operation - Brian Adams
- Platform CNC - Brian Oltrogge
- Transcending Digital Exhibit Showcase - Charles Palen
- FIRST Robotic Team 3568 (Linden) - Christy Miller
- Kettering University Exhibit - Connie Hallwood
- The Great American Horn Machine - Dana Dolfi
- Echolalia Project - Dave Kadlitz
- Motorcycles, Sculpture, Functional Objects - Dozer Strangway
- Mini Leo - Dustin White
- Tri-3 - Eric Merrill
- Burping Packman - Erik Sanderson-Gull
- Henry Tschetter Brooms - Henry Tschetter
- The Early Engine Club - James Johnson
- Michigan Robot Club - James Ronald
- Lilacpop - Janna Bissett
- Paintings by Jason Gibner - Jason Gibner
- CraftSanity's Patchwork House Project - Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood
- 3x3x3 led cube arduino sheild kit - Joey Hudy
- Piko Piko Detroit - Justin Smith
- CougarBots Lego Grand Carousel and MORE - Kamilla Schulte
- The Girl who Plays with Fieros - Kathryn DiMaria
- Dress Green - Lauren Burger
- Wiebe (Menlo Innovations) - Lisamarie Babik
- Recycled Ko-Cart - Mac Johnson
- Lord Kelvin's Thunderstorm! - Matthew Gryczan
- Robot Fight Club - Matthew Switlik
- Mannequin Forest 2.0 - Micho Detronik /Kristine Diven
- Sass Up The Ordinary to TheExtraordinary - Mike Campbell
- 6Pack Interactive Laser display - Mike Gould
- LVL1 Rocketeers - Nathan Armentrout
- Brick Challenge Game Show - Nick Britsky
- Nicole Pangas Ceramics - Nicole Pangas
- Green Girl Scouts - Pam Graham
- Goodrich Martian Parade Vehicles - Patrick Major
- Plasma Speaker - Paul Faget
- Genesis Tea - Phylliss Johnaon
- Digital Clock Emporium - Randy Glenn
- Puzzle Circuits - Robert Borsuk
- Truncated Icosahedron - Robert Marshall
- Salt Labs, LLC - Robertta Lindeman
- Oraganic Raku - Scott Dulchavsky
- 4-H Tech Wizards - Scott Lakin
- Treat Dreams - Scott Moloney
- Obscure Analog Instruments - Thomas Malinowski
- LVL1 PPPRS Team - Tim Miller
- Recyclobot - Vic Miller
- Balloons 4 J, LLC - Werner Morgenstern
- Survival Bracelets - William Overland
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- Electic Mountain Rotten Apple Gang - Adam Kobetich
- nublabs & the Boston FabLab - Alec Resnick, Alex Hornstein
- Cool Glow Wii Mote Modification - Alex Hirschfeld, Isaac Hirschfeld
- Butterfly Dress - Alex Reeder
- The Down and Dirty of Green Cleaning - Amanda May
- Amy & Ariel Sparkle Labs DIY Electronics - Amy Parness, Ariel Churi
- Tiger Truck - Ben Gibson
- Maker Faire Information Booth - O'Reilly - Betsy Waliszewski
- You Rock - Bonnie Blue
- Ceiling Fan Sign - Buck Stein
- The Amazing Hancock Brothers - Charles R & John S Hancock
- Educators' Maker Faire - Chris Connors
- AustinEV - Austin Area Electric Vehicle Association - Christopher Robison
- IgnaFire Chocolates - Clara Serrano
- Collin Welsch - Collin Welsch
- Robotic Drum Set - Craig Newswanger
- Jake's Natural Fine Foods - David Levy
- Living With Fire - David Umlas
- Cranky and Plucky - Dominique Vyborny
- Dirty Dylan's Organic Greenscapes - Dylan Burress
- Diet Coke and Mentos Mega-Fountains - EepyBird
- Fleegal Farms Soaps and More - Elly Fleegal
- Operation Playmate - Eric Archer
- Zen Bend - Eric Wong
- Esmerelda Strange - Esmerelda Strange
- ZW2 - Gary Krysztopik
- Mechanical Confections - Gina Kamentsky
- Dallas Personal Robotics Group - Glenn Pipe
- Massage Me - Hannah Perner-Wilson
- Thunder Heart Bison - Hugh Fitzsimons
- Instructables - Instructables
- Art In A Nutshell - ismael cavazos
- Art of Texas - Jamie Rood
- 11:11 enterprises - Jamila Tazewell
- Pyrotechnics Meets Art - Jason Mika
- Zhi Tea - Jeffrey Lorien
- Lucy Blue Studio - Jenifer Bryan
- Glass Flamework with a Portable Setup - Jenine Bressner
- R/C Warship Combat - Jerry Ethridge
- Doodle Beast - Jessica Brown
- Airheads Air Drums - John Folaron
- Home made LED Sci-Fi Space Light Props, Robots, Models and VFX! - John P. Funk
- Bleep Labs - John-Michael Reed
- Crafty Chica - Kathy Cano-Murillo
- Black Light for Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable Identification - Katrina Koski
- Ararat Mid-East Fusion - Kelly Abshire
- Lit Up - Kris and Carly DeGraeve
- Loud Objects - Kunal Gupta, Katie Shima, Tristan Perich
- The Robot Group - Kym Graner
- Designs By Lanese - Lanese Bush
- Dragonfire Glass Blower - Larry West, Michael DeLeon
- Bark for Peace! - Lisa Knaggs
- Green DIY Extravaganza - Luke Iseman
- Life Size Mousetrap - Mark Perez
- Organ Pipe Cactus Pipe Organ - Marvin Niebuhr
- Laser Harp - Matt Mets
- Green Corn Project - Meagan O'Donnell
- Weavers and Spinners Society of Austin - Meg Wilson
- Sugar Tooth Bakery - Meghan Krasnoff
- Torchy's Tacos - Michael Rypka
- Knotty Bags - Michelle Olson
- Attic Journals - Michelle Sanders
- Refashioned Fashion Fashion Show - Mike Litt
- Howtoons - Nick Dragotta
- Micro RC Jousting - Nyssa Hughes
- Hungry Scientist Cryogenic Ice Cream - Patrick Buckley
- Groovy CNC! Making key chains and guitar picks from recycled LP's - Paul Atkinson, Vern Graner
- Electric Tall Bike - Peter Stanley
- Big Skull - Randy Jewart
- Stirling Engines - Rick Abbott
- Habitat For Bats Build it yourself Bat House - Robert Ball & Family
- MegaModel - Scott Specht
- The Planck - Seven Sexton
- Metal Brazing and Welding - Sharon Blackwell
- Cocoa Puro - Tom Pedersen
- Cluster Computing - Walter Yantis
- Digital Wheel Art - Young Hyun Chung
- Nogas / Ace Technologies
- Ecology Action of Texas
- Design Visionaries, Inc, YouGizmos.com
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- Online Metals
- TAP Plastics
- Parallax
- Bug Labs
- CraftSylish.com
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- Austin Chronicle
- Austinist
- Mellow Johnny's
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- The Incredible Marble Machine! - Aaron Geman
- Sonic Pong V4.0 - Andrew Milmoe
- String Theory - Autumn Wiggins
- Star Wars Crafts: Marble Magnets - Bonnie Burton
- Create Ribbon Straw Flowers on Vintage Flower Looms - Cathy Callahan
- Ezme Designs - Chanda Beck
- Subjugator and Manipulatrix - Christian Ristow
- petBots! - Christopher Myers
- Instructables.com - Christy Canida
- Toolmonger - Chuck Cage
- The Komegatone - Craig Dorety
- Kite Aerial Photography - Cris Benton
- The Long Now Foundation - The Clock of the Long Now and The Rosetta Project - Danielle Engleman, Alexander Rose, Laura Welcher, Chris Rand, Paolo Salvagione, Greg Staples
- Hydraulic Flight Simulator - David Simpson
- CalCars - Felix Kramer
- The Computer History Museum - Fiona Tang, Tim Robinson
- The Electric Giraffe - Frank Lawlor
- 1944 Schumugger - german water/land car
- Sei Boku Bonsai Kai Display - Gordon Deeg
- Mystery Phones - Greg MacLaurin
- Acme Muffineering - Greg Solberg
- The Skull: Ongoing Re-use and Movies - James Burget
- Robots & Designers Living Together in Harmony - Jeffrey McGrew, Jillian Northrup
- Gasifier Experimenters Kit / Escape from Berkeley Alt Fuel Race - Jim Mason
- TechShop - Jim Newton
- Puzzlemation - John Peterson
- Renga Arts - Josef Szuecs
- Exploratorium - Karen Wilkinson
- Lego Jeep - Kevin Mathieu
- Electric Western: Handbuilt Instruments of the High Mojave - Lorin Parker
- Contraptor Lounge - many
- SWARM - Marnia Johnston
- The Piano Liberado - Mauro Fortissimo
- A Schmahl Science Workshop - Meril Smith
- I.T. - Michael Christian
- Ride - Michael Cooper
- Lil Ju Ju Mobile Pinball Museum - Michael Schiess
- My Brain Machine - Mitch Altman
- Needle Felting Playground - Moxie, Brookelynn
- Onyx Ashanti: Live Laptop Beatjazz Performance - Onyx Ashanti
- Chronic Revelator - Philip Ross
- Educational Robotics - Playing at Learning
- The Redwood Waves - Reuben Margolin
- Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments - Robert Thompson
- Make-and-take Laser-cut Andon - Robyn Orr
- Making Jewelry - Sonya Nimri
- Fuzzy Logic - Star Simpson
- Diet Coke & Mentos - Eepybird - Stephen Voltz, Fritz Grobe, James Tardy
- Fashioning Technology: DIY Style - Syuzi Pakhchyan
- Whirlygig Emoto - Thomas Sepe
- Electronic Drum - Thomas Zimmerman
- RePlayGround - Tiffany Threadgould
- Team FredNet Is Going to the Moon - Wade Butcher
- The CandyFab Project - Windell Oskay
- Heads On Fire::Fab Lab - Xavier Leonard
- xtel: Ubiquitous Content Platform - Yuichiro Katsumoto
- Molly "Porkshanks" Friednich (Part of the Contraptor's Lounge, but she made the violin for Abney Park)
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- Singer Sewing Company
- SparkFun Electronics
- Sakura
- Adobe
- Disney
- Sun Microsystems
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- Austin Children's Museum - Becky Jones / Cybil Gustafson
- Ray Guns: Unique and Sophisticated - Bob Pennington
- Handmade Clothing: Serging and Sewing - Bonnie Martin-Hudson
- Warlord of Nibblecheese Pi–ata - Brian Anderson
- The Table of Gizmonic Contents - Brooks Coleman
- Spinners and Weavers - Carol Wyche, Eileen Thompson, Meg Wilson
- Hawgfly Productions, Inc. - Carolyn O'Hara, Meredith Johns
- Recycled Stationery - Chelsea Martinez
- Sock Skeletons - Claire Chauvin
- Blacksmithing and Live Tool Forging - Colin McIntyre
- Purl Drums - Corey Fogel
- Plastic Bag Koozies - Cristen Andrews
- Lighting with LEDs and More - Dan Goldwater
- Food Maker: Katz Coffee - David Alan
- Mechanical Flower - Denise Scioli and PY Hung
- Benderella's Toy Lab, A Circuit-Bending Work-Zone - Dr. Manda Clair Jost
- Ponginator / Robot Tower - Ed Xavier Gonzalez/The Robot Group
- Dia de los Muertos Skull - Edible Austin
- Flaming Halloween - Edwin Wise
- Diet Coke and Mentos Mega-Fountains - Eepybird.com (Stephen and Fritz)
- Jitterbox - Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
- PVC Recycling - George Sabra
- Texas Tarts - Jacky Sylvie
- Trampoline Sensor MK II - James Delaney/The Robot Group
- Amateur Ham Radio - Jeff Schmidt, Lori Schmidt, Lee Cooper
- Secret Tree - Ji Sun Lee, aichen lin
- Jack Sparx Electrical Toys - John Dyer
- Precision Thickness Sander: The Luthier's Friend - Ken Picou
- Robot with Paintbrushes Meets Girl with Scissors - Kris & Carly DeGraeve
- Refashioned Tie Dress - Malissa Long
- The Robot Group - Austin - many, many folks
- Inflatable Speakers - Marc Greenberg
- Life-Sized Mouse Trap - Mark Perez
- Mongo, the Trebuchet - Mark Winkler
- Edible AustinÕs Food Maker Pavilion - Marla Camp
- Screamin' Babyhead Band - Marvin Niebuhr aka Professor Conrad
- ARG: 0 - Nathaniel Eliot
- Junk Mail Art - Patricia Zapata
- Austin Green Art - Randy Jewart
- RAVolt - Rob Hirschfeld
- Zomadic Zomicile - Robert Bell
- Four-Player Tabletop MAME Cabinet - Robert Eckstein
- Handpainted Yarn in Microwave - Robin Pascal
- Designing Automata with CMT - Sarah Alexander
- The ChakrTron - scott gasparian
- Wire Sculpture - Seth Minor / Maker Faire Artist In Residence
- Solarbotics
- Epilog Laser
- Octopart Inc.
- Popular Science
- Duct Tape iPod Mini/Nano Cases - Stephanie Mallard
- ShopBot - Ted Hall
- Plexi-Class - Tonia Davenport
- Pleo - Ugobe
- CoolAzz Chiller - Victor Eller (and his daughter)
- Swap-O-Rama-Rama - Wendy Tremayne
