Show us what you’re made of
Are you a builder, tinkerer, artist, coder, or creator of any kind? Apply to present at Louisville Maker Faire 2026 and share your passion with thousands of curious minds. It’s free to participate — all we need is your creativity.
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Discover robots, rockets, art, inventions, and things you’ve never seen before, all built by local makers. Maker Faire is free, family-friendly, and full of hands-on fun for all ages. Just show up ready to explore on October 17 at the UofL Engineering Student Success and Research Building.
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Featured Makers
Blacksmithing Demo
All day blacksmithing demo done by Forged in Fire Champion, Collin Sage.
Unatronics Musical Instruments
I build electronic and electro-acoustic musical instruments. Stuff like drum machines, synthesizers, amplified and processed traditional folk instruments, and interesting sound experiments. Everything is some combination of handbuilt electronics, found objects, custom fabrication, and handpainting. I like to rescue special objects from the waste stream and give them a second life with a completely different purpose. For instance, I scavenge a lot of hardwoods from furniture that is being thrown away. My goal is give people an open-ended creative space that generally sounds good and look beautiful, but also allows a wide range of expression which can include the more extreme ends of audio processing/deconstruction and saturated psychedelia.
Identification of K-long meson in the Belle experiment
Long-lived neutral strange mesons (K-long) are identified by the energy deposits in the calorimeter (ECL) and the K-long and muon (KLM) detector in the Belle II experiment, which collects data from electron–positron collisions at center-of-mass energies near 10.58 GeV in Japan. However, photons, neutrons, and other neutral hadrons can also deposit energy in the ECL and KLM detectors. The reconstruction of K-long is challenging due to the lack of satisfactory models that can describe well their shower shape and energy deposition in the detectors as well as the limited resolution of the KLM detector. This will improve the efficiency of neutral-hadron reconstruction and enhance the physics reach of Belle II analyses involving missing energy and heavy flavor physics observables.
Sloppy Films Animation Station
Work with animator John Akre to create stop motion animation with the Sloppy Films Animation Station. He will have paper and scissors to use to create shapes that can be transformed and moved through the awesome powers of animation!
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Louisville Maker Faire brings together thousands of curious minds, from kids and parents to inventors and industry pros. Sponsoring the Faire is a unique way to support local creativity, innovation, and education. Check out our sponsor tiers or reach out to explore how your organization can get involved.
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