We’ve got a vast array of makers to engage with, fun exhibits, and hands on workshops catering for everyone!
Exhibits

Liquid Fire
Liquid Fire is an experimental collective of a scientific glassblower and a contraption maker. We will present live glassblowing on a bench burner and a lego based rope making machine.

Made Invaders
MadeInvaders is a a live action computer game. 30 seconds of structured panic, as the players try to load nerf blasters, and hit the lighted targets as much as possible to see how many points they can score. Bragging rights for the day are on offer to the most successful player(s)!

PiBash
Pi Bash is a digital high striker machine. Hit the striker with a mallet and see the LEDs light to show your strength. If you hit it hard enough to light all of the LEDs the bell will ring.

The Cassandra Complex
Cassandra is an interactive, electronic fortune teller machine.

UK R2 Builders Club
The UK R2 Builders Club The UK R2 Builders Club is a group of dedicated Star War fans with a passion for building replica R2-D2s or other R2 units from the film series including R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6.

WEEDINATOR
Autonomous tractor guided by GNSS and radar for planting, cultivating and weeding beds of vegetables on a farm scale.

West Lancashire Lacemakers
We are delighted to be back at the Liverpool Makefest and can’t wait for the day! We will have an exhibition of lace made by our members, and some small items for sale – bookmarks, Christmas decorations etc. We will also have a ‘practice pillow’ for you to try your hand at making lace – […]

Yarnbombing Central
We are a collection of groups who are interested in making art and spreading happiness using yarn.
Cosy Conference
This year we have a conference area led by two local maker culture supporters, Ignite Liverpool, and Awesome Liverpool. It’s situated after the atrium on the ground floor in the Read zone and before the Imagine zone.
In addition to talks and panels through the day, Awesome are holding their regular pitch and gift award at the cosy conference.
If you want to apply to either of these organisations please check out the link.

Awesome Liverpool Gift Pitches
Every month, Awesome Liverpool gives away £500 to kick start an awesome project. At Make Fest we will have the pitches for this prize in public on the ground floor conference area!

Ignite
Ignite showcases Liverpool’s movers and shakers, creators, thinkers, tinkers, innovators and doers, makers and dreamers in a fast paced format designed to inspire.
Business Advice

Gary Millar
Gary Millar is running a special business advice desk at Makefest on the ground floor from 11am for any makers and creatives who would like some business or intellectual property advice.
FREE workshops
These workshops are supported by makers in most cases you’ll have something to take away with you!

Edge Hill University Geek Squad
Lights, Motors, Action! Children Coding the Future

FACTives
// Lasercut a Magic Detector // // Brand your campaign for the future world of work // // Respond to your ecology with IOT //

Introduction to eTextiles
A simple free workshop teaching people to bond or stitch an etextile circuit to light an LED with a coin battery. This will be done as a bracelet or a fabric sample and people can take away their finished work.

Invent Things with The Foundation for Digital Creativity
Come along and invent with smart sensors to create your own creative lantern project. You’ll be driving your own candle light with environmental data collected from Liverpool Central Library.

Little Sandbox
Little Sandbox is a tech club for kids based in Liverpool. We’ll be bringing some examples of work our members have made including robots and video games.

Lois Tierney Illustration
In this workshop, I will be instructing people to create their own sign/placard with LGBT+ positive phrases in order to spread love and awareness of the LGBT+ community.

PatternCraft
PatternCraft is an analogue to digital punchcard reader that teaches the fundamentals of computer programs. Using the write once medium of a punchcard participants will plan and create builds in Minecraft before exploring binary to write messages on screen.

RaspiKidd presents the Quick reaction game with EduBlocks
Participants will be shown how to make and code a quick reaction game. To create the game we will be building a simple electronic circuit consisting of a breadboard an LED and two buttons, this will be powered using a raspberry pi and EduBlocks code

Urban Workbench
Urban Workbench is a We Make Places project which invites local people to develop skills in basic joinery, DIY, furniture making, upcycling and construction, whilst growing their capacity to contribute to positive social activism.
Paid workshops
Makers running these workshops ask for some pounds to cover the cost of materials. In most cases you’ll have something to take home with you.

Girls With Drills
#girlswithdrills brings all the tools you need for beginner woodworking. Build your confidence using a drill and take home hand crafted bookends. If you have any old, plastic and hollow toys, bring them along to cut in half to personalise your bookends.

Making pallet coasters with UCRAFT
Using a premade jig to build your very own pallet coaster, for really heavy mugs of tea! For beginners, any age, as long as under 14’s have a responsible adult with them.

Mako
MakoEducation’s Code-A-Drone workshop shows participants the power of coding in a fun and creative (and safe) environment.

The Red Button Press
Letterpress printing – How things were printed before computers took over the world!

Urban Workbench
Urban Workbench is a We Make Places project which invites local people to develop skills in basic joinery, DIY, furniture making, upcycling and construction, whilst growing their capacity to contribute to positive social activism.

Western Spiral Art
Western Spiral Art will be bringing a magical making experience to this year’s Makefest with handmade magic wands, flowers and house scarves for you to decorate and personalise !! We specialise in Sci-Fi and Fantasy-inspired workshops and project ideas, focusing on creativity, sparkles and imagination. All children must be supervised by a responsible adult at […]
Makers
The main show and tell is fronted by makers keen to meet you and talk about their projects and businesses. Come and see what they’ve got on display there’s something here for everyone, you’ll find freebies and also be able to buy unique pieces or components for yourself!

3D printing chocolate and prosthetics
3D printing in a range of materials and using a range of methods!

ABX Labs – what do you want to make?
” Cool Components and Boards…” Making cool stuff is easy (and cheap) if you know where to get the bits!

Analogue Adventures with Little Vintage Photography
Little Vintage Photography combines STEM subjects & creativity using traditional photographic techniques. Come and have a go at making a sunprint bookmark or pick up an ‘Analogue Adventures’ kit, containing lots of awesomeness to get you started in handmade photography.

Awesome Liverpool Gift Pitches
Every month, Awesome Liverpool gives away £500 to kick start an awesome project. At Make Fest we will have the pitches for this prize in public on the ground floor conference area!

Behind-the-scenes @ MakeFest
wehearttech C.I.C. will be working with a group of budding young media producers to create a behind-the-scenes documentary at this year’s Liverpool MakeFest. They’ll be snapping up pics of all the action, filming the day’s activities and capturing some impromptu interviews with makers, organisers and attendees throughout the day and editing these together into a […]

Beloved Dream Shawls
Liverpool Artist Clare Beloved has created these stunning silk shawls digitally printed with her colourful magical goddess paintings.

Colorfull – Facepainting
Hello, I am Carmen, a fully qualified and experienced face painter adopting best practices!

CPC- Electronics
What are you going to make?

Crafted by Norma
Just a quick introduction to myself and my work. I am able to combine a genuine passion for traditional, old school engineering with the love of upcycling, and in doing so have created a range of Steampunk, Victoriana inspiredproducts and industrial lighting. By repurposing and redesigning unwanted items that would have been heading for landfill […]

Dark Water Treasure Hunt
We’ve tracked down Brown Bart’s sunken pirate ship to xmark bay and have deployed 6 sensors to pinpoint the location. Find and activate each sensor and see if you can help us find the lost ship.

Dee Wood Jewellery
Titanium, copper and sterling silver jewellery, incorporating semi-precious stones, handmade using traditional jewellers’ skills.

DoES Liverpool – Co-working, workshop and event space
DoES is a co-working, workshop and event space in the heart of Liverpool.

Electric Flapjack Guitars
When traditional guitar building meets modern digital fabrication – come see how one guitar builder is trying to take the best of both worlds to create new musical instruments. @EFGuitars http://instagram.com/electricflapjack

Fab Lab Liverpool
The Digital Fabrication Laboratory is a physical space located in the School of Art and Design at LJMU and provides access for students, staff and partners to the tools and knowledge to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make almost anything

Glass Heart Creative
Glass heart creative is an artisan stained glass business that provides a quality service in unique stained glass products. We make beautiful home ware ranging from guitar lights to quirky one off jewelry. Activity: Sales

Hacman (Manchester Hackspace)
HACMan is an arts, science and technology club. We run a member-driven community workshop in Manchester

InnovateHer
e are a small team based in Liverpool, you may know us as the leaders of Liverpool Girl Geeks. We’re on a mission to decrease the gender imbalance in tech. We have set up InnovateHer to help us achieve this mission.

J&R Agency
Founded in 2018, J&R empowers small businesses to think bigger.

Little Pink Maker – Biohacker
Biohacking is about making people aware of new ideas and technology within biology. Material research is inspired by biology and maker culture.

Liverpool and Wirral Code Clubs
Come and have-a-go at a range of our Code Club projects. Help co-create an epic Scratch platform game, make your own HTML robot, get physical with BBC microbit badges and much more. Liverpool Code Clubs and Wirral Code Clubs are a series of fun, free volunteer-led library sessions for kids aged 8 – 13 where […]

Liverpool Astronomical Society
Sic Itur Ad Astra – Thus The Way To The Stars…

Liverpool Book Art
Liverpool Book Art organises exhibitions, fairs and other activities related to artists’ books.

Low-cost Motion Capture for Film
Performance Capture for Film This exhibit will show you how a bike helmet, six 50p cameras, a few USB cables, a bit of eyeliner, some used computer components, and a few scraps of metal and other odds and ends can be put together to make a working performance capture system

Make Liverpool
Make Liverpool CIC will be showcasing and demonstrating their amazing array of classes and activities. Look out for master-craftsman, Keith, on the pole lathe. During the day he will be showing people how to carve patterns into wood, in spectacular fashion. While you’re there make sure to check out what else you can learn at […]

micro:bit madness
Learn how we can use the micro:bit to create dazzling light shows, animations and games.

Neston High School Makerspace
Neston High Makerspace is a makerspace within a state school at Neston High School. Showcasing our injection-moulder from old milk bottles! We have embedded a maker education into the Neston High School curriculum across KS3, 4 and 5 and run popular extra-curriculum clubs after school to promote this even further. We believe in providing students […]

North Wales Tech
North Wales Tech is a volunteer driven Technology and Developer Community for North Wales. We’re a bunch of like-minded people with an interest in all things Science, Technology, Engineering and Making. From professional developers and engineers to teachers, lecturers and students to enthusiasts and hobbyists, everyone is welcome. We run free monthly events that range from […]

Novoda’s Dungeon Adventure Game
Novoda’s dungeon adventure game in an Android Things based 1D adventure game for kids to play.

Phantom Chips
Phantom Chips is an artist, maker, performer and educator who creates a variety of experimental electronic instruments. She creates tactile instruments that control sound through touch and movement.

Quantum Technology Club
Young or old, whoever you are, if you have a technology interest then Quantum will help you share it. Young people (9 – 16) have code club where they can explore the likes of computer coding, electronics, wireless technologies and web design. They even get help from the senior section to give them experience in […]

Roberts Workshop
Make hand made toys for children to explore STEM in a practical way .Our kits are all our original designs and work with key stage 2,3,4,5 and SEN.We also make the ROB BOT a crumble programmable robot.

Spark Penketh
@SparkPenketh is the UK’s first makerspace within a state school at Penketh High School weaving maker education into our curriculum. We believe in providing students with diverse, rich learning environments.
The EduBlocks Project
EduBlocks is a companion to introduce Physical Computing and has been designed as an easy pathway to electronics and coding for children aged 7 and above.

The Nerdy Gift Company
Designs made my Nerds for nerds! We print products such as t-shirts and bags which are inspired by all things nerdy!

Urban Workbench
Urban Workbench is a We Make Places project which invites local people to develop skills in basic joinery, DIY, furniture making, upcycling and construction, whilst growing their capacity to contribute to positive social activism.

Visnos Mathematics
The name Visnos comes from visual numbers.