Exhibition at Open Sauce Science Festival Showcases more than 500 DIY Projects
The Open Sauce festival, a California event founded by YouTuber and engineer William Osman, recently took place, bringing together a community of inventors, makers, and 150 YouTube creators. This science fair for grown-ups showcased over 500 unconventional technology projects, ranging from combat robotics to 3D printed musical instruments.
The purpose of Open Sauce is to celebrate creative engineering and maker culture by blending traditional engineering skills with unconventional creativity. The festival highlights experimentation, DIY technology, and turning wild ideas into reality while fostering a collaborative community around innovation.
One of the highlights of this year's event was the showcase of Elegoo's upcoming 16K resin printer, the Jupiter 2, featuring a 14-inch LCD screen. Other exhibitors at Open Sauce were showcasing projects to launch businesses, such as Swaim's Kit of Plants Kickstarter.
The festival offered hands-on exhibits, live demos, and community connection. Jeff Geerling shared a vlog about Open Sauce on his second channel, Level 2 Jeff. Rob Cockerham demonstrated a script that prints a name on a 3D printer in about 46 seconds, using a stock 2016 Creality CR10. Bobby Duke Arts displayed a 3D printed dragon skeleton at the Creator Museum, created using a handheld 3D pen and sanded down with a Dremel tool.
Several well-known 3D printing YouTubers were at the event, including CNC Kitchen's Stefan Hermann, Made with Layer's Thomas Sanladerer, and the 3D Printing Nerd. Ben Heath and his father showcased 3D printed brass instruments, including bugles, a natural horn, and a trombone, at Open Sauce. The instruments were printed in segments on a Creality Ender 3 using PLA, then glued together and sealed with epoxy to make them airtight.
Alex Corea presented a 500% replica of a 16-inch Alienware X16 laptop, made with 3D printing, at Open Sauce. The laptop features a fully functional trackpad, wireless mouse, and 77-inch screen. A local branch of Precious Plastic, a worldwide plastic recycling community, demonstrated their technique of shredding, melting down, and injection molding plastic into products at Open Sauce.
Open Sauce is a place for makers to experiment with their projects without worrying about polish or professionalism. The festival's inclusive, collaborative spirit grew out of early YouTube community culture, with Osman emphasizing the festival's roots in bringing together people with weird and creative hobbies who want to share and learn from each other.
Osman believes that Open Sauce helps show people, especially kids, that science and engineering are accessible and fun. The festival's live-streamed and recorded presentations through a streaming service called Sauce, offer on-demand playback, ensuring that the spirit of innovation and creativity reaches a wider audience.
- At the Open Sauce festival, science is showcased through unconventional technology projects, merging traditional engineering skills with creativity, such as combat robotics, 3D printed musical instruments, and the display of the Elegoo Jupiter 2 resin printer.
- The festival, blending entertainment with innovation, features live demos, hands-on exhibits, and collaborative community connections, including well-known 3D printing YouTubers, like the 3D Printing Nerd, CNC Kitchen's Stefan Hermann, and Made with Layer's Thomas Sanladerer, showcasing their work in lifestyle-related fields, like 3D printing brass instruments and preparing presentations on a streaming service called Sauce.
