Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She works on stage content for the flagship fairs (Bay Area & New York), and also runs Maker Faire's global licensing program for locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA.
Last weekend the second annual Maker Faire KC took place at Union Station, Kansas City’s 1914 beaux-arts train station. The grandeur of the Union Station is hard to resist, but of course it really was the makers of the Midwest who made Maker Faire KC such a special event.
According to organizers Luis Rodriguez and Joy Torchia, the fair attendance doubled from last year to 10,000+, and the number of makers also doubled, to 230. The fair’s exhibits truly mapped across the Maker Faire range, from deep craft through robotics to auto hacks. Noted exceptions to the rule were no bikes (?!), but an evident and exceptionally strong 3D printing community.
I’ve uploaded a survey of exhibits and makers here on the MAKE Flickr pool, but before going to the swath of pics, here’s a look at a few standout makers that had great stories and fun projects:
Kudos to ALL the makers who showed up at Maker Faire Kansas City, demonstrating to the globe that creativity is not a byproduct of coastline geography. For more pics, see my Flickr feed as well as Maker Faire KC on Facebook. See you in 2013!
10 thoughts on “Maker Faire Kansas City 2012 Highlights”
some random humansays:
Is that a Gatling gun in the background of the last pic?
jbookoutsays:
The Gatling gun is part of War Machine’s costume there’s a speaker built into the rocket launcher on the other shoulder…
Drew Fustini (@pdp7)says:
Great post – last weekend was terrific!
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Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She works on stage content for the flagship fairs (Bay Area & New York), and also runs Maker Faire's global licensing program for locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA.
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Is that a Gatling gun in the background of the last pic?
The Gatling gun is part of War Machine’s costume there’s a speaker built into the rocket launcher on the other shoulder…
Great post – last weekend was terrific!
[…] autunno caldo vi suggeriamo di dare un’occhiata a questo progetto visto all’ultima Maker Faire di Kansas […]
[…] recently took a bunch of these posters to Maker Faire Kansas City, and they were VERY well-received. (It was pointed out to me that there isn’t a lot of […]