Coming up this afternoon at 2pm in the CRAFT booth, will be kids craft time featuring Star Wars Paper Bag Puppets with Bonnie Burton and Terri Hodges. Here’s Bonnie with a few of her crafty paper bag friends! Be sure to follow @craft on Twitter to get the most up to date of what’s happening […]
One of my favorite aspects of Maker Faire is always the wild, whimsical, and inspiring vehicles on display, or merrily making their way throughout the grounds. Here’s a small sampling of photos taken by my son, Blake Maloof, this morning, before the crowds descended. [Thanks, Blake!]
Adam Savage speaking at last year’s Maker Faire. Our friends at FORA.tv are streaming all of the sessions on the Maker Faire Center Stage this weekend. We’re excited that, this year, the maker community who can’t be at the Faire can still catch many of the great speakers and sessions we have! Adam Savage will […]
Daniel Wyllie L. Rodrigues of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created a series of beautiful cut-paper sculptures using what he calls “polyflaptiles”. Daniel, who holds a PhD in Design Science from the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), packs his Flickr page full of cool geometric papercraft projects including these excellent nested rhombic dodecahedrons I […]
This is the Saga FV-Style Electric Guitar kit in mid-build. John Park put one together in the Maker Shed at Maker Faire (with stringing/tuning by the Shed’s resident shredder Rob Bullington). It’s a beautiful guitar, and an easy build. Come check it out this weekend at the Faire!
One of the group installations coming to this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, is M.T. Pockets Traveling Midway of Curiosities and Delights. A nostalgic throw-back to carnivals of old, this exhibit is a self-contained window into yesteryear, when the carnival would roll into […]
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship has been successfully installed and is “standing by,” ready for the 2010 Makers Faire weekend. Our gantry tower has been erected and the explosive bolts on the escape hatch are armed! We are all systems go…! The RGR is more than just a shiny outer hull… and so we wanted to […]
