Month: May 2011

Maker Faire Day One

Maker Faire Day One

The gates have just closed on the first day of Maker Faire. And man is our everything tired. It was an amazing first day, with gorgeous sunny skies, throngs of the curious and creatively-dressed, and some thousand makers enthusiastically chattering away about their clever creations. Here are a few highlights, taken from Maker Faire Daily: […]

Steve Davee: Tinker Teacher

Steve Davee is a curious person who helps cultivate more curiosity in the students he works with. He’s a Science & Math Teacher and Technology/ Documentation Specialist for Opal School and The Center for Childrenโ€™s Learning of the Portland Childrenโ€™s Museum. He is the founder of CoLab, which provides tinkering camps and workshops in Portland, Oregon.

Young Makers

How can we give more kids the opportunity to make things and bring them to exhibit at Maker Faire? That was the question asked first by Tony DeRose of Pixar, who realized how much he and his family enjoyed working on a project and exhibiting it at Maker Faire and wanted to help provide a similar opportunity for others.

Autism Initiative Announced at Maker Faire

Autism Initiative Announced at Maker Faire

Today, on the Center Stage at Maker Faire, Phil McKinney, CTO of HP’s Personal Systems Group, announced Hacking Autism, a social initiative for advancing and making accessible technologies to tackle the challenges that people with autism face every day. At the Faire, Phil will be encouraging software developers to join their team. This announcement ties […]

Blipboard at Maker Faire

Blipboard at Maker Faire

Blipboard is a geo-location social app. The Blipboard team has developed a nifty custom Blipboard sub-domain for Maker Faire. It’s a wonderful way of finding events and people at the Faire, based on your tagged interests and areas of the Faire where you’ve “checked in.” There’s also a schedule of events in the app and […]