At Maker Faire, there are always opportunities for “fangirl” moments. Celebrities like Mike Rowe and Adam Savage will be around this weekend, but my big fangirl moment came yesterday when I stumbled in to Sylvia of Sylvia’s Super Make Show. If you haven’t seen Sylvia’s videos before, take a moment to go watch them. She’s […]
Mark Frauenfelder walks along the 10 o’clock line at Maker Faire, moments before the gates open.
Our tenth Maker Faire production is about to begin! We’re beyond excited. We think this one looks to be epic.
The Craft team is (mostly) united here in San Mateo for Maker Faire, putting the last touches on everything before the doors open to the public this morning. Here’s a photo Diane took of the demo area in Expo Hall last night; doesn’t it look so peaceful and serene? Not for long! The fun starts […]
At MAKE, we’ve featured our fair share of skid-based projects, but I really like this particularly green pallet project by Fern at Life on the Balcony. She created an excellent and detailed step-by-step guide on how to turn a pallet into a vertical garden. [via Recyclart] More: Garden pallet work table Pallet-based compost bin Pallet […]
ITP, a graduate program located in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, explores “the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives.” ITP is running its second summer camp, a blending of an unconference and artist residency: Conferences like TED leave people energized, full […]
For a long time now, MAKE has wanted to find some way to publicly acknowledge companies that have responded in a positive way to the growing influence of maker/hacker culture. In 2006, we published The Makerโs Bill of Rights, and since then we have often been involved in exposing and lampooning particularly egregious affronts to the principles of open access to technology that it embodies.
