This has got to be one of the busiest exhibits for kids at Maker Faire this year. There’s just so much fun stuff going on: make a popsicle house and see how it holds up to earthquakes on various soils; give their spin art machines a whirl; and check out the go kart garage. They’ve […]
Our friends at Youth Radio sent us this fun video and sound piece they did. They walked around, sampling the sounds of the Faire, and then they laid down a scratch beat. It’s so cool to see people “processing” the Faire in so many unique and creative ways. Youth Radio writes: At a time of […]
This mechanical binary computer is a giant calculator powered by 8 balls and Evil Mad Scientists.
Here’s a potential game-changer: a two-wheeled, in-line motorcycle that won’t tip over, even if you try to knock it down. The team at Lit Motors envisions a world where nobody’s afraid to ride motorcycles because they’re as safe and intuitive as climbing into a car. At Maker Faire they’re showing off a prototype electric bike […]
The team at Spinbots is offering young makers the opportunity to create easily reconfigurable marker bots that teach the principles of design in a super fun hands-on way. While I was there, one young boy modded his bot to only have two marker legs, and everyone looked on in wonder at the cool design his […]
MakerBot’s Robot Petting Zoo shows that 3D printing enables you to design and engineer things much more interesting than some of the standard Hello World tchotchke. This collection of Arduino-controlled 3d printed robots was a big hit.
Patrick Hood-Daniel was designing and hand assembling surface mounted circuit boards for his CNC machines at buildyourcnc.com. Working with those little tweezers gets old pretty quick; it seems only natural that he would design a pick and place machine to replace him and supplement his line of DIY machines.
