Dublin Mini Maker Faire This Weekend!

3D Printing & Imaging Arduino Craft & Design Music
Dublin Mini Maker Faire This Weekend!

Screen Shot 2013-07-25 at 1.30.57 PM
Dublin, Ireland’s second Mini Maker Faire is set for Saturday, July 27. Last year’s event drew 5,500 attendees and 35 maker exhibits. This year’s free event promises to be bigger with even more makers. In particular, there’s been a jump in the number of fabrication makers who will be showing off everything from homemade CNC machines to 3D scanning booths.

GiantArduino
TOG’s jumbo-sized Arduino.

The fair takes place on the hallowed grounds of Trinity College. Highlights include learning to hack with the Dublin hackerspace TOG, getting your Riverdance on with electronic tap dancing shoes, and scratching old audio cassettes on a giant turntable.

A robotic arm designed by Dalriada School’s robotics club:

YouTube player

TOG will be showing off their giant Arduino board. The Maynooth Maker’s Club will let loose a sumo competition robot and invite fair goers to enter a sensor glove-driven virtual world. Dalriada School’s robotics club will exhibit an educational robotic kit based on Raspberry Pi while sculptor Donnacha Cahill will create a spectacle by combining hot metal forging with art and craft. And that’s just for starters. Come to faire to see it all.

[make_road_to_maker_faire]

Discuss this article with the rest of the community on our Discord server!
Tagged

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

View more articles by Stett Holbrook

ADVERTISEMENT

Maker Faire Bay Area 2023 - Mare Island, CA

Escape to an island of imagination + innovation as Maker Faire Bay Area returns for its 15th iteration!

Buy Tickets today! SAVE 15% and lock-in your preferred date(s).

FEEDBACK