Maker Faire Africa Flickr pool
Maker Faire Africa flickr pool
Maker Faire
Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth — a family-friendly festival of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the maker movement.
Part science fair, part county fair, and part something entirely new, Maker Faire is an all-ages gathering of tech enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, engineers, science clubs, authors, artists, students, and commercial exhibitors. All of these people come to Maker Faire to show what they have made and to share what they have learned.
Explore below to see the best of Maker Faire, and head to makerfaire.com for more information.
Maker Faire Rhode Island
www.makerfaireri.com My first visit to Rhode Island was in 1990. I vividly remember getting off I-95 at the downtown Providence exit and being confronted by a multi-story pile of dirt at the end of the ramp. I became lost as I wandered beneath the highway overpasses, challenged to find the heart of the city. After […]
Maker Faire Africa update
So you couldn’t get a visa to Ghana, misplaced your tickets to Accra, didn’t have an up-to-date yellow fever shot or for some other reason couldn’t make it to Maker Faire Africa…Well lose that sad face, the feed is just beginning. It always seems that during amazing events like Maker Faire, the online coverage doesn’t […]
Mini Maker Faire Summer Series
MAKE’s most wonderful editorial assistant, Laura Cochrane, has been helping us host a series of Mini Maker Faires this summer. Here she files a little report about last weekend’s event, held at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma, CA. The video was shot by Brian Rawson for Copperfield’s. – Gareth Last Saturday, I helped out at the […]
The boy who harnessed the wind
Here’s a charming, inspiring little intro to the documentary about William Kamkwamba, the Malawian teen who got a book out of the library on windmills (which had pictures of the them, but no tech details) and figured out how to build his own to bring electrical power to his family. William will be participating in […]
MultiMachine at Maker Faire Africa
We’ve posted about the MultiMachine before, an open source, all-purpose machine shop uber-tool, designed with the developing world in mind. Pat Delany, the 74-year-old designer of the MultiMachine, is hoping to make it to Maker Faire Africa to demo the device. There’s a piece on the MFA Blog offering a vision of what the MultiMachine […]
CRAFT at Maker Faire: Talking Star Wars Crafts
CRAFT caught up with Bonnie Burton of StarWars.com and Terri Hodges about their Star Wars kids craft projects at Maker Faire.