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.
Things are going great guns at the fairgrounds and the excitement is palpable. It promises to be an off-the-hook weekend, maybe even several hooks! If you’re coming to the Faire, to make sure your travels to and from are not *too* exciting, before you head out, make sure to check the travel info on the […]
Last night, a bunch of the MAKE team went to San Francisco to put on a little Maker Faire preview for attendees of the Google I/O conference at the Mascone Center. Besides MAKE/Make: Online, and Maker Shed, there were folks there from adafruit industries, Instructables, Evil Mad Scientist Labs, Sternlabs, Cyclcide, and more. We had […]
Swap-O-Rama-Rama is hosting a much-anticipated Remake Fashion Show at Maker Faire Bay Area this Saturday, May 30th, at 4:45 p.m. on the Cypress Stage. I can’t wait! The fabulous Miss Velvet Cream (her designs in the image above) sent me a list of featured designers and a little info about them each that I want […]
Check out the full schedule of presentations and demos for this weekend’s Maker Faire. I’m happy to have such a wide range of speakers on a variety of topics. There are three stages: Stage A is in Fiesta Hall used for short talks; Stage B is a smaller stage in Fiesta for workshops; Stage C […]
In our Spy Tech issue of MAKE, Volume 16, artist and concept designer Greg MacLaurin showed us how to make a Ghost Phone (of the Judy Garland persuasion). Ghost Phones are “interactive modifications of the ancient and nearly arcane dial telephone system.” By hiding an MP3 player inside a telephone, you can have a one-sided […]
One of my fave found-object artists/kinetic sculptors, Nemo Gould, is going to be at Maker Faire again this year. He’ll be there as part of the Applied Kinetic Arts group which also includes Benjamin Cowden, Jonathan Foote, Carl Pisaturo, Kal Spelletich, Greg Brotherton, Christopher T Palmer, Alan Rorie, Mark Galt, and Reuben Margolin. This is […]
Over at the Mother Ship, they’re having a drawing. Send a picture of your DIY project, any DIY project, and the randomly-chosen winner will receive 2 full adult weekend passes to Maker Faire. County of San Mateo Declares May 30th & 31st Maker’s Weekend
