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.
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Gareth blogged about Sashimi Tabernacle Choir a while back; seeing it in Austin was wonderful! I don’t know what it says about me that, if I had the time, I could have watched this ridiculous thing for an hour, but it made me deliriously happy. My video doesn’t do it justice – if you ever […]
This was one of the most charming projects I saw at Maker Faire, Nyssa’s little micro RC jousters. Such a simple idea, a great project for kids, and one of those things that starts you thinking about other things to do with your tiny RC cars. You could make lots of papercraft skins, have a […]
[Photos by Lenore, EMS Labs] There’s a saying that I like, that I’ve used in several instances (such as in the intro to the Maker’s Notebook): “Keep modeling difference.” In cybernetics, difference is information (information is “news of difference”). Difference is change, difference is an antidote to stasis, difference is where learning takes place. Last […]
The Simple Sisters have a list of 9 Simple Reasons Why MakerFaire Made Our Weekend. Check out the link for the complete list. Thanks! What do you call a person who spends 90% of their time and expendable income building a battlebot? Or how about a harp made of lasers, or tesla coil electronic music? […]
I spotted this different take on a vertical-axis wind turbine at Maker Faire Austin last weekend: I haven’t found any further documentation on Rusty Forbes’ design online, but the Makers’ site claims this will work in winds from 5 to 90 miles per hour. Any takers to try and document building one? Also, check out […]
Spotted at Maker Faire, Peter Stanley’s electric tall bike may be my favorite vehicle of any kind: You can’t tell from the video that there’s no throttle: just an on-off switch. Because adding a motor to a tallbike wasn’t dangerous enough;)
On Sunday afternoon at Maker Faire Austin, the lights went out. All power was lost in one whole area of the fairgrounds. It turned out that a dome tent from the camping area had taken flight in a dust devil and crashed into the power lines. Fernando Rizo got a couple of great shots of […]
