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.
MAKE is a proud sponsor of Whiplash, Whipup.net’s weekly craft challenge that will happen over the next six weeks. This week’s challenge theme is Everyday Creativity. From the site, “Entries will be judged on 3 main criteria – skill, humour and originality – you must illustrate the strengths of your project using only 3 images […]
Joe Grand is like a kit building robot, made out of meat. Maker Faire is almost upon us — April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re just 9 days away from what is shaping up to be one of the most original and entertaining event of the year […]
Gever writes – “Back for it’s second year, the group that built a rollercoaster in two days is accepting applications for the summer sessions. This year we are offering two weeks of barely controlled chaos for kids ages 7 to 17 – call it tinkering, call it materials hacking, or call it “fooling around like […]
Graffiti Research Lab workshops at Maker Faire – “Come to the Graffiti Research Lab workshops at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. We will be working with visitors on the creation of a giant bus mural while running workshops on making LED Throwies and Electro-Graphs.” – Link. Maker Faire! – Link.
Ok FlickrMakers – a few of you emailed us and asked about “what to tag” your photos with at Maker Faire – we’re going with makerfaire and makerfaire2006 – tag away! Tags / makerfaire – Link. Tags / makerfaire2006 – Link. Pictured here, the making of the LED dining room table that will make an […]
Here’s a little Maker Faire preview – “This workshop is a great introduction to microcontroller electronics. In this workshop, you will learn to solder and a little bit about microcontrollers when you build a MiniPOV kit. This kit is a simple “persistance of vision” toy, similar in theory to the “fanatzien clocks” you’ve probably seen. […]
Here are some production versions of the Maker Faire PCBs – the raw and assembled boards from Joe Grand. Drop in and meet Joe Grand, hacker extraordinaire. In this open lab, he will show you some of the things he’s working on, including a new circuit board kit that will allow you to create your […]
