Call for Makers are open and active for over 20 Maker Faires around the globe. A good number are being organized by science and children’s museums, often in collaboration with local makers or makerspaces. Jerusalem Mini Maker Faire (March 18/19) and Tyler Mini Maker Faire (March 23) are two examples.
Hackerspace happenings for December 6th, 2012.
Eric Pan, the founder and CEO of Seeed Technology and co-founder of Chaihuo makerspace, describes himself an Open Source Hardware Facilitato. Not surprising, then, that he’s the person behind the first Maker Faire in China, this Saturday’s Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire.
A “crowdmap” of technology hubs and hackerspaces on the African continent.
Austrailia’s very first Maker Faire is happening next Saturday, January 14th, at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.
Recently, I’ve had a chance to meet up with some of the people active in MakeIt Labs in Nashua, NH. This relatively new hackerspace was created a bit more than a year ago, and has undergone some happy changes. Over the summer, I carved out a bit of time to visit their new digs while at a three day workshop for teachers at UMass Lowell.
It’s been exciting to meet members of MakeIt Labs at the Cambridge and Rhode Island Mini Maker Faires, and see their projects shared with people at World Maker Faire where I chose them for an Editors’ Choice award.
In April, I visited the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh and met with Executive Director Jane Werner and her staff. They were excited to show me their MakeShop, a place inside the museum where anyone can make something. Jane told me that the museum serves families and we talked about how it was important to connect not just with kids but also their parents and grandparents. This is how we get making re-introduced into the home.
