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.
Karen Diggs’ company Kraut Source sells kits that allow you to explore the fermentation process with any produce you can think of. The fermentation process utilizes a salt brine, which differs from the pickling process in that it generates probiotics. In turn, the probiotics allow you to ingest good bacteria that aid in your digestive […]
In Mole-a-Whack, the mole whacks you.
Through a U.S. manufacturing partnership with Adafruit and the launch of a new global sister brand called Genuino, Arduino.cc today announces a couple of big moves that address the manufacturing challenges that have emerged for the company over the past few months. Much of 2015 has seen the open-source board maker defending itself from its […]
Today at Maker Faire Sam Ortega — the Program Manager of NASA’s Centennial Challenges Program — announced a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3D printed habitat intended for deep space exploration.
At most concerts, audience interaction is usually limited to cheering and listening. Here at Maker Faire, we get to see the crowd involved much, much more. The KaLEDoscope, designed by Grant Davis, is a mixture of a kaleidoscope and a camera that gets projected on the massive screen behind the stage. It is really fun to […]
For the first time ever, Maker Faire Bay Area started on Friday this year, and it was fantastic — hundreds of makers showing their stuff for thousands of lucky kids. Check out the photo gallery here for just a small preview of what you’ll see this weekend at Maker Faire. We call it Friday@MakerFaire, with […]
We talk to Jason Krinder about the new Beaglebone board, the Beaglebone Green from Seeed Studio.
