How Maker Faire Shaped My Future
From hobbies to Harvey Mudd via a salvaged aircraft.
Maker Faire
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.
Behind the Scenes: Mapping Maker Faire with Trimble’s S8 Total Station
This year’s Maker Faire Bay Area includes over 1,000 maker projects. Laying out all those booths is challenging to say the least. Trimble recognized an opportunity to speed up our layouts with use of their surveying equipment.
The Electrifying Designs of Anouk Wipprecht
What does fashion lack? Microcontrollers.
Tilt-Rotor Quad Goes Crazy Fast
Design boasts 53 mph airspeed at less than half of full-forward prop tilt.
Laminar Water Jets from Copper Pipe, Scotchbrite, and Drinking Straws
Easy DIY design projects beautiful unbroken jet of water up to 15′.
littleBits Arduino Module Unveiled
The snap-together circuits are now programmable thanks to the new Arduino module.
First Look at the New Arduino Zero
Hinted at yesterday by Massimo Banzi during his keynote speech at MakerCon yesterday, Arduino has just officially announced their latest board—the Arduino Zero.