Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth โ 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 peopleย 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.
Almost 70% of the cargo shipped around the world travels by boat, which means that if you could switch those boats from burning marine diesel to something more environmentally friendly, it would have a big environmental impact.
Maker Faire comes to Jefferson country as Charlottesville, Virginia celebrates a day of making tomorrow, Oct. 12. The Charlottesville Mini Make Faire will be held at Monticello High School from 10am-4pm. The first Maker Faire in Central Virginia is attracting makers from all over the state and beyond. For a first-time fair, the variety of makers is impressive. Here are some of the standouts.
At this past year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, I had the privilege of riding atop a steam-powered Case 40 horsepower steam traction engine from 1940 with Stephen Rademaker.
Blokify’s custom block-based 3D modeling software makes it easy for folks, especially kids, to build object models, which they can then send directly to a home 3D printer or get printed through Blokify’s service. Giving kids easy access to designing and printing their own toys has great impact on creative potential.
Scientists at Disney Research have figured out how to harness one of the most readily available, yet hard-to-capture sources of electricity. And they’ve created a dead simple, open source device based on that technology that anyone can build with low-cost materials.
Workshop Weekend is this weekend in Oakland, Calif. One to six hour long workshops on things like taste hacking, Arduino, wearable electronics, liquid nitrogen ice cream, sugar skull making and more are programmed over a weekend. A flat $40 admission gets you as many workshops as you can handle. Special discount code for MAKE readers inside the post.
The Wikihouse collaboration at World Maker Faire this year was a highlight of the event.
