Louisville Enjoys its First Mini Maker Faire.
Louisville, Kentucky got to show off a bit of smarts and creativity Saturday with its first Mini Maker Faire, co-produced by Louisville’s Maker Space LVL1.
Maker Faire
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.
Create Knitting Machine Punch Cards with OKnitMe
If you’re still in the act of using punch card-operated knitting machines, you may be interested in Italy-based Serpica Naro’s OKnitMe project, which can create virtual 24-hole punch cards (to be laser cut) over the web using a simple drag-n-drop interface. After you reduce your art to a 2-color image file, their software will “do the magic” and the results are fantastic
Scenes from Silver Spring, Tulsa, Louisville, Vermont, Maine and Wales!
Slideshow of tweeted pixโand amazing tricksโfrom across the six-sided #MakerFaire weekend.
Making Noise With Arduino
โMake some noiseโ was a short one-day workshop about Arduino where we explored the topic of sound and it was aimed at complete beginners with no experience. To simplify the structure of the workshop we started with hands-on experiments composed by a quick set of exercises to enable the participants to understand the basics and, later on, to start exploring pitch, frequency, tone ,and multiple effectsโwith quite curious results.
New Spin on Old Audio Technology
Michael Flynn’s Cooperative Phonograph brings an interactive experience to 19th Century audio technology.
Making a Better Stylus
Azeem Husain is a kid with a mission – a mission to bring the world a better stylus.
Makers of Machynlleth: DIY Tech in the Welsh Countyside
The one and only Maker Faire in Wales, the Machynlleth Mini Maker Faire, takes place tomorrow, September 28 from 10am to 4pm, at the Centre for Alternative Technology, a “haven of making, science, art, and geekery” overlooking the mountains of Snowdonia.
