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.
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.
Joe Hudy’s favorite picks from Maker Faire Rome 2013.
This weekend, on Saturday, October 12, Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., will host their first-ever Mini Maker Faire, which will also be the first Faire in New York’s Capital Region. A number of the young makers from the school, along with their mentors, ran a booth promoting their event and leading hands-on activities at […]
The second Columbus Mini Maker Faire gets underway this coming Sunday, from noon to 6pm at the Center of Science and Industry (COSI).
Groningen’s second Mini Maker Faire is set for Oct. 12.
Makers from The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium will all get together in the Ebbingekwartier of the student city of Groningen. Visitors can try their hands on making with tens of workshops, listen to maker talks and watching the spectacular Maker Challenge (think Scrapheap Challenge).
Maker Faire Rome’s second day was just as full of energy and wizardry as the first day. A woman visiting from Barcelona said to me that just walking inside gave her goosebumps. The makers, the guests, the organizers all came together to create a fully charged event that left people wanting more.
