Visit the Circuit Castle at World Maker Faire This Weekend
Maker Rachel Hellenga is bringing her cardboard Circuit Castle to World Maker Faire NY this weekend.
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.
Two Percussionists, Five Suitcases, and Plenty of Found Sound
Artist and musician Eric Farber‘s vast collection of handmade found-object percussion instruments are as intriguing to look at as they are to hear. Base objects range from a late-Victorian Singer sewing machine treadle to turn-of-the-century lamps and sconces.
Reverse Abstraction
The Reverse Abstraction series attempts to bridge the gap between human and computer languages by 3D printing traditional objects in dual forms: as the classical object and as the hexadecimal and binary codes that represent them.
Maker Faire Loves Robots
Maker Faire loves robots. Don’t you? Here are just a fraction of the robotic exhibits, presenters and performers at World Maker Faire 2013. Robots for kids! Aerial Drones, Robotic Art, Humanoid Robots, and more.
3D-Body Scanning With Joey Hudy
Joey Hudy returns to Maker Faire to present his senior project at ASU-HYSA: a full-body 3D scanner. It works by rotating a person on a small wooden platform while a stepper motor raises and lowers a PrimeSense kinect clone so it can scan your entire body using Skanect software. It generates a array of dots and then creates the mesh from the dots.
Hot Trends in 3D Printing On Display at World Maker Faire
One of the exciting things about Maker Faire is seeing the technological progress year over year. Case in point, 3D-printers.
NASA Is Taking Off with Makers
We chat with Sam Ortega manager of the Centennial Challenges Program at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center about the program and how makers have participated in the past, and how they might participate in current and future challenges.
