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.
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.
Are you ready to push your Lego robotics skills?
I took some time to talk to kinetic sculptor Eric Hagan and what he’ll be up to at Maker Faire NY this year.
Last year at World Maker Faire New York, Mayor Bloomberg announced that he was designating the week before World Maker Faire New York to be Maker Week. Similar to Fashion Week, we makers have a week to program and celebrate all things maker-related in New York City. Hooray! This year, with our World Maker Faire […]
Are we entering an age where those technologies, formerly found only in the imaginations of science fiction authors, now become possible for anyone to attempt? What can we do? How far should we go? These are questions we’re only beginning to explore.
World Maker Faire in New York will be offering a robust assortment of DIY Bio presentations an exhibits, with everything from circuits created from slime-molds to hacking a brain’s EEG signals.
Look for Public Lab at Maker Faire, which “is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns.”
Aided by affordable materials, 3D printers, and open source technology, the merging of human and machine is a thriving subset of the maker community. Next week’s World Maker Faire New York will showcase a number of these projects and the makers who made them. These projects are also a testament to the best impulses of human nature: once we possess new skills and technology we look for ways to use them as a force for good and to share them with others.
