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.

Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire

Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire

The Hello World Program would like to invite you to a Robot Puppet Party at the Maker Faire Bay Area next month. Hello World has been running for about a year, building a library of video tutorials on a variety of open source tech topics, narrated by handmade puppets. Guido the Python teaches the Python programming language, of course, while the robot Unique ID discusses robotics, circuitry and the basics of object-oriented programming. Currently under construction is a new fox puppet who will be in charge of HTML tutorials.

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Hardware Innovation Workshop Early Registration Ends April 15

Hardware Innovation Workshop Early Registration Ends April 15

Early bird registration for MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Workshop ends Monday, April 15. The second annual event, May 14-15 in San Mateo, Calif., comes right before Maker Faire and it will feature new hardware products and services and the makers who have created them. More than 30 speakers will share the stage, offering business insights into manufacturing options for startups, and collaborative strategies from funding to production to distribution, marketing and positioning. VCs will discuss which products get their attention and why, and entrepreneurial makers will tell their stories.

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Unicorns Just Wanna Have Fun

Unicorns Just Wanna Have Fun

The Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC), a lively group of bicycle enthusiasts based in Sonoma County, Calif., brought the Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Car Races to Maker Faire Bay Area in 2012. They threw down a challenge to makers: to hand-build a pedal-powered single seater with no less than four wheels, bring it to […]

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MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Workshop Issues Call for Prototypes

MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Workshop Issues Call for Prototypes

The MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop, set for May 14-15, 2013, has just issued a call for prototypes of early stage products, projects, and ideas. Selected prototypes will be presented at the opening session of the workshop, and featured in the Innovation Showcase on Tuesday, May 14. Each winning entrant will have five minutes to present their idea and a prototype: a two-minute pitch, then a three-minute demonstration of the prototype.

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