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.
As educators, we are always seeking subjects that are robust enough to allow children to have choices and are gender neutral to maximize engagement. The Exploratory specializes in developing projects that incorporate several learning opportunities into one project. This week, we introduced circuits and robotics and continued woodworking skills all connected by the love of bugs.
It’s a big weekend for Maker Faire around the globe—but it’s only the tip of the maker iceberg! Check out the complete list of Maker Faires coming your way in 2013.
Los Angeles-based author and inventor Cy Tymony has shared 20 projects on the pages of MAKE, teaching us super sneaky and simple ways to use everyday objects to make things like the Mechanical Image Duplicator, the Mini Foosball Game, and the Origami Flying Disk. He’s also authored 10 volumes of his Sneaky Uses series, starting […]
The deadline to apply for the Road to Maker Faire Challenge is Monday, April 8th at 11:59pm PDT. Be sure to enter while you still can, for a chance to win $2,500 to bring your project to Maker Faire Bay Area in May!
Calling All Artists for Swap-O-Rama-Rama, the World’s Largest Textile Repurposing Event, at Maker Faire Bay Area! Nearly one hundred years ago Mahatma Gandhi said, “There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” At the time India was struggling to resist British rule. Freedom could be gauged by touching the garments […]
Homegrown Village was started in 2007 as the hands-on component of the Farm Aid benefit concert, a place where concertgoers could meet farmers, check out educational exhibits, and learn agrarian skills. At Maker Faire, we’ve always had food makers represented, and in 2009, with the help of Farm Aid’s Cornelia Hoskin, we brought Homegrown Village […]
The Oslo Mini Maker Faire team features their new giant smoke ring cannon in their super short & sweet promo video. Get to Norway this weekend for all the fun and smoke!
