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.

Join us for an Editors’ Hangout on Air

It’s still only February, but here at MAKE HQ if feels like spring has sprung. The days are warmer, flowers are blooming, and everything feels new again. Inside the office, there’s a feeling of newness, too. We’re launching a resign of our website. We’ve debuted several new web features. We’re about to send off our newest issue of the magazine to the printer. The lab is building new projects. Maker Faire Bay Area is but a few months away. With that in mind, a gaggle of MAKE editors and engineers will gather today for our monthly editors’ hangout to talk about some of these new initiatives. Join us.

Continue Reading February 28th, 2013 Stett Holbrook4

Maker Pro: Building Community at Scale

Shared workshops can have a feeling of community. I used to think it was a matter of scale, that the larger groups would have more community. I now realize it’s more a matter of how much people will linger. The more people engage with each other in a workshop, the more likely the sense of […]

Continue Reading February 28th, 2013 TravisGood

Maker Pro News: Live and Online

This month we launched the Maker Pro Newsletter, an e-newsletter aimed at analyzing, educating, and catalyzing emerging business opportunities for makers. In addition to the newsletter, we’re covering the maker pro space with video profiles and live Google+ hangouts on air that explore issues relevant to the professional maker.

Our first hangout featured an interview with MAKE founder and CEO Dale Dougherty and Greg Mader, a consultant for Open ERP, open source resource management software for makers looking to scale up production or produce goods more efficiently. If you missed it, here’s the video.

Continue Reading February 28th, 2013 Stett Holbrook

NYC’s Hardware Startup Meetup, and New York’s Next Top Maker

A look at some of the projects competing in the New York’s Next Top Makers competition, recently presented at the 6th Hardware Startup Meetup in NYC.

Continue Reading February 27th, 2013 Nick Normal

Growing Your Business From TechShop to the Garage

I first met Laura Bruland of Yes & Yes Designs in May 2012 at TechShop in San Francisco. As an avid book reader I was intrigued by the fact that she took old discarded books and turned them into jewelry. OK, I slightly cringed at this, but the results are beautiful. At the time she was able to run her entire business out of TechShop. No overheard, no employees. Just her and a monthly membership.

Move forward seven months and she’s grown her business from six stores in San Francisco to 23 around the world. She went from being a one-woman show to having a business partner/employee and her own laser cutter

Continue Reading February 27th, 2013 Stephen Murphey4

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Matthew Borgatti

Matthew Borgatti’s body of work is impressive not only for his sleek designs and out-of-the-box thinking, but for the sheer variety.

Continue Reading February 26th, 2013 Goli Mohammadi6

Lego Peristaltic Syrup Pump

I spent a rather absurd amount of time last summer trying to build my own peristaltic pump — which delivers liquids through a food-safe tube by massaging it. So when I saw Miguel Valenzuela’s Lego peristaltic pump at Maker Faire New York, I was stoked! It goes with his PancakeBot, which uses Lego robotics to […]

Continue Reading February 26th, 2013 John Baichtal

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