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.
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Maker Faire New York featured six presentations stages with over 100 talks offered over the course of the weekend. Here’s a short but juicy glimpse of the stellar lineup, big crowds and backstage moments from our Auditorium and Make: Live stages.
The World Maker Faire is over! Official numbers are in and the Faire was a great success, even in the midst of a rainy weekend. Thanks to all of you who made it happen! We had over 650 Makers and 55,000 attendees. Mayor Bloomberg declared it “Maker Week”
I had so much fun observing the goings-on at the Nerdy Derby tent at this year’s Maker Faire New York. It’s a rules-light race similar to the Pinewood Derby, and it inspires creativity and participation from kids as well as grownups. The tent was always jam packed with participants hacking away at their cars, and […]
World Maker Faire 2012: Mark Read, “Illuminated Interventions: A Preliminary Tactical Guide”
The Illuminator Affinity Group will present a brief history of and discuss lessons learned in the field over the last 4 months of repeated interventions in public space with this tactical media tool, the “spectacularization machine.”
World Maker Faire 2012: Jonathan Lippincott, “Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 60s and 70s”
Jonathan Lippincott, author of Large Scale, presents a photographic history of the sculptures made at his family’s fabrication shop/gallery, Lippincott, Inc. Lippincott makers prototyped, made and installed many large-scale iconic art works by Claes Oldenburg, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana and many more.
Cloud Robotics and the African Robotics Network Design Challenge Winners
The Cloud will have a huge impact on the next generation of robots. It provides access to vast resources of data, software, computation,as well as access to human designers and researchers worldwide. Ken will announce the latest results.
World Maker Fair 2012: John Long, “Darwin’s Devices: Evolving Robots to Study Animal Evolution”
To understand organic evolution, we evolve biorobots. Our biorobots are fully autonomous mimics of ancient fish-like vertebrates. We subject them to the same selection pressures that may have occurred 500 million years ago.
