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.
The classic game of thumb war meets rock-em-sock-em-robots—if the robots in question are 30 feet tall and have hands the size of engine blocks. Thumby Wars, as it’s known, was the “Team’s Choice Selection” winner in this year’s Red Bull Creation contest, and saw its first public appearance today at Maker Faire New York. The […]
I ran into David Lang, co-founder of the OpenROV Project and MAKE contributor, at the OpenROV booth at Maker Faire. He and his cohorts build open source submersibles and they have a couple of the robots on hand to show off. They’re at Robot Row in Area C.
Everybody likes Ikea for its cheap and relatively cool-looking furniture. The only problem is a trip to Ikea is a half-day commitment what with all the time spent parking and waiting in line. Diatom Studio’s SketchChair hopes to solve that problem. The start-up company was one of the exhibitors at Maker Faire New York and […]
MAKE contributing editor Matt Richardson awards the 2012 Makey Award for Most Hackable Gadget to Raspberry Pi. Accepting was Ebon Upton, creator of the Pi, the wildly popular new Linux-based computer system on a chip. We have Raspberry Pi boards and starter kits in the Maker Shed here at the Faire, if you want to stop […]
Come see the Lumiphonic Creature Choir at World Maker Faire inside the Great Hall. The Choir will be performing at these times and this project is not to be missed. Part music performance, part projection, the faces that appear on the end of tentacles talk & sing and complete the performance. Spectacular and simultaneously surreal, […]
One of my favorite projects of the Faire — and there are tons of insane ones! — is Miguel Valenzuela’s Lego pancake CNC that can output pancake batter in any shape you’d like, including the shape of water molecules as well as the obligatory (if you have kids) Mickey Mouse format. Be sure to check […]
If you’re hanging out in the grassy knoll between the Diet Coke and Mentos Stage and the Life-Size Mousetrap (perhaps staking out a good spot for the next show?) you might see or hear some little flying machines buzzing over head. Whether it’s a quad copter from AeroQuad or a soaring foam plane from Brooklyn […]
