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.
Jordan Jin Stone’s Double Rainbow Glasses create a visualization of your aural environment. She used EL wire and an Arduino to create a pulsing rainbows. She’s here at World Maker Faire with a strong contingent of MIT students showing their projects.
Today at Maker Faire New York, Massimo Banzi, co-founder of the Arduino project, unveiled several new boards in a main stage presentation, What’s Ahead for Arduino. The new boards are on view in the Arduino tent at Maker Faire, and you can read about them on the Arduino blog, too.
Tim Laursen presents his robot drummers at World Maker Faire New York 2011. The colorfully decorated MIDI-controlled solenoid drummers are activated by a small button panel, and Tim wears his owl drummer backpack to dance to the music.
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir is a Volvo. It is a Volvo covered in singing fish and singing lobsters. This wacky art car is one of many unusual and hilarious wandering art cars at the World Maker Faire, New York. Richard Carter is the designer, and the driver, and will be on hand through Sunday to […]
Mitch Altman, recent recipient of the Maker Hero Award, shares talks about his favorite things at World Maker Faire New York. There is still plenty of time to come visit the faire, and see some amazing things. Singing fish, a fire-breathing dragon, and of course the Learn to Solder Booth are on Mitch’s top list.
The O’Neil family is really excited about being first in line for World Maker Faire. They made the five hour trek from upstate, and are making a weekend of the faire. You can follow the festivities of this year’s World Maker Faire at Maker Faire Daily. If you are near New York City, come on down to the New York Hall of Science.
John Schimmel teaches the Assistive Technology class at NYU’s ITP program. The RAMPs project allows a wheelchair-bound DJ to roll up to a stationary set of rollers that are connected to rotary encoders attached to an Arduino. The interpreted data is then sent to a Processing sketch and used to blend or scratch audio tracks in real time. This device was created in 2005 for an individual with cerebral palsy who had a talent for rapping and also needed to hone his wheelchair skills.
