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.
In this short welcoming video about Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, Dale Dougherty shares the true spirit of Maker Faire: play and exploration. It is but a preview of the 100 maker profile videos we will release over the next 100 days. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or […]
Lifesize Mousetrap provides a great opportunity to see real world applications of physics, spectacle and problem solving. Perhaps you remember endless hours of fussing with cardboard and plastic parts trying to get the mousetrap together to catch the mouse. Mostly, I recall that the build was way more interesting than the actual game. Over the years, Mark Perez has built the life size version of Moustrap along with his band of merry Rubes. They’ve taken the show on the road to Maker Faires in Austin, Detroit and San Mateo. People keep asking for more, and so they’ve set up a Kickstarter campaign to fund a traveling version of Lifesize Mousetrap to bring to schools and demonstrate their festive take on the game.
We had a great time at the judging event for element14’s Great Global Hackserspace Challenge on Sunday at Maker Faire. The final three projects were all pretty smashing, and it was difficult to choose one over the others. They all had their different strengths. Pumping Station: One’s Biosensing Array was a pretty sophisticated device for […]
Yesterday in Homegrown Village at Maker Faire, our video crew found themselves with a unique gear crisis. During an interview, a goat ate the antenna off the wireless microphone. OM NOM! Get ready for some awesome video maker profiles from Maker Faire coming soon. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video […]
Alas, we just closed the gates on Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It was, by all accounts (that I’ve heard) an inspired success. Happy, huge but well-mannered crowds, hundred of amazing makers, and an embarrassment of things to see, make, test, ride, play with, and eat. But at the end of each Faire, we always […]
Arc Attack! is back with their unique blend of high voltage and melodic ozone creation. It appears that there are a couple of kids in the faraday cage. How’s that for a memorable childhood experience?
Lucky for those of us left behind, the fine folks at Maker Faire have been tagging their pictures and adding them to the MAKE Flickr pool. I see steam, lights, robots, festive Faire goers and more. If you aren’t able to make it to San Mateo this weekend, you can live vicariously through our fellow makers on site.
