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.
Our favorite Queens non-profit art collective, Flux Factory, will be holding their annual not-so-silent auction tomorrow, Wednesday December 15th, from 7-10pm at Center 548 in Chelsea, Manhattan. Featuring work by nearly 120 artists, including makers who participated in the World Maker Faire, this annual event is a smorg-arts-bord and great opportunity to pick up some […]
Here are some fun highlights from the latest Make: Tokyo meeting, featuring our very own Matt Mets and Mitch Altman. Also check out this second article on Tokyo Tek with some project videos from the fair. Make: Tokyo 06 Hightlights
Our friends from the Swimming Cities crew will be unveiling their “floating island” — five handmade boats connected in star formation, nearly 50 feet in diameter, for the first time ever on water (they were on land at the World Maker Faire), tomorrow in Brooklyn. They’ll be serving up oysters and champagne along with music, […]
Reminder: The Ottawa Mini Maker Faire is this weekend!
Nice video of the theatricality and carnage that is the Chariot Races at World Maker Faire NY by Sara Kinney. Swimming Cities and Madagascar Institute sure put on a good show! There’s a great little audio clip of Nick Normal explaining ArcAttack!‘s musical Tesla coils at the end. I sure hope that was on purpose, […]
Our friends at the New York Hall of Science are going to be launching pumpkins this weekend with their in-house trebuchet “Chuck”: See NYSCI’s 20-foot-tall outdoor catapult in action! Learn about the history and science of catapults, and then watch it hurl pumpkins across the field. The demonstration will show how adjustments on the catapult […]
For everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area, don’t forget about the East Bay Mini Maker Faire going on this Sunday, October 24, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Park Day School Campus in Oakland. This Mini Maker Faire was organized by a dedicated group of parents as a fundraiser for their school, […]
