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.
Posted to the World Maker Faire Daily: The members of ArcAttack! were on site Wednesday to begin to set up. The Great Hall at the NY Hall of Science is going to be an amazing venue for their musical Tesla coils. The Great Hall, which is over 100 feet tall, was built for the 1964 […]
Don’t miss the Madagascar Midway, Chariot Races, and more from the Madagascar Institute this weekend at World Maker Faire NY. Poster by Jason.
We’re live streaming the Open Hardware Summit at the New York Hall of Science right now on Ustream! We’ll take your questions to relay to panelists in the chat. Use Twitter hashtag #openhwsummit, too.
Author of Fashioning Technology Syuzi Pakhchyan scoured the World Maker Faire NY schedule and posted a great roundup of the wearable tech projects to be on display, like Vital Threads Biofeedback Apparel (above left), the Life Dress (above right), and of course Diana Eng‘s Maker Faire Fashion Show (on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the […]
We have a World Maker Faire Daily widget on the front page of the Maker Faire site which includes a blog feed, the Faire’s Facebook page, and Twitter feed/Faire chatter. You can even add the widget to your own site if you want. We’ll be posting salient content from the Faire here on Make: Online […]
There are several ways to get to the 1st annual World Maker Faire this weekend in Queens, NYC. We’re expecting overwhelming crowds to be traveling by subway, and wanted to provide some pictures to assist you on your trip. The recommended way of getting to the World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of […]
The excitement is building for next weekend’s Maker Faire in NYC. We can feel it — from the staff, from the over 450 makers who are heading there, from the monster buzz on the Internet, and from the mainstream media. It feels like something really special is about to happen. Hopefully you can catch of […]
