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.
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MAKE editor in chief and Boing Boing potentato, Mark Frauenfelder, posted a nice piece about his favorite makers at this past weekend’s Maker Faire Detroit. David Smith makes beautiful handmade instruments, including cigar box ukuleles and this surprisingly sweet-sounding wire violin. Video of wire violin. These three boys are about to enter 6th grade. They […]
Faire photo taken by Matt Mets Karen Dybis has been doing some nice installments of her “Unfiltered” column on Time.com’s Detroit Blog. She concludes her series with “Jules Pieri on Looking Back — at the Faire and Detroit:” I spoke to11-year-old Jillian who said, “I’ve always been good at art, and when I started reading […]
Jalopnik has a fun piece on this weekend’s Power Racing Series competition at Maker Faire Detroit. Two vehicles were super reliable and put on an endurance racing clinic. One, the “Pit Rats” of OmniCorps Detroit took the race with decent speed, good handling and unfaltering performance. They didn’t even need to come in for a […]
Did somebody say “creative weirdness?” The “electro mechanical music robot madness” of Apetechnology.
Alan Languirand has something called Project Lemon Battery set up at Maker Faire Detroit. It’s a solar-powered, 3G-connected webcam on a pole that takes pics every ten seconds and uploads them to a webpage. Project Lemon Battery is part of a larger initiative Alan is involved in to sell “micro real estate” in Detroit to […]
Photo by Marc de Vinck Here are a few answers to the question “What was your favorite part?” that people posted on our Maker Faire Detroit Facebook page and on Twitter as they left the event. Thanks to everyone who came out and made this such a wonderful and memorable weekend. We hope the event […]
I’m here at the MAKE magazine booth at Maker Faire Detroit, and across from us is the Learn to Solder area, run and manned by Mitch Altman and Jimmie Rodgers. Mitch has brought tears to my eyes with his passion and enthusiasm for teaching folks to solder. I’ve witnessed him patiently and joyfully teaching people […]
