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.
Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow picked up my post yesterday about Christopher Schaie’s gorgeous brass and wood irising door peephole, and within a few hours one of his fans made a cardboard replica and presented it to him, in person, at a book-signing. And then Cory blogged the replica. All within the space of 24 hours. The internet is an amazing thing.
Kim Pedersen of monorails.org write in to share how he was able to see the Faire for free.
One of the highlights of our tour of the Maker Faire grounds last Thursday was this “Wayward Calliope” by artist Ben Cowden of Applied Kinetic Arts. Turn the crank, and a combined mechanical and pneumatic power transfer system activates a choir of slide whistles to produce a sound that is simultaneously beautiful, creepy, and hilarious. Somehow. It’s rather harder to appreciate in a noisy exhibit hall, so if you were at the Faire and saw, but couldn’t hear, be double-dog-sure to check the vid.
Hermes Spacecraft – Space travel for the masses One of the de facto themes of this year’s Faire, so perfectly represented by our Gothic Raygun Rocketship design centerpiece, is space and space hacking. This serves as the perfect lead-in to our upcoming DIY Space issues of MAKE. Here, our roving court photographer, Blake Maloof, captures […]
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV Hi Crafters! We are so excited that today all our demos will be live streaming on the Internet! Click for the video above or visit the Ustream page. Here’s the schedule of demos for today at CRAFT (Time is in PST): Sunday, May 23 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Crafting with […]
The SF Chronicle posted a short piece and nice video clip of yesterday’s events at Maker Faire. If you’re within land, sea, air (or teleportation) traveling distance, beam on over. Look at all the awesome we’re having! It’s been five years since the launch of Make, a magazine for DIYers that I described back then […]
Learn about the Team Bobcat Ford Fiesta caravan… Team Bobcat and the Ford Fiesta caravan arrived at Maker Faire on Friday, concluding their long trek from Michigan to California. Since their class began only a few months ago, the team designed, developed, and field-tested a project of their own invention that took them on a […]
