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Maker Faire
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.
Ben Cowden’s “Wayward Calliope”
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.
Spacing out at Maker Faire
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 […]
Maker Faire: Live Streaming Today at the CRAFT Booth
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 […]
Maker Faire: “It’s the best side of who we are”
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 […]
American Journey 2.0: Maker Faire!
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 […]
Automakers 2.0 – A Maker Faire webcast
Before Maker Faire switched into high gear, earlier this week, MAKE editor and Maker Faire founder Dale Dougherty sat down with K. Venkatesh Prasad, Technical Leader, Infotronics team in Ford Research & Advanced Engineering, to talk about Ford’s American Journey 2.0 project and the networked and open platform car of the future. American Journey 2.0