Get Crafty at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009
Here’s a highlight on the crafty events at this year’s upcoming Maker Faire at the San Mateo County Expo Center May 30th and 31st.
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.
Building the boat pond at Maker Faire
Rob Wood, of Western Warship Combat Club (WWCC), sent us this series of pics of the boat pond going up at Maker Faire. Thanks, Rob! Robotic Warship Combat
Week in tweets
We’ve entered the last week of our “Book-a-Day in May” contest to give away five free Maker’s Notebooks and an Arduino MEGA to people who sign up on @make to follow us. This past week’s Notebook winners were: @jakekooser @davidparmet @MpressMarcy @paperbullet @lilredv1 Winner of the Arduino MEGA is: @informative Congrats to the winners. Direct […]
Sea Perch: coming to Maker Faire
[Photo from MIT Sea Perch on Flickr] Want to build a quick and functional underwater vehicle, but don’t want to spend a pile of money? The Sea Perch may be just the project for you and your students. Based on Build Your own Underwater Robot, you can get the up to date text online. There […]
Mendocino Motor: coming to Maker Faire
Appearing at the 2009 Bay Area Maker Faire is the Mendocino Solar Motor: The motor is pretty easy to get right. The construction difficulty is not easy or medium — definitely “hard.” It is best if you have good soldering skills, and the ability to think about the theory of the motor so that you […]
Make: Talk #011 show notes & next episode (today, 12-noon PDT!)
Last Friday, we had a great show with Ken Gracey of Parallax and Jeff Ledger of the Parallax forums, the fellow organizing the upcoming all-night Unofficial Propeller Expos. The first one, Expo West, is happening on June 27-28, 2009, at Parallax HQ, in Rocklin, CA. Expo North East is happening on August 22, in Norwalk, […]
May 30th and 31st officially proclaimed “Maker’s Weekend”
Here ye, here ye, read all about it: San Mateo County Board of Supervisors declares last weekend in May as “Maker’s Weekend.” Sayeth the press release: At the center of Silicon Valley and the birthplace of the original garage start-up, San Mateo continues to be the hub of innovation, creativity, and fun. Representing this tradition […]