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.
Star Wars: DIY R2-D2 is even better than the real thing @ Gizmodo from Maker Faire! Chris James’ R2-D2 won four Make Magazine editors’ choice ribbons at Maker Faire and it’s easy to see why: not only it has every detail from the original—except having a little person inside—but this one is even more charming, […]
Katie writes in with some Maker Faire photos… Photos from Mina Kim, freelance journalist for KQED. This was the first time my dad attended Maker Faire. Now a highly active retiree, he is forever in search of a good photo op. These are 16 from a set of over 700 that he took over 2 […]
Here’s a great Maker Faire video from etharooni!
Clearing off my camera and uploading more video tidbits, here’s 3 or so minutes from Maker Faire!
People have been asking for more details about the Maker’s Notebook. It hasn’t been officially released yet and is not yet available in the Maker Shed (our new online store), so all will be revealed after we’ve recovered from the most amazing Maker Faire to date. In the meantime, here are a few more pics […]
Invent The Future Yourself – Forbes.com Fritz Grobe is working fast. He doesn’t have long before he and Stephen Voltz will drop 624 Mentos into 104 liters of Diet Coke, unleashing enough energy to pump artificial sweetener and carbonated water all over a crowd of hundreds of cheering onlookers at the annual Maker Faire in […]
Andrew “Bruce” Lau made this amazing LED cape and wore it around Maker Faire all weekend. I caught up with him to chat about it, and he said that Leah Buechley’s LED tank top was a huge inspiration. He used her suggested technique of soldering metal beads to surface mount LEDs and stitching them in […]
