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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Check out all the fun and excitement at this year’s Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. People from all over the world came to experience this amazing event. Here are just some of the amazing riding machines we saw. To download Maker Faire 2008 Vehicles MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
Photos and videos from Rob (Cockeyed.com, awesome site!) of his Maker Faire visit!
At Maker Faire we gave out some of those cute Flip cams for recording videos, check out the massive collection of interviews, makers and more from our very own Brian Jepson (executive editor of our Make: Books!).
Great video from the Wall Street Journal video called “Remaking making” all about Maker Faire!
@ Maker Faire MAKE’s Phil Torrone and Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries talked about emerging opportunities for makers to create and sell their work – here are our slides and notes – ZIP (27mb). EDN also has a write up. Each year we’ve seen more and more makers do what they love (making) as a […]
Hack a day’s write up of Puzzlemation @ Maker Faire… Every time we look at computer screen, millions of pixels of light disappear into our work, our correspondence, or our entertainment. Imagine if you could capture those dots of light and scoop them up as you would grains of sand on the beach. Puzzlemation explores […]
Forbes talked to some Makers about their businesses, good stuff. Do-It-Yourself Success – “Why sell your idea when you can profit from it on your own?”
