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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MP4 Video | QT Video | HD | Subscribe in iTunes The Maker Faire is just around the corner, happening on May 3 & 4 at the San Mateo Expo Center in San Mateo, CA. Here’s a quick video preview of some of the fun activities you can expect in the CRAFT side of the […]
Motion-controlled fire will be present at Bay Area Maker Faire – looks like a great way to live out those unfulfilled D&D fantasies. 2Ï€r is a blisteringly interactive large-scale fire toy. It is a central stage surrounded by a larger ring of inconspicuous flame effects – completely innocuous to onlookers – until a participant makes […]
Benjamin Cowden makes machinery as art with some intriguing results – such as the above crank operated piece titled – Some People I Don’t Know. His work often represents human figures in organic material contrasting predominent gear apparatus resulting in – cool art toys! Check out his flash site for more examples. He’ll be showing […]
Lee’s handcrafted wooden puzzles are world renowned – and for good reason. Each piece shows his passion for geometric form and interactivity, easily doubling as conventional visual sculpture. Lee Krasnow is a full time puzzlemaker currently based out of San Francisco, California. Several years ago he downloaded Stewart Coffin’s Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections along […]
Longing for a more collaborative play dynamic in music games, Kevin Lim and Shawna Hein came up with a new direction to take the genre – straight toward the land of jug band. Jug music has strong social and even humorous connotations – a perfect antidote to the solo button-racing so prevelant around the time […]
Justin Gray’s amazing machines are not to be overlooked – in fact, it would be near-impossible to ignore the awesomeness of Libby the flame-belching robot! – My dog libby died last year from a un-known brain disorder. I was inspired by the sadness of here death to find the resolve and courage to build my […]
Eric will be bringing his a slew of vintage electronics to Maker Faire Bay Area. Come see, first hand, the results of his oscillograph restoration work and exploration in time-telling-tubes. Yes, those multicolored cylinders are old-style resistors! – A cluster of components forms the sweep oscillator of the Clough-Brengle oscillograph. The radial-leaded resistors are essentially […]
