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.
Octopart @ Maker Faire, Sam and Harish write – …We met a lot of great people and learned a lot about the open-source hardware movement. Although the term still hasn’t been clearly defined, the motivating philosophy is similar to that of open-source software. Information, such as schematics and designs, describing hardware is made freely available […]
1,500+ pictures make for a long slideshow, but I think I got through several hundred of them last night. I marked tons of them as favorites, but the photo shown above of Mouse Trap really grabbed me. View it at full size for maximum impact. The photographer has a bunch more, too – Link
The best part is when all the kids are dancing in the soda/Mentos…
Flaming Halloween – pneumatic and static props, makeup, lifecasting, and SCARE for a Cure haunt & Link to M4V.
Pipe Dream. Resonance Labs presents a windless pipe organ based on controlled feedback. Its 16 tuned, MIDI-controlled PVC pipes provide a rafter rattling bass line for an orchestra composed of Tesla coils by the Geek Group. Each pipe has a speaker and microphone pickup with a control circuit that feeds the microphone signal to a […]
Attila and Anna on the open source hardware talk @ Maker Faire… – For open source hardware you need open source software and a modular hardware design that makes building customized hardware just as easy as writing software or web apps. In order to make the idea mainstream you need to commercialize it and that’s […]
John Sosoka, CTO of Ugobe, was at Maker Faire Austin showing off Pleo, the company’s robotic dino pet, and answering questions about the bot, especially its hackability. The video interview is rather awash in the ambient noise of a very busy Maker Store, so the transcript on RobotsRule is your best bet. [Photo by Scott […]
