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.
We’ve posted time details for most of the scheduled events at Maker Faire! We’ll continue adding and refining things over the next few days, but take a look and start planning your strategy for the big day. See you next weekend! Link.
The Ybox is an open hardware and software spec for an IP-enabled set-top box in a candy tin. Josh and Tarikh will give away 80 Ybox kits and lead 4 free workshops teaching folks how to build them. Josh Rooke-Ley and Tarikh Korula are the founders of Uncommon Projects, an interactive design studio based in […]
This Mid-century car has been packed with next century features. Not only has the engine, transmission, power steering, and electronics been brought up to date, but the car is it’s own WiFi hotspot and has two on-board computers, one running the navigation system and audio/video jukebox, and the other powering it’s voice-controlled Skype conferencing system. […]
The future, powered by steam, and at Maker Faire with Crabfu- So what do you do after you’ve made a bunch of steam powered r/c tanks? Well you try making a steam turbine tank of course! Making a steam turbine r/c machine has sort of been one of my Holy Grails, but there are many […]
Nathan just sent in what the gang from Spark Fun is bringing to Maker Faire, he writes – What is this thing? It’s the game of Tetris but played on a device that is composed of 240 buttons. So if you want to move the Tetris block right/left, you simply touch a button left or […]
If you didn’t order your tickets for Maker Faire to get the pre May 10th discount, that’s ok – through May 18th you can still purchase Maker Faire tickets at the normal price in our online store and pick them up at Will Call at the faire, repeat, you will not get your tickets physically […]
Ok gang, we have an official press release for Maker Faire – we’re projecting 40k attendees this year! “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet…”-Bachman-Turner Overdrive Sebastopol–The 2nd Annual Bay Area Maker Faire (May 19 & 20) at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in northern California is just 10 days away, and this year’s event is shaping up […]
