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.
The lastest SYSTM is up and it’s from Maker Faire! – “The 2006 Maker Faire presents the do-it-yourself community with thousands of finished projects and inspired ideas. For their inaugural expo, Systm host, Dan Huard enlists the help of DigitalLife’s Patrick Norton to scour the showroom floors and find the best projects. For this episode, […]
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Fashion designers Diana Eng (recently of Bravo’s “Project Runway”) and Emily Albinski first made headlines when their Inflatable Dress made the cover of ID Magazine last fall. In their first fashion show together, Diana and Emily are pleased to also launch their new collection under their brand “Blackbox Nation.” The duo strives to push forward […]
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Leah Kramer from Craftster.org and Bazaar Bizaare is fully rested now post Maker Faire and just put up her recap of the events at the fair. From Leah, “Words cannot describe how amazing this event was. It was HUGE and there were so many different things going on. It was sort of part science-fair-for-adults and […]
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RESISTOR sent in the GRL video from Maker Faire – “The Graffiti Research Lab just returned from a tour of California sponsored by the Eyebeam OpenLab and Make Magazine. The G.R.L. met up in San Mateo, CA to create a geek mural on a 1974 school bus at the Maker Faire. Agents Lonely Guy, Micromonster, […]
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MAKE Flickr photo pool member Escher_47 has some great photos from Bruce Shapiro’s sharpie-wielding programmable robot at Maker Faire 2006 – Link.
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Video and pictures from the flame shooting RFID enabled trampoline at the Maker Faire! See Dale catch some air! – “The High-Lighter is a trampoline based flame effect. The installation involves a volunteer from the audience jumping on a unmodified trampoline. An ultrasonic sensor placed below the trampoline measures the changes in the height of […]
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What do you get when you combine a capacitor, some LEDs, and a solar cell? A B.E.A.M. Bug Bot! B.E.A.M. stands for Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics which means that the robots are inspired by biology which means bugs. Vic De Leon and Stewart Tansley, explained that the solar cell doesn’t put out enough power to […]
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