The Year of 100 Maker Faires
2013 was a banner year for Maker Faire, with 100 events celebrating makers and engaging 530,000 people over 5 continents.
2013 was a banner year for Maker Faire, with 100 events celebrating makers and engaging 530,000 people over 5 continents.
We asked some of our favorite makers what they planned to make in 2014. Here’s what they said.
My Maker Mantra for the New Year: Clean what you mess; Maintain what you have; Fix what you can;
Love what you make. Finish what you start.
And the winner is: the Hackmobile, the brainchild of four makers based at Minneapolisโs Hack Factory! The Hackmobileโs designers take home first-place honors and a $10,000 check in the Ultimate Maker Vehicle Challenge, an engineering design contest that challenged makers to design their Ultimate Maker Vehicle out of a 2014 Ford Transit Connect. [The Hack […]
Congratulations to all the makers who competed in the first Ultimate Maker Vehicle Challenge. From 10 awesome entries, here are the winners!
RobotsConf, a new conference designed to transform coders into makers, was a huge success!
I spoke with conference curators Chris and Laura Williams before the event. They had an audacious plan, and I wondered if it would work. I’ve attended many tech conferences and maker events, but never one with this format – a format which was later referred to as “sleep-away maker camp” by an attendee.
Join us later today for our tenth and final installment for 2013’s Weekend Projects Hangouts On Air. We’ll be discussing the Beatband Sleeve, that turns your pulse into flashing LEDs. While there are many ways to achieve this, the Beatband Sleeve takes a novel approach to both making and learning. First, the circuit is prototyped […]