Last year at Maker Faire Bay Area, the first ever Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Car Races were hosted by the fine folks of the Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC). The idea is to build a four-wheeled pedel-powered racer inspired by the cyclekarts of the early 1900s and hit the track to race against your […]
Bay Area artist, designer, and fabricator Tom Sepe is skilled at metalwork, carpentry, graphic design, video, and illustration. He thrives on collaboration and has worked on many large-scale works in addition to focusing on his own personal projects. To boot, he’s had experience in the performing arts from a very young age, and has also […]
We’re gearing up for Maker Faire Bay Area (May 18-19) here at MAKE HQ. One of the recurring features at Maker Faire is the Homegrown Village, a hands-on (and handmade) collection of displays and exhibits that celebrate the most fundamental form of making: making food! Joining me on Food Makers, a weekly Google+ hangout on air, will be Kim Dow, manager of the Homegrown Village.
With this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area coming up on May 18 and 19 in San Mateo, I was looking over my interview lists from years past and was struck by these seven cool ladies I had interviewed, with diverse maker interests ranging from restoring Fieros to building musical instruments to making Arduino-powered cat feeders.
Tech researcher and interaction designer Karen Tanenbaum is passionate about the maker movement and its ability to transform our relationship to computing and creativity. She holds a masters in linguistics and a Ph.D. in interactive arts and technology. Her research work has focused on wearable, tangible, and ubiquitous computing, as well as the maker movement, […]
With some help from her dad Scott, second grader Emma made this Raspberry Pi-controlled interactive trifold poster about the state of Vermont, for a school project. Pushing a button cycles through the different agricultural industries of the state, complete with lights and animal sound effects. Other buttons play recordings of the state bird singing and the state song. There is also a “quiz mode,” which tests the viewer on what they’ve learned.
The Homegrown Village at Maker Faire celebrates the fact that farmers and food makers are the original makers. After all, the earliest examples of tool-making and innovation is for the making, hunting, and growing of food. Homegrown Village is back for the 5th year running, and you can still be part of it as a maker, presenter, demonstrator, and, of course, visitor.
