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Spring Has Sprung, Because Faire Season Has Begun

Spring Has Sprung, Because Faire Season Has Begun

Call for Makers are open and active for over 20 Maker Faires around the globe. A good number are being organized by science and children’s museums, often in collaboration with local makers or makerspaces. Jerusalem Mini Maker Faire (March 18/19) and Tyler Mini Maker Faire (March 23) are two examples.

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Maker Music this Friday from 7pm in Vancouver, BC

Maker Music this Friday from 7pm in Vancouver, BC

Tomorrow marks the first ever Maker Music event, hosted by the folks that put on the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire. It will be an evening of epic proportions, with demonstrations and musical performances going on until late in the evening.

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First Hong Kong Maker Faire

First Hong Kong Maker Faire

Brian Smith shared a Flickr gallery of photos from the Hong Kong Mini Maker Faire, which took place on Saturday at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The event brought together an interesting collection of makers, many of them into robotics. My guess is that Brian’s daughter is in the opening photo with her Maker Faire […]

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Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire: August 11, 2012 (Call to Makers is Open)

Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire: August 11, 2012 (Call to Makers is Open)

(2011 RI Mini Maker Faire photo by Carolyn Fahm) Once again, the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire is coming to Providence, and it’s exactly one month away. The call to makers is open, so if you’ve got something amazing you’d like to show off, please hit that link. This year, we’ll be embedded in AS220‘s […]

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Maker Faire Kansas City 2012 Highlights

Maker Faire Kansas City 2012 Highlights

Last weekend the second annual Maker Faire KC took place at Union Station, Kansas City’s 1914 beaux-arts train station.  The grandeur of the Union Station is hard to resist, but of course it really was the makers of the Midwest who made Maker Faire KC such a special event. According to organizers Luis Rodriguez and […]

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Call to Makers Open for Mini Maker Faire OSCON in Portland, OR July 18 and 19

Call to Makers Open for Mini Maker Faire OSCON in Portland, OR July 18 and 19

(above: author/hacker Alasdair Allan and Nick Raymond, MAKE’s Engineering Intern Coordinator at OSCON 2011) We had so much fun doing a small Maker Shed at the 2011 Open Source Convention (OSCON) that we’re going to increase the fun by adding a Mini Maker Faire for OSCON 2012. We’ll hold the Mini Maker Faire on July […]

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Countdown to Maker Faire KC at Hammerspace

Countdown to Maker Faire KC at Hammerspace

It was Thursday night, only 36 hours to the start of Maker Faire Kansas City, and Kansas City’s one year-old makerspace, Hammerspace was hopping! Teams were finishing up projects, tuning up 3D printers, painting impressive Mayan landscapes for robot competition environs, and testing Power Wheel Racers. Super Awesome Sylvia was there, as were the MakerBot […]

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