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.
Kyle, James and David of Otyp have designed a kit for teaching kids the biological equivalent of writing “Hello, world” and they’d like to share with more kids in the classroom. With this kit, kids start with the gene from a jellyfish that makes it glow green and they insert it into bacteria. They grow […]
It’s your last chance to submit projects for review to participate in the 1st annual World Maker Faire in NYC next month at the New York Hall of Science. The deadline is this weekend, Sunday August 15th! We already have several hundred projects but there’s always room for more Maker booths! Do you DIY? Then […]
Nick Normal (auto)stitched together this awesome panorama from a recent maker meet up on the Edelman rooftop last week. Excitement is brewing about Maker Faire NYC! There were people there from NPR, NY1, crafters, industry folks… what a diverse group! Click for full size, bonus points if you can name 10 or more people in […]
According to Mitch Altman, 22 hackerspaces were represented at Maker Faire Detroit. That’s quite an impressive turnout from the Midwest and Canada. OmniCorp Detroit (OCD) — Detroit, MI I3 — Ferndale, MI All Hands Active (AHA) — Ann Arbor, MI A2 MechShop — Ann Arbor, MI Site3 — Toronto, ON Hacklab.TO — Toronto, ON Kwartzlab […]
Last weekend, at Maker Faire Detroit, I had the chance to meet Jules Pieri of Daily Grommet, birthplace of the term Citizen Commerce. From the site: “If you share the belief that the products we all buy are a powerful force in defining the world, then Citizen Commerce means that each purchase is actually an […]
MAKE editor in chief and Boing Boing potentato, Mark Frauenfelder, posted a nice piece about his favorite makers at this past weekend’s Maker Faire Detroit. David Smith makes beautiful handmade instruments, including cigar box ukuleles and this surprisingly sweet-sounding wire violin. Video of wire violin. These three boys are about to enter 6th grade. They […]
Faire photo taken by Matt Mets Karen Dybis has been doing some nice installments of her “Unfiltered” column on Time.com’s Detroit Blog. She concludes her series with “Jules Pieri on Looking Back — at the Faire and Detroit:” I spoke to11-year-old Jillian who said, “I’ve always been good at art, and when I started reading […]
