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.
Adam Savage speaking at last year’s Maker Faire. Our friends at FORA.tv are streaming all of the sessions on the Maker Faire Center Stage this weekend. We’re excited that, this year, the maker community who can’t be at the Faire can still catch many of the great speakers and sessions we have! Adam Savage will […]
This is the Saga FV-Style Electric Guitar kit in mid-build. John Park put one together in the Maker Shed at Maker Faire (with stringing/tuning by the Shed’s resident shredder Rob Bullington). It’s a beautiful guitar, and an easy build. Come check it out this weekend at the Faire!
One of the group installations coming to this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, is M.T. Pockets Traveling Midway of Curiosities and Delights. A nostalgic throw-back to carnivals of old, this exhibit is a self-contained window into yesteryear, when the carnival would roll into […]
The Raygun Gothic Rocketship has been successfully installed and is “standing by,” ready for the 2010 Makers Faire weekend. Our gantry tower has been erected and the explosive bolts on the escape hatch are armed! We are all systems go…! The RGR is more than just a shiny outer hull… and so we wanted to […]
We’re having a great time setting up the CRAFT booth and prepping for the demos here at Maker Faire. We’re chilling now in our Needlefelting Playground area as Rachel blogs while Lish is crafting. Lish will show you how to make one of these adorable button felt corsages in her How-To: Button Jewelry demo at […]
Great One on One: Dale Dougherty, MAKE Magazine & Maker Faire – Bits Blog @ NYTimes.com. Nick Bilton writes: Dale Dougherty will be overseeing the annual Maker Faire in San Francisco this coming weekend. If you haven’t heard of this event, think about a typical fairground but with robots and giant mousetraps. Also, instead of […]
The Faire doesn’t officially open to the public until tomorrow, but things are already off to an exciting and inspiring start at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. This morning, we opened our gates to 900 local kids from 24 area schools, from Santa Cruz to Sonoma County and the East Bay. Since this year’s theme is […]
