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.
The other night at Maker Faire Rhode Island, I met up with Raphael. He had brought along these neat prototyping kits made from cigar boxes. I asked him about why he made them and what he does with these mobile prototyping platforms.
Set your DVRs for this awesome segment on the Travel Channel, filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2009. Extreme Conventions, Travel Channel, “This ain’t no Dental Convention!” Wednesday, September 23rd at 8PM Eastern time (check local listings for your area)
Congratulations to everyone who helped put on the Maker Faire Rhode Island, it was a smashing success!
San Francisco’s KPIX/Channel 5’s “Eye on the Bay” program did a decent, lengthy, and enthusiastic piece about this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area. The piece covers everything from the R/C warships to Russell the robotic giraffe and “Hand of Man” to the steampunk offerings to art cars, the Coke and Mentos show, and the bicycle-powered […]
Every week, Limor and Phil from adafruit industries do a Ustreamed “Ask an engineer” live chat. This week, tonight, they’re going to do it from Maker Faire Rhode Island. Here’s what they said on their site: Tonight is our weekly “Ask an engineer” live chat – 10pm ET tonight, we’re going to attempt to “broadcast” […]
Hayford Bempong, David Celestin and Michael Amankwanor from Accra Polytechnic set up a local Maker Faire Africa radio station. The group announced upcoming activities, broadcasting at 101.7 FM, and could be heard up to a couple thousand meters away using gear they designed and fabricated from scratch.
Maker Faire Africa flickr pool
