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.
CNet is running a contest to give away 20 passes to Maker Faire San Mateo, May 30-31, 2009. Here’s what “Geek Gestal” columnist Daniel Terdiman says about it: The event’s organizers have given me 20 passes to award CNET News readers. And all you have to do to win one is tell me, in 150 […]
Watching President Obama’s speech on Inauguration Day, I had a strange experience of cognitive dissonance as he uttered the above quote. My word, I thought, could he be aware of MAKE and the maker movement? Either way, he’s definitely speaking our language, and that passage and the general tone of his speech, his call to […]
MAKE HQ reports that they had a nice turnout and a fine time this past weekend at Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo. Our compadre Kent Barnes took these photos and has more in his photostream. It was a great opportunity to reach out to people who might otherwise not have previous exposure to MAKE. […]
This week in the Maker Shed we continued our Spring-cleaning sale with some amazing discounts and free shipping on orders over $100 (details here). Also, we are continuing to work with kit makers on a lot of really cool products. Do you have something that you think would make a great kit for the Maker […]
Shapeways, the Dutch 3D printing company, is coming to Maker Faire, all the way from the Netherlands! We’re thrilled to have them on-board. To get their user-community excited, and to get some cool 3D objects to show off at the Faire, they’re holding a contest. Here are the details: To inspire people we would like […]
We are doing a Maker Faire promotional event at the Hillsdale Mall in San Mateo this Sunday, April 26th from 1-4PM. The Hillsdale Mall is bringing in a kid’s Lego Masters group for the event and we’re going to set up a mini Maker Faire, with the LEGOJeep, Blinkybugs, robotic and kinetic art creations, recycled […]
Maker Faire Africa is a “celebration of African ingenuity, innovation and invention, that will take place August 13-15 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Ghana’s capital, Accra.” It is not an official Maker Faire event, but it has our blessing. Many of the African makers we’ve featured here on the […]
