Wall Street Journal video on Maker Faire!
Great video from the Wall Street Journal video called “Remaking making” all about Maker Faire!
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.
Great video from the Wall Street Journal video called “Remaking making” all about Maker Faire!
@ Maker Faire MAKE’s Phil Torrone and Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries talked about emerging opportunities for makers to create and sell their work – here are our slides and notes – ZIP (27mb). EDN also has a write up. Each year we’ve seen more and more makers do what they love (making) as a […]
Hack a day’s write up of Puzzlemation @ Maker Faire… Every time we look at computer screen, millions of pixels of light disappear into our work, our correspondence, or our entertainment. Imagine if you could capture those dots of light and scoop them up as you would grains of sand on the beach. Puzzlemation explores […]
Forbes talked to some Makers about their businesses, good stuff. Do-It-Yourself Success – “Why sell your idea when you can profit from it on your own?”
Combat robots, warring battleships @ Maker Faire with Boing Boing TV. Boing Boing tv’s embedded robo-combat reporter Xeni Jardin witnesses warfare inside Robogames and Combots at Bay Area Maker Faire 2008, where robots battle until death — or at least ’til one competitor busts a sprocket. Next, BB-gun wielding battleships go BOOM!, with the Western […]
Maker Faire video from Oddistry!
/MUKANA (the Finnish for aboard, along, in, on, part, with and within) is a piece of cutting-edge smart clothing for the visually impaired. It connects technology with textiles and thus promotes new approaches to dressing up. Users were given the main focus in the design. A group of visually impaired participated throughout the process of […]