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.
Yahoo! & Flickr built a photo picture frame for Maker Faire this year, and gave away polaroids of people at the Faire. Sharp Electronics hacked the Sharp MFP and gave people a way to upload their photos straight back to Flickr – Link & photos.
Gareth Branwyn ran the fantastic Mousey the Junkbots workshops at Maker Faire, here’s his write up! Well, we’re back from the Maker Faire. Very tiring, but supremely satisfying. I’d really wanted to blog the event as it happened, but ended up spending nearly all day, both days, in the Make booth, building mousebots. At night, […]
TMIV and The Dude sent in a great Maker Faire video! Kid Beyond’s performance provides a musical backdrop for many snack size video clips of all the wonderful demonstrations, creations, and inventions at the Maker Faire – Link.
More articles, photos and videos coming in from around the web… Photos: Imaginations on display – Link. Blinkybugs, meat pillows, and USB taxidermy: More from Maker Faire 2007 – Link. Maker Faire 2007: Robots, fire, music & more – Link. (Video) Social DIY (Tim Anderson!) – Link. (Video) Build your own wireless game controller – […]
The Associated Press “ASAP” multimedia outlet on Maker Faire… Inventions: Clever, fun, useless. If you built it, you can come: Welcome to the Maker Faire, where frivolity is the mother of all inventions. RON HARRIS caught it all for this asap video. asap – Link.
G4’s “Attack of the Show” will be running their Maker Faire segment tomorrow (Wed): 4pm PST/7pm EST on G4, check it out / record it! – Link.
During the Swap-O-Rama-Rama at the Maker Faire a lot of the cool folks there decided to “re-make” our MAKE and Maker Faire shirts. Here’s a round up of some of the cool outfits that were spotted at the fair like this MAKE/Maker Faire halter dress by Stefanie Gesiorski, a designer who was also a sewer […]
