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.
Power Tool Drag Races normally takes place at the two-lane Shipyard International Speedway (aka Ace Junkyard). It will be recreated at the Maker Faire this year, complete with PTDR Drill Team Cheerleaders. Chopped Chainsaws and Non-Normally Aspirated Angle Grinders will go head-to-head down the speedway. From Super Stock off-the-shelf machines, to full-tilt multi-motor Top Fuel […]
Maker Faire (Bay Area, SF) is just weeks away, May 19th and 20th – it’s a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful folks who like to tinker and love to make things. We call them Makers. Last year there were long lines […]
SwapThing is partnering with the folks at MAKE and CRAFT to get creativity flowing and help the environment at the Maker Faire. SwapThing enables the swapping of any combination of items and services between swappers, as well as direct purchases. A cornerstone of SwapThing are the SwapCircles, which are groups for communicating and swapping based […]
These 3rd graders (Chapman Hill Techno Team) will be at Maker Faire – If Savannah Brown, Marisa Chen, Cory Francis and Emily Farnell were stuck on a deserted island and thirsty for water, they’d go looking for shells. The third-graders at Chapman Hill Elementary in West Salem would use the shells to convert salt water […]
As anybody who has ever built a catapult knows, there’s something special about machines that hurl. This year, Maker Faire features the King of Fling Catapult Contest. Two hurling events are planned. The first is called the English Battle. Based on the King Edward I’s siege of Stirling Castle in 1304, catapult makers compete in […]
Our friends @ ROBOT magazine put together a bit about what you can expect at Maker Faire from the robot contingency – If you are located out west or can travel in mid-May, you won’t want to miss the May 19 – 20, ’07 Maker Faire at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds in San Mateo, […]
A stunning rotating display, The ultraOrb creates a sphere of 3D color animation to provide a new perspective on visual information. In a multi-generational collaboration with his father and grandfather, James Sears constructed The Orb as his thesis project for New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. The system consists of 320 tri-color LEDs mounted on […]
