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.
We have some great suggestions from the “MAKE firetruck” – Help us mod it, hack it and name it post/forums – But we need more! It’s a 1981 Mercedes Benz 508D Diesel Doka fire truck! It has 47,274 kilometers, a heavy duty military/commercial grade 6-cylinder diesel with a 5-speed manual transmission. It has two bucket […]
Maker Faire: CALLING ALL: Cassette Jockies – Retro-Tech Lovers – Magnetic Media Monsters – Circuit Benders – Multi-Media DJs – Walkman Hot-Rodders In 2003 at a festival in Chicago, a group of retro-tech geniuses organized The Cassette Jockey World Championships. Like the popular DJ (Disk Jockey) competitions with record-toting DJs showing off their turntable skills, […]
When artist Michael Sturtz moved into West Oakland in the 1990s, he knew the tough waterfront neighborhood was a hotbed for sculptors. Thing is, nobody knew each other. Sturtz changed all that by establishing The Crucible, a community of practice in the form of a non-profit industrial arts school. What began as ad hoc classes […]
The Art of Motion Control. Bruce Shapiro has experimented with salvaged components of the automation industry since 1990. Initially building his own CNC rigs in order to explore algorithmic sculpture, the machines eventually evolved into kinetic sculptures themselves. Since 1999, he has permanently installed large-scale works at science centers both in the U.S and Canada, […]
OK, I’m posting this again because we have a cool new logo – The King of Fling contest at Maker Faire, organized by Bill Gurstelle, author of Backyard Ballistics – There are two different classes in the contest, both involving water balloons. One is a target shoot and the other is a face-off against each […]
The Makers @ Maker Faire portion of our site is now live – you can view them by: Attraction, demonstration worksho, interactive performance, maker, workbench, presentation or by topic – Arts, crafts, engineering, science – Link. Pictured here, Art: Animalia Chordata Gabe Barcia-Colombo. What if you could collect people in jars, just like bugs? Various […]
Come check out two amazing electric cars that will be at Maker Faire!, speeding in to the future! Here’s a snippet from the project description by Rich Hilleman and Ian Wright: Electric cars do not have to be heavy, ugly, and slow. The Wrightspeed X1 weighs only 1536 lbs, and has beaten some of the […]
