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.
Here’s a little Maker Faire preview – “This workshop is a great introduction to microcontroller electronics. In this workshop, you will learn to solder and a little bit about microcontrollers when you build a MiniPOV kit. This kit is a simple “persistance of vision” toy, similar in theory to the “fanatzien clocks” you’ve probably seen. […]
Here are some production versions of the Maker Faire PCBs – the raw and assembled boards from Joe Grand. Drop in and meet Joe Grand, hacker extraordinaire. In this open lab, he will show you some of the things he’s working on, including a new circuit board kit that will allow you to create your […]
Syuzi Pakhchyan, pictured here from eTech, is a media designer and tinkerer working and residing in LA. Her studio, SparkLab, lives in the intersection between culture, craft, and technology. Weaving electric circuitry with craft, SparkLab carves out a space for the cultural production of technologically crafted artifacts. You’ll be able to meet Syuzi at the […]
David has the details on our MAKE Faire movies! – “The Maker Faire is coming up on April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. If you have a project you’d like to show off but can’t make it to the event, the MAKE: Movies film festival is a great way to be part of the […]
Maker Faire is a family-friendly weekend of tech exploration, Maker mischief, and fun at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds in the San Francisco Bay Area this April 22nd/23rd. Think of it as a newfangled science fair. Our goal is to recognize and promote the wide range of cool and clever projects that Makers develop and […]
Join Jess Hutch for her “Knit a Toy” workshop at the Maker Faire and learn how you can make your own version of George shown here. Jess will be teaching her workshop on Saturday, April 22 from 12:30 – 1:30pm and will also be around at our Craft Corner later on that afternoon to meet […]
Our pals as CalCars.org are going to hack up Prius at the Maker Faire! – “Over two days, CalCars engineers, along with a cadre of volunteers, will build and install a battery pack and make hardware and software adjustments to the stock Toyota Prius. The finished “PRIUS+” will drive back to Seattle, Washington after the […]
