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.
Everyone is getting ready for the Maker’s Faire. In this video Dale Dougherty, Natalie Zee, and Dave McMann welcome you to the Maker’s Faire! Click here to get the video (MP4) delivered automatically with iTunes. This video will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and iPod video devices – Link.
Maker Faire April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. This is Maker Faire eve folks! See you soon! Come see… a flying Pterosaur replica, a flock of whale blimps, a giant painting machine, DIY RFID implants, model rocketry, breadboarding, trailer-glass blowing, The Crucible’s welding workshops off the back of fire truck, pinhole photography, soldering, spud […]
Alison Lewis of SWITCH is on her way to the Maker Faire where she will be teaching the workshop,”Lovie Circuits” on both Sat and Sun. Alison will show you how to make two loving circuits for wearing or for plushie dolls. When the circuits are together they magically connect and both light up with a […]
Scott over at Laughing Squid is giving away some Maker Faire tickets with a trivia contest, the questions are pretty good! – Link.
MAKE is a proud sponsor of Whiplash, Whipup.net’s weekly craft challenge that will happen over the next six weeks. This week’s challenge theme is Everyday Creativity. From the site, “Entries will be judged on 3 main criteria – skill, humour and originality – you must illustrate the strengths of your project using only 3 images […]
Joe Grand is like a kit building robot, made out of meat. Maker Faire is almost upon us — April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in the San Francisco Bay Area. We’re just 9 days away from what is shaping up to be one of the most original and entertaining event of the year […]
Gever writes – “Back for it’s second year, the group that built a rollercoaster in two days is accepting applications for the summer sessions. This year we are offering two weeks of barely controlled chaos for kids ages 7 to 17 – call it tinkering, call it materials hacking, or call it “fooling around like […]
