Northern California artist Natalie McKean creates striking and gorgeous works of art that often focus on the intersection of the natural world and machines/robots. “Man versus technology has always been a favored theme of mine,” she says. She’ll be exhibiting at Maker Faire Bay Area this year, so stop by and say hello!
Over the next two weekends we have the final set of events in our series of regional Young Maker/Open Makes in the San Francisco Bay Area leading up to Maker Faire Bay Area. At last, this month the two public events are on different Saturdays, so you can go to both! Each event offers a range of activities that starts at 10am and ends with an inspiring “meet-the-makers” panel discussion.
The Fun Bike Unicorn Club (FBUC), a lively group of bicycle enthusiasts based in Sonoma County, Calif., brought the Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Car Races to Maker Faire Bay Area in 2012. They threw down a challenge to makers: to hand-build a pedal-powered single seater with no less than four wheels, bring it to […]
The MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop, set for May 14-15, 2013, has just issued a call for prototypes of early stage products, projects, and ideas. Selected prototypes will be presented at the opening session of the workshop, and featured in the Innovation Showcase on Tuesday, May 14. Each winning entrant will have five minutes to present their idea and a prototype: a two-minute pitch, then a three-minute demonstration of the prototype.
New York-based engineer and interactive artist Ayah Bdeir is founder and CEO of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets, no soldering, wiring, or programming necessary. Ayah first exhibited littleBits at Maker Faire Bay Area in 2009 and since, littleBits has won over 14 toy awards, been featured on […]
A pursuit of bandit gold leads to a different kind of treasure.
Wouldn’t it be cool if we could get all these makers together in one place to share what they make?
