Motor City’s fourth annual Maker Faire Detroit is taking place July 27 and 28 at The Henry Ford, and the excitement is building. Makers are putting the finishing touches on the projects they’ll be bringing to share, and the event crew is working hard to make sure a good time will be had by all. […]
The hardest part about featuring talented Bay Area kinetic artist Benjamin Cowden is choosing which ones of his many mesmerizingly fluid machines to show here.
Video: BBC World News correspondent LJ Rich experiences the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire and tells the story of the global spread of Mini Maker Faires.
Last Sunday marked Tennessee’s second annual Kingsport Mini Maker Faire. The event included hovercraft, wood carving, belly dancing, and even hand-carved wooden carousel animals! Check out some snaps from the day.
Diving deeper into this week’s “Make the Future” theme, today on Maker Camp we’ll explore circuitry and wearable technology with electrical engineer, Matthew Schmidtbauer who will tell us all about squishy cirucuits. We’ll also be joined by wearable technology designer Grace Kim and experience designer Fashioning Technology author Syuzi Pakhchyan.
This week’s theme on Maker Camp is “Create the Future” and we’ll explore that notion today as we talk LED and DIY holograms. Joining us today we’ll be very special guest Mary Lou Jepsen, head of the Display Division at Google X Lab and founder of Pixel Qi. Mary Lou will talk about holograms and light and some the projects she’s leading.
At the beginning of July we spent a couple of days going through all the submissions received to participate in Maker Faire Rome — the European Edition, taking place Oct. 3-6 in Italy. It was a great experience for us to discover makers’ projects from all around Europe, and the MakerTour gave us the chance to meet some of them and to produce 69 video clips to share this experience with all of you.
