Take a tour through Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 with Ontario-based Maker-Faire-oholic and Agnes Niewiadomski. From robots to a lollipop licking machine to Adam Savage’s talk atop a massive desert submarine, Agnes captured photos of an amazing variety of projects and makers.
I was in Paris at the end of April for Ouishare Fest, a conference about the sharing economy. I spent a Friday afternoon visiting Fab Labs in and around Paris, talking to a number of very interesting people who are very interested in the maker movement and understanding how it might be taking shape in France today.
Oregon’s second annual Eugene Mini Maker Faire is taking place this Saturday, June 15th, at the Science Factory in Alton Baker Park. The event is being collaboratively produced by the Science Factory and Eugene Maker Space. Their lineup of makers looks interesting and diverse, ranging from traditional handcrafts to tech and everything in between. Shown […]
Oakland, Calif.-based artist, fabricator, project manager, and creative director Sean Orlando is not only a gifted visionary in the realm of large-scale installations, but he is a skilled organizer, leading 50+ member crews of talented folks on such notable creations as the 40-foot-tall Raygun Gothic Rocketship, the otherworldly Nautilus Submarine (both of which have awed […]
Don Wilcher is teaching our Introduction to Raspberry Pi Training Camp. Don is an Electrical Engineer, Author, Educator, and Entrepreneur. He’s worked in Automotive, Industrial, and Consumer Industries as Product Engineer, Electronic Systems Designer, and Engineering Manager.
We think of the maker movement as a modern phenomena propelled by the internet, growth of makerspaces, and increasingly affordable digital technology. But making, of course, is anything but new. It’s part of what it means to be human. Dutch lutier Jan van Cappelle’s career as a maker began when he read a novel by Leonard de Vries called The Boys of the Hobby Club. Written under Nazi occupation and published in 1947, it’s essentially the story of a group of boys creating a makerspace before such a word existed. The book, which sadly is not available in English, had a lasting impact on Jan. “De Vries showed that you can make something yourself, in collaboration with others, instead of buying it of-the-rack.
The first Town Hall for 2013’s World Maker Faire New York was last night. Here are some pictures from the event, along with announcing the launch of the Call for Makers for our 4th annual World Maker Faire!
