The turnout for this year's event was amazing! If you'd like to relive the awesomeness or wish you could have been there, you can still:
This is one of my favorite stories of an eleventh-hour save of a Maker Faire project. Makers Sophi Kravitz and Ollie Tanner built an 8′ bar graph that indicates the signal strength of nearby cell phones. It worked great at home, but not so much at the San Mateo Fairground: Since the idea of the [...]
Posted by John Edgar Park | May 25th, 2012 9:30 AM
Categories: Electronics, Maker Faire, Telecommunications | 6 Comments
A few weeks before Maker Faire, we got a call from Nora Herting, founder of ImageThink, a company that provides live “graphic facilitation” services to conferences and meetings. Nora loves Maker Faire and she offered up a wonderful gift from her company: the time of two great illustrators, Heather Willems and Lloyd Dangle (you might [...]
Posted by Sabrina Merlo | May 24th, 2012 5:30 PM
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MythBusters host Adam Savage talks to KQED about the importance of fostering the instinct to make things by hand at Maker Faire.
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | May 24th, 2012 5:30 PM
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The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI
Union Station, Kansas City, MO
Community-based, smaller scale "Mini" Maker Faires are sprouting up around the world.
