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February 21, 2008
Wired Science on Maker Faire
Wired Science has a nice video tour of last year's Maker Faire Austin.
Maker Faire - Link
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Feb 21, 2008 11:00 AM
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February 18, 2008
Maker Faire tryouts on BBtv
Folks frequently ask me what happens at Maker Faire tryouts. This episode of BBtv gives you some idea, as Greg MacLaurin demos his "Judy Phone," a playback device via an old analog phone of bizarre Judy Garland audio recordings done for her 1960 autobiography.
Note to non-fans of conceptual/installation/pomo art: Don't bother to hit the Play button. There's nothing for you to see here. Move along...
Maker Faire tryouts: Judy Phone - Link
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Feb 18, 2008 08:50 PM
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February 16, 2008
Call for Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2008 - Febrary 17, 2008
Build, CRAFT, hack, play, MAKE.
Arts • Crafts • Engineering • Green • Music • Science
We are thrilled to announce that the Call for Makers is now open for Maker Faire Bay Area 2008!
On Febrary 17, 2008 we have Maker Faire Tryouts (designed for new Makers and Makers that have projects that they would like to show us before the event)
Where and when:
Exploratorium - noon - 4:00pm
San Francisco
Please email sherry@oreilly.com to reserve a space
More information about the Faire and the application process can be found on the Maker Faire site here & more important dates to remember for Maker Faire here - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 16, 2008 02:00 AM
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February 6, 2008
Maker Faire tryouts in Los Angeles, Saturday, February 9
Mark has the deets' on this weekend's Maker Faire try outs in LA, he writes -
Are you ready for Maker Faire Bay Area 2008? The call for makers is open now! Come to the Los Angeles tryouts on February 9, 2008, from noon to 4pm at Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Please download this application form, fill it out, and bring it with you. San Francisco tryouts are on February 17. (If you don't want to come to tryouts, you can also apply online.)Maker Faire - [via] Link & video.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Feb 6, 2008 11:00 AM
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January 28, 2008
Call for Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Build, CRAFT, hack, play, MAKE.
Arts • Crafts • Engineering • Green • Music • Science
Call for Makers is Open!
We are thrilled to announce that the Call for Makers is now open for Maker Faire Bay Area 2008!More information about the Faire and the application process can be found on the Maker Faire site here.
We are really looking forward to Maker Faire and are excited to receive information about your project. If you have any questions, contact Maker Faire Director Sherry Huss (sherry@oreilly.com).
Important dates to remember
January 31, 2008 - Maker Faire Town Hall
Exploratorium - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
San Francisco
Febrary 17, 2008 - Maker Faire Tryouts (designed for new Makers and Makers that have projects that they would like to show us before the event)
Exploratorium - noon - 4:00pm
San Francisco
Please email sherry@oreilly.com to reserve a space
March 12, 2008 - Deadline for applications
Please note that space is limited so be sure to get your applications in by this date. Any applications received after 3/12/2008 will be put on a waiting list and allocated space based on availability
March 19, 2008 - Notification of Acceptance
If at all possible, we will try to notify you as soon as we review your application which should be in advance of this date
May 1, 2008 - Maker Day
More information will be shared about Maker Day in the upcoming weeks
May 3 & 4, 2008 - Maker Faire San Francisco Bay Area
It's show time!
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Jan 28, 2008 03:00 PM
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January 1, 2008
Revisiting the "Editor's Choice" winners
While you're busy digesting your New Year's feast (or nursing last year's hangover), why not check out the amazing Makers who won Editor's Choice "Blue Ribbons" at this year's Maker Fair Austin. It's quite a cavalcade of stars and you may have missed some in the flurry of post-Faire postings.
[Oh, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!]
Editor's Choice Ribbons Awarded at Maker Faire Austin - Link
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Jan 1, 2008 02:00 PM
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November 17, 2007
Come to Maker Square at Felt Club: XL Holiday in LA this Sunday, Nov 18
If you're anywhere near Los Angeles this Sunday, November 18, we hope you'll visit the campus of Los Angeles City College for the second annual Felt Club: XL Holiday event. We're featuring handmade amazingness from over 70 artists, crafters, and designers from SoCal and beyond--many of whom will be offering holiday-exclusive items.
If all that isn't enough to grab you, this year we've also got the all-new Maker Square area, a mini version of Maker Faire, hosted by the staff of Make and Craft magazines. The Maker Square portion of Felt Club will feature people like Syuzi Pakhchyan and her Soft Circuits LED felt holiday ornaments, Mister Jalopy, who will demonstrate his Mobile Drive-In Movie Projector (featured on the cover of MAKE Vol.11), Jason Torchinsky's "Super Stick", a 5-foot tall Atari 2600 joystick (which actually works!!), Jed Berk and his Blubberbots, and many more. In short, you won't want to miss your chance to hang out and meet all the Makers at Maker Square! Link.
We'll also be giving away killer door prizes from our vendors and sponsors (sneak peeks are available in our Flickr pool), and swag bags will be given to the first 250 people through the doors. (You can increase your chances of being one of them by purchasing an advance ticket at one of our seven ticket locations throughout LA.) We'll have food available too, from local fave Auntie Em's Kitchen--plus music from DJs Dirty Robot and Lance Rock (host of Nickelodeon's hit kid's show Yo Gabba Gabba).
Felt Club: XL Holiday featuring Maker Square
Sunday, November 18, 11am-6pm
@ Los Angeles City College
855 N Vermont Ave.
LA, CA 90029
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Nov 17, 2007 12:00 AM
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November 15, 2007
KLRU-TV Docubloggers - Maker Faire
The KLRU-TV story on Maker Faire Austin is going to air tonight on the Emmy Award-winning Docubloggers. KLRU only broadcasts to central Texas, but Docubloggers is available online (link below).
On October 20th, 2007, the people behind MAKE and CRAFT magazines brought the Maker Faire to Austin for the first time (it's only the third Faire ever). In this day of DIY (do-it-yourself in case you're wondering) enthusiasm, the Faire unites "makers" of all ilk to showcase their myriad and varied talents and expertise.KLRU-TV Docubloggers - Maker Faire Link.
When I was introduced to MAKE and CRAFT magazines, I found myself guffawing with nerdly delight page after page as I learned how to turn my bike into an iPod charger, how to convert bowls from Ikea into three dimensional stereo cabinets, and how to make a ghoulishly wicked skull-shaped cold cut sculpture for a Halloween party. Then ... I saw the ad for Maker Faire. I reasoned that if the Faire tickled my geek side as much as the magazine, I was in for a treat. I was not let down.The folks behind the Faire filled the Travis County Expo Center grounds with wall-to-wall makers from a guy that creates masterpieces out of dirty car windows, to a master piñata maker and children's book author, from robot overlords and their automated subjects, to custom bike makers, and from an insane clown posse and their bigger-than-life-size Mousetrap game, to the makers behind a human-powered Ferris wheel that rolls on its own. It was truly a feast for the senses, and those are but a small portion of the heaping helping of makers at Maker Faire.
So, if you're the type of person that likes to DIY, or if you've ever explained to your wife that you simply cannot throw out any of the assorted junk in the garage because "it's good for something", then I highly suggest you check out what MAKE has to offer. And if you're looking for something to scratch your itch to create, check out next year's Maker Faire in October 2008.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Nov 15, 2007 03:00 PM
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November 7, 2007
Maker Faire Austin on Boing Boing TV
Boing Boing TV (which I help produce) is running some of the videos I shot at Maker Faire in Austin last month.
Xeni Jardin writes: "What kind of DIY tech wonders can you find at Maker Faire? Make Magazine editor-in-chief and BBtv co-host Mark Frauenfelder traveled to Austin, TX with camcorder in hand to show us. Mark introduces us to a ticklish dinosaur robot named Pleo (above), and a guy named Craig who makes amazing garage-tech musical instruments." Link
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Nov 7, 2007 01:57 AM
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November 6, 2007
Robots at Maker Faire Austin
On today's episode of Boing Boing TV, MAKE editor-in--chief Mark Frauenfelder looks at some of the venerable Robot Group's contribution to last month's Austin Faire.
Mark also covers Bleep Labs' Thingamagoop analog synths. I have a review of these cool little synth critters on the Federated Media Holiday Gadget Guide. You can read that here.
Maker Faire part 2: robot tour with Mark - Link
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Nov 6, 2007 02:00 PM
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November 1, 2007
Maker Faire Austin on Boing Boing TV
On today's BBTV, MAKE editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder covers Maker Faire Austin, with a segment on the Pleo dino-bot and garage instrument maker "Craig Seven."
Maker Faire tour with Mark Frauenfelder - Link
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Nov 1, 2007 08:00 PM
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Blue ribbons given at Maker Faire Austin 2007
The editors of MAKE and CRAFT magazines picked their favorite projects and exhibitors and awarded blue ribbons at Maker Faire Austin. Here' are our top picks - Link.
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Nov 1, 2007 04:00 PM
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October 29, 2007
Maker Faire (photos)
Maker Faire photos from Brian. Google (YouTube & SketchUp had a great booth!) - Link.
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Oct 29, 2007 05:00 PM
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Maker Store Stories: Kit makers
I got home late afternoon Tuesday, and I've had a few days to reflect on the fun I had at Maker Faire. This was my third Maker Faire, but only the second one that I really worked at (at the first one, I had an exhibit, but I didn't participate in the setup/teardown). At the 2007 San Mateo Maker Faire, I spent nearly all my time in the Maker Store, where we sell books, issues of Make, t-shirts, and my favorite, electronics kits. Make is nothing without its community, so we have a voracious appetite for kits from independent makers, and we sell these kits online and at events. These include kits like Adafruit's MintyBoost, MiniPOV, electronic game kits from Grand Design and XGameStation.com, and a whole lot more. (The above photo shows Mark Frauenfelder trying out the Critter and Guitari cellular automata kit.)
At the Austin show, I worked in the store again. But this time, we had added a lot of new kits, and among the breakout sellers were the Arduino and Arduino-compatible boards. Arduino is generally described as a platform for physical computing (you can sense and control the physical world with them). It's open source (both the hardware and software can be studied, modified, and passed on to others), and it's very easy to program because it was designed by and for artists and designers. The board is based on the 8-bit Atmel AVR microcontroller, and the programming language is similar to Java.
One of the reasons that the Arduino did so well (we sold out of the pre-assembled boards fairly early the second day of the show) is that we also had a new book for sale: Tom Igoe's Making Things Talk, which is a full-color book with projects showing how to create amazing things with Arduino. It was a no-brainer for someone who wanted to play with Arduino to buy one or two Arduino boards along with the book. All they need to get to the Arduino equivalent of "Hello, World" is a USB cable, a computer (Mac, Windows, or Linux) to program the board, and a red LED to blink.
If it sounds like I'm shilling for product, well, I probably am, but my enthusiasm for it exceeds my desire to sell things to you. When I edited Tom's book, I got the Arduino fever, and now my office is filled with sensors, displays, solar panels, passive components, LEDs, and Arduino boards. When I was a kid, I played with electronics and home computers whose capabilities were similar to Arduino's. One of my big thrills at Maker Faire was setting up a ZigBee-based demo using a couple of Arduino boards that I put out and let people play with.
One of the cool things about working in the store was that we had a section reserved for the independent makers who build the kits we sell. Limor Fried of Adafruit spent a lot of time there talking about the MintyBoost and MiniPOV. Dave and Cheryl Hrynkiw of Solarbotics had a permanent crowd of kids, which led to us selling out of Mousebot kits really fast. Karl Papadantonakis of LEDKit.biz was showing off his amazing no-solder LED digital clock. Andre LaMothe of XGameStation.com demoed the 8-core Hydra game console and the XGameStation Pico. Jed Berk, maker of the Blubberbot autonomous/semi-domesticated blimp robot was also there. Raphael Abrams set up a great demo for the Daisy MP3 player and answered questions about it from attendees. And from my own neck of the woods, Paul Badger of ModernDevice was joined by David Fowler from uC Hobby to show off Paul's Bare Bones Board, an Arduino-compatible microcontroller board that you build yourself! What's more, all these folks gave talks and did workshops on their kits (more on that later).
So even though I was deep in the belly of a commercial enterprise for most of the faire, my responsibility was to connect these small independent kit makers with a community of people who are enthusiastic about their creations. What really blew me away was that there's a growing market around people who take a cool idea, find a way to produce it in modest quantities, and maybe make a living selling them to enthusiastic fans who are going to learn a LOT from building and playing with their kits!
P.S. if anyone knows of a good, small Newtonian reflector telescope kit (or wants to design and manufacture one), let me know in the comments!
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Oct 29, 2007 09:00 AM
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October 27, 2007
Convergent media and the DIY home of the future
Jon writes -
Earlier this month I wrote a column about a DIY (Do It Yourself) home showcase I was helping to create for Maker Faire Austin. Here's more of the story and a report on our success.Convergent media and the DIY home of the future - Link.
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Oct 27, 2007 01:00 AM
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October 26, 2007
Maker Faire Austin 2007 (photos)
More Maker Faire Austin 2007 photos, in this set - photos from the "Fab Lab" summit we held at the event... Link.
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Oct 26, 2007 03:00 AM
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October 25, 2007
Do robot dinosaurs dream of electric sheep? Austin Maker Faire 2007 photos
Maker Faire photos from Steevithak including this pleo dresses in sheep's clothing... - [via] Link.
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Oct 25, 2007 09:00 PM
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How it works: The first all in one beer machine @ Maker Faire from Pop Sci
Gizmodo on Pop Sci's beer machine @ Maker Faire...
Giz's semi-goddess Sarah Meyers went to Maker Faire to admire all kinds of wonderful machines, and videotaped this straightforward demo of the workings of The Device, the first all-in-on beer machine. It's our favorite by far, not because of its design or ingenuity, but because of what it makes: lots of different types of beer. And, unlike other boutique ales, you won't have to recover a stolen laptop to enjoy a lifetime supply of its frothy goodness. The bad: it's not as elegant as a fridge with a built-in draft beer system. The good: it's fresh beer, you can teach science to your kids while getting drunk and it doesn't require a stupid bottle opener.How it works: The first all in one beer machine @ Maker Faire from Pop Sci - Link.
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Oct 25, 2007 03:00 PM
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Austin Maker Fair 2007 (more photos)
Eric (our video intern) just posted up a MASSIVE set of photos from Maker Faire - Link & slideshow.
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Oct 25, 2007 11:00 AM
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October 24, 2007
Geekdads podcast covers Maker Faire Austin
MAKE/O'Reilly Media's Bruce Stewart, who also contributes to the Geekdad blog, was a guest on Episode #4 of the Geekdads podcast, talking about the kid-friendly fun to be had at Maker Faires. The image above is from Bruce's Flickr sets (set 1, set 2) of the Austin Faire.
Episode 4: Keep it Geeky! - Link
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Oct 24, 2007 06:00 PM
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