MAKERVILLA is back! It will be held 31 July – 2 August 2019 at the National Design Centre Singapore. MAKERVILLA 3.0 is a 3-day creative learning experience (CLX) design conference for local and international makers, practitioners & educators to gather under one roof for a time of learning, dreaming, hacking and sharing of ideas. Find […]
Category Archives: Maker Faire
Makervilla 2.0
Makervilla is back! It will be held on August 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th at Batam, Indonesia. MAKERVILLA 2.0 is a 4-day creative learning retreat designed for local and international maker educators to gather under one roof for a time of learning, dreaming, hacking and sharing of ideas. MAKERVILLA 2.0 is specially organized to address the needs […]
Thoughts and rumors about Hacker Camp Shenzhen & Maker Faire
This past week we rocked Hacker Camp 5 and Shenzhen Maker Faire. It was a huge party, as always, thank you to everyone who came! Instead of covering the camp and fair directly, we saved the images and chat transcript from the shenzhen_hacker_bei group on WeChat. Nearly 100 hackers, makers, and organizers shared a week […]
Bay Area Maker Faire 2015
Please have a free Sierra Nevada for us at Friday night’s Maker party, we’re skipping this one. Too much going on here in Mom’s basement to venture out into the sunlight. If you’re at the faire early you can still check Noisebridge hacker space and recreate the Mission District Taco Crawl.
Maker Faire Tokyo set for November 23-24, 2014
Maker Faire Tokyo will be held on November 23rd and 24th! The fair is in its third year and will be held at Tokyo Big Sight! Mark your calendar!
Penang Mini Maker Faire set for November 15-16, 2014
Exciting news for all makers that Malaysia will have its very first Mini Maker Faire this year on 15-16th November 2014 at SPICE, Penang ! Mark your calendar!
Elephant and Castle Mini Maker Faire set for November 15, 2014
The Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire has announced plans for their upcoming event. “London’s first Maker Faire is coming back around for another go on 15th November, 2014. The Maker Faire is a day of family friendly making, learning, crafting, inventing and tinkering in the heart of London. Be inspired by arts, crafts, engineering, […]
Bay Area Maker Faire 2014: Robots!
Robot army follows your every move. Arduino based. Kinect motion tracking. More photos below the fold.
Bay Area Maker Faire 2014: Cool stuff
Macetech rocking the latest revision of the led glasses at Maker Faire. More photos below the fold.
Getting around at Bay Area Maker Faire 2014
Exterminate! Exterminate! More photos below the fold.
Bay Area Maker Faire 2014: Booths and Exhibits
Maker Faire as busy as ever! More pictures below the fold.
Taco Crawl in San Francisco tonight!
In San Francisco early for the Maker Faire? Join our annual taco crawl through the mission district. Meet up at Noise Bridge Hackerspace near 17th and Mission at 6pm. Thats just off the 16th and Mission BART stop. We’ll crawl down Mission and eat tacos the whole way, ending at Rosamunde for a sausage and […]
Taco Crawl 2014 Thursday before Maker Faire
Every year before Maker Faire we spend a day in San Francisco to visit the Noisebridge hackerspace, Instructables, and other open hardware/DIY/hacker friendly people. Noisebridge is located in a neighborhood called the Mission District, and it has dozens of delicious Mexican taco shops called taquerias. We try to eat a carne asada taco at every […]
HOW-TO: Visit Bay Area Maker Faire
We are off to the Bay Area Maker Faire, and we’d like to share some of the tips we picked up on our previous visit there. Below are our tips for both visitors, and participants. If you are in the area be sure to drop by.
Taco Crawl 2014 Thursday before Maker Faire
Every year before Maker Faire we spend a day in San Francisco to visit the Noisebridge hackerspace, Instructables, and other open hardware/DIY/hacker friendly people. Noisebridge is located in a neighborhood called the Mission District, and it has dozens of delicious Mexican taco shops called taquerias. We try to eat a carne asada taco at every […]
Taco Crawl 2014 Thursday before Maker Faire
Every year before Maker Faire we spend a day in San Francisco to visit the Noisebridge hackerspace, Instructables, and other open hardware/DIY/hacker friendly people. Noisebridge is located in a neighborhood called the Mission District, and it has dozens of delicious Mexican taco shops called taquerias. We try to eat a carne asada taco at every […]
Bay Area Maker Faire May 17th & 18th, taco crawl
We’ll be at the Bay Area Maker Faire on the 17th, and 18th of May this year. This is the big one and it’s a ton of fun. If you’re there please drop by and say hi. On the blog we’ll have our usual Maker Faire coverage. If you’re in San Francisco early please join […]
Video: Maker Faire NY 2013: Arduino NFC
In this video from the 2013 Maker Faire New York, Don Coleman takes the stage in New York to discuss Near Field Communication (NFC) using the Adafruit and Seeed Studio NFC shields on an Arduino. Coleman is a software developer and is co-authoring a book on NFC, PhoneGap and Arduino for O’Reilly. Via Make.
Tokyo Maker Faire 2013: 3D printers
3D printers have come to dominate Maker Faires around the world, but Tokyo has some unique and creative designs we’ve not seen anywhere else. Rostock mini is a solder paste “printer” with pick and place functions. It applies solder paste to circuit boards instead of printing with melted plastic, and also places electronic components on […]
HackRF based radio spectrum analyzer
Jared Boone displayed this project at the recent Maker Faire. This project is built around the HackRF, a software-defined radio transceiver. I programmed it to sample 20MHz of radio spectrum from an antenna, do a frequency analysis on the data, and display the results on a Noritake vacuum fluorescent display. I added the tuning wheel […]