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Tag Archives: Maker Faire
A Weekend of Family Fun at the Portland Mini Maker Faire
The Maker Faire is, of course, a celebration of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). Improbable machines, hands-on activities, and lots of robots. I moved to Portland from the Kansas City area, where we had a large regional Maker Faire. You’d think that Portland’s smaller, Mini Maker Faire would be a bit of a… Read More
Lessons From a First-Time Mini Maker Faire Exhibitor
From the very first step my daughter took into the exhibit area at her very first Maker Faire, she had one goal: to exhibit one of her projects someday. The Barnes & Noble Mini Maker Faire seemed like the perfect chance to let her get her feet wet. Read More
How to Learn New Skills From Experts Near You
All sorts of resources and inspirations to educate yourself. Read More
NoCo Maker Faire: Exactly What I Imagined a Maker Faire to Be!
This past weekend my family and I made a two-hour trek to Loveland, Colorado, for the state’s first-ever NoCo Mini Maker Faire. Read More
Who's Joining Judy and Patricia at NoCo Maker Faire?
We’re so excited that Colorado now has its very own Maker Faire! If you’re within driving distance, be sure to join GeekMom Judy and me on Saturday, October 5th at the Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology for some Maker fun! Read More
Maker Faire New York: Fueling My 3D Fantasies
If you have an interest in 3D printing, Maker Faire has the power to turn that interest into an obsession. Read More
Toolbox Jewelry: Adornments for Makers
Toolbox Jewelry is one of the best Klutz kits yet, perfect for young, fashionable makers. Read More
The Two Sides of Detroit
The Greater Detroit area is a place of contradictions. Read More
From Artificial Limbs to Art: How 3D Printers Are Changing Everything
Ten things 3D printers are revolutionizing. Read More
Don't Miss Maker Faire Kansas City
Kansas City is actually a pretty cool place to be a maker. It’s one of a few locations of the larger “featured” Maker Faires. The other locations are Detroit, Newcastle (UK), Rome, and Tokyo. It’s still about one tenth the size of the World Maker Faire in New York, but over 10,000 attendees is still not bad. If you’re in the midwest, it’s worth the drive. Read More
Don't Miss Maker Faire: NC This Weekend
Maker Faire: North Carolina descends on the NC Fairgrounds this Saturday with a bevy of projects to inspire you and your kids. Read More
GeekMom and GeekDad Will Be at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013
Come meet some of the GeekMoms and GeekDads writers in the Expo Hall at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend, May 18th and 19th! Read More
This Week With the GeekMoms
See what our GeekMom writers are up to this week. Read More
Vintage Tomorrows Connects Steampunk, Makers, and the Future of Technology
Vintage Tomorrows reaches into subcultures of the past, then gathers the steampunk subculture of today to talk about what steampunk is, why it’s important at this point in time, and what it can teach us about the technology of the future. Read More
This Week With the GeekMoms
Catch up with what the GeekMoms have been doing this week. Read More
The Open Hardware Summit: The Future of Manufacturing is Sharing
The Open Hardware Summit was held for the third time on Thursday in New York in advance of this weekend’s World Maker Faire in nearby Queens. Here are a few of the highlights from the event. Read More
The Weekly, Geekly Rewind – October 2, 2012
A delightful sampling of GeekMom links and others from around the geekosphere. Read More
This Week With The GeekMoms
Catch up with what the GeekMoms have been doing when they’re not writing about the world of geekdom and parenting for you! Read More
ScrapKins a Hit at the Bay Area Maker Faire
One of the booths my son and I went to at the recent Maker Faire in the Bay Area was ScrapKins. There, we were taught how to take a toilet paper tube and turn it into a monster. My son was quite creative with his, but it is practically NSFW, in an eight-year-old boy kind of way. So instead, I’m showing you what some of the other kids at the Faire put together. Read More
