Meet Interesting People at a Mini Maker Faire (Video)

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There are Maker Faires all over the world, but this video was made at the one held in Ann Arbor this June. It's a random selection of demos given by people Slashdot editors met while cruising the exhibits. Want to have your own Maker Faire? Make Magazine has instructions on how to make a Maker Faire if there isn't already one near you.

Interesting people?

[sagneta]

If I wanted to meet interesting folks at the Maker Fair I would simply manufacture them in my 3D printer.

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[Spy Handler]

This guy [youtube.com] is the most interesting person at Maker Fairs... that he has never attended.

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[theshowmecanuck]

Join the army. Travel the world. Meet new and interesting people. Then kill them. (saw it on a t-shirt... in the army)

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[tomhath]

Except I wouldn't really call a lot of what they make craftsmanship. More like Etsy Gone Wild.

Meh

[spire3661]

i attended the OC Mini Maker Faire. It was less then impressive. A bunch of 3d printers, a mobile seesaw, motorized cupcakes and some dude who made an impressive looking R2-D2. So impressive i couldnt help but think "If this guy has this much talent, couldnt he make his own IP instead of ripping off Lucas?"

Blame yourself.

[Myself]

It sucked because you didn't submit your awesome project thing which is surely cooler than any of the junk those losers came up with. And better-documented. Right?

Maker's...

[number6x]

Will there be bottles with red wax around the cap?

If not, I'll skip it.

Montreal Mini Maker Faire

[EricBoyd]

I recently attended the Montreal Mini Maker Faire, had a total blast, you can read about it on my blog: http://www.digitalcrusader.ca/2012/08/montreal-mini-maker-faire.html [digitalcrusader.ca]

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[QuebecNerd]

I was there with my son last weekend in Montréal and we both enjoyed our experience very much.

World's Fair

[CommieLib]

At some point, we stopped doing World's Fairs, where everybody got together and celebrated civilization and culture...the ultimate World's Fair was the 1894 Colombian Exposition in Chicago. The Maker Faire is really the only thing left that remotely resembles these, in my travels. Of course, there's Epcot, but Epcot is really a museum of World's Fairs.

Anyhow, I've been to two in Austin, and one in San Mateo...they are truly engineer-geek heaven.